☀️ What's New This Month?

Welcome to Uberall's August 2026 release notes! This month's updates fall into a few clear themes: clearer signals across your profiles, smarter automation for EV businesses, reviews without the language barrier, and more reach for restaurant customers.

Here's the TL;DR

• New Location Profile UX Improvements - Improvements to messaging and experience for Coming Soon locations, Permanently Closed locations, Service Area Businesses, and Reviews Card in Overview page.
• EV Enhancements - Expanding the data fields that are collected through OCPI improving profile completeness.
• Multi-Language Support - Translate incoming reviews and AI-generated replies to your native language.
• New Directory: Restaurants Co - New industry specific directory for food & beverage businesses.
• New Directory: Overture Maps - Your location data now flows through Overture's distribution network, which currently powers applications reaching over 1 billion consumers!

Aligned with the Location Performance Optimization (LPO) framework, these updates are designed to help you master the Visibility, Reputation, and Engagement pillars turning digital presence into measurable revenue.

Learn more about the releases below! 👇

Location Hub Enhancements

New Location Profile UX Improvements

We've cleaned up messaging across the Location Profile pages so it's easier to understand what a location's status means for its data. From Coming Soon banners to Permanently Closed flows, these changes help you know exactly what's publishing where and why. 

This release introduces four (4) new user experience improvements to the Location Profile page:

• Coming Soon locations will now have improved messaging across the profile that better indicates the status of the location and the impact to syncing location data. 
  1. Coming Soon locations now show a banner clarifying that only Google and Facebook are supported until the opening date.
  2. The Opening Date field is directly tied to the coming soon status of the location. Changing an open location's date to the future now flags that it will unpublish from all directories except Google and Facebook.
      

• Permanently Closed locations also receive improvements on messaging to clear up discrepancies on syncing status and the flow to transition a location to permanently closed.
  1. Permanently Closed locations no longer show a misleading "Auto-Sync: On" indicator. 
  2. The "Edit Profile" button now reads "View Profile" for Permanently Closed locations
  3. Users have to click publish updates for the permanent closure to take effect which gives the opportunity to choose the effective closure date to start immediately or scheduled for a future date. This update moves the final confirmation step for closing a location after clicking Publish, giving you a clear last checkpoint.

• Service Area Businesses can now see which connected directories don't support hidden addresses. We are introducing a new expandable menu containing the connected listings that do not support the feature when 'Hide your location address' is enabled. 

• For Reviews customers, the Reviews card on the location profile Overview page is receiving a naming update to better identify what is being counted on the card. This small update reduces confusion on what the count is showing which is unanswered reviews as opposed to the total number of reviews for the location.

EV Enhancements

EV profiles just got smarter. We've expanded what we can pull in through OCPI feeds, so your listings stay accurate and complete with less manual upkeep. This update breaks down into four (4) enhancements that improve the overall quality of the listings promoting better visibility and conversion. 

What's New ✨

• Location photos are automatically enriched using OCPI photo data
• Location status (Open, Closed, Inactive) now syncs automatically from OCPI
• More fields now populate automatically — email, keywords, services, brands, languages, imprint, social profiles, fax, cellphone, payment options, square logo, and video URL
• Amenity mapping pulls facility details (restrooms, restaurants, parking, Wi-Fi, etc.) into your Services field

Reviews Enhancements

Multi-Language Support

Reviews shouldn't sit unanswered just because of a language barrier. With reviews being a key part of visibility and conversion in AI generated answers and local search, businesses need to stay on top of their engagement efforts. To help do so, we are adding the capability to translate reviews and AI generated replies natively within the Uberall platform. Users will be able to tackle reviews in their native language removing the barrier that can often lead to delays or prevent reviews from being replied to. 

What's New ✨

• Click the globe icon after selecting a review to see any review translated into your language.
• AI-Suggested Replies default to the reviewer's language automatically, you can now translate the AI-generated draft into your language before sending.
  • Note: editing a translated draft replaces the original AI-localized version with your edited language.

Listings Enhancements

New Directory: Restaurants Co

We've added a new listings directory to ensure that businesses maintain visibility on valuable industry specific sites. Restaurants.co is a new food and beverage directory in Sweden with plans for global expansion that supports all restaurant/cafe categories.

What's New ✨

• Restaurants.co is live in Sweden, with global expansion planned.
• Covers all restaurant/cafe categories (restaurants, cafes, fast food, bakeries, food trucks, and more).
• Listings sync automatically and are updated daily.
• A Restaurants.co badge appears on the Listings page so you know where the visibility is coming from.

New Directory: Overture Maps

Your location data now reaches even further — automatically. Uberall is now an official contributing data partner to Overture Maps, the open geospatial data foundation backed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom. That means your listing data now flows into a distribution network reaching over 1 billion consumers, with no setup or extra work on your end. 

What's New ✨

• Your business listing data (name, address, location, category, phone, website) now contributes to the Overture Maps Places dataset
• This data flows downstream into major platforms including Meta (Facebook and Instagram maps).
• Positions your listings for AI-powered search and next-generation location experiences, since Overture's structured data is built to be ingested by AI assistants and LLMs.
• Listings sync automatically and are updated monthly.