What's New: 2023-03-16
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Listing Builder
Reputation Management
Social Marketing
Website Pro
This week, Website Pro gets a big upgrade to support Google Analytics 4! Learn more about this and other updates hotly anticipated by those who voted in our customer roadmap.
Listing Builder
New
Assure your clients that their presence on Apple Maps is increasingly valuable with its updated score of 45, which is on par with Bing and Yahoo.
Show your clients all the sites their information is being synced to with the addition of new sources to the table in Listing Sync Pro powered by Vendasta, including YP.com, Superpages, Dexknows, Better Business Bureau, EZLocal, and several new vehicle brand navigation sources.
Reputation Management
Coming Soon
On March 23rd, you’ll be able to use AI to compose tailored responses to reviews left in any source available in Reputation Management - such as Yelp or Angi - in addition to Google and Facebook released earlier this year. Vote here to be notified as soon as it becomes available.
Social Marketing
Coming Soon
The much-acclaimed Dall-E from OpenAI is coming to Social Marketing by the end of March. It will let you generate unique images for your social posts with the click of a button! Vote here to be notified as soon as it becomes available.
Website Pro
New
Power Executive Reports and Analytics with Google Analytics 4! Simply connect your clients' Google Analytics 4 accounts in Business App to show them how the improvements you're making are having a positive impact on their business.
Fixes
[Accounts] Find new prospects by category via Find Accounts in Partner Center.
[Accounts] New customer accounts will be created in the current market when purchasing directly via "Buy it Now."
[Customer Voice] Navigation tabs restored to Customer Voice
[Reputation Management] Load response templates from Sales & Success Center
[Social Marketing] Post larger videos to Twitter.
[Social Marketing] See metrics for posts published to Facebook in Post Performances tab
[Social Marketing] Add <> symbols to text content in social posts.
What's New: 2023-03-09
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Listing Builder
Automations
Task Manager
Snapshot Report
Billing & Finance
Welcome to the Changelog! Going forward, you’ll find a weekly summary of all new releases right here in our customer roadmap to make it easy to keep track of what’s new and improved.
Customer Roadmap
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Vote, comment, and request new features on our customer roadmap, and be notified if and when they become available. (If you're reading this, you're here! Just click on "Roadmap" above to browse and search, or "Give Feedback" to submit new requests.)
Here's a quick rundown of the statuses you'll see:
Open = Functionality has been requested.
Not Planned = Not scheduled to be built in the near term.
Planned = Likely to be built within the next 3-9 months.
Up Next = Slated to be built within the next 3 months.
In Progress = Currently being worked on!
Now Available = Already released - go try it out!
Accounts
New
Choose from 4,000 business categories when setting up Accounts to provide tools like Snapshot Report and Listing Distribution more precise information for generating accurate assessments and boosting SEO, respectively. Learn more
Automations
New
Apply automations to all of your markets in one click.
Billing
New
See payment date, time, and type in addition to payer account, total amount, and invoice number on payment email notifications.
Task Manager
Fixed
Clearly see which templates you can edit - those that belong to you! - and which are managed by a vendor.
What's New: 2023-03-02
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Listing Builder
Reputation Management
Social Marketing
Website Pro
Yesware
Yesware, the sales engagement tool trusted by over 6,000 sales teams, will be made available to Vendasta partners on a current subscription…for free! This week also includes updates to Social Marketing, Listing Builder, Reputation Management, and Website Pro bring your clients what they need to thrive.
Yesware
Get ready to take your sales game to the next level with Yesware, the sales engagement tool that will be made available to Vendasta partners on Thursday, March 23rd at our Conquer Local Connect virtual event.
With over 1.4 million installs to date, Yesware is sales engagement software that lives right in your inbox. It lets you know when your prospects are engaging with your emails, so you can reach out at the perfect time. You can create repeatable sales processes with robust multi-touch outreach campaigns, grab easy to access templates, and even find new prospects to sell to, complete with their email address and phone number, with built-in data enrichment.
On March 23rd, Vendasta partners on any one of our current paid plans, including our 2022 Essentials, Professional, Premium, or Custom plans, will be able to enjoy the full power of Yesware Pro or Premium completely free!
Register now to learn all about how Yesware will help your team close better deals with better outreach.
Listing Builder
New
Show citations to your clients through Listing Distribution and Listing Sync Pro regardless of whether or not they use Reputation Management.
Reputation Management
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Monitor and enhance your homeservices clients' reputation online with new review source ANGI.
