The trial runs for 30 days and is the full product. There is no reduced feature set, no listing cap during it, and no plan on the account that limits how many listings you may import.
Numbers that look like caps come from somewhere else. This page names the three of them so you can tell which one you are hitting.
How the trial works
You choose a plan and register, and the card is taken at signup but not charged for 30 days. The subscription screen in your account shows a Trial end date row while the trial is running, and the first payment is taken on that date.
Cancelling before the trial end date means no payment is taken. The connection keeps working to that date either way, so there is nothing to gain from cancelling early.
Use the trial on the site you actually intend to run, not a scratch install. The month is long enough to import your full feed and watch a few daily reconciliation passes, which is the only way to find out whether your hosting can carry your listing count before you are paying for it.
The three numbers people mistake for a limit
25
The plugin requests listings in pages of 25. That is the size of one request to the MLS, not a limit on the import. An import that stops at exactly 25 has completed one page and then had its process killed by the server, which is a hosting problem rather than a plan problem.
10,000
A single import task will not import more than 10,000 listings. The ceiling is applied quietly: the task records 10,000 as its planned total and imports that many, rather than reporting an error. A feed larger than that is split across several import tasks with filters that do not overlap.
The number your host allows
An import task runs inside one background process. Whatever that process can finish before the server’s execution time or memory limit stops it is the practical size of a task on your hosting, and it varies between hosts far more than anything in the plugin does.
The number an import stops at tells you which of the three you hit. A multiple of 25 means whole pages completed and the process died between them, which is time or memory. A number that is not a multiple of 25 means it died part way through writing a page. Exactly 10,000 means the per task ceiling, and nothing is wrong.
Setting how many to import
Each import task has a field for how many properties to import. Leaving it at 0 imports everything the filters find, up to the ceiling above.
Setting it to a smaller number is useful as a probe when you are testing a new task or a new host. It is not a way to work through a large feed in stages, because a repeat run starts from the beginning of the same result set rather than continuing where the last one stopped. Splitting the feed with filters is what genuinely divides it.
Frequently asked questions
Does a bigger plan let me import more listings?
No. The plan does not set a listing count. What sets it is your MLS access and your hosting.
Do imported listings count against anything if I delete and re-import them?
No. Nothing counts imports for billing. A listing is matched on its MLS identifier, so re-importing updates the existing property rather than creating a new one.
What happens on the day the trial ends?
The first payment is taken and the subscription continues without interruption. Nothing on your website changes and no import needs restarting.
Can I extend the trial?
Ask. If you are held up by something on our side, such as an MLS that still needs activating for your account, tell us and we will look at the dates with you.
Related
- How many listings can you import
- Memory, batch size and large imports
- Imports that stop at 25 listings
- Managing your MLSImport subscription
- Cancelling MLSImport
Send us the number your import stopped at and we will tell you which of the three you are looking at.