📦 What a yearly local listings purchase covers
A yearly local listings purchase covers submission and distribution of your business details for that paid term. It is not a standalone login that replaces your Search Atlas plan. Your business name, address, phone number, website, and related listing details are managed inside the platform while your subscription is active.
The yearly term and platform access are separate. Paying for a year of listings does not keep the dashboard, editing tools, or listing support available after the plan that hosts those tools is canceled.
🔐 Why you cannot open listings without a subscription
Local listings live in your Search Atlas account. Viewing status, requesting updates, and getting help with those listings all require an active subscription. When that subscription ends, platform access ends with it, even if time remains on a yearly listings term.
- Active plan: you can review listing details and request changes from inside the platform.
- Canceled plan: you cannot sign in to manage listings, even if you prepaid a yearly listings package.
- Already submitted details: information already sent to listing sites is not deleted by canceling, but Search Atlas cannot push new edits for you until the plan is active again.
🛠️ How to maintain listings if you leave
If you leave Search Atlas, you become responsible for keeping your business details accurate. Do this before or as you cancel:
- Copy your current business details from the platform, including name, address, phone, website, hours, and categories.
- Save any listing status notes you still need. You will not be able to open them after access ends.
- Update major listing sites directly with the business owner account, where those sites let you claim or edit a profile.
- Keep one master record of your details and use that same information everywhere so your listings stay consistent.
- If you want Search Atlas to keep managing updates, reactivate a plan that includes local listings before the details change.
Search Atlas cannot edit listings, refresh distribution, or restore dashboard access while the subscription is canceled. Reactivating the plan restores management. It does not restart a yearly term that was already purchased unless your billing view shows a new purchase.
✅ What to check before you cancel
- Confirm whether your listings term and your platform subscription end on different dates.
- Export or copy every business detail you may need later.
- Finish any open listing edits while you still have access.
- Decide who will update third-party profiles after you leave.
Canceling stops future platform management. It is not a way to keep using local listing tools for the rest of a prepaid year.
💬 If your access does not match your purchase
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