Social Marketing
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Drag and drop media when creating posts with multiple images or video clips to arrange them in the desired order, and rest assure that the order will be maintained when the post goes live.
Website Pro
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Disable Google Analytics for your clients based in Europe to ensure GDPR compliance.
What's New: 2023-02-23
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Digital Ads
Task Manager
Inbox
Partner Center
Billing & Finance
This week, updates to Orders, Billing, and Inbox save you time by increasing clarity and transparency on core business functions.
Billing
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View a dashboard and download reports of products that were deactivated or expired within a time period gain insight into which products your clients are perceiving as most and least valuable.
Inbox
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Access Inbox via a widget in the top menu of Partner Center to converse with teammates, vendors, and clients without clicking away from whatever you may be working on. 
Orders
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See the total monthly spend on Digital Ads in addition to the ad spend and management fee breakdown.
Partner Center
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Track all projects in progress in the Projects table, and reach out to the vendor - like Marketing Services - via Inbox if you have any questions.
Other Products
Fixed
[Campaigns] Ability to duplicate email campaigns restored
[Listing Builder] Google Business profiles sync correctly after updating service area
[Reputation Management] Chamber of Commerce addresses populating accurately
[Social Marketing] "Create Report" view optimized for mobile
[Social Marketing] Scheduled Posts tab optimized for mobile
[Social Marketing] Load Instagram post previews
Catch up on recent releases here, and subscribe to our channel to be notified whenever we have something new to share!
What's New: 2023-02-16
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Add more AI to your workflow and get more bang for your ad campaign bucks with this week’s updates.
Marketing Services
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Bing has joined Google on the list of channels in which Marketing Services leverages smart optimization technology across search, display, and social ads to deliver great results for all new and existing Search Campaigns.
Social Marketing
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Craft responses to social media comments with AI.
Linkedin account connections that have been manually re-connected within the past 12 months will auto-refresh every 90 days going forward. Accounts last re-connected over 12 months ago will need to be manually refreshed once to activate the automatic re-connect going forward.
Fixed
Images posted to Instagram and Facebook display in the order uploaded.
Website Pro
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Upgrade your sites to PHP version 8.1 today to stay up to date so that your and your clients' websites are not at risk of being exploited by security vulnerabilities.
Other Products
Fixed
[Business App] Date filter in multi-location Reputation Management displays consistently.
[Business App] Accounts created from a partner will be added to the market of that store.
[Business App] Custom reporting funnel settings are preserved.
[Marketplace] Discover Products loads all relevant results.
[Reputation Management] Bing listing syncs address accurately.
What's New: 2023-02-09
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Automations
Billing & Finance
Email Campaigns
This week, updates to Campaigns, Automations, and Yesware help you engage clients with a more thoughtful experience in less time.
Automations
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Set social media connections as criteria for automations in order to send your clients on the ideal customer journey for them.
Billing
New
Reconcile platform payouts easily and accurately with all transaction types now included in payout records, including refunds and reversals.
Fixed
Invoice formatting is respected on payment records.
Campaigns
New
Engage your audience with compelling campaign content written with Vendasta’s AI-powered email builder.
Yesware
New
Experience the value of finding new leads and seamlessly enrolling them in a multi-touch campaign with Prospector and Contact Enrichment during your Yesware free trial. Go to yesware.com to access your 50 free credits!
Other Products
Fixed
[Business App] Impersonated users are blocked from sending messages in Inbox to guarantee that messages are sent by the user indicated.
[Inbox] Vendors can contact resellers through Inbox in Vendor Center.
[Social Marketing] Scheduled posts appear in correct order, with those scheduled to go out soonest at the top.
[Social Marketing] Save social posts as drafts.
[Social Marketing] Scheduled posts display on Overview page.
[Task Manager] Recurring templates create projects on set interval.
[Website Pro] All customer details collected in web form captured in Business App.
What's New: 2023-02-02
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Listing Builder
Social Marketing
Business App
This week, updates to Social Marketing and Listing Builder help you expand your clients' reach to a wider audience.
Social Marketing
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Create carousel posts for Instagram with up to 10 images or video clips to a single post.
Listing Builder
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Set multiple service locations in an account's Business Profile and sync this information with Listing Builder without having to log into my Google Business Profile.
Business App
Coming Soon
Deprecation of some Google APIs will end access to Search types, Photo Views, and Photo Quantities data on February 20th. These affected Google Insights data sets can be viewed in multiple areas in our platform including Listing Builder, the Executive Report, and the Google Business Profile Overview page in Business App. Download the historical data from the Google Business Profile Overview Page before February 20th to preserve it for your records.
