For agentsOctober 21, 20269 min read

How to Virtually Stage a Whole Listing in One Go (Screenshots)

A real 13-photo listing staged in one sitting: one upload, one house style, one click for every room, a portal-ready export with the disclosure built in.

Virtual staging stops being worth the effort the moment you have to do it photo by photo: pick a room, pick a style, wait, download, repeat twenty times, then explain to the seller why the kitchen looks different from the living room. This tutorial shows the workflow that avoids all of that. We took a real vacant three-bed in Swinton, Greater Manchester, 13 photos straight from the portal, and staged the whole listing in one sitting: one upload, one house style, one click for every room, one ZIP with the disclosure already in the image. Screenshots of every step below.

If you are new to the technology itself, how AI virtual staging works covers the basics. This article is about doing it at listing scale.

What you need

  • The listing photos, as shot. JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC from the photographer's camera or your phone, up to 20 MB each.
  • Five minutes of attention at the start and five at the end. The renders run on their own in between.
  • A free account: the first five images are free, which covers a test on one room before you commit a whole listing.

Step 1: Create the listing

From your workspace home, click New property and fill in the address and the asking price. Everything else is optional and can be filled in later.

The workspace home page of an estate agency with its properties
The workspace home: every listing, its render count and its status in one place.
The new property form with address and asking price filled in
Address and price are enough. Brokerage and shoot date are prefilled.

Step 2: Upload every photo at once

On the new listing's page click Add photos and select the whole shoot. The files upload one after the other and the app sorts each photo into its room as it lands: living room, kitchen, bedrooms, hallway. Thirteen photos took under a minute to upload and about a minute to analyse.

The Add photos dialog uploading thirteen files with a progress bar
Thirteen photos in one go. The counter shows your plan's photo capacity per property before you start.
The property page with a processing strip while photos are analysed and sorted
While the photos are analysed they sit in a processing strip; each one drops into its room group when it is done.
The Original tab with thirteen photos grouped into living room, kitchen, bedrooms and hallway
All 13 photos sorted by room. Rename a room or move a photo if the sorter guessed wrong; it rarely does.

Two notes for the photographer in you. Keep the photos landscape and uncropped: 3:2 or 4:3 straight out of the camera is what the portals want and what the exporter crops from. And upload the lived-in rooms too; the decluttering step in the editor handles them, you don't need to pre-select.

Step 3: Set your house style once

This is the step that makes bulk staging work. One style for the whole listing keeps the kitchen, the living room and the bedrooms looking like the same house, and one saved style for your agency keeps every listing looking like your brand.

You can pick a preset from the library (Modern, Scandinavian, Luxury, Mid-century, Coastal, Industrial) and stop reading here. We went one step further and built a custom style: open Style library, click Build a custom style, give it a name and describe it in a few sentences. Reference photos are optional. The app writes a render brief from the description, builds a mood board and renders a sample living room, which takes two or three minutes.

The custom style form with a name and a written description of the agency's house style
A house style in four sentences: materials, colours, lighting, mood. This is written once and reused on every listing.
The finished custom style page with its mood board and sample render
The style page after generation: mood board, palette and a sample room, so the whole office knows what "our style" means.

Step 4: Stage every room with one click

Back on the listing, open the Styled tab, click Add style and pick your house style. The tab now shows one card per photo with a single button in the top right: Quick generate · 13 photos. The line under the tabs tells you what the batch costs from your plan's image budget before you click it.

The Add a style dialog with the agency's custom style selected
Attach the house style to the listing. Styles added here appear as chips above the room grid.
The Styled tab before rendering, with the Quick generate button and the cost line
One button for the whole listing, and the price of pressing it in plain sight.

Click it. Every photo flips to a spinner and the renders run in parallel. Cards fill in as they finish, no refresh needed.

The Styled tab with thirteen cards rendering at once
Thirteen renders queued with one click. Go and do something else.
The Styled tab with every room staged in the house style
The whole listing staged in the house style. Each card still has its original and can be re-rendered on its own.
Grid of the staged rooms of the Swinton listing
All staged rooms of the listing, one style, one click.

