I just purchased LRT and am trying to connect my GBP account, but it says "No GBPs Found." However, I'm logged into my account and can see my GBPs listed.
Q: Whitelabel Reporting/Monitoring without connecting GMB?
Question about the White label reports in Tier 5: Is it possible to set up whitelabeled reports of search term ranking and competitor ranking without having to have a business connected via GMB?
I'd love to be able to set up initial reports/dashboards for prospective clients without them having to first connect their GMB profile ahead of time.
A: Unfortunately, it’s not possible to generate white-labeled reports without first connecting a GMB profile. To use our tool, you need to either own the Google Business Profile or have at least manager-level access to it.
That said, within the app you can run a quick visibility check — this allows you to preview how a business appears on selected keywords in a given location, without full connection. But this feature is limited to simple checks and doesn’t offer full dashboards, reports, or competitive tracking.
Hi, I looked on your website resources and couldnt get an answer. How does keywords work? I see mentioned you cant change a keyword after it's submitted? If you cant change keywords, you will eventually run out of the lifetime quota, with a shed load of redundant keywords for many reasons (like we are no longer managing customers GMB)? Can we buy more keywords quota? or is it of to the montlhy plan. Are keywords linked to a 1 GMB account? Or can you link to multiple if they share an audience and location? How does safeguard work? Does it literally block other people creating suggestions? QnA? user generated updates? Reviews?
A: Yes, absolutely – we’re constantly pushing updates and improvements, almost every week. In fact, we have a weekly development sprint cycle, where we ship smaller fixes, feature tweaks, and performance enhancements.
A: Yes – this deal listed on AppSumo applies to our agency-tier model, and you can absolutely use it with unlimited locations depending on the tier you choose (Tier 5 = unlimited).
You’ll remain on the main deal page here: 👉 https://appsumo.com/products/local-rank-tracker
Q: Why do customers receive promotional emails from you?
We purchased your white label plan with the clear expectation that clients would not be contacted directly by your platform. However, after connecting client Google accounts, they received promotional emails from your brand. This breaks the core purpose of a white label agreement and damages the trust we’ve built with our clients.
We demand you immediately:
Stop contacting clients acquired through white label use;
Delete any marketing messages already sent to their emails;
Explain how this breach occurred and your data handling policies.
This behavior misuses our business relationship to promote your own brand and is unacceptable. Please respond within 7 days or we may escalate this further.
just happened to me too, on a Tier 5, I onboarded a gmail account to sync the locations and that email (of the client) received an email "Welcome to Rating Captain Local – Your Free Supernova Trial Awaits!". I'll wait before leaving a review about this, it's not ok
Looking at Tier 5 as well. Promo emails are a no go. Please Pawel share with transparency here, we dont want the carpet pulled from under us.
Q: Future developments won't be included?!
Hello,
Regarding audit generation, you write "you can create audits for clients directly from the main page. You can perform audits on business listings, even for those to which you don't have direct access" and then contradict yourself in the comment below, explaining that not only is this not yet implemented, but it won't be included in the LTDs! "Once we implement this feature, it will be an additional option not included in the current plans." Are you already planning to add features that won't be included, in order to push us toward a subscription to access them? This won't work - these dishonest attempts to convert from an LTD model to a subscription model have always failed, that's not how it works. Sumolings are committed to staying with LTD, you won't succeed in converting them to subscribers.
A: I completely understand your concern. Right now, we haven't finalized the details of how the audit feature will be structured—whether it will be part of the existing tool or a separate product. Because of this uncertainty, we can’t confirm if it will be included in the LTD plans.
We always aim to be transparent with our users, and we value your feedback. If you’d like to share specific concerns or suggestions, I’d recommend reaching out to our support team for further clarification.
For transparency, it would be better if you shared examples of the reports / audits when people ask and making it very clear what is included and what is not. Currently you are telling people to go to website to check out features firsthand and also saying that yes they can carry out audits for their listings. Then, only when asked, stating that the audit is not included.This is confusing at best.
To help clarify, we recommend testing the tool on a demo account, where you can access the available reports and get a better understanding of the features.
We're not talking about current features, Pawel, but future ones. Generally, when a plan doesn't exist on the application's website, it means we'll end up with a frozen solution that will evolve little or not at all, while subscribers will benefit from new features over the months and years.
