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Review reminder

Review reminder module

One of the modules included in the plugin is the Review reminder. This module allows sending automatic emails to ask your customers to review the products they have purchased.

If enabled, a new entry will be added to the plugin panel. Here, you can configure:

Review reminder settings

General options

In the General options section, you can find the global options related to users’ consent in receiving the emails (GDPR), the conditions to send the review reminders, and the integration with Google Analytics.

Review reminder general options

GDPR option

GDPR option
  • Show checkbox consent in Checkout page: enable this option to show a checkbox on the Checkout page through which users can give their consent to receive review reminder emails;
    • Checkbox text: enter the text to show in the checkbox.
Consent checkbox on checkout page

Users who do not give consent by leaving the checkbox unchecked will be automatically added to the blocklist. For more details about the blocklist, please go to this page.

Review reminder

Review reminder options
  • Send a review reminder for: choose whether to send review reminder emails for all the products included in the order or only for specific products. By selecting Specific products, you can choose from the following:
    • First product(s) bought
    • Last product(s) bought
    • Products with highest number of items bought
    • Products with lowest number of items bought
    • Products with the highest number of reviews
    • Products with the lowest number of reviews
    • Products with the highest price
    • Products with the lowest price
    • Products with the highest total value
    • Products with the lowest total value
    • Random;
    • Number of products to show for the request: (available only when selecting Specific products) define the number of products to be included in the email among those available in the order;
  • Send the email: enter the number of days after the order status is Completed to send the emails.

By default, the plugin sends the reminder after 1 day from order completion and for all the products included. When changing this setting, or if you choose to send the reminder for specific products, you’ll be asked to reschedule the emails.

  • Yes, reschedule emails: by selecting this option, all reminder emails previously scheduled will be sent based on the new number of days set;
    • Send emails when the rescheduled date has passed: by selecting this option, the reminder emails will be immediately sent if the rescheduled date falls before the completed order date.
Reschedule emails

Google Analytics integration

Google Analytics integration

By enabling the integration with Google Analytics, you can track the emails generated and sent to customers to invite them to review the products in your shop.
Before inserting the requested parameters to create your “campaign”, ensure to specify the monitoring code of Google Analytics in your site. Only in this case the inserted parameters will be effective.

For more information about the correct settings of the fields, we recommend referring to the official documentation of Google Analytics.

Email list

The Email list in the Review reminder module allows you to monitor and manage the reminder emails sent or that will be sent to customers to invite them to review the purchased products.

Email list

The table includes the list of all emails that have been scheduled. Here, you can see the related order (with the link that redirects to the order edit page), the date when the order was completed, the date when the email was/will be sent, and the reminder email status (on hold, sent, canceled).

From the table, you can perform the following actions:

  • Clear table: you can easily empty the table for canceled and sent emails by clicking the buttons Removed canceled and Remove sent. This option can be used to help you reduce the weight of your database.
Clear table
  • Bulk actions: if you need to cancel more scheduled emails at the same time, you can use the bulk action Cancel schedule.
Cancel schedule
  • Filter: to easily find and manage emails, you can filter them by status: On hold, Canceled, or Sent.
Filter emails
  • Search: use the dedicated search field to quickly find orders.
Search orders

To cancel the schedule individually, you can use the bin icon shown on mouseover.

Cancel single scheduled email

Add new email

To apply the scheduling for orders that have not yet generated a review request, click the Add new button.

Add new schedule

In the modal, you can choose whether to schedule the review reminder email for all the orders or for those placed within a specific timeframe that you can define in the related fields.

Schedule reminder email - Modal

Blocklist

The Blocklist in the Review reminder module allows you to monitor and manage the users who didn’t give their consent to receive review reminder emails.

Blocklist

In the table, you can see the customers and their email addresses.

To remove a user from the blocklist, you can click on the bin icon that shows on mouseover.

Remove user from blocklist

Yet, if you need to remove more users, you can use the dedicated bulk action.

Bulk action- Remove users from blocklist

In addition to not giving their consent during the checkout, users are automatically added to the blocklist also when unsubscribing from the link provided in the review reminder emails.

Unsubscribe link

They will be redirected to the Unsubscribe page where they’ll need to confirm their email address in order to succesfully unsubscribe.

Unsubscribe page

Review for discounts

Review for discounts module

The Review For Discounts module allows setting up an advanced system of discounts and exclusive offers to reward customers who review your products.

