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What's new: October 2026

PartnerPage changes from October 2026: partner contacts, review replies, contact request tools, read-only API keys, landing pages.

Written by Ali Winberry

A short summary of the PartnerPage changes released in October 2026, for vendors, partners, and developers. Items marked "available on request" are switched on per directory by support.

Applies to: vendors, partners and developers · Availability: all directories unless an item says otherwise

Highlights

  • Choose who works each partner profile. On a partner's page, Partner contacts sets who at the partner can edit the profile and gets its contact request emails. You can resend, copy or cancel a pending invitation. See Choose who at a partner can edit the profile and receive contact requests.

  • Partners reply to reviews. Partners can reply publicly to the reviews on their profile. See Reply to reviews.

  • More ways to handle contact requests. Pending contact requests with no partner activity for 3 days are flagged Stale. Directory owners can reassign or duplicate a contact request, close an accepted one and choose whether to let the partner know, and block a spam sender and clear their requests. See Reassign, close or duplicate a contact request and Block spam senders.

  • Read-only API keys. Create an API key that reads your data through the API but can't change anything. See Turn on API access and create API keys.

  • Landing pages. Build your own pages, such as "Become a partner", at your directory's address. Available on request. See Create landing pages.

  • Analytics: See how visitors use your directory: traffic, searches (including ones with no results), the partners they view most, and how many visits become requests. Reporting and analytics

  • More control over your directory settings: Turn many directory features on and off yourself in Settings > Features, without contacting support. Directory settings in Configuration

  • Admin and Member roles: Every organization has two roles, so you control who can change settings. Team roles and permissions

  • Custom profile fields: Add your own fields to partner profiles and choose which ones the public sees (available on request). Add custom profile fields

  • Partner reporting: Partners get a Reporting page for their own contact requests. See reports on your contact requests

Partner profiles

  • Partners who list themselves through Get Listed tell you when their profile is ready with Submit for review. See Submit your profile for review.

  • A partner profile can carry up to 10 badges.

  • Locations are added from one search box: type a few letters of a city, state or country and pick it from the list. A partner can list a whole state or country, the first location is the main one, and two cities with the same name get separate filter options.

  • Profiles can carry logos made for dark backgrounds, Logo (dark background) and Square logo (dark background), which the API returns for custom front ends. Available on request.

  • Partners can add an embed from another site, such as a product catalog, as its own section on their profile. Available on request. See Let partners add an embedded widget to their profile.

  • Testimonials can be up to 2,000 characters.

  • Image uploads accept GIF files, and logos uploaded as SVG stay sharp at any size.

  • In the partner's editor, each field the directory owner locked shows its own lock.

  • Directory owners can change a partner's tier, status or featured setting before the profile is complete, even while the invitation is pending.

  • A profile's address stays the same when the profile is renamed.

  • A filter shown in the main column of a profile is headed by the filter's name.

  • Search engine listing: Set the title and description search engines show for each partner.

  • Award names: Each award's name shows next to its logo, and partners can add an award as text, without an image.

  • Email buttons: A call-to-action button can open an email instead of a web page. Passing partner details to your own form with CTA URL placeholders

  • YouTube Shorts: Shorts links play on profiles.

  • Locked sections: Partners see who manages a locked profile section.

  • Sharp logos: Logos stay sharp when shown larger than the card size.

Your directory

  • Add a short line and a link under the filters on your directory page, such as "Can't find the right integration? Request an integration", in the Request link card of Branding and layout. See Change page layouts and sections.

  • If your own website shows your partners through the API, PartnerPage support can switch off the directory pages PartnerPage hosts. Get Listed and the partner application form keep working; profiles and the contact, review and matchmaking forms switch off with the rest. Available on request.

  • Customizations > URLs explains why a custom domain is refused, and a domain removed from one of your directories can be used for another of your directories.

  • Location search: Visitors find partners by place from an enhanced Location filter with live counts.

  • Search box text: Set your own placeholder text for the search box.

  • Thank-you page: Contact forms end on a thank-you page you can edit. Customize your forms

  • Form headings: Customize the Matchmaking and Contact request headings.

  • Hide Contact on a partner: Keep a partner listed but switch off their Contact button.

  • Hide public matchmaking: Take the matchmaking form off your directory while the API and inbox keep working.

  • Get Listed: Switch the page off; it shows your Terms and Privacy links, follows your business-email rule and asks for a CAPTCHA. Publish new profiles from Get Listed

  • Legal links: Every public form shows your Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links.

  • Real email addresses: Public forms and new accounts refuse addresses that can't receive email, including throwaway inboxes.

  • Faster pages: Directory pages and embed widgets load about half as much code, and filters answer right away on large directories.

Partner applications

  • Applicant emails: Applicants are emailed when their application is received or declined, and you can switch off the declined email. Managing Partner Applications

  • Duplicate applications: A company can't open a second application while one is pending.

  • Acceptance email: Add your own message and links to the acceptance email, and resend it.

  • Imported applications: Applications from older forms can be imported into the inbox (available on request).

  • Partner contacts: The contacts list shows each person once, with their email on one line and an Invited tag.

  • Waiting on you: Self-listed partners waiting for review get a "New" tab and a Publish / Keep hidden banner.

Contact requests

  • Newest first: Contact requests, matchmaking requests, applications and reviews list the newest first.

  • Project status path: A contact request shows its project status as a path with a next-step button. Track project status on contact requests

  • Filters on show: Contact and matchmaking request lists show their filters without an extra click.

  • Sender name: Partner emails show your directory's name as the sender.

  • Attachments: Contact request attachments upload with progress and a clear error.

Team and sign-in

  • People join your organization automatically by email domain only when their email is verified and joining by domain is switched on.

  • Only Admins can give someone the Admin role.

  • Someone who asks to join an organization that has no admin yet to approve them is told why and can create their own organization instead of waiting.

Webhooks and API

  • Contact request and matchmaking request exports include UTM columns. See Track where requests come from with UTM links.

  • The event data samples on webhook screens use made-up companies, people and links, and the webhook screens link to the webhook guides.

  • Looking up a deleted partner through the API returns "not found" instead of an error.

  • Bulk partner updates through the API can set a partner's tier and certifications, and replace the options of one filter without touching the partner's other filters.

  • A webhook event fires when what visitors see on a partner's profile changes: partner edits you approve, edits your team makes, and a partner being published, hidden or removed. Available on request.

  • Webhook logs: See every delivery with filters, the full response and copy buttons. Set up webhooks for your directory

  • Any profile change: A webhook can fire when any partner's profile changes, Hidden ones included, and each event has a one-line description.

  • Refused addresses: A refused webhook address shows its reason under the URL field.

  • Badges: Read and set partner badges through the API.

  • Partners without a logo: Create partners through the API without a logo.

Dashboard

  • Partners see Accept and Decline at the top of a pending contact request.

  • Upload tiles show Replace and Remove under the preview.

  • Numbers in lists line up from row to row, and on phones a page's main column shows before its side column.

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