Verified Product Reviews Add-on for HTML + PHP Shops
Let real buyers review the products they ordered, with moderation and no fake or seeded reviews
Everything included
- Only verified buyers can review
- One review per product per order
- Moderation: approve, hide or delete
- Average rating on the product page
- Rating in search data only with real reviews
- Nothing seeded, no fake reviews
From order to a live website
- 1
Buy the add-on
One-time price. Your download link and licence key arrive by email and in My Account.
- 2
Drop it in
Upload the folder into addons/ on your hosting.
- 3
Switch it on
Turn it on in Admin → Add-ons, add the licence key and your settings.
What it does
Adds product reviews to the Code Craft HTML + PHP shop templates, written only by verified buyers: a review can be sent from the customer's own order page, for a product in that order, once the order has reached the status you choose (for example delivered). One review per product per order, a 1 to 5 star rating, a title and text. Reviews wait for your approval by default. Approved reviews and their average appear on the product page, and a rating is added to the product's search data only when real approved reviews exist. Nothing is seeded.
- Only verified buyers can review
- One review per product per order
- Moderation: approve, hide or delete
- Average rating on the product page
Works with
This add-on is for the 12 Code Craft HTML + PHP shop templates (Kora, Annapurna, Bunkar, Giftsy, Harit, Mithas, Nazar, Petal, PhoneZone, Pukka, Pustak, WoodCraft). It is sold separately and has its own licence key. Upload its folder into the website's addons/ folder and switch it on in Admin → Add-ons; no code changes.
- Site core 1.1 or later
- Drop-in folder, no code changes
- Its own settings screen and licence key
Who it is for
It is for owners of one of the 12 Code Craft HTML + PHP shop templates (Kora, Annapurna, Bunkar, Giftsy, Harit, Mithas, Nazar, Petal, PhoneZone, Pukka, Pustak and WoodCraft) who want star ratings and written reviews on their own product pages from people who really bought the product. The add-on ships with no reviews and never creates any; every review on your shop comes from one of your customers. It needs no outside service. It works only inside your own shop and has nothing to do with any rating shown on coodecraft.com.
- One of the 12 shop templates, site core 1.1+
- Starts empty, nothing seeded
- No outside service
Where customers write a review
The review form appears on the customer's own order page, the private link in their order emails, for each product in that order. By default it opens once the order is Delivered; you can choose Paid, processing, shipped or delivered instead. The customer picks 1 to 5 stars and writes a title and at least a sentence. The server checks every review: the order link must be valid, the product must be in that order, the order must have the right status, and each order can review each product only once. Requests from other websites are refused, and attempts per visitor are limited per hour (default 10).
- Form on the private order page
- Delivered or paid, your choice
- One review per product per order
Moderation and what appears on product pages
New reviews wait in Admin → Add-ons → Reviews, filtered as Waiting, Published or Hidden, where you approve, hide or delete them; you can switch on publishing without approval, and choose to get an email when a review arrives. Product pages show approved reviews with their average and count, labelled verified buyer, with the reviewer's first name and last initial only. Everything a reviewer types is shown as plain text. The product's schema gets an aggregateRating only when it has approved reviews; with none, no rating markup is added.
- Approve, hide or delete
- First name and initial only
- Rating markup only with approved reviews
Honest limits
Reviews need the order link, so orders must have an email address (the default in the shop's checkout settings), and you set orders to Delivered yourself in Admin → Shop → Orders with Email the customer ticked. There are no photos in reviews and no replies from the shop. Whether Google shows stars is Google's decision. Never write reviews yourself or pay for them. It was tested on Kora and Pustak with real PHP 8.3: wrong tokens, other products, undelivered orders, cross-site requests, bad ratings, duplicates, escaping, auto-approve, the rate limit and the licence gate.
- No photos or shop replies
- Google decides about stars
- Never post reviews yourself
Getting reviews from your customers
Reviews start with your order emails. When you set an order to Delivered in Admin → Shop → Orders and tick Email the customer, the email carries the private order link, and the review form is waiting on that page. The add-on sends no review-request emails of its own and never contacts customers otherwise. Each review in your moderation list shows the order number it came from, so you can always see which sale it belongs to, and the rating and text are kept exactly as the customer wrote them.
- Uses your existing status emails
- No extra emails to customers
- Order number shown with each review
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