We won't get anything more. They wrote it: "Once we implement this feature, it will be an additional option not included in the current plans." On top of that, on AppSumo's listing they say we're mapped to all future "Custom Plan" updates, which means nothing as there's no "Custom Plan" plan listed on their website.
I agree here. Transparency and integrity don't seem to be core values with this team or product. The messaging seems intentionally vague and misleading. Then, we're just told to reach out to support for more answers.
A: Thanks for your interest in Rating Captain! 🙌 All the information you're asking for — including keyword tracking rules, upgrade policies, and pricing — can be found in detail in our Knowledge Base and on AppSumo deal.
👉 https://help.ratingcaptain.com/
If anything remains unclear after reviewing, feel free to reach out to us at support@ratingcaptain.com — we’ll be happy to assist!
Hi to be honnest i had also the same question but i couldnt find it in the sea of FAQ in the page you shared. 1) Is there a time limit or condition to upgrade (e.g., within 30 days)? 2) If i need to upgrade from tier 3 to T4 will i have to pay only the difference? 3) Will the data and the account not deleted after i do the upgrade?
Thank you
Q: Health Check not active?
I've purchased Tier 4 and am reviewing all the options available. So far I'm liking what I'm seeing =) What I can't figure out is the Health Check. It shows 0% for any location I select. I don't see any documentation or information on this option. Is this a coming soon item? If so, would be great to have some kind of notification within that setting to reduce confusion. Please advise. Thank you! Katie Zech
A: Hi Katie! I'm glad you like the app so far. The health check feature should work just fine. Could you please reach out with your account details to support@ratingcaptain.com? I'm sure we will be able to review your case and help. Thanks!
A: Thanks for reaching out! Could you please clarify your question a bit more? If it's a technical issue or something related to accessing features, feel free to send a message directly to our support team at support@ratingcaptain.com.
However, if the issue is related to your plan purchase via AppSumo, we recommend contacting AppSumo support directly, as they handle plan-related matters on their side.
A: Yes — you can add a new keyword with a different area, or select a non-standard area if needed. However, it's not possible to edit an existing keyword/location, because we store a daily history of positions and changing it would disrupt the results and data consistency.
Do we have to log in and create the post content and schedule it? Will it do it automatically every X days as we set it? Does it automatically reply to reviews? Does it make Offers? When connecting, will it optimize the listing, services, description, and products as needed? When will the actual white lable be available? I don't want clients seeing YOUR branding, they need to see mine (A company like Merchynt does this well). From the link they get to give access to MY Google Profile through to the dashboard. Any plans to sync with other (review) platforms (yelp? FB?) and be able to handle reviews there?
I have a system in place that already does this...but I'd be OPEN to testing your system, but I'm not convinced anything less than the biggest plan would meet my needs, and that's a big gamble, given the reviews on here...
A: Hi there! At the moment you need to do all this manually. We are working on automation and plan to release it in Q2.
FB integration is currently in progress. The whitelabel solution already works on our custom domain: trackwith.us. The custom domain connection will be available this month.
Please refer to our roadmap here: https://help.ratingcaptain.com/rc-local-public-roadmap
A big part of optimizing your GBP is optimizing the listing, services, description and products, as you mentioned. This tool doesn't seem to do that and there's no mention of it in it's roadmap. It's primarily as the name suggests, a tracker.
Q: RatingCaptain vs Merchynt.com
Hi Pawel,
How would you conpair RatingCaptain (Local Rank Tracker) vs Merchynt.com
A: I’d be happy to walk you through the key differences during a short demo. Would you like to schedule a quick call to go over the details and see which solution best fits your needs? Let me know what works for you!
It seems that Local Rank Tracker would not be a good fit as a "free report" lead generation tool for an agency, as the only way to generate a Whitelabeled report is to have Manager Level access to the Google My Business location on the connected Google Account. If you're not a Manager, then you cannot generate a report. Do I have that correct?
A: You're absolutely right — to generate detailed reports or use the white-label features, you do need at least Manager-level access to the Google Business Profile. This ensures full data access and proper tracking.
The free scan/report option is more of a prospecting tool, meant to give a surface-level overview when you're not yet managing the listing. It's helpful for initial outreach, but not designed for full client reporting without access rights.
I’m fairly certain the answer is that you need manager access to the Google My Business (GMB) account to generate a whitelabeled report. However, your free lead generation tool works by simply searching for a local business without requiring GMB access, and it still seems to track rankings effectively. I’m curious about how this works as well.
