YayReviews - Advanced Customer Reviews for WooCommerce

YayReviews is a comprehensive WooCommerce review management plugin that helps online stores collect, manage, and display authentic customer feedback.

• Send email reminders
• Allow image upload
• Allow video upload
• Limit the number of images/videos per review
• Limit filesize
• Limit min/max number of characters per review
• Add GDPR checkbox for terms and privacy consent before posting reviews

📌 YayReviews Pro | Quick Demo with AI Summary Key Features 📸 Media Settings

• Photo/Video Uploads: Allow customers to attach media with reviews
• File Size Limits: Configure max image size (5MB) and video size (50MB)
• Upload Limits: Set maximum number of images and videos per review
• Video Duration Control: Limit video length (60 seconds default)
• Media Type Selection: Choose between images only, videos only, or both

🛠️ Tools & Import

• Import from Other Platforms: Support for Judge.me and Yotpo CSV exports
• Custom CSV Import: Upload WooCommerce reviews with column mapping
• Database Management: Check database status and repair tables if needed
• Email Tracking: Monitor email queue and delivery status

📧 Automated Review Requests

• Email Automation: Send review request emails after order completion
• Email Templates: Editable templates with dynamic variables like customer name, order ID, product names
• Template Preview: Desktop and mobile preview of review request emails
• Test Email Function: Send test emails before launching campaigns

🎁 Automated Rewards (Pro) Want to send coupons to those customers who leave a 5-star rating? Now you can set it up quickly:

• Reward Rules: Automatically trigger coupon generation when review conditions are met
• Reward Conditions: Define qualifying criteria per rule, including verified purchase requirement, photo or video attachment, first review only, one claim per customer, minimum star rating, and minimum review length
• Coupon Configuration: Generate WooCommerce coupons with percentage or fixed amount discounts, expiry period in days, minimum spend requirement, individual use restriction, and sale item exclusions

📝 Review Form Configuration

• Advanced Rating Types: Create custom rating types with 6 built-in presets (e.g. thumbs-up, thumbs-down, sad/happy emojis)
• Star Ratings: Enable/disable and require star ratings
• Title Field: Optional or required review titles (max 100 characters)
• Content Requirements: Set minimum/maximum length for review text
• GDPR Compliance: Optional privacy consent checkbox

🎨 Display Settings

• Verified Purchase Badge: Show verification status on reviews
• Reviewer Name Format: Choose how names appear (full name, first name, etc.)
• Avatar Style: Select between Gravatar images or initial letters
• Review Count Display: Show total number of reviews per reviewer
• Anonymous Reviews: Allow customers to post anonymously
• Date Display: Show review posting dates with customizable formats

💎 Premium Features (Pro)

• Location Settings: Show the customer's country with flag
• Social Proof: Display social proof elements
• Pinned Reviews: Highlight important reviews
• AI Summaries: Automated review summaries
• And tons of advanced customization options

Oct 22, 2026 - Version 1.4.3

• Added: Write a Review page (/reviews/new) - a standalone page where customers pick a product and leave a review
• Added: Admins can add a store review manually from the admin (Pro)
• Added: Related Reviews setting - show similar approved reviews inline on /reviews/{id} (same product, shared topics, rating proximity, WooCommerce related products) (Pro)
• Added: Review QR Code and Write a Review QR Code widgets - a review's page or the write-a-review page, as shortcodes,blocks and Widgets-builder cards for packaging inserts, receipts and signage (Pro)
• Added: product_ids="all" in the Review Overall shortcode for a store-wide rating summary
• Added: Topic tags can now link to product reviews and automatically activate the topic filter (Pro)
• Improved: Refreshed storefront Q&A design
• Improved: Refreshed review topics design
• Improved: My Account → Reviews tells your reviews apart froreply counts and the latest store reply
• Fixed: Public review REST routes now honour "Require login le-review endpoint no longer exposes reviewer emails orunapproved reviews, and product search no longer returns draft or private products to guests
• Fixed: The single review page (/reviews/{id}) and store revire login to view reviews" - guests see the login prompt, and"Log In" returns them to the review
• Fixed: Minor issues