Step 5: Check the results and fix the odd one

Open any card to land in the editor. The bottom strip shows every version of that photo; the right panel renders again with a note ("a smaller dining table", "no rug") or in another style for just this room. For an occupied home you would start here with Declutter, which empties the room before staging; vacant listings skip it.

The editor showing a staged bedroom with the version timeline and the render panel
The editor: compare with the original, re-render with a note, or switch style for this one room.

Two habits that keep you on the right side of the portals' rules: never let a render add or remove a window, a door or a wall (the model is told not to, but look), and keep at least one unedited photo per room in the set. Our disclosure rules guide has the per-portal specifics.

The living room as photographed and in the house style.
The main bedroom. Window, radiator and door exactly where they were.

Step 6: Export portal-ready

Click Export. Tick Originals and Staged, keep JPG, and switch the disclosure bar on: the text ("digitally styled for inspiration") is rendered into the image itself, which is what Rightmove, Funda and most MLSs require, with AI-disclosure metadata written into the file as well. Pro and Business plans can replace the text with their own wording and logo.

The export dialog with originals and staged selected, JPG and the disclosure bar enabled
Export: originals and staged renders, JPG, disclosure bar in the image. The ZIP is built in the background.
The export dialog with the finished ZIP ready to download
Ready: one ZIP with every photo in every version, named by room and style, in landscape 3:2 and 4:3 crops.

The ZIP carries each image as a full frame plus the 3:2 crop the portals ask for; on Pro and Business the renders come at 2K. Upload the staged set to the portal with the originals, in the order you would normally use, and the disclosure is already taken care of. The portal guides for Rightmove and Funda list the exact pixel and labelling requirements.

Step 7: Share a showcase page (optional)

Every listing can have a public page where buyers flip each room between original and staged, in any style you enabled. Set it to public in the showcase settings and paste the link into the listing description, the brochure or your Instagram bio.

The showcase settings page with visibility set to public
Showcase settings: public, password-protected or off, plus which styles buyers may browse.
The public showcase page of the listing with before and after views
The buyer-facing page: every room, original and staged, on your branding.

Time and cost for this listing

This walkthrough
Photos 13
Hands-on time about 10 minutes (create, upload, pick style, export)
Waiting time about 10 minutes (a minute of analysis, two and a half for the custom style, six and a half for 13 parallel renders)
Images used 13 of the 50 per listing on Pro
Cost at Pro (€129 for 10 listings a month) under €13 per listing, however many photos you stage within the 50
Same job at a per-image staging service €195 to €520 at the €15 to €40 per photo those services charge, delivered in one to two days

The per-image comparison is from our virtual staging pricing breakdown. The point is less the money than the queue: a listing that is shot in the morning can be live, staged and disclosed, in the afternoon.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I stage twenty photos at once?

Yes. The button renders every photo in the listing that does not have a render in that style yet, in parallel. Plans cap photos per property (25 on Pro, 40 on Business) and images per property (50), not clicks.

Do I have to use the same style for every room?

No, but you should. One style per listing is what keeps the set coherent. You can still re-render a single room in another style from the editor, and buyers can browse several styles on the showcase page if you enable them.

What about lived-in listings?

Run Declutter first. It removes the occupant's furniture and clutter from every photo in one click, and the staged render builds on the empty room. The result is a tidy, furnished version of the real house, with the walls and floors it actually has.

Is the disclosure enough for the portals?

The exported images carry a visible disclosure bar rendered into the pixels plus AI-disclosure metadata in the file, which is what Funda, Rightmove and most MLSs ask for. Portal rules also forbid structural changes, so never publish a render that moves a wall or window, and keep an original of each room online. Details per portal are in our disclosure guide.

Can my colleagues use the same house style?

Yes. Styles belong to the workspace, so every team member stages with the same brief, and the showcase pages carry the agency's branding.

By Martin Balk, founder of Twelve Lumens · Updated October 21, 2026

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