I did sign up for a trial and verified that both the reporting and the tracking require you do have owner level access of the GMB listing. So the lead generation potential for this tool is low.
Q: Citation Matching NAP
In future , Do we get the option to check the NAP in citation listing.
Like other software provide the list of citation and NAP match percentage.
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Q: GBPs Not Showing Up
I just purchased LRT and am trying to connect my GBP account, but it says "No GBPs Found." However, I'm logged into my account and can see my GBPs listed.
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Q: Does it also work in countries like Germany?
PawelBurda
Jul 11, 2025A: Hi, yes - we also support app in German
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Q: Whitelabel Reporting/Monitoring without connecting GMB?
Question about the White label reports in Tier 5:
Is it possible to set up whitelabeled reports of search term ranking and competitor ranking without having to have a business connected via GMB?
I'd love to be able to set up initial reports/dashboards for prospective clients without them having to first connect their GMB profile ahead of time.
PawelBurda
Jul 8, 2025A: Unfortunately, it’s not possible to generate white-labeled reports without first connecting a GMB profile. To use our tool, you need to either own the Google Business Profile or have at least manager-level access to it.
That said, within the app you can run a quick visibility check — this allows you to preview how a business appears on selected keywords in a given location, without full connection. But this feature is limited to simple checks and doesn’t offer full dashboards, reports, or competitive tracking.
Share Local Rank Tracker
Q: Keywords and Safeguards
Hi,
I looked on your website resources and couldnt get an answer.
How does keywords work? I see mentioned you cant change a keyword after it's submitted?
If you cant change keywords, you will eventually run out of the lifetime quota, with a shed load of redundant keywords for many reasons (like we are no longer managing customers GMB)?
Can we buy more keywords quota? or is it of to the montlhy plan.
Are keywords linked to a 1 GMB account? Or can you link to multiple if they share an audience and location?
How does safeguard work? Does it literally block other people creating suggestions? QnA? user generated updates? Reviews?
I appreciate your efforts.
PawelBurda
Jul 8, 2025A: You'll find most answers and technical breakdowns in our Help Center:
👉 https://help.ratingcaptain.com
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Q: Are updates still being made?
just wanted to ask about the roadmap and product, the last update I see here is from April/May: https://headwayapp.co/rating-captain-updates
PawelBurda
Jul 8, 2025A: Yes, absolutely – we’re constantly pushing updates and improvements, almost every week. In fact, we have a weekly development sprint cycle, where we ship smaller fixes, feature tweaks, and performance enhancements.
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Thanks! Are those shared anywhere? :)
Q: Does this promotional deal apply to a plan with unlimited locations? Agency model. Can you direct me to that plan
PawelBurda
Jul 8, 2025A: Yes – this deal listed on AppSumo applies to our agency-tier model, and you can absolutely use it with unlimited locations depending on the tier you choose (Tier 5 = unlimited).
You’ll remain on the main deal page here:
👉 https://appsumo.com/products/local-rank-tracker
Share Local Rank Tracker
Q: Why do customers receive promotional emails from you?
We purchased your white label plan with the clear expectation that clients would not be contacted directly by your platform. However, after connecting client Google accounts, they received promotional emails from your brand. This breaks the core purpose of a white label agreement and damages the trust we’ve built with our clients.
We demand you immediately:
Stop contacting clients acquired through white label use;
Delete any marketing messages already sent to their emails;
Explain how this breach occurred and your data handling policies.
This behavior misuses our business relationship to promote your own brand and is unacceptable. Please respond within 7 days or we may escalate this further.
PawelBurda
Jun 20, 2025A: Please send the exact email addresses of the affected clients to our support team at support@ratingcaptain.com.
We'll immediately cross-check them against our system to ensure full compliance and transparency.
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just happened to me too, on a Tier 5, I onboarded a gmail account to sync the locations and that email (of the client) received an email "Welcome to Rating Captain Local – Your Free Supernova Trial Awaits!". I'll wait before leaving a review about this, it's not ok
Any chance you can send the details to support@ratingcaptain.com? We will check this immediately. Thank you!
Looking at Tier 5 as well. Promo emails are a no go. Please Pawel share with transparency here, we dont want the carpet pulled from under us.
Q: Future developments won't be included?!
