Updates, Changes and New Features

View the most recent new features, improvements and fixes to the Local Falcon system.

System Updates

Release Date: 12/3/2024

• [FEATURE] Competitor Report now features a toggle to show all competitor locations on the map.
  
• [FEATURE] Scan Screenshots are now available. View data point search results as they appear at the time of scan. Available to view from the Scan Explorer page and the Competitor Report page.
  
• [FEATURE] Alternative payments available. Google Pay and Apple Pay among alternative payments available to use when purchasing Credits and/or Subscribing to a plan.
  
• [FEATURE] Falcon Guard, a tool to monitor Google Business Profile changes, launched.
  
• [FEATURE] Campaign Reports now feature a full analysis by Falcon AI.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Competitor Report now offers a quick jump to view related scan report, trend report, and campaign report (if applicable).
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] 3D Secure is now supported during the purchase process as well as when adding a Payment Method.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] All reporting UI now unified in presentation between Local Falcon and publically shareable reports.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Campaign Reports now accomodate for various conditions to give you the most useful, consolidated report as possible.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Campaign Reports now offer Falcon AI analysis in Location Groups. 
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Falcon Assist can now interpret and discuss data and results from any Campaign Report.
  
• [FIX] Various improvements and fixes to increase speed and reliability.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 6/24/2024

• [FEATURE] Reviews Analysis Report is available to all users.
  
• [FEATURE] Added Looker Studio Template for Competitor Location Report.
  
• [FEATURE] Added Looker Studio Template for Scan Reports Timeline.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Updated the Saved Locations page to improve speed of pulling data.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Updated the Campaigns List page by disabling the Business filter to speed up page loading.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Updated the Scan Reports List page to improve speed of pulling list data, and filtered data.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 3/18/2024

• [FEATURE] Falcon Assist, our new AI powered assistant, is now available to all users. 
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Campaigns now offer the following features:
  
  • Unified creation and editing UI.
  • Ability to change grid size on a per location basis.
  • Ability to change scan radius on a per location basis.
  • Ability to associate a keyword with one or more locations.
  • Ability to enable (or disable) AI Analysis per campaign.
  • Additional run frequency options.
  • Previously run "One Time" campaigns can be reset and run again.
• [FIX] Various fixes and performance enhancements within Campaigns.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 2/1/2024

• [FEATURE] Dedicated bulk Place ID lookup feature inside your Saved Locations page.
  
• [FEATURE] You can now add locations imported from your Google Accounts into Location Groups or create a group from existing Google Account Location Groups.
  
• [FEATURE] Local Falcon now supports Apple Maps locations and scanning.
  
• [FEATURE] Users now have the ability to run scans with a 17x17, 19x19 or 21x21 grid size.
  
• [FEATURE] Data point scan results are now available through the Looker Studio and Zapier Integration
  
• [FEATURE] Competitor reports are now avaialble through the Looker Studio and Zapier Integrations.
  
• [FEATURE] Trend Reports now include AI Analysis (if any scans included in report have had AI Analysis generated).
  
• [FEATURE] AI recommendations now audit radius and grid size and suggest the most optimal settings.
  
• [FEATURE] AI recommendations now include additional keywords to consider scanning for.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] AI Recommendations now have improved targeting of spam or inactive listings
  
• [FIX] Various updates to increase system reliability and speed.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 11/13/2023

• [FEATURE] Filter Campaign Report data by Location Groups.
  
• [FEATURE] Local Falcon AI Analysis is now available to all users.
  
• [FEATURE] Filter locations by Location Groups now available when creating or editing Campaigns.
  
• [FEATURE] Place ID lookup support added to the Location Enrichment Tool
  
• [FIX] Credits Explorer now shows accurate date formats (based on users selected preferences)
  
• [FIX] Public Shareable Reports formatting updates and more closely matches Local Falcon styling.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 9/15/2023

• [FEATURE] New Credits Explorer (under Billing > Credits Explorer) feature allows you to keep an eye on your credit usage and see your forecasted future credit usage.
  
• [FEATURE] The Get Specific Scan Report (/v1/report/) Data Retrieval API endpoint now includes the following fields for each location returned: Phone number, URL, Display URL, Claimed, Distance from Center Point, and Distance from Data Point.
  
