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What's new in GBPcentral

Every update, improvement, and fix we ship. Follow along to see how GBPcentral gets better every week.

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184
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Platform

Dependable Audit Report Downloads

Audit report download links delivered by email now work dependably in every mail environment and stay valid for a full 48 hours. If a link does expire, the report page says so plainly instead of failing silently.

  • Fixed Audit report download links from email work dependably in every mail environment and stay valid for a full 48 hours
  • Improved If a download link has expired, the report page explains it clearly instead of failing without a message
  • Improved Ongoing investment in customer safeguards and platform trust behind the scenes
Billing

Clearer Trials and Accurate Account Status

Trial now means exactly one thing: a Starter free trial in progress, started with payment details at checkout. Your billing page shows when a running trial ends and what the first charge will be, and account status reflects reality at every step.

  • Improved Trial status now means exactly one thing: a Starter free trial in progress, started by choosing the Starter plan at checkout
  • Improved The billing page shows when a running trial ends and what the first charge will be, so there are never surprises
  • Improved Account status reflects reality from registration through subscription, on every page that shows it
  • Improved Plan changes and cancellations are checked end to end, so your subscription always matches what you chose and paid for
AI

AI Images That Include Your Words

Ask for words in your image and they appear, rendered cleanly and legibly. Every generated image now arrives high quality at the ideal size for Google posts, with nothing to configure: describe what you want and generate.

  • New Request words in your image, in quotes or plain language, and they are rendered on the image exactly as you asked, clean and legible
  • Improved Every generated image is high quality at the ideal size for Google posts; describe the image and generate, with nothing to configure
  • Improved The image tab is simpler, with a hint that teaches the quoting pattern as you type

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Platform

Emails Rebuilt for Every Inbox

Every email the platform sends was rebuilt to render correctly in every major mail client, including Outlook, with consistent branding and plain-text versions of the most important messages. Review alerts are now measured, and the homepage got a polish pass.

  • Improved Every email renders correctly in every major mail client, including Outlook, on desktop and mobile
  • Improved Consistent brand presentation across all emails, with white-label branding preserved wherever it applies
  • Improved The most important emails now include a plain-text version, so they read well in every inbox and deliver dependably
  • Fixed Connecting a profile with a long review history no longer sends an alert for every historical review; alerts are reserved for genuinely new reviews
  • Improved The homepage was refined for smoother, fully keyboard-accessible browsing, and every section stays readable even with JavaScript turned off
Posts

A Refined Post Composer with Design-Matched Controls

Every dropdown, date, and time control in the post composer now matches the platform design, with full keyboard support and searchable lists. Call buttons publish reliably, and every button uses Google's exact wording.

  • Improved Every dropdown, date, and time picker in the post composer now matches the platform design, with full keyboard support, type-ahead, and searchable long lists
  • Fixed Posts with a Call now button publish reliably; the button dials your Business Profile phone number, so no link is required
  • Fixed Post buttons use Google's exact wording everywhere, so the button you choose is the button customers see on Google
  • Improved The template picker was rebuilt into a cleaner card layout that applies a template in one click
Billing

Plans and Billing That Match Reality

Every public claim about plans, trials, and billing now matches exactly how the platform behaves. Team seat allowances are clearly defined per plan, and subscription records stay accurately aligned with your true billing state.

  • Improved Every public claim about plans, trials, and billing was reviewed and now matches exactly how the platform behaves Compare plans
  • Improved Team seat allowances are clearly defined per plan and respected at invite time, with a seat meter on the members page
  • Improved Invoices, payment records, and subscription status stay accurately in sync with your payment provider
  • Improved A daily reconciliation keeps every subscription record aligned with its true billing state
Platform

White-Label Rebuilt, with Automatic SSL for Custom Domains

The white-label experience for agencies was rebuilt end to end. Verified custom domains now receive SSL certificates automatically, your branding applies consistently everywhere it should, and this changelog gained live search.

  • Improved The white-label settings, domain, and verification pages were rebuilt with drag and drop logo uploads, an in-page color picker, and clear status reporting
  • New Verified custom domains are served over HTTPS with SSL certificates that are issued and renewed automatically
  • Fixed Emails sent on your behalf now carry your branding every time, including scheduled and background messages
  • Fixed Domain verification reports accurate results and recovers cleanly when a domain is changed or reset
  • New This changelog is now searchable: filter releases live by keyword, category, and year Try the search
AI

Recommendations Built on Your Live Google Profile

Action items, the health score, the AI profile audit, and AI visibility checks now read your live Google Business Profile, so every score and every recommendation reflects what is actually on your listing today.

  • Improved Action items are built from your live Google profile: suggestions reflect your actual posts, photos, and details, and resolve themselves once you fix things
  • Improved The health score measures photo freshness from your live media and no longer scores anything it cannot actually measure
  • Improved The AI profile audit shows its evidence: every score arrives with the facts behind it, per category, with clear targets
  • Improved AI visibility checks are grounded in real answer-engine responses and name the engine they checked, never a simulation
  • Improved Recommendations are ranked by priority across the whole platform, so the most important fixes always surface first
Reviews

A Unified Reviews Hub and Quieter Notifications

AI review management now lives inside the reviews hub, so reading, replying, and automating happen in one place. Notifications and their preferences were rebuilt to be calmer and easier to scan.

  • Improved The AI review manager now lives inside the reviews hub: read, reply, and automate from one place
  • Improved Notifications and notification preferences were rebuilt to be calmer, clearer, and easier to scan
  • Improved A platform-wide design pass: quieter status indicators and cleaner, more consistent surfaces
Marketing

A Clearer Report Voice and an Award Naming Standard

Audit reports now read in a neutral, professional voice, recommendations appear only where they genuinely help, and the Excellence Award applies a published naming standard with a clear effective date.

  • Improved Public audit reports now read in a neutral, professional voice throughout
  • Improved Recommendations appear only where they genuinely help, ordered by what moves your score most
  • New The Excellence Award now applies a published naming standard with a clear effective date, so award holders know exactly where they stand
  • Improved The audit landing page was redesigned with a true preview of every scored category Try the free audit
Posts

A Rebuilt Post Composer, Location Groups, and a Calmer Dashboard

The post creation page was overhauled end to end, saved location groups let you publish to the same set of locations in one step, and the dashboard was reorganized around what needs your attention.

  • Improved The post creation page was rebuilt end to end, with clearer scheduling, better offer and event handling, and a smoother publish flow
  • New Saved location groups: publish to the same set of locations in one step instead of picking them one by one every time
  • Improved The dashboard home page was reorganized around what actually needs your attention
  • Improved Grouped sidebar navigation and a consistent brand presence across the app
  • Improved A full mobile layout pass across the posting flow
Platform

A First-Class PDF Report, Visibility Map, and Open Benchmark

Audit reports gained a downloadable PDF with an executive narrative, a local visibility map, and an anonymous benchmark that shows how your score compares with businesses like yours.

  • New Download your audit as a polished PDF that opens with a plain-language executive summary of where you stand
  • New A local visibility map shows how your business appears across the area around you, not just at your own address
  • New An anonymous benchmark compares your score against businesses like yours, so a 72 means something concrete
  • Improved Section navigation on the report makes long audits easy to move through
  • Improved Benchmarks always reflect the most recent audit of every business, never a stale one
  • Improved Rank tracking results come back faster

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