# Selling units from a floor plan, without a portal

A buyer looking at a development wants to see the building and click the flat. What most sites give them is a PDF of the plan and a contact form, which…

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# Selling units from a floor plan, without a portal

AÖ Arif Özelci , developer of FloorMap · Published 3 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
A buyer looking at a development wants to see the building and click the flat. What most sites give them is a PDF of the plan and a contact form, which means the site knows nothing about which unit they were interested in and the enquiry arrives saying “I liked the one on the third floor”.
Available, reserved and sold, on the plan itself.

## The PDF is where the enquiry goes to die

A plan as an image or a PDF cannot carry state. It cannot show that unit 3B went yesterday, it cannot tell you which unit somebody was looking at when they filled in the form, and it has to be re-exported by whoever made it every time something sells. So it is always slightly out of date, and the enquiries it produces need a phone call to make sense of. An interactive floor plan on the page does what the PDF cannot: it shows what is still available, and it knows which unit was clicked.

## Three states, and who is allowed to change them

Available, reserved, sold. The interesting one is reserved, because it is the state that expires: a unit held for a buyer who has not signed should come back to the plan on its own rather than waiting for somebody to remember. Whoever runs the sales office needs to change these from a list, not by editing a drawing.

### The enquiry should know what it is about

When somebody asks about a unit, the message should already contain the unit — its number, floor, size and price as shown at that moment. That single detail is the difference between a lead you can follow up and a lead you have to interview.
That is what we built FloorMap, an interactive floor plan plugin for WordPress , to do: units drawn on your own plan image, their status kept in a list the sales office can edit, and every enquiry carrying the unit it came from.

FloorMap puts the plan and the state in one place $ 39 once. Upload the plan, draw the units, set prices and status, and every enquiry arrives naming the unit it came from. Open the demo →

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In this article The PDF is where the enquiry goes to die Three states, and who is allowed to change them The enquiry should know what it is about
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