Oct 14, 2026 - Version 1.4.2

• Added: Multiple-criteria rating type for product reviews (Pro)
• Updated: Integration with WooCommerce 11.2
• Updated: Prevented WooCommerce's native review request emails from being sent when YayReviews is active
• Fixed: Minor issues with the reviews and rewards endpoints
• Fixed: Issue when blocking FileBird styles

Sep 22, 2026 - Version 1.4.1

• Added: Google Product Review Feed for Merchant Center - stream approved product reviews as XML so star ratings show on Shopping listings
• Fixed: Review filters returned an error on the free version when review topics were requested
• Fixed: Provided guard to prevent stranger grab unnecessary reviews data

Sep 18, 2026 - Version 1.4.0

• Added: Rating summary layouts - ring, hero and histogram looks for the product-page summary, plus a compact badge look for the Review Overall widget, with card, text and accent colour options (Pro)
• Added: Nuggets layouts - highlight, bubble, editorial, spotlight and sticky looks for the Nuggets shortcode and block (Pro)
• Added: Reviewer avatar option in the Nuggets shortcode and block (Pro)
• Added: Export and import product reviews and store reviews as CSV from Tools, including media, badges and replies (Pro)
• Added: Settings → Permissions - choose which staff roles can moderate reviews, answer Q&A, manage store reviews, survey responses, reminder queues and rewards without administrator rights (Pro, administrators only)
• Added: YayReviews permissions appear as a labelled group in the Members and User Role Editor plugins
• Added: Custom review link per reminder rule, with {product_url}, {order_number} and {my_account_reviews_url} placeholders, used by both email and WhatsApp requests
• Added: Editable heading, body and review link for the store review request email (Pro)
• Added: "Limit to the product being viewed" option for the Testimonials, Review Gallery and UGC Media widgets (Pro)
• Changed: Settings, Tools, exports and extension configuration require the Manage settings / Run tools / Export data permissions (administrators by default)
• Changed: The storefront review reply button follows the Manage reviews permission; custom roles that relied on the WooCommerce "manage_woocommerce" capability need yayrev_manage_reviews (and yayrev_manage_qna to keep the question rate-limit exemption)
• Fixed: Store review request emails were never scheduled or sent (Pro)
• Fixed: Review form widget dropped uploaded media and rejected valid submissions
• Fixed: Media uploader in the review form attached to the wrong field when several forms were on one page
• Fixed: Q&A list did not render when the tab was opened before WooCommerce tabs finished initialising
• Fixed: Shop managers could not open YayReviews at all; default permissions are re-granted automatically if a role reset or staging push wipes them
• Fixed: Importing a store review the same author already left with identical content created a duplicate (Pro)

Aug 25, 2026 – Version 1.3.3

• Added: Review topics - group reviews into topics with sentiment, then let shoppers filter reviews by topic (Pro)
• Added: Surveys - build custom survey forms, send them to customers after purchase, and collect responses in the dashboard (Pro)
• Added: Voting on questions and answers in the Q&A section (Pro)
• Added: Standalone page for a single store review, with a shareable link (Pro)
• Added: My Rewards tab in the customer account page, plus a rewarded badge in My Reviews (Pro)
• Added: Badges for store reviews (Pro)
• Added: Store reviews as a review source in the Testimonials widget (Pro)
• Added: Filter reviews by badge in the Testimonials widget (Pro)
• Added: Store owner replies in the Happy Customers widget (Pro)
• Added: Nuggets now source from store reviews in addition to product reviews (Pro)
• Updated: Translations
• Fixed: Review filters overriding in-page navigation from other plugins, such as quick view popups
• Fixed: Verified buyer badge on store reviews
• Fixed: Unanswered questions shown incorrectly in the Q&A section (Pro)
• Fixed: Minor bugs

