Agend Directory · Part of the Agend Membership PlatformA public directory that lists only current members.
Prospective clients search, filter and find your members. Listing status follows membership status, so lapsed members drop off without anyone chasing it.
Be found, stay current
Your member directory is a PDF someone re-exports twice a year, and it is wrong the day it goes up.
Lapsed members are still listed as current, because nothing connects the listing to the membership.
Members pay their fee and get a line of text nobody can search, filter or find.
A directory that stays true on its own.
Listings go through a moderation queue, then publish to your own domain. Search covers name, description, category, tag, badge, rating and distance. When a membership lapses past the grace period the listing suspends itself, and renewing restores it.
Be foundMembers get found by the people looking for them
Keyword search across listing names and descriptions, plus semantic search for when a visitor's words don't match yours. Filters for category, tag, badge, star rating, distance and custom fields. Sort by relevance, distance, rating, newest or views.
Membership-linkedThe directory can't quietly go stale
Listing status follows membership status. Active memberships keep an approved listing; expiry inside the grace period leaves it live; expiry past the grace period, cancellation or a pause suspends it, and a renewal restores it. Every sync is logged for audit.
Your shopfrontA directory that looks like your organisation, not ours
Run it on your own verified custom domain with your colours, logos and favicon. Drag-and-drop pages built from hero, text, FAQ and CTA blocks alongside live directory blocks – featured listings, category grid, latest reviews, search and stats.
Local searchShow members near the person searching
Addresses are geocoded automatically and shown on a map. Visitors filter by radius and sort by distance, and a listing can carry multiple locations with its own hours, phone and email per site.
Everything a member directory has to do, in one place
Listings and members
Listing lifecycle
- Pending, approved, rejected and suspended states
- Approving a listing publishes it
- Soft delete with restore, and optional expiry
- Bulk approve, feature, publish or delete
Sponsorship and featuring
- Four sponsor levels, from none to gold
- Featured listings rank above the rest
- Badges with icon and colour on listing cards
Claims and ownership
- Email a claim link to the business or member
- Claiming creates their account and hands over the listing
- Claims recorded in the activity log
Bulk import
- CSV wizard with column mapping and validation
- Duplicate detection on name, email, phone and website
- Up to 5,000 rows per import
Search and discovery
Search
- Keyword search on name, teaser and description
- Autocomplete from two characters
- Semantic search over listing content
- Hybrid ranking, with keyword fallback if AI search is unavailable
Filters and browsing
- Filter by category, tag, badge, rating and distance
- Custom fields become toggle and checkbox filters
- Hierarchical category browse pages
- Grid or list view, set per directory
Search analytics
- Total searches, click-through rate and response time
- Top searches and zero-result searches
- Which result was clicked, and where it sat
Run it yourself
Branding and domains
- Custom domain verified by DNS record
- Primary and secondary colours, light and dark logos
- Hero images and social links
- Embeddable widgets that carry your branding
Reviews and moderation
- One to five stars, one review per email per listing
- Reviews confirmed by email before they count
- Rate limiting and CAPTCHA on the review form
- Approve, reject or flag from a moderation queue
Structure and fields
- Nested categories with icons, colours and ordering
- Custom fields in eight types, including dropdown and date
- Choose which fields show on cards, detail pages and filters
Pages and SEO
- Draft and published pages with header and footer navigation
- Meta title, description and social image per page
- Structured data, meta tags and a sitemap out of the box
A listing that knows the membership behind it.
Membership status decides who is listed.
Active members are published, expired members drop off after the grace period, and renewing a membership restores the listing automatically.
One member site, not two.
The directory sits inside your member portal with the same brand config, fonts and navigation, and sections turn on only for the apps you have enabled.
Jobs on the directory homepage.
A featured jobs section can be switched on for the homepage, gated to accounts with Jobs enabled, with a link through to the full jobs page.
Copy changes without a developer.
Page copy, FAQs, stats and partner logos come from the CMS, so staff can edit the words around the directory from the dashboard.
From spreadsheet to live directory.
Upload the CSV you already have. You map your columns to listing fields, and the wizard validates every row before it writes anything – email format, URLs, description length, category and tag matching.
It then shows you duplicates, both inside your file and against listings you already hold. Imports run in batches with partial success, so one bad row does not sink the file. Everything lands as pending until you approve it.
Once the listings are in, you generate claim links and email them to the businesses. The owner clicks through, signs in, and the claim creates their account and hands them the listing.
From that point they maintain their own details and you stop being the bottleneck. You keep moderation, sponsor levels and badges.
Asked by every buying committee.
- Will lapsed members drop off automatically?
- Yes, where listing status is driven by membership status. Active memberships keep the listing approved; an expired membership stays live through a configurable grace period, then the listing is suspended. Cancelled and paused memberships suspend immediately, and a renewal restores the listing.
- Can the directory live on our own domain?
- Yes. You add your domain, add the DNS record we give you, and the directory serves from it once verified. Branding is per-directory as well: colours, logos, favicon, hero images and the on-page wording.
- Can members edit their own listing?
- Yes, through the claim flow. You send claim links to your members, they sign in, and claiming the listing gives them their own account with the listing attached, which they then maintain. Admins keep the moderation queue over the top.
- Is it any good for search engines?
- Listings are server-rendered with structured data, meta tags and a sitemap. Each listing has its own URL, meta title, description and images. Extra pages built with the page builder carry the same SEO settings.
- Can we import the list we already have?
- Yes. The import wizard takes a CSV of up to 5,000 rows, maps your columns to listing fields, validates every row, and shows you duplicates before anything is written. Categories are matched by name and addresses are geocoded as they import.
Ask us the hard ones – pricing, migration, the lot. A human from our Australian team replies within one business day.
Ask a questionGive members something worth being listed in.
A walkthrough takes half an hour, and we'll use your data.
- Your own domain, DNS verified
- Structured data and sitemap for search engines
- Reviews verified by email before they publish
- Listing status follows membership status
- Australian data residency
- Full data export, no lock-in