Review management

Get more reviews, answer all of them, miss nothing.

Review management covers four jobs from one screen: getting new reviews in, answering the ones you have, reporting the ones that break Google rules, and watching the rating at every branch.

Every review in one inboxAI drafted repliesRule breakers reported
★★★★★4.9 out of 5from 2,450 Google reviews of our business

The short answer

The review management tool covers the whole review job. It requests a review from each customer once the work is finished, writes reply drafts that match the voice guide you set, flags reviews that appear to break Google rules so you can report them properly, and watches the rating and reply rate at every branch you run.

What it is

What is review management?

Most businesses treat reviews as a spare time job. Someone checks the profile when they remember, replies to a few, and hopes the rating looks after itself.

That works until it does not. Requests go out days late, replies fall behind, a fake review sits unreported, and the branch nobody checks slides to 3.9 without anyone noticing.

Review management turns the whole thing into one simple routine on one screen: the asking, the answering, the reporting and the tracking.

reviews as a spare time job
Requests sentWHEN REMEMBERED
Replies11 WAITING
Suspicious reviewUNREPORTED
Or: one inbox, one routineALL FOUR JOBS
What falls through the cracks
01 · The asking

Every customer, the moment the job ends.

Most requests fail because of when they are sent, not because customers refuse. A happy customer gets the request four days after the job, opens it at work, and never comes back to it.

Here the request goes out as soon as the work is finished, with a single follow up later. Counters show how many were sent, opened and completed, so you know which campaign is worth keeping.

See Review Generation →

requests
Work finished → request sentAUTO
One follow upON
Sent 64 · opened 41 · reviewed 11TRACKED
The asking
02 · The answering

Replies in your voice, drafted for you.

A copy and paste thank you convinces nobody. Instead, you describe how your replies should sound: formal or friendly, long or short, whether first names appear, and any wording that is off limits.

The AI writes each draft to address the specific things the customer mentioned, and you can send replies for every branch from the same screen.

See Review Auto Reply →

your voice, written down
Tone: friendly, short, first namesSET ONCE
Never say: “valued customer”BANNED
Drafts follow the rulesEVERY REPLY
The answering
03 · The reporting

Rule breakers flagged, gating refused.

Some tools quietly filter: they survey customers first and invite only the pleased ones to Google. Google forbids that practice, called review gating, and this tool refuses to do it.

What it does instead: flags reviews that appear to break Google rules, lets you file the report with the exact rule named, and logs each report so the same review is never filed twice.

See the Negative Review Monitor →

flagged for review
Review from a non customerFLAGGED
Reported, rule namedLOGGED
Genuine complaintANSWER IT INSTEAD
The reporting
04 · The tracking

Rating and review flow, per location.

An owner with one shop senses trouble without any dashboard. With six branches that instinct is gone, and the location sliding downward is usually the one nobody has opened in weeks.

The dashboard shows the rating, the review flow and the reply rate for every location. Low ratings alert you the same day, because the first day is when a problem can still be fixed.

See Review Alerts →

by location
Downtown · 4.7 · replies currentHEALTHY
Northside · 4.5 · replies currentHEALTHY
Airport · 3.9 and fallingSAME DAY ALERT
The tracking
05 · The patterns

What customers keep repeating.

The tool spots the words your reviewers use again and again, in praise and in complaint.

If forty reviews mention the same employee, promote that. If nine mention the wait time, that is the next thing to fix. The reviews were telling you all along.

See Local Business Surveys →

recurring keywords
“friendly staff” · 41 mentionsPROMOTE IT
“wait time” · 9 mentionsFIX IT
“parking” · 6 mentionsEXPLAIN IT
The patterns
What you get

Four jobs, one screen

Requests on job completion

The ask goes out the day the work ends, plus one follow up.

AI drafts in your voice

A voice guide you write once, applied to every reply.

Bulk reply across branches

Answer everything without logging into each profile.

Rule breach reporting

Flagged, reported with the rule named, and logged.

Per location tracking

Rating, review flow and reply rate for every branch.

Recurring keyword detection

The words that appear again and again across your reviews.

How it works

How to set it up

  1. Write your brand voice. A short paragraph describing how replies should sound.
  2. Set the request trigger. When the ask goes out, and the one follow up.
  3. Connect every location. All reviews land in the same inbox.
  4. Answer new reviews daily. Send the drafts, and give complaints a proper reply within a day.
  5. Check the flagged list weekly. Report rule breakers, and watch for the branch that is slipping.
the routine
New reviews34
Answered34
Reported with rule named1
Time spentUNDER AN HOUR
One routine, any size
One flat price

Included in the one plan

  • Review management and all 41 other tools
  • Requests, replies, reporting and tracking together
  • All 42 tools included at every plan size
  • No migration needed, your reviews live on Google
  • Three day free trial, no credit card needed
From 8 locations
$5.33
per location / month
1 location $16 · 2 to 7 flat $37 · full price list
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FAQ

Questions people ask

What does a review management tool do?

It brings the whole review job together: requesting reviews, drafting replies, reporting rule breaking reviews, and watching each branch rating.

Will the replies sound like me?

Yes, because the drafts follow the voice guide you wrote: how formal, how long, whether first names appear, and which words are banned.

Can it hide my bad reviews?

No, and nothing legitimate can. Genuine complaints deserve an answer. What can be done is reporting reviews that break Google rules, with the rule named and a log kept.

Is only asking happy customers allowed?

No. Filtering who gets asked is called review gating and Google bans it. Every customer here receives the same request, which keeps the reviews you collect safe.

How does it work across many locations?

Every profile feeds one inbox, replies can go out in bulk, and each branch manager can be limited to their own site while head office keeps the full view.

Is switching from another tool painful?

No. Reviews and posted replies belong to your Google profile, not to whichever tool you used before, so nothing needs migrating. Connect the profiles and the inbox fills the same day.

Every review requested, answered and accounted for.

Requests on job completion