Aug 9, 2026 – Version 1.3.2

• Added: Nuggets - highlight standout excerpts from reviews and showcase them with a shortcode or block in slider, grid, or masonry layouts (Pro)
• Added: Referral rewards - reviewers get a coupon to share with friends, applied automatically for the referred customer (Pro)
• Added: Quick search for settings and features in the admin dashboard (Cmd/Ctrl + K)
• Added: Require login to view product reviews and store reviews
• Updated: Error messages on the product and store review forms
• Fixed: Used and expired claims missing from the rewards history
• Fixed: Read more link in the Testimonials widget
• Fixed: PHP deprecation notice from mb_convert_encoding()

Jul 24, 2026 – Version 1.3.1

• Added: Exclude specific products or categories from review reminder emails (Pro)
• Added: Optional notice linking to the product's other reviews in the review form (Pro)
• Added: WooCommerce required screen on the settings page when WooCommerce is inactive
• Added: yayrev_enable_product_review_ui filter to disable the review form and review display
• Updated: Store reviews now use the rating type set as global default instead of always showing stars
• Updated: Loading state of the review form widget
• Updated: Q&A section styling
• Fixed: Partially filled rating icons displayed at the wrong size when using image icons
• Fixed: Custom emoji rating icons broken on shop and archive pages
• Fixed: Duplicate review schema on single product pages
• Fixed: A site page with a /reviews URL being overridden by the My Account reviews tab
• Fixed: Review button on order items showing outside My Account pages
• Fixed: Rating not saved when another plugin processed the review first
• Fixed: Button text of the review form in Popup and Sidebar layouts
• Fixed: All Reviews widget items overflowing on small screens
• Fixed: Duplicate WooCommerce required notice on the Plugins page

Jul 16, 2026 – Version 1.3.0

• Added: Happy Customers widget to showcase satisfied buyers (Pro)
• Added: User Generated Content (UGC) media widget (Pro)
• Added: Gutenberg blocks for displaying reviews (Pro)
• Added: Product Recommendations element for YayMail emails, now available in the free version
• Added: Review form layouts: Popup and Sidebar (Pro) -Added: Reviews anchor button in Single product page (Pro)
• Added: Create reviews manually from the admin dashboard
• Added: Manually send a review reminder email from the order screen
• Added: Bulk send review requests to past customers (Pro)
• Added: Custom email template for past customers (Pro)
• Added: Follow-up review request emails (Pro)
• Added: Resend emails from the automation queue
• Added: Automatic review approval option
• Added: Settings for Allow Guest Reviews nha
• Added: Review request last-sent date and "All reviewed" status on the orders list
• Updated: Dashboard and admin UI
• Updated: Automation rule sorting and configuration
• Updated: Order notes styling with panel refresh after manual send
• Updated: Q&A UI and rejected question handling
• Updated: Support for Divi theme
• Updated: WooCommerce tested up to 10.8
• Fixed: Timezone handling for review dates, email queue, order notes, and social proof
• Fixed: Email incorrectly triggered on live sites
• Fixed: Floating button and block registration for the review form
• Fixed: Edit review link in the review form widget
• Fixed: Duplicate order note on manual reminder send
• Fixed: Different review types displaying on the same page
• Fixed: PHP 7.4 and PHP 8 compatibility issues

Jun 16, 2026 – Version 1.2.0

• Added: Admin notification when new review submitted
• Added: WhatsApp/Twilio automation (Pro)
• Added: Questions and Answers (Q&A section) in free version
• Added: Custom rating type as dropdown (Pro)
• Updated: Hide clear filter button when no filter set
• Updated: Dashboard UI
• Fixed: Compatible with YayMail 4.4.0
• Fixed: Duplicate "ago" text in social proofs
• Fixed: Review layouts

