SpareFoot needs to know the full scoop about each of your units. What are the dimensions? What is the price? Are the units inside or outside? 100 percent of this information comes from Self Storage Manager, so it's very important to ensure that all of your inventory is correctly configured there. To view and edit your units in Self Storage Manager, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Login to Self Storage Manager as an Administrator.
Step 2: Navigate to "Units", then "Unit Types".
Step 3: Set Your Unit Attributes
We can read any and all values that you store in these three fields:
Unit Type Code
Category
Description
Just make sure you have all the information you want SpareFoot to see in these fields, however you prefer. For example, let's say you have a unit with these attributes: Interior, 2nd Floor, Roll-Up Door, Alarm:
There are limitless ways to label this unit in SSM, but let's use these two samples:
Unit Type Code |
Category |
Description |
|
Way 1 |
Rollup door |
2nd Floor Alarm |
Interior |
Way 2 |
2nd Floor |
Interior Unit |
Roll-Up, Alarm |
Even though you've used SSM to label the units differently, they'll both show up on SpareFoot the same way:
In order to be visible on SpareFoot, each unit must be designated with:
Inside or Outside
Floor number (for inside units). You can use "ground level" or "upstairs via elevator" instead of actual numbers
Drive-up accessible, if true
Climate-controlled, if true
Unit dimensions must be entered in the dimensions fields. Please note that when entering dimensions in SSM, length comes before width, but sizes will be displayed as width x length on SpareFoot.
Step 4: Double Check SpareFoot
SpareFoot syncs for changes to your unit prices and availability once each hour. Therefore, unit changes may not appear on your listing right away.
NOTE: If you hide your available inventory in MySpareFoot, it will remain unavailable on the SpareFoot network. If that same inventory becomes unavailable in SSM and becomes available again at a future date, it will unhide on SpareFoot as well. Therefore, we always recommend that, if there are specific units you do not want to rent, you mark them as unavailable in SSM.