Customizing the Reviews Widget, Popup, and Stars

Take complete control of how your reviews look on your product pages

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Written by Laurence Leech
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Introduction

Completely customize the look and feel of your displays for a seamless on-brand experience. This guide explains the customizations available in the Onsite section of the app.

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Product Page Widget

Rivo Reviews Onsite settings

Widget Status

Toggle this switch ON to enable the Widget that contains your published reviews. The status switched to OFF will remove your published reviews and review stars too.

Reviews List

Customize how you display the reviews on your product pages.

  • Display Type (*)

    • Grid - Reviews are shown in a grid format, with each review presented on a card. Additional details are displayed once the review is clicked

      Rivo Reviews list layout
    • List - Reviews are displayed in a linear format

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  • Text - In this section, you can edit the text displayed on the reviews list

  • Review Widget Button - In this section, you can edit the CTA displayed on the Widget

  • Review Listing Basics

    • Allow visitors to submit a review from the storefront - Uncheck this option to hide the Review Widget Button on the product page and have customers submit reviews through email requests only

    • Show review date? - Check this box to display the date the product review was submitted

    • Review limit per page - Set a limit on how many reviews you want to show on your product page at a time

    • Date format - Use the Relative option to display the time elapsed since the review date in a contextual way (e.g. 3 days ago) or choose any of the formats in numbers available such as MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, and YYYY/MM/DD

    • Summary Type (*)

      • Small - Classic view of the product's overall rating

        Rivo Reviews rating summarized
      • Star Breakdown - Detailed breakdown of the ratings

        Rivo Reviews rating broke down

  • Voting & Recommendations (*)

    • Show verified badge?- Check this box to add a sticker to customers who submitted reviews through email requests

    • Show voting? - Check this box to add your own question along with upvote/downvote icons on each product review

    • Show recommendations? - Check this box if you have product recommendations enabled in your store and you want to display if a customer has recommended the product

(*) = Featured on the Everything plan.


Write a Review Popup

Select Rating

Edit the text and the star rating that is displayed on the popup when a customer clicks to leave a review.

  • Title - The header title on the popup

  • Star Fill Type

    • Full - To display the stars completely filled in

    • Empty - To display the stars as outlines

  • Star Rating Type

    • Number - Display a numerical value from 1 to 5 below each star, indicating the rating score

      Intercom - LOY - Star Rating Type
    • Words - Display up to three descriptive phrases that correspond to the low, medium and high levels

      Intercom - LOY - Star Rating Type
  • Star Caption - Enter the caption for the 1-star, 3-star, and 5-star ratings.

Upload Media

Edit the text that is displayed on the next section of the popup where reviewers upload a media file.

  • Text - In this section, you can edit the header title and subtitle displayed on the popup

  • Upload Buttons - In this section, you can edit the text button and subtext

  • Media Types (*)

    • Video enabled? (*) - Check this option if you want customers to upload videos too.

(*) = Featured on the Everything plan.

Tell Us More

Edit the text on the next section of the popup where the customer writes their review.

  • Text - In this section, you can edit the header title and the placeholder for your text input field

  • Button - In this section, you can edit the text button on the popup.

Title Page

Edit the header on the next section of the popup where the customer writes the title of their review.

  • Title - Here you can edit the header title of the popup

About You

Edit the text that is displayed on the section of the popup where the customer enters their details. From here you can edit the error messages too.

  • Header - In this section, you can edit the header title on the popup

  • Input Field Placeholder - In this section, you can edit the placeholder for your text input fields

  • Button - In this section, you can edit the text button on the popup

  • Submit Messages - In this section, you can edit the alert and error messages that appear on the popup.

Success Page

Edit the text in the final success state of the popup.

  • Success Fields - In this section, you can edit the text that the reviewer sees after they successfully submit the review. If you have enabled incentives, they will see their discount code here.


Common Translation

Edit the translation of the 'Back' and 'Skip' text that appears in the footer of the popup.


Design

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Colors

Ensure your reviews widget is on-brand with custom color designs.

  • Modal Header - Change the color of the Header and Subtext that are displayed at the very top of the review popup

  • Write a Review Button - Customize the colors of the 'Write a Review' button that is displayed on your product pages

  • Star - Customize the color of the stars and the text displayed with them. These are the caption texts that appear under the star rating options on the popup and the text for the number of reviews besides the star rating on your product page

  • Button - Customize the colors of the button that appears on stages of the popup (e.g. the Choose photo, Choose video, Next, Done, and Close buttons)

  • Text Field - Customize the border color of the text field and the input text where the customer writes their review

  • Others - From here you can customize the color of icons, links, and the footer text on the popup.


Review Stars

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Toggle this switch ON and OFF to enable or disable the star rating in the product description, generally placed below the product title.


Advanced Settings

  • Display Custom CSS (*) - Paste your CSS codes to customize the Product Page Widget

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(*) = Featured on the Everything Plan.


Common Questions

Can I change or import custom fonts to the widget?

You can change the font by adding browser-safe fonts using the CSS field in the Advanced Settings. However, importing custom fonts to the widget is not possible at the moment.

Can I have the "Upload Media" step on the popup removed?

This is not possible yet, but you can vote on the feature to help us understand your needs and prioritize items in our roadmap!

Reach out to our live chat support if you have any other questions, or share any ideas with us here!

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