This month’s release includes a Google Places infrastructure upgrade and new event management enhancements designed to improve organization, streamline workflows, and support a more efficient experience within your DXP.
Google has expanded the categories available for Business Listings, giving you more flexibility in how businesses are organized and displayed, along with additional information for your website visitors. New Event Listing features also make recurring event management easier and give your team more control over preserving manual edits.
Key Updates at a Glance
- Google Places API Upgrade — Improved data accuracy and more information for your visitors!
- Save & Lock Button for Events — An easy way to save edits to your event listings
- Smarter Event Date Management — Faster, easier handling of recurring events
Business Listings
1. Google Places API Upgrade:
We've upgraded our Google Places integration to align with Google's latest API version. This simply means more information for your website visitors, and expanded Google Categories to help you organize and manage your Business Listings.
What's changing?
- More specific or newly added categories for some business listings
- Updated service labels for certain businesses
- This update supplements your listings with more information for your website visitors than was previously available.
Why It Matters?
More category options mean more flexibility in how you organize businesses for your audience. You can group listings in ways that better match how your users actually search and browse — making your directory more useful and more relevant. Your visitors benefit from more information about your business listings than was previously available.
Optional Recommendation:
For those of you using Default Categories, no action is needed! The update has already been seamlessly delivered to your system.
If you are using Custom Categories, please review the new Google Categories available and link them as needed. If you'd like help thinking through which categories make sense for your site, our team is happy to walk through the options with you. Because you know your audience best, you have full control over which categories appear on your site. You can:
- Add new categories that align with what your users are looking for
- Remove categories that don't fit your audience or brand
- Reorganize how businesses are grouped to improve discoverability
View the complete tutorial here!
Events Calendar Updates
1. Save and Lock Button for Events
What's new?
- "Save Changes" is now labeled Save
- A new Save & Lock option is available in the edit window
- Locked events are clearly marked with a "Locked" label in the dashboard
Why It Matters
When you make manual edits to an event — adjusting details, fixing typos, adding custom information — you want those changes to stick. Save & Lock ensures your edits are preserved and won't be overwritten the next time event data updates automatically. Your content stays exactly the way you intended.
How to use it:
- Open any event and click Edit
- Make your changes as usual
- Use Save to save your changes while keeping the current lock status unchanged
- Use Save & Lock to save your changes and lock the event — preventing it from being overwritten by future data pulls.
Locking an event is useful when you've made manual edits you want to preserve, regardless of future syncs. Locked events will show a "Locked" badge in your dashboard.
2. Enhanced Event Date Management
What's new?
- Recurring events with large date sets are now grouped into expandable sets of 25
- Events with fewer than 25 dates continue to display in the familiar scroll view
- A new + Add Date button makes it easier to add custom dates
- Pencil and trash icons allow quick edits and removals
Why It Matters
If you're managing recurring events with long schedules — weekly classes, monthly meetups, seasonal programs — the new grouped view makes it much faster to find and adjust the specific dates you need. Less scrolling, less hunting, more time focused on the content that matters.
How to manage event dates:
- Open the Create Event or Edit Event window
- Set your Start Date, Start Time, End Date, End Time, and Frequency as usual
- If fewer than 25 dates are generated, they appear in a scrollable list — click Customize to edit individual dates
- If more than 25 dates are generated, they appear in expandable groups of 25 — select any group to expand it and manage dates within it.
- Use the pencil icon to edit a date, the trash can icon to remove it, and Done to save your changes
- Use the + Add Date button at the bottom to add additional custom dates
View the complete tutorial here!
Interested in Learning More?
If you have questions about any of these updates — especially the Google Places category mapping — our team is here to help. Reach out, and we'll walk you through what needs to be done for your specific setup.
Need Help? Contact Us!
If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here for you.
Email: support@itidigital.freshdesk.com
Phone: (912) 250-2689
Helpdesk Portal: Submit a Ticket
We appreciate your continued partnership and look forward to seeing how these updates improve your DXP experience!
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