Can NextAutomation connect to VTS without partner API provisioning?

No — and it is important to be direct about this. VTS does not offer a public, open-access API. The VTS API and VTS Marketplace are exclusively available through VTS's formal partner program, which requires approval and provisioning by VTS. This is not a self-serve connector. NextAutomation integrates with VTS via the partner API once your firm has been provisioned. If you have not yet initiated partner API access with VTS, contact your VTS account representative to start the process. Unlike some platforms that offer a report-export fallback, VTS does not produce structured scheduled exports that can be ingested without the partner API — so provisioning is a hard prerequisite for VTS automation.

How long does VTS partner API provisioning take?

Provisioning timelines depend on VTS's current partner queue and the scope of your requested access, but you should plan for several weeks from initial request to active credentials. To start the process, contact your VTS account representative and specify your intended integration use cases (leasing pipeline alerts, occupancy monitoring, LP reporting). VTS will guide you through the partnership agreement and API access approval steps. We recommend initiating provisioning before engaging NextAutomation so that build work can begin as soon as credentials arrive.

Can NextAutomation automate leasing pipeline reporting from VTS?

Yes — once VTS partner API access is provisioned. The leasing pipeline export workflow pulls executed leases, deals in LOI, active proposals, and vacancy data from VTS on a scheduled basis and feeds it directly into the LP reporting pipeline. AI assembles the leasing-update section of your quarterly LP package — covering what signed, what is in negotiation, what is still vacant, and leasing-team activity against the business plan — without analyst assembly work. The asset manager reviews and approves the draft before distribution.

Can VTS data feed my LP or asset performance reports?

Yes. VTS holds two types of data valuable for LP reporting: leasing pipeline data (deal stages, executed leases, vacancy) and asset performance data (occupancy, WALT, effective rent). Via the VTS partner API (once provisioned), both data types feed the LP reporting pipeline. The leasing-update section of quarterly LP packages is assembled from the VTS pipeline snapshot; the occupancy and WALT metrics anchor the asset performance section. Our [LP reporting agent](/solutions/lp-reporting-agent) accepts both inputs and produces a branded, investor-ready package with AI-written narrative commentary.

Can AI flag upcoming lease rollover risk from VTS data?

Yes — this is one of the highest-value VTS automation use cases. Via the VTS partner API (once provisioned), a weekly scheduled poll identifies tenants whose leases are entering 24-, 12-, and 6-month renewal windows. For each newly flagged tenant, AI generates a rollover risk summary (tenant SF as a percentage of asset NRA, in-place rent vs. estimated market rent, lease history) and a draft renewal outreach for the leasing director to review and send. Rollover exposure is posted to the portfolio risk dashboard so principals can see aggregate concentration risk in a single view.

Does VTS API access require a formal partner agreement with VTS?

Yes. VTS API access — including VTS Marketplace participation — is gated behind a formal partner program that involves executing a partnership or API usage agreement with VTS and obtaining provisioned credentials. There is no trial or sandbox API access available without this agreement. If your firm is already a VTS client, the starting point is a conversation with your VTS account representative about API/integration access. If you are evaluating VTS alongside the automation build, factor the provisioning timeline into your project planning.

Can NextAutomation sync VTS tenant records to our CRM (HubSpot or Salesforce)?

Yes — once VTS partner API access is provisioned. The deal-to-CRM sync workflow pulls prospective tenant records, deal terms, and leasing-team contact activity from VTS and writes or updates corresponding records in HubSpot or Salesforce. This keeps the leasing CRM (VTS) and the relationship CRM (HubSpot/Salesforce) in sync so that tenant communication history, broker relationships, and LP contacts are never siloed in a single platform. The sync runs on deal stage changes so CRM records stay current without manual data entry.

VTS Integration

CRM & Lead Management

What It Does

VTS is the commercial real estate industry's purpose-built leasing CRM and asset management platform. Used by institutional landlords, REITs, and leasing brokers across office, retail, and industrial assets, VTS centralizes the leasing pipeline, tracks every deal and prospective tenant from first tour to signed lease, and surfaces portfolio occupancy, rollover exposure, and market comparables in a single system of record.

Why Real Estate Professionals Use It

For office, retail, and industrial landlords, the leasing pipeline is the core revenue engine — but the data trapped in VTS rarely reaches the people who need it in real time. Asset managers waiting on leasing-status updates, LP partners asking about portfolio occupancy, and principal teams trying to forecast rollover exposure all depend on information that exists in VTS but escapes only through manual reports and periodic calls.