Other Products
Fixed
[Listing Distribution] Re-activation available for accounts where validity had lapsed.
[Partner Center] All tabs displaying correctly.
[Proposal Builder] Proposal reviewers displayed once per contact in dropdown.
[Snapshot Report] Header displaying on same page as corresponding content.
[Snapshot Report] Yelp listings display where applicable.
[Social Marketing] Linkedin posting success restored after adjustments to meet new content validation logic.
What's New: 2023-01-26
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Inbox
Partner Center
Billing & Finance
Email Campaigns
This week, multiple improvements help you stay on top of booking, processing, and fulfilling orders.
Billing
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Vendasta email receipts include a CSV file that clearly displays the products purchased, their pricing, and the associated client accounts.
Campaigns
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Overview and campaign detail pages load twice as fast as before.
New Recommended Campaigns available, such as Digital Success.
Inbox & Partner Center
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View clients' in-progress and completed projects right within their account pages in Partner Center, and start a chat with the fulfilling Vendor - such as Marketing Services - right from the project card, via Inbox.
Orders & Fulfilment
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Order our Website: Up to 5 pages design service for your clients with a single click, and collect the information required to fulfill the order afterwards, at your and your client’s convenience through our new fulfilment forms.
Other Products
Fixed
[Business App] Partner admins can impersonate SMB users in Business App.
[Campaigns] Recommended Campaigns load and display successfully.
[Marketplace] Market-specific partner admins can access their market's Manage Product page.
[Marketplace] Quantity updates on items within packages display accurately.
[Orders] Filter orders by tags.
[Proposal Builder] Sender and receiver variables populate accurately in proposal templates.
[Reputation Management] Review Display Widget uploads successfully on sites where embedded.
[Social Marketing] Failed Instagram posts display accurate error messages to prevent duplicate posts.
[Social Marketing] Large videos upload successfully to Linkedin.
What's New: 2023-01-19
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Inbox
Partner Center
Email Campaigns
This week, Vendasta has a handful of fantastic enhancements to all corners of our software that will help you connect and communicate with partners and clients more easily than ever.
Campaigns
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See which email campaigns an account is included in right from their account record in Partner Center.
Direct campaign contacts to landing pages in your store with a single click by adding links as dynamic content in your emails.
Fixed
Access to the emails within recommended campaigns has been restored.
Inbox
New
Chat with your Vendasta rep via Inbox from inside Partner Center. Don’t have an Account Manager with your Vendasta plan? Upgrade today! On average, our partners experience a 120% revenue growth rate over partners on plans that don’t include an Account Manager. Send us a message right from Partner Center if you need help upgrading, or would like to learn more.
Yesware
New
Filter contact lists by your desired criteria into curated lists, and export them as csv files to upload to Vendasta, HubSpot, or other software.
Other
Fixed
[Listing Builder] Operational Information is syncing from Partner Center.
[Listing Builder] Listing Sync assesses match quality to calculate listing score.
[Orders] Order forms display populated fields correctly.
[Proposal Builder] Business Details imported from Snapshot Reports maintain correct formatting.
[Social Marketing] New Instagram posts are uploading reliably.
[Social Marketing] Re-schedule post functionality has been restored.
[Task Manager] Activation is accessible to all partners.
What's New: 2023-01-05
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Reputation Management
Social Marketing
Website Pro
Automations
Business App
Snapshot Report
Billing & Finance
This week, exciting new features in Reputation Management and Social Marketing harness the power of AI content generation.
Billing
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Refund purchases paid for through Vendasta Payments directly and immediately.
See full context of refunds with product, client account, and refund reason now included in the notification emails
Reputation Management & Social Marketing
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Leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to respond to reviews and craft social posts in seconds. Learn more about how it works in Reputation Management and Social Marketing.
Fixed
[Reputation Management] Partners and clients can once again view and use Reputation Management in their preferred language.
[Social Marketing] Drag and drop scheduled posts.
Snapshot Report
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Refresh Snapshot Reports from the account overview page and account details page in either Partner Center or Sales & Success Center, and even in the edit view.
Fixed
Find and compare local competitors with City-wide Search.
Other Products
Fixed
[Accounts] Create new accounts located in China.
[Automations] Unselect emails that were pulled into an automation from the library and create new emails to use in their place.
[Business App] Get Started page has been restored.
[Website Pro] Access the Website Pro dashboard and your custom domains without disruption.
Catch up on recent releases here, and subscribe to our channel to be notified whenever we have something new to share!
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