Hello,
Regarding audit generation, you write "you can create audits for clients directly from the main page. You can perform audits on business listings, even for those to which you don't have direct access" and then contradict yourself in the comment below, explaining that not only is this not yet implemented, but it won't be included in the LTDs! "Once we implement this feature, it will be an additional option not included in the current plans." Are you already planning to add features that won't be included, in order to push us toward a subscription to access them? This won't work - these dishonest attempts to convert from an LTD model to a subscription model have always failed, that's not how it works. Sumolings are committed to staying with LTD, you won't succeed in converting them to subscribers.
PawelBurda
Feb 14, 2025A: I completely understand your concern. Right now, we haven't finalized the details of how the audit feature will be structured—whether it will be part of the existing tool or a separate product. Because of this uncertainty, we can’t confirm if it will be included in the LTD plans.
We always aim to be transparent with our users, and we value your feedback. If you’d like to share specific concerns or suggestions, I’d recommend reaching out to our support team for further clarification.
Share Local Rank Tracker
For transparency, it would be better if you shared examples of the reports / audits when people ask and making it very clear what is included and what is not. Currently you are telling people to go to website to check out features firsthand and also saying that yes they can carry out audits for their listings. Then, only when asked, stating that the audit is not included.This is confusing at best.
To help clarify, we recommend testing the tool on a demo account, where you can access the available reports and get a better understanding of the features.
Verified purchaser
We're not talking about current features, Pawel, but future ones. Generally, when a plan doesn't exist on the application's website, it means we'll end up with a frozen solution that will evolve little or not at all, while subscribers will benefit from new features over the months and years.
@PawelBurda, what we need to know is will AppSumo purchasers get all future updates?
Verified purchaser
We won't get anything more. They wrote it: "Once we implement this feature, it will be an additional option not included in the current plans." On top of that, on AppSumo's listing they say we're mapped to all future "Custom Plan" updates, which means nothing as there's no "Custom Plan" plan listed on their website.
Verified purchaser
I agree here. Transparency and integrity don't seem to be core values with this team or product. The messaging seems intentionally vague and misleading. Then, we're just told to reach out to support for more answers.
I will jump on this - waiting for response. What's the point of funding future growth, and being left out??
Q: rating
Can I learn Google profile ranking in License Tier 2 package?
Mateusz_RatingCaptain
Jul 1, 2025A: Yeah, sure! That's the basic functionality of the app.
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Q: language
Is there Turkish language support for keywords?
Mateusz_RatingCaptain
Jul 1, 2025A: Of course! Feel free to give it a try.
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Q: I’m very interested in purchasing License Tier 4 ($419) for managing Google Business Profiles for my clients.
Before finalizing the purchase, I have a few questions about future upgrades:
If I purchase Tier 4 now, can I upgrade later to Tier 5 (unlimited locations / 1,000 keywords)?
What is the cost difference or upgrade fee from Tier 4 to Tier 5?
Will I keep all the data, client accounts, and history from my Tier 4 account when I upgrade to Tier 5?
Is there a time limit or condition to upgrade (e.g., within 30 days)?
If I track the same keyword in 3 locations, does it count as 3 keywords?
Are keyword limits shared across all locations?
Can I delete and replace keywords as clients change?
Can I buy more keywords later? What’s the cost?
PawelBurda
Jun 18, 2025A: Thanks for your interest in Rating Captain! 🙌
All the information you're asking for — including keyword tracking rules, upgrade policies, and pricing — can be found in detail in our Knowledge Base and on AppSumo deal.
👉 https://help.ratingcaptain.com/
If anything remains unclear after reviewing, feel free to reach out to us at support@ratingcaptain.com — we’ll be happy to assist!
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Verified purchaser
Hi to be honnest i had also the same question but i couldnt find it in the sea of FAQ in the page you shared.
1) Is there a time limit or condition to upgrade (e.g., within 30 days)?
2) If i need to upgrade from tier 3 to T4 will i have to pay only the difference?
3) Will the data and the account not deleted after i do the upgrade?
Thank you
Q: Health Check not active?
I've purchased Tier 4 and am reviewing all the options available. So far I'm liking what I'm seeing =) What I can't figure out is the Health Check. It shows 0% for any location I select. I don't see any documentation or information on this option. Is this a coming soon item? If so, would be great to have some kind of notification within that setting to reduce confusion.
Please advise.
Thank you!
Katie Zech
Mateusz_RatingCaptain
Jun 26, 2025A: Hi Katie! I'm glad you like the app so far. The health check feature should work just fine. Could you please reach out with your account details to support@ratingcaptain.com? I'm sure we will be able to review your case and help. Thanks!