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Feature

Leasing Pipeline Stage Change Alerts (via VTS Partner API)

Monitor VTS deal stage transitions — prospect to tour, tour to proposal, proposal to LOI, LOI to lease execution — and trigger automated notifications to the relevant asset manager, ownership group, or principal. Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Real Estate Impact

In institutional leasing, deal momentum is hard to track across a 20-suite building let alone a 10-asset portfolio. Automated stage-change alerts ensure asset managers and ownership are informed the moment a deal advances or stalls — without waiting for the weekly leasing call.

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Automation Workflows

Ready-to-deploy workflows powered by VTS + NextAutomation

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Intermediate

VTS Deal Stage Change → Asset Manager Alert + Status Summary (Partner API)

When a deal in VTS advances from one stage to the next — prospect to tour, tour to proposal, proposal to LOI, LOI to executed lease — the VTS partner API event triggers an automated notification to the responsible asset manager. AI drafts a plain-English deal status summary covering the tenant, space, proposed terms, and deal history. The asset manager receives a single-click Slack message or email with full context, without opening VTS.

Trigger: VTS partner API webhook or scheduled poll detects a deal stage change (requires VTS partner API access once provisioned by VTS)

Workflow Steps

1n8n HTTP node polls the VTS partner API for deal stage changes (or receives a webhook from VTS if supported by provisioned integration)

2Changed deal record retrieved: tenant name, suite, square footage, proposed rent, deal stage, responsible leasing broker

3AI node (Claude or OpenAI) drafts a 3-sentence deal status update in plain English from the VTS deal record

4Notification sent to the responsible asset manager via Slack direct message and email

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Asset managers are informed of material deal progress within minutes of a VTS stage change — not at the weekly leasing call. Ownership groups see executed-lease confirmations the day they happen. Leasing momentum is visible without manual VTS check-ins.

Triggers & Actions

Connect VTS to your workflows with powerful triggers and actions

Triggers

VTS Deal Stage Changed (Partner API)

Fires when a deal in VTS transitions between leasing pipeline stages (prospect → tour → proposal → LOI → executed lease). Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Notify the asset manager the moment a major tenant deal reaches LOI stage in VTS.

New Tour Logged in VTS (Partner API)

Fires when a new tour is recorded in VTS for a prospective tenant. Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Log new tour activity to the leasing ops record and alert the asset manager when a high-priority prospect tours for the first time.

Lease Executed in VTS (Partner API)

Fires when a deal reaches 'Executed' status in VTS — confirming a signed lease. Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Trigger an occupancy dashboard update and ownership-group notification the moment a lease execution is confirmed in VTS.

Lease Entering Rollover Window (Scheduled API Poll)

Fires on a scheduled basis when the VTS partner API poll identifies a tenant lease entering a defined renewal window (6, 12, or 24 months to expiration). Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Trigger a renewal outreach draft and rollover alert when a tenant representing more than 20% of an asset's NRA enters the 12-month expiration window.

Scheduled Portfolio Occupancy Poll (Partner API)

Fires on a scheduled daily or weekly basis to pull current occupancy, WALT, and effective rent data across the portfolio from the VTS partner API. Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Refresh the portfolio occupancy dashboard and post a weekly health summary to the asset management team every Monday.

Quarterly Leasing Pipeline Snapshot (Partner API)

Fires on a scheduled quarterly basis to extract the full leasing pipeline snapshot from VTS — executed leases, LOI deals, active proposals, vacancy — for LP report assembly.

Trigger the LP leasing-update assembly pipeline one week before the quarterly LP report deadline.

Actions

Retrieve VTS Deal Record (Partner API)

Fetches the full deal record for a specific deal from VTS via the partner API — tenant name, space, terms, deal stage, broker, notes. Requires VTS partner API access once provisioned.

Retrieve the complete deal history for a major tenant in LOI before drafting the asset manager briefing.

Generate AI Leasing Status Summary

Takes a VTS deal or pipeline export and generates a plain-English leasing status summary for the asset manager, principal team, or LP audience.

Draft the leasing-update section of the quarterly LP report from the VTS pipeline snapshot.

Post Leasing Alert to Slack

Posts a deal stage change notification, rollover alert, or portfolio occupancy summary to a designated Slack channel for the asset management or ownership team.

Alert the asset management team Slack channel when a 30,000 SF office deal advances to LOI stage in VTS.

Sync VTS Tenant Record to CRM (HubSpot / Salesforce)

Writes or updates a prospective or executed tenant record in HubSpot or Salesforce using VTS deal and contact data — keeping the leasing CRM and relationship CRM in sync.

