Three things at once. Vouch opens up, with an API, webhooks, and an apply flow you can embed on your own site. There's a new way to get candidates in: forward an email. And the compliance surface that agencies serving regulated clients keep asking for is now live.
New
- Public API. A read-only REST API for positions, the candidates on them, and performance data, plus your clients if you're an agency. Create keys under Settings → API + Webhooks, scoped to specific positions if you want. Docs and the live spec are linked from there.
- Signed webhooks. Get told when a position is created or updated, and when a candidate is added, moves stage, or is hired. Every delivery is signed so you can verify it came from Vouch.
- Embedded apply widget, documented. A guide for dropping a working apply or refer flow onto your own site with one script tag.
- Sourcing inbox. Every workspace gets an intake address. Forward or CC a candidate email to it and Vouch works out who it's about, pulls the CV in, and adds them to your pool, matched to an existing record where there is one. You choose who's allowed to send.
- Data retention settings. Set a retention window per source: applicants, referrals, manually added, bulk imports, sourced profiles, and records migrated from another ATS. Choose whether the clock runs from the date added or your last engagement, and what happens at the end.
- The retention queue. Four buckets under Talent pool → Data retention: Expiring soon, Past window, Needs justification, Archived. Work them in bulk to document a legal basis, record an engagement, extend, archive, restore, or ask candidates whether they want to stay in your pool.
- Subject-rights requests. A public page where candidates ask what you hold, ask to be erased, or object. Requests land in a triage panel with the matching candidate already found, and you resolve or reject with a note that goes back to them.
- A generated privacy notice. Each workspace gets a public privacy page rendered from its own retention settings, linked from your application and referral forms. Change a setting and the notice changes with it.
- Compliance audit log. Every retention and rights action recorded against the candidate and the workspace, exportable as CSV.
- Interviewer role. A third listing-level role alongside Editor and Observer. Interviewers can rate, score, and comment, but by default don't see your correspondence with the candidate and can't move stages. Every permission is adjustable per person per listing.
- Call transcripts in bulk import. Map CSV columns to a call event with its own transcript, as text in the cell or as files in an attachments zip.
- Consent attestation on import. When you bring a list in from another system, say on what basis you're holding it. Your answer sets the retention window and goes into the audit log.
Improved
- Sign-in remembers how you signed in. The method you used last time is marked on the sign-in screen.
- Mismatched sign-in emails get caught. If the social account you pick has a different email than your invite, Vouch warns you before creating a second account.
- Candidate files. CVs and attachments open and download faster, and large ones stop timing out.
- Activating a listing. The activation dialog has been rebuilt and translated.
- Data quality flags. Clearer descriptions of what each flag on a candidate record means.
Fixed
- Transcript uploads fail loudly. An upload that didn't go through could previously look like it had.
- Referral nudges. Corrected who gets a reminder to vouch, with a better fallback to SMS when email isn't getting through.