Next Door Photos Automates Workflows
Rubico built custom APIs to improve operations across 40 franchise locations, helping families make housing decisions with confidence.
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Next Door Photos, a real estate visual media company with 40+ franchise locations, faced manual, inefficient workflows that slowed down photo ordering, task management, and processing. Their corporate headquarters lacked real-time visibility, making it difficult to scale effectively. Rubico implemented automations to streamline repetitive tasks. Rubico then developed a custom automation system using Node.js, Next.js, and API integrations that enabled real-time data tracking, automated workflows, and seamless operations. As a result, NDP now delivers media faster, more accurately, and at scale, so that homebuyers, sellers, and agents can navigate housing decisions with confidence.
40
Unified Franchise Locations
A centralized automation system provided real-time visibility, seamless data tracking, and improved franchise oversight across all locations.
Near 100%
Server Management Performance
The new system ensured high availability and reliability, preventing delays in media uploads, order processing, and franchise operations.
Faster
Media Delivery
Photo, video, and virtual tour processing times were cut in half, allowing real estate listings to go live faster than ever before.
Reduction
in Manual Work
Zapier automation and custom APIs eliminated repetitive processes, allowing NDP’s team to focus on client service and business growth.
Next Door Photo’s Problem
Next Door Photos faced inefficient, manual workflows across 40 franchise locations that relied on time-consuming processes for ordering photos, task management, and media processing. Without real-time visibility, their corporate team struggled with data gaps, delays, and operational inefficiencies, making it difficult to scale effectively. These challenges did not simply slow down operations – they impacted homebuyers, sellers, and real estate agents who relied on fast, high-quality visuals to make critical housing decisions. Delays meant families were waiting longer to find a home, sellers were missing out on potential buyers, and agents were losing valuable time. To meet demand and remove these barriers, Next Door Photos needed productive automations.
Rubico’s Software Solution
Rubico automated Next Door Photos’ workflows, replacing inefficient manual processes with a custom automation system, API integrations, and Zapier-based solutions. These enhancements improved real estate media processing, franchise management, and scalability, allowing NDP to operate more efficiently and grow seamlessly.
- Automated key workflows eliminated manual tasks and reduced turnaround times for real estate media delivery.
- Enabled real-time visibility, allowing NDP’s team to track operations, reduce data gaps, and improve decision-making.
- Created an efficient system so that homebuyers, sellers, and agents experience a smoother, faster real estate process.
What We Delivered
Workflow Automation
Rubico eliminated manual processes by implementing custom workflow automation and Zapier-based solutions, enabling faster real estate media processing. These improvements reduced operational bottlenecks, enhanced efficiency, and allowed NDP to streamline tasks, ensuring franchise locations could scale operations and meet demand with ease.
System Integration
Rubico developed custom API integrations and Jira API automation, allowing seamless data flow, real-time tracking, and task automation. These enhancements improved visibility across 40+ locations, optimized workflow coordination, and strengthened operational transparency, ensuring Next Door Photos could efficiently manage and expand its franchise network.
Services Provided by Rubico
Discovery Phase
Conducted an in-depth assessment of NDP’s existing workflows, identifying key inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
Strategic Guidance
Developed a custom automation roadmap, ensuring long-term scalability and operational efficiency.
Workflow Analysis
Mapped out NDP’s end-to-end processes, pinpointing bottlenecks and optimizing task management and data tracking.
Custom Automations
Designed and implemented automated workflows, API integrations, and system enhancements to replace manual processes.
Ongoing Support
Provided continued maintenance and optimization to ensure NDP’s systems remain reliable, scalable, and high-performing.
Technologies We Used
Used for backend and frontend development, providing a scalable foundation for automation.
Deployed automation solutions to replace manual workflows during NDP’s busiest season.
Enabled automated task and issue tracking, reducing manual task management for franchise operations.
Rubico’s experienced development team utilized Node.js, Next.js, custom API development, Zapier, and Jira API to automate workflows and enhance NDP’s operations. Backend engineers built a scalable system, automation specialists streamlined tasks, and integration experts enabled real-time tracking. Through collaboration, testing, and strategic execution, Rubico delivered a high-performance solution that empowered NDP’s franchise network to scale efficiently.
Who is Next Door Photo?
Next Door Photos is a real estate media company that helps homebuyers, sellers, and agents navigate life’s biggest transitions with confidence. With next-day delivery of photography, virtual tours, and drone footage, they make finding and selling a home faster and easier for families. NDP is helping people move forward into their next chapter with peace of mind.
Ongoing Partnership
Rubico continues to provide support, system enhancements, and maintenance so that Next Door Photos automation and workflow systems remain scalable, and high-performing. Next Door Photos continues to deliver life-changing real estate media solutions to help families, agents, and sellers move forward with confidence.
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Rubico has a great support team and a deep bench.
Ben Lyzenga
COO of Next Door Photos