 If enabled, a new entry will be added to the plugin panel. Here, you can configure:

  • General options
  • Coupons
Review for Discounts settings

General options

Coupon delivery

In the General options section, you can find the Coupon delivery option through which you can choose when to send the email with the coupon to the users who posted their reviews. You can choose to send it:

  • After review creation: by selecting this option, the coupon will be sent soon after the user posts their review;
  • After review approval: by selecting this option, the coupon will be sent soon after the admin approves the review manually or automatically.

Coupons

Coupons creation

This is the section where you can create and manage the coupons that will be sent to your customers to reward them for the reviews left. Start creating your coupons by clicking on the Create coupon button and then enter a name to identify it.

Create coupons

Triggering events

Here, you can configure the conditions that will trigger the coupon delivery.

  • Triggering event: choose whether to send the coupon for single or multiple reviews.

SINGLE REVIEW

By selecting Single review, you can optionally choose the products and categories that, when reviewed, will send the coupon. If you want to send it when reviews are posted on all products and all categories, leave the fields empty.

Triggering events

MULTIPLE REVIEWS

By selecting Multiple reviews, you have to define the number of reviews that users must post in order to receive the coupon in the option Requested quantity.

Requested quantity

You can also send an email to push users to post their reviews when they are about to reach the required number to get the coupon by enabling the option Send notification when requested quantity is approaching. Based on the value set in Requested quantity, you can decide when to send the email by using the option Initial quantity.

Approaching quantity to send email

For instance, if you want to send the coupon when 5 reviews are posted and you set the sending of notification emails to 2, the user will receive three emails starting from the second posted review until the required value is reached.

Required quantity email

Coupon settings

Configure the coupon by setting the following options:

  • Discount type: choose the type of discount to offer from:
    • Percentage discount
    • Fixed cart discount
    • Fixed product discount.
  • Coupon amount: enter the value of the coupon.
  • Allow free shipping: enable to offer free shipping with the use of this coupon. For the free shipping to be applied, you must enable the free shipping method in WooCommerce and set it to require A valid free shipping coupon.
Free shipping coupon
  • Validity days: enter the number of days for the coupon validity after which it can no longer be used. Enter 0 if you don’t want the coupon to expire.

Usage restrictions

Here, you can set up the restrictions for the coupon usage.

  • Minimum spend: enter a value if you want to set a required minimum subtotal to use the coupon.
  • Maximum spend: enter a value if you want to set a required maximum subtotal to use the coupon.
Min/max subtotal
  • Individual use only: enable this option if the coupon can’t be used in conjunction with other coupons.
  • Exclude sale items: enable this option if the coupon can’t be applied to on-sale products. Product coupons will only work if the item is not on sale and cart coupons will only work if there are items in the cart that are not on sale.
Usage restriction options
  • Products: select the products that are eligible for the coupon to be applied or must be in the cart when using the Fixed cart discount.
  • Excluded products: select the products that are not eligible for the coupon to be applied or mustn’t be in the cart when using the Fixed cart discount.
  • Product categories: select the categories that are eligible for the coupon to be applied or must be in the cart when using the Fixed cart discount.
  • Exclude categories: select the categories that are not eligible for the coupon to be applied or mustn’t be in the cart when using the Fixed cart discount.
Product restrictions

Migration tools

Migration tools

The module Migration tools is available only if at least one of the plugins YITH WooCommerce Review Reminder and YITH WooCommerce Review for Discounts are activated on your site.

After enabling the module, go to the section Migration tools to start migrating the settings from the existing plugins to YITH WooCommerce Advanced Reviews.

Review reminder

Review reminder - options migration

If the plugin YITH Review Reminder is activated on your site, you will be able to choose which of the following settings to migrate:

  • Plugin settings: by selecting this option, the system will migrate the options currently used in the Review reminder module;
  • Scheduled emails list table: by selecting this option, the system will migrate the table of the scheduled emails;
  • Blocklist table: by selecting this option, the system will migrate the list of users who didn’t give consent to receive review reminder emails.

Review for discounts

Review for discounts - migration tool

If the plugin YITH Review for Discounts is active on your site, you will be able to choose which of the following settings to migrate:

  • Plugin settings: by selecting this option, the system will migrate the options currently used in the Review for discounts module;
  • Review discounts: by selecting this option, the system will migrate the coupons that you have created and that will be sent to your customers to reward them for the reviews left.

How to migrate the settings

The migration can be easily processed by selecting the options you want to migrate and clicking on the button Start migration.

Start migration

Since the migration is an action that can’t be undone, you’ll be asked for confirmation before proceeding.

Confirm migration

The migration will run in background and the status will show like in the example below.

Migration status

When the migration is correctly completed, you will see the date related to when it was processed.

While still in process, the migration gets the pending status.

In case of any issues during the migration, the failed status will show.