September 2026
We're excited to announce the Acceptrics Partner API v1, giving developers
and agencies programmatic access to manage consent banners across multiple sites. Whether
you're building a white-label solution, integrating consent management into your SaaS
platform, or automating banner deployments at scale, the Partner API provides the tools you need.
What You Can Do with the Partner API
The Partner API exposes a RESTful interface at api.acceptrics.com/v1 for
managing your Acceptrics resources programmatically. Key capabilities include:
- Banner Management: Create, update, and configure consent banners via API calls
- Site Configuration: Manage multiple domains from a single integration
- Settings Retrieval: Fetch current banner configurations for backup or migration
- Usage Monitoring: Access page view and consent metrics programmatically
Secure by Design: Scoped API Keys
Security is built into the foundation of the Partner API. Each API key follows the format
acx_live_ followed by a 32-character hex string, making keys easy to identify
and rotate. Keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes—even if our database were compromised, your
actual key remains protected.
Importantly, API keys are scoped: a key can manage banners but cannot
create or revoke other keys. Key management lives in a separate, isolated system, so a
compromised key cannot escalate into permanent account access.
Getting Started
To generate your API key, log in to your Acceptrics account,
navigate to the Developer Keys section, and create a new key. Full API documentation,
including endpoint references and code examples, is available in our
developer documentation.
# Example: Fetch banner settings
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer acx_live_YOUR_KEY_HERE" \
https://api.acceptrics.com/v1/sites/{siteId}/settings
The Partner API is available to all Acceptrics customers. Start building your integration today.
September 2026
GDPR Article 7(1) requires data controllers to demonstrate that visitors actually consented
to data processing. Until now, Acceptrics recorded consent choices locally in the visitor's
browser—great for respecting preferences, but it left you without proof when regulators asked
"can you show me this visitor consented?"
Today we're launching the Consent Log, a new add-on that creates a
tamper-evident, EU-hosted record of every consent interaction on your site.
How the Consent Log Works
When a visitor interacts with your consent banner—accepting, rejecting, or customizing their
preferences—the Consent Log captures a cryptographically signed record containing:
- The exact timestamp of the consent action
- Which categories the visitor accepted or declined
- A snapshot of the banner text they were shown
- A pseudonymized visitor identifier (never their IP address in plain text)
- A record hash that detects any post-hoc tampering
EU-Hosted, Always
Consent records are written to our EU-North-1 region regardless of where the visitor browses
from. This means your consent evidence never leaves the European Union, simplifying your
data residency requirements and GDPR compliance posture.
Built for Audits
From your Account page, you can browse consent records, filter by date range or domain,
and export evidence packages for regulatory inquiries. Each record includes the exact
banner version the visitor saw—so you can prove not just that they clicked "Accept," but
what they were accepting.
Privacy by Design
The Consent Log uses HMAC-based pseudonymization for visitor identifiers. IP addresses
are never stored in plain text. The HMAC key is managed through AWS Secrets Manager,
ensuring cryptographic separation from application code. This design lets you demonstrate
consent without creating a new privacy liability.
Enable the Consent Log
The Consent Log is available as a Pro add-on. To enable it, visit your
Account page, go to Add-ons, and toggle on
Consent Log. Records begin flowing immediately—no code changes required on your site.
August 2026
We're proud to announce that Microsoft Advertising now officially lists Acceptrics
as a Consent Management Platform supporting UET Consent Mode. This recognition means Microsoft
directs advertisers to Acceptrics when they need consent management for their Universal Event
Tracking implementation.
What This Means for Advertisers
If you run Microsoft Advertising campaigns, proper consent handling is essential for
accurate conversion tracking in privacy-conscious regions. With Acceptrics:
- Automatic UET integration: Your consent banner automatically signals consent state to Microsoft's UET tag
- No manual configuration: Acceptrics detects UET on your page and handles consent mode signaling
- Compliant by default: UET respects visitor choices without requiring custom JavaScript
Alongside Google CMP Partner Certification
This listing joins our existing Google CMP Partner certification, making
Acceptrics one of the few consent management platforms recognized by both major advertising
platforms. Whether you're running Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, or both, a single
Acceptrics banner handles consent for your entire advertising stack.
Get Started
If you're already using Acceptrics, UET Consent Mode support is automatic—no action required.
If you're new to Acceptrics, create your free banner
and enjoy compliant advertising across Google and Microsoft from day one.
Learn more on our Microsoft Consent Mode page.
August 2026
Setting up a consent banner shouldn't require logging in five times. We've overhauled our
authentication flow to get you from signup to live banner faster, with fewer interruptions.
