☀️ 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.
• Multi-Language Support - Translate incoming reviews to your native language and translate your replies.
• Mobile App Google Review QR Code Generator - Launch a QR code to direct customers to leave reviews on Google!
• Mobile App Review Approval - Approve or reject location manager replies to reviews on the go! 
• Mobile App Notification Center -  A centralized place to place to view what needs attention.
• New Directory: Restaurants Co - New directory connection for food and beverage industry.
• 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. 

• 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.

Mobile App (Local Search) Innovations

Google Review QR Code Generator

Getting more Google reviews just got easier. Users can now generate a QR code right from the mobile app that takes customers straight to a location's Google Business Profile to leave a review. No extra setup or separate tools required!

What's New ✨

• Generate a QR code that links directly to a location's Google Business Profile for reviews
• Available from the Homepage and from the Location Profile
• If you manage multiple locations, you'll be prompted to select one first
• Currently supports Google only — locations without a Google connection can't be selected

Review Approvals

Response Approvers no longer have to wait until they're back at a desktop to keep reviews moving. Pending review response drafts can now be approved, declined, or edited right from the Uberall mobile app so customer replies don't sit in a queue.

What's New ✨

• A new Approvals section will be available in the Local Search Inbox for users with review response. approval permissions, with a badge showing your pending count.
• Approve or decline a pending reply with a single tap.
• Edit a reply's text before approving it, right from your phone.
• Users without approval permissions see no change to their app.

Notification Center 

The mobile app now has a dedicated Notification Center: a single list of new reviews, social comments, and messages, so you can see what's happened, keep track of what you've read, and jump straight to it.

What's New ✨

• A dedicated Notification Center in the mobile app, listing new reviews, social-thread comments, and messages.
• Tap any notification to go straight to the relevant review, conversation, or thread.
• Notifications are grouped by date.
• An unread badge shows how many notifications need your attention.
• Tap a notification to mark it read; long-press to toggle it back to unread.
• Swipe to delete a notification you no longer need.

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 in the Inbox 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.