May 11, 2026 - Version 1.1.0

• Added: Customers can only review a product once
• Added: Copy review link
• Added: The ability to hide AI summary when negative (Pro)
• Added: Product Review Summary shortcode support (Pro)
• Added: Product Review Overall shortcode support (Pro)

Apr 28, 2026 - Version 1.0.9.1

• Fixed: License issue in free version

Apr 24, 2026 - Version 1.0.9

• Updated: Admin & Frontend UI
• Fixed: Video loading issue
• Fixed: Popup not closing on mobile
• Fixed: Flag not displaying on Windows 11

Apr 2, 2026 - Version 1.0.8

• New: Review link in My Account > Orders
• New: Support for uploading custom SVGs/images for Custom Rating Type (Pro)
• New: The ability for customers to leave reviews directly in My Account > Orders (Pro)
• New: Product Review Gallery Carousel shortcode support (Pro)
• New: Product Review Testimonial shortcode support (Pro)
• New: Helpful voting for Store Reviews (Pro)
• Updated: Store Reviews to allow marking reviews as pending again
• Updated: Social Proofs to support pause and content line clamping
• Updated: Improve the admin UI for Store Reviews
• Fixed: An issue where View all media did not work on first load
• Fixed: Minor bugs

Mar 02, 2026 - Version 1.0.7

• New: Review Vote/Helpful (PRO)
• New: Same country filter (PRO)
• New: Review purchase selection
• New: Fr translations
• Updated: Improve emoji performance
• Fixed: Other plugins installation

Feb 12, 2026 - Version 1.0.6

• New: Review Badges (PRO)
• New: Review Form widget (PRO)
• New: Reviews layout: masonry & slider (PRO)
• New: Shop review (PRO)
• New: Import reviews from CusRev
• New: Integrate with YayMail
• Updated: Highlight Review is now included in badges
• Fixed: Minor bugs

Jan 21, 2026 - Version 1.0.5

• NEW: "All Reviews" widget/shortcode
• Added: AJAX loading for reviews
• Added: Filter Bar
• Added: Edit single product summary (PRO)
• Added: Change pinned review colors (PRO)
• Added: Support Bricks theme
• Updated: Layout for reviews
• Updated: Optimize reviews pagination
• Updated: Fractional rating display for Progressive mode
• Fixed: Custom review type display with Brandy
• Fixed: Small issue when loading pinned reviews
• Fixed: Admin setup in WP multisite

Jan 9, 2026 - Version 1.0.4

• New: Review AI Summary (PRO)
• New: Reviewer location (PRO)
• New: Social Proof (PRO)
• New: Custom rating types with 6 built-in types in Free version (Custom type in PRO)
• New: Multi Review Reminder for Woo Commerce (PRO)
• New: Reviews pagination & in-app settings.
• New: Reply review.
• New: Edit review.
• New: Analytics dashboard.
• New: Tracking email opened & request clicks.
• New: Rich Snippets/Schema for reviews.
• New: Import reviews from CSV & other sources.
• Updated: Admin UI.
• Updated: Review Form validation.
• Updated: Reward logic
• Fixed: Conflict styles with FileBird & other plugins

Nov 29, 2025 - Version 1.0.3

• Updated: Admin UI
• Fixed: Small bugs
• Fixed: Conflict with FileBird

Aug 22, 2025 - Version 1.0.2

• New: Limit min/max number of characters per review
• New: Enable heading & content for writing review
• New: Use Gravatar by default/ Enable custom avatar image upload
• New: Checkbox to allow display reviewer profile as anonymous (PRO)
• New: Option to not display full name/2 first characters when hiding profile (PRO)
• New: Show the number of written reviews per user (PRO)
• Removed: Require plugins header
• Fixed: Some bugs

Aug 8, 2025 - Version 1.0.1

• Fixed: Reminder not unscheduled after dismissing
• Updated: Plugin Logo, Plugin urls & Typo

Aug 5, 2025 - Version 1.0.0

• Initial release