Magic Link in Your Welcome Email
When you create an Acceptrics account, your welcome email now includes a one-click
sign-in button. No need to visit the login page and wait for a separate magic link
email—you're signed in immediately from the same email that contains your banner code.
This matters because the moment you've just proven you own your email address is exactly
when you're most motivated to finish setup. We're no longer asking you to re-prove that
ownership seconds later.
Sessions That Last a Week
Configuring a banner is rarely a single-sitting task. You paste the code, wait for your
developer to deploy it, come back to customize categories, verify it's working after launch.
Previously, each of those return visits meant another login.
Sessions now last 7 days instead of 24 hours. Come back tomorrow, come
back next week—you'll still be signed in.
Smarter Session Handling
We also fixed an edge case where successful sign-ins could unexpectedly end on the home
page. If you experienced this, it was a race condition between an old session expiring
and a new session being created. That's now fixed: new sessions win, and expired sessions
are cleaned up gracefully.
Log in to your account to experience the improved flow.
August 2026
Your consent banner serves real visitors, not search engine crawlers. Starting this month,
bot traffic is automatically excluded from your billable page view counts.
What Changed
Previously, every request to your banner was counted, including automated traffic from
Google, Bing, and other crawlers. This inflated page view numbers without representing
actual visitor interactions. Now, requests from known bots are filtered before they
reach your usage metrics.
Conservative Filtering
We use a deliberately conservative bot detection approach. Only user agents that
exclusively identify automated clients are filtered—tokens like Googlebot,
bingbot, or AhrefsBot that never appear in real browser traffic.
Privacy-focused browsers with unusual or missing user agents are not
filtered. A blank user agent counts as human rather than bot, ensuring privacy-conscious
visitors are never excluded from your analytics.
What This Means for You
Your page view counts now more accurately reflect real visitor traffic. If you're on a
usage-based plan, your bills reflect actual humans interacting with your consent banner,
not automated systems crawling your site.
This change applies automatically to all accounts—no action required on your part.
Spring 2026
This has been the biggest release cycle for Acceptrics since launch. We shipped a paid Pro tier,
a fully automated Cookie Scanner add-on, multilingual support for 26 languages, a visual Theme Picker,
and a completely redesigned Account page. Here's everything that's new.
Introducing the Pro Plan
Acceptrics now has a Pro plan for teams that need more than the free tier.
Pro unlocks premium add-ons (starting with the Cookie Scanner), and is billed monthly at a flat rate.
You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime straight from your Account page — no support ticket needed.
Payment is handled securely via Stripe.
Cookie Scanner — Automatic Compliance Auditing
Pro subscribers can now enable the Cookie Scanner, a new add-on that automatically
crawls your site and inventories every cookie it sets. The scanner checks your banner configuration
against what it finds and surfaces any cookies that aren't yet covered.
To turn it on, open your Account page, go to Add-ons, and toggle on
Cookie Scanner. You can target specific domains or let it cover everything on your account.
Scans run on a recurring schedule — no manual steps required.
Banner Theme Picker
Your banner now has a Theme Picker built into the wizard. Choose from a set of
curated color schemes — Light, Dark, Ocean, Slate, and more — or keep your existing custom styling.
Theme changes preview live before you save.
26-Language Support
The consent banner now ships translations for 26 languages, including all major
European languages, Tagalog, and Chinese. Language is detected automatically
from the visitor's browser locale — nothing to configure.
Redesigned Account Page
The Account page has been rebuilt from the ground up. Your subscription status, active add-ons,
domain-level usage stats, and banner health issues are all visible at a glance in a clean grid layout.
If any of your banners have configuration problems, a health alert appears inline with a direct link
to fix it.
Log in to your account to explore everything that's new.
2025
We are excited to announce that Acceptrics now supports Enhanced Conversions—a powerful feature designed to improve your marketing attribution and overall campaign performance.
How It Works
With the enhanced conversions update, simply select the "Enhanced Conversion" radio button in the Acceptrics wizard during setup. Once enabled, our system automatically detects personally identifiable information (PII) on your webpages where Acceptrics is installed. This PII is then used to enable better attribution of conversions without any additional manual configuration.
Note: Double-check if sending visitor PII is right for your business needs before enabling.
Why Enhanced Conversions?
Enhanced conversions allow you to measure the full impact of your consent banner installation by seamlessly integrating conversion data with your analytics platforms. This means:
- Improved campaign performance measurement
- Better customization of your user experiences
- Accurate and enhanced conversion attribution with minimal setup effort
Start using Enhanced Conversions today to unlock the true potential of your website's data. To get started, simply head over to the Acceptrics wizard and enable the feature.