Create or update a HubSpot contact record for a prospective office tenant when their deal advances past the tour stage in VTS.

Update Portfolio Occupancy Dashboard

Writes current VTS occupancy, WALT, and effective rent metrics to a centralized portfolio dashboard (Airtable, Google Sheets, or a custom app).

Update the portfolio occupancy dashboard with the latest VTS metrics every morning before the principal team's 9am stand-up.

Deliver Rollover Outreach Draft for Leasing Director Review

Routes an AI-drafted tenant renewal outreach email to the responsible leasing director for review and approval before delivery — ensuring a human approves the communication before it goes to a tenant.

Send the AI-drafted renewal outreach for a 15,000 SF retail tenant entering the 12-month expiration window to the leasing director for review.

Setup Guide

Get started in approximately 1–2 days of configuration once VTS partner API credentials are provisioned. VTS partner API provisioning itself varies in duration — initiate the process with your VTS account representative well in advance of your target go-live date.

Prerequisites

VTS partner API access provisioned through VTS's formal partner program — this is not an open API and requires VTS to approve and provision your firm's access; contact your VTS account representative to initiate the process
VTS Marketplace or API credentials (client ID, client secret, environment endpoint) delivered by VTS upon provisioning completion
n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted) for workflow orchestration
A clear mapping of VTS asset IDs to human-readable property names for normalization
Designated Slack channel and/or email distribution list for leasing alerts and portfolio health summaries
CRM credentials (HubSpot, Salesforce) if deal-to-CRM sync workflows are in scope

Initiate VTS Partner API Provisioning

Contact your VTS account representative to request API access through VTS's partner program. VTS will guide you through the provisioning process, which typically involves executing a partner agreement and agreeing to the VTS API usage terms. Once provisioned, VTS delivers API credentials (client ID, secret, and environment endpoint URL). Provisioning lead time varies — plan for several weeks from initiation to active credentials.

Be specific with your VTS rep about your intended use cases (leasing pipeline alerts, occupancy monitoring, LP reporting) — this helps VTS scope the appropriate API access tier and speeds provisioning.

Configure VTS API Authentication in n8n

Once VTS delivers your API credentials, configure an n8n HTTP credential set using the VTS client ID and secret. Set up an OAuth2 or bearer-token authentication flow per VTS's API documentation. Test the authentication by calling the VTS health or assets endpoint to confirm the connection is live.

Store VTS API credentials in n8n's credential vault — never hardcode them in workflow nodes. Rotate credentials immediately if they are exposed.

Map VTS Asset IDs and Configure Scope

Pull the list of your VTS asset IDs from the API (or from your VTS admin) and map them to human-readable property names and asset manager assignments. Define the pipeline stages, rollover windows, and occupancy thresholds that will trigger alerts. This mapping drives normalization and routing logic across all downstream workflows.

Ask your VTS administrator to export the asset-ID-to-property-name mapping from VTS settings. This prevents manual lookup errors when new assets are added to the portfolio.

Build and Test Leasing Pipeline Alert Workflow

Configure the primary n8n workflow: a scheduled poll of the VTS API for deal stage changes (or a VTS webhook listener if supported by your provisioned access). Test with a single asset before rolling out to the full portfolio. Confirm that deal stage changes in VTS trigger notifications within the expected latency window.

Start with a single high-value asset — ideally one with active leasing. This lets you validate the API response format and notification routing before exposing the full portfolio.

Configure Rollover Monitoring and Dashboard Feeds

Add the rollover monitoring workflow (weekly lease expiration poll) and the portfolio occupancy dashboard feed (daily or weekly occupancy/WALT pull). Connect the dashboard feed to your target output (Airtable, Google Sheets, or a custom dashboard app). Set threshold values for rollover window alerts and occupancy/WALT flags.

Configure rollover windows conservatively — 24 months, 12 months, and 6 months. Earlier alerts allow more lead time for retention conversations, which is the primary value of this workflow.

Connect VTS Pipeline to LP Reporting

Wire the quarterly pipeline snapshot workflow to the LP reporting pipeline: configure the VTS export to feed the [LP reporting agent](/solutions/lp-reporting-agent) with structured leasing data (executed leases, LOI deals, vacancy, tour activity). Test the LP leasing-update section with one quarter of historical VTS data before the first live report run.

Run the LP pipeline against last quarter's VTS data first. This lets you validate the AI-generated leasing narrative and catch any formatting mismatches before the live report goes to LPs.

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