Room Sizes and Floor Plans on a Listing

Measure rooms by hand, with the camera or with an iPhone depth-sensor scan, and show their sizes — and a floor plan of the whole home — on your listing. Every size says how it was measured.

You can show renters how big each room is and a floor plan of the whole home — drawn in the floor-plan editor, started from rooms you measured, from a whole-home scan on an iPhone or from a walkthrough video (see Floor Plans: Draw, Scan or Map a Home From a Video). Every size on the listing says how it was found, so a size you typed in never reads as one you scanned. It is off for every unit until you switch it on.

Measuring a room

How	Where	What the listing says
Scan the room	The iPhone app, on an iPhone with a depth sensor (LiDAR) — walk round the room	Scanned, with a drawing of the room
Measure with the camera	The iPhone app — tap one end of a wall, then the other	Measured with the camera
Enter it by hand	The website, the iPhone app and the Android app — from a tape measure or a plan	Entered by hand

History → Floor plan on 214 Wilson Ave, Apt 4B: Add a room by hand, with the room’s name, its length and width in feet and inches, and Add room. All four are ringed. — 1 Name the room, give its 2 length and 3 width in feet and inches, then 4 Add room — a size typed from a tape measure or a plan is labeled as typed.

Open the unit from your portfolio, choose History, then Floor plan. On the website you can add a room by hand right there; on iPhone, “Measure a room” opens the scanner, the camera or the form, whichever your phone can do. On Android, measure in Settings → In the field → Measure. Sizes are in centimetres, and a size typed on any of them counts exactly the same — Seayora records that it was typed.

Showing it on the listing

Switch on “Show room sizes and the floor plan on this listing” under History → Floor plan, on the website or either phone app (on Android it is under In the field → Measure too). The preview under the switch is exactly what renters see.

History → Floor plan: the switch “Show room sizes and the floor plan on this listing”, off, and What renters would see — the bedroom, kitchen and living room, each with its size and how it was measured, and 420 sq ft across three rooms. The switch is ringed. — Switch on “Show room sizes and the floor plan on this listing” — below it is exactly what renters would see.

Renters see each room’s name, its size in feet and inches and in meters, its floor area, and how it was measured.
When the home has a floor plan, renters see the drawing instead of the list: every floor, each room with its sizes and how they were found, doors, windows, built-ins and overall dimensions. Without one, a room scanned with a depth sensor shows a sketch of its own walls. Neither is a survey.
If a room was measured more than once, the latest measurement is shown.
The total adds up the rooms listed. It is not the home’s official size, the listing says so, and it does not change the square footage on your listing.
Windows, doors and walls you measured on their own are not shown.
Assistants connected to Seayora that search listings see the same room sizes, with the same words about how each was measured.
Switch it off at any time and it leaves the listing at once.

What is never published

The 3D model a scan makes. It shows the furniture and belongings in the room, which is somebody’s home, and it never leaves the phone.
Photos taken while measuring.
Who measured each room, on which phone, and when.

Frequently asked questions

My phone cannot scan a room. Can I still show a floor plan?

Yes. Draw it in the floor-plan editor on the website, the iPhone app or the Android app, or start it from a walkthrough video. Only the iPhone app scans, because Android has no room-scanning feature and the website has no sensor; a drawn room says it was drawn by the owner.

Will a listing without room sizes look worse?

No. It is optional and most listings will not have it. A listing without it shows nothing in its place, and connected assistants are told that no room sizes says nothing about the home.

How accurate is a scan?

To within a few centimetres. It is not a survey, and the listing says how each size was measured so a renter can judge it.

Why does the total not match my listing’s square footage?

The total only adds up the rooms you measured — hallways, closets and walls are usually missing from it. It is shown as a sum of the rooms listed, never as the home’s official size.

Related guides

Related features and guides

Floor Plans: Draw, Scan, Trace or Map a Home From a Video — Documentation. Draw a home to scale — walls, rooms, doors, windows, built-ins and dimension lines — start it from a scan, a walkthrough video or an existing plan, measure with a Bluetooth laser, see its ANSI area and a contractor's takeoff, download it as a PDF or CAD file, and show it on your listing in plan, color, blueprint or 3D.
Building Health Score — Documentation. What the building health score is made of, what each factor means, what it deliberately does not claim, and how to show a building condition badge on a listing.
Unit Timeline — Documentation. Everything that happened at one unit — or on your tenancy — in one list, newest first, and exactly who can see what.
Technician Dispatch & Live Arrival Times — Feature. Plan each technician’s route, tell the customer when they set off, and send a live arrival link that says how the time was worked out — without tracking your crew.
Bank Feeds & Reconciliation — Feature. Connect bank feeds and reconcile transactions against the ledger, so what the books say and what the bank says actually match.
Voice Notes in Messaging — Feature. Record and send voice notes in any Seayora conversation. Transcoded server-side so they play on iPhone, Android, and desktop alike, stored with the thread, and searchable as part of the property record.