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Q: my plan is activated but i am not able use this, because i was already having a profile on local rank tracking
PawelBurda
Jun 18, 2025A: Thanks for reaching out! Could you please clarify your question a bit more? If it's a technical issue or something related to accessing features, feel free to send a message directly to our support team at support@ratingcaptain.com.
However, if the issue is related to your plan purchase via AppSumo, we recommend contacting AppSumo support directly, as they handle plan-related matters on their side.
Looking forward to helping you get this sorted!
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Q: Can you change the location?
Is changing the location after setup possible? Like let's say i dont need to track anymore 1 location and I want to replace it with other location.
PawelBurda
Jun 11, 2025A: Yes — you can add a new keyword with a different area, or select a non-standard area if needed.
However, it's not possible to edit an existing keyword/location, because we store a daily history of positions and changing it would disrupt the results and data consistency.
Share Local Rank Tracker
Q: How automated is it?
Do we have to log in and create the post content and schedule it?
Will it do it automatically every X days as we set it?
Does it automatically reply to reviews?
Does it make Offers?
When connecting, will it optimize the listing, services, description, and products as needed?
When will the actual white lable be available? I don't want clients seeing YOUR branding, they need to see mine (A company like Merchynt does this well). From the link they get to give access to MY Google Profile through to the dashboard.
Any plans to sync with other (review) platforms (yelp? FB?) and be able to handle reviews there?
I have a system in place that already does this...but I'd be OPEN to testing your system, but I'm not convinced anything less than the biggest plan would meet my needs, and that's a big gamble, given the reviews on here...
Mateusz_RatingCaptain
Mar 3, 2025A: Hi there! At the moment you need to do all this manually. We are working on automation and plan to release it in Q2.
FB integration is currently in progress. The whitelabel solution already works on our custom domain: trackwith.us. The custom domain connection will be available this month.
Please refer to our roadmap here: https://help.ratingcaptain.com/rc-local-public-roadmap
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Verified purchaser
A big part of optimizing your GBP is optimizing the listing, services, description and products, as you mentioned. This tool doesn't seem to do that and there's no mention of it in it's roadmap. It's primarily as the name suggests, a tracker.
Q: RatingCaptain vs Merchynt.com
Hi Pawel,
How would you conpair RatingCaptain (Local Rank Tracker) vs Merchynt.com
Thanks in advance.
Frank
PawelBurda
Mar 26, 2025A: I’d be happy to walk you through the key differences during a short demo. Would you like to schedule a quick call to go over the details and see which solution best fits your needs? Let me know what works for you!
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I am interested in that demo ... i was also looking at Merchynt
I am also interested in that demo ... I was also looking at Merchynt, too!
https://ratingcaptaincom.pipedrive.com/scheduler/2rR7wYcE/rc-local
Verified purchaser
Merchynt is definitely a much more powerful tool.
Q: how many quickscans I am able to do on each tier?
PawelBurda
Jun 6, 2025A: 1 quickscan = 1 credit. The number of credits you get depends on your selected AppSumo tier."
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Q: Connecting Locations
In regards to connecting locations ... can I use multiple Gmails?
Thanks!
Mateusz_RatingCaptain
Jun 5, 2025A: Of course! You can have one account with multiple Google accounts connected and then share GBPs with coworkers using groups. It's all very easy!
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Q: Whitelabel Reporting - Access
It seems that Local Rank Tracker would not be a good fit as a "free report" lead generation tool for an agency, as the only way to generate a Whitelabeled report is to have Manager Level access to the Google My Business location on the connected Google Account. If you're not a Manager, then you cannot generate a report. Do I have that correct?
PawelBurda
Jun 2, 2025A: You're absolutely right — to generate detailed reports or use the white-label features, you do need at least Manager-level access to the Google Business Profile. This ensures full data access and proper tracking.
The free scan/report option is more of a prospecting tool, meant to give a surface-level overview when you're not yet managing the listing. It's helpful for initial outreach, but not designed for full client reporting without access rights.
Share Local Rank Tracker
I’m fairly certain the answer is that you need manager access to the Google My Business (GMB) account to generate a whitelabeled report. However, your free lead generation tool works by simply searching for a local business without requiring GMB access, and it still seems to track rankings effectively. I’m curious about how this works as well.
I did sign up for a trial and verified that both the reporting and the tracking require you do have owner level access of the GMB listing. So the lead generation potential for this tool is low.
bummer! thanks for finding this out Spencer