• [FEATURE] The new Location Group (under Locations) feature allows you to group select saved locations that can be used to filter out locations while using the bulk scan tool or when viewing your scan reports.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Scan Report CSV export now includes the following fields / information: Keyword, Grid Size, Scan Radius, Scan Date, and Distance from Center Point for each location found.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Data Point CSV export (on Scan Reports) now includes the following fields / information: Keyword, Grid Size, Scan Radius, and Scan Date.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] New filter options have been added to the Scan Reports page. You may now filter your reports based on Grid Size, Distance, Measurement, ARP, ATRP and SoLV.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Active Filters now display above records when filters have been applied for better visibility.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 8/4/2023

• [FEATURE] Users can now compare two specific listings' details and results on Competitor Reports by clicking on the " Compare Listings" button when hovering a business.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Ability to re-run scans immediately with one click on Scan Reports, Trend Reports, Location Reports and Keyword Reports.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added ability to "Import New Locations" directly from Connected Accounts page.
  
• [CHANGE] Location Enrichment & Bulk Place ID Lookup has graduated from Alpha to Beta. Please continue to report any issues via the live chat, or by replying to account notifications via email. 
  
• [FIX] Fixed issue where certain location names would cause search/filtering of locations to not working correctly inside of Campaigns creation and editing.
  
• [FIX] Fixed issue on Competitor Reports where certain locations with long names would hide the "View on Google" link / button.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 7/21/2023

• [FEATURE] Ability to "Refresh Location Details" on Locations page, which will fetch the most recent location details from Google for the specific location.
  
• [FEATURE] New Campaigns feature has been released (Beta).
  
• [FEATURE] New Enrichment Tool & Bulk Place ID Lookup feature as been released (Alpha)
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Users now have the ability to select multiple Locations and delete in bulk.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Scan Reports now have two CSV download options, consisting of both consolidated business results (Scan Report CSV) and all data point results (Data Points CSV).
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Additional quick actions have been added to Scan Reports (Reports > Scan Reports) and Locations (Locations > Saved Locations) pages.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Competitor Report now adds a map marker indicating the selected business' physical location (if available).
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Locations can now be filtered by Google Account which the location was imported from.
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Connected Accounts now shows the number of locations imported from each specific account, along with a quick action to view all imported locations.
  
• [FIX] UI improvements and fixes to Competitor Reports and Scan Explorer for better usability at various screen resolutions.
  
• [FIX] Fixed incorrect color coded metrics on Scan Reports.
  
• [FIX] Corrected an issue where using "Schedule as Auto Scan" button on older Scan Report would not let you continue with scheduling.
  
• [FIX] Fixed issue where rescheduling Auto Scans to a new run time would revert back to original time after the next automatic run.
  
• [FIX] Competitor Report now allows you to show all of the businesses categories.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 4/12/2023

• [FEATURE] Send to Looker Studio which allows you to send the different scan results to Google's Looker Studio (previously known as Data Studio). (Requires subscription access to Data Retrieval API or On-Demand API)
  
• [FEATURE] New Looker Studio Templates make it easy for you to select from a list of reports and send that report's data to Google's Looker Studio.
  
• [CHANGE] Data tables UI have been updated with color coded metrics to give users a quicker way to visualize metrics at a glance.
  

System Updates

Release Date: 3/3/2023

• [FEATURE] Users now have the ability to select multiple scan reports and turn them into Scheduled Scans in bulk from the Scan Reports page.
  
• [FEATURE] New API Playground which allows you to make and test Local Falcon API calls before needing to write any requests yourself. (Requires subscription access to Data Retrieval API or On-Demand API)
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Additional localized short date formats added and available under Account > Manage Preferences
  
• [IMPROVEMENT] Completed migration to a new data model which dramatically speeds up scan completion times.
  
• [CHANGE] Various UI tweaks, most notably pagination and bulk action interfaces.
  
• [CHANGE] When running a new scan via "Run a Scan," the system will no longer pre-fill the keyword from the most previous scan.
  
• [FIX] When deleting Scan Reports, the system will now automatically regenerate Trend Reports, Keyword Reports and Location Reports to ensure data is accurate.
  
• [FIX] Previously run and paused "One Time" Scheduled Scans can now be updated to continue run at different frequencies.