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SoftwareSuggest: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A B2B software review directory whose free listing needs a phone number, and whose paid tiers are quoted on a call rather than printed.
softwaresuggest.com
Eligibility
Who SoftwareSuggest accepts
You need
A phone number, which the first step marks required alongside a country code
A business email and an organisation name
A head office country, chosen from a fixed list
A product a business buys, since the whole site is a purchase-research tool
You'll be rejected if
A maker with no phone number they will publish or answer, because the form will not advance without one
Consumer software, which has no category here
B2B softwareSaaS productsEnterprise toolsMarketing toolsDeveloper tools
What you actually get
A vendor profile with pricing, features, screenshots and a review section, on a site that ranks for "best <category> software" queries and sells leads off the back of it. The value is buyer-intent traffic and reviews, not the link: no followed link to the vendor appears on a listing page.
How to submit to SoftwareSuggest
1
Open the vendor door, not the buyer one
/vendors is the vendor side and carries Create a Free Listing, Vendor Portal Login, Price Estimator, Pricing and Vendor Guidelines as its own nav. Add a Product in the main header leads to the same place.
2
Fill the six-field gate
Name, business email, organisation, phone with a country code, website and head office country, plus a checkbox agreeing to the terms of use and privacy policy. Every one of the six is required.
3
Continue into the vendor portal
Next creates the vendor account and moves the listing content, categories and media into a portal rather than asking for them on the public form.
4
Expect a sales conversation
The free listing sits under a value-added services menu and a Request A Call Back button that appears on every page, so the free tier is the top of a sales funnel rather than the whole product.
SoftwareSuggest requirements
Name and business email
Organisation name
Phone number with country code
Product website
Head office country
Agreement to their terms of use and privacy policy
Gotchas
The first step will not advance without a phone number, and it is a real field with a country selector rather than an optional one, so a maker who does not want sales calls has nowhere to go.
The free listing is the entry point to a sales motion. Request A Call Back rides on every page and the pricing page is a price estimator rather than a price.
The public form ends at an account: the listing content, categories and media are all collected later inside a vendor portal, so the visible form is not the work.
Let your agent submit to SoftwareSuggest
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the SoftwareSuggest playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 6 SoftwareSuggest rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 6 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: the listing itself is free. Everything above it is sold rather than published: the pricing page is a price estimator and a Request A Call Back button, and the value-added services cover paid ads, review generation and AI visibility.
Types it into SoftwareSuggest in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to SoftwareSuggest?".
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SoftwareSuggest FAQ
How long does SoftwareSuggest approval take?
SoftwareSuggest does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to SoftwareSuggest?
SoftwareSuggest has a free submission option plus paid placement (The listing itself is free. Everything above it is sold rather than published: the pricing page is a price estimator and a Request A Call Back button, and the value-added services cover paid ads, review generation and AI visibility.).
Does SoftwareSuggest give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from SoftwareSuggest are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 78.
Does SoftwareSuggest require a backlink to your site?
No, SoftwareSuggest does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from SoftwareSuggest?
A maker with no phone number they will publish or answer, because the form will not advance without one; Consumer software, which has no category here.