Set up location review invitations

This feature is included in the Standard plan.

This feature is part of the Location Reviews add-on module, which can be purchased in addition to the Plus, Premium, Advanced, and Enterprise plans.

Once you’ve finished setting up your business locations, you can start inviting customers to review them. Depending on which invitation method you use, set up may vary.

To collect location reviews, you can use our manual, automatic, and other invitation methods. Reviewers have the option to associate their review with a specific location, or with your business’s main profile page.

When you send a review invitation to a customer, the review form will automatically show all your business’s locations as choices. Simply setting up a location triggers this change on the review form for all invitation methods. Here’s an example:

Locations on review form

You can also pre-assign a specific location to an invitation by configuring the invitation settings. Customers will see that the location is pre-selected for that invitation. Use our Automatic Feedback Service, JavaScript Integration or Trustpilot API Invitation to do this.

You may need a developer to help you with this.

Use Automatic Feedback Service (AFS)

AFS automatically sends email invitations to your customers after they make a purchase or have a service experience. You can assign specific locations to the reviews you collect using AFS. To do this, you’ll need to include the location ID as a structured data snippet in your emails. Follow these steps:

  1. Set up Automatic Feedback Service.
  2. Add the following Structured Data Snippet in the source code of the trigger email. This ensures that the location ID is dynamically included, depending on the user's location.

Here’s an example:

{
  "recipientName": "Name MacNameson",
  "recipientEmail": "customer@email.com",
  "referenceId": "1234abcd",
  "locationId": "id1"
}

Learn more about how to use the Structured Data Snippet here.

Use the JavaScript integration

You can add the JavaScript integration to almost any custom website to send out location review invitations. To do this:

  1. In Trustpilot Business, go to Integrations > Ecommerce > JavaScript Integration.
  2. Click Copy code.
  3. In your website's HTML source code, paste the code snippet in the <head> element, or use Google Tag Manager.
  4. Back in your account, click Next. Enter your website’s domain and click Verify to check that you've added the code correctly.
  5. In the Complete your setup workflow, under Finish setting up the integration, select the invitations that you want to automate.
  6. Click Copy code. Paste the script into your website’s confirmation page.
  7. Replace each data element with the appropriate values of your website.

Here’s an example:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
  const trustpilot_invitation_data = {
  recipientEmail: 'john@gmail.com',
  recipientName: 'John',
  referenceId: 'Order_123',
  source: 'InvitationScript',
  locationId: 'location_1',
  };
 tp('createInvitation', trustpilot_invitation_data);
});

Use a Trustpilot API Invitation

You can also use a Trustpilot API Invitation to trigger invitation emails for locations. When one of your customers receives an invitation to leave a review, they'll be asked to review the specific location. Set it up with these steps:

  1. Get an API key and secret key.
  2. Use the Invitation API endpoints to trigger email invitations.
  3. Dynamically include the location of the user with each invitation.

Here’s an example:

{
  "recipientEmail": "customer@email.com",
  "recipientName": "Name MacNameson",
  "referenceId": "1234abcd",
  "locationId": "id1",
  "senderEmail": "my@company.com",
  "replyTo": "my@company.com",
  "preferredSendTime": "2018-10-12T13:37:00",
  "senderName": "My Company",
  "locale": "en-US",
  "templateId": "507f191e810c19729de860ea"
}

The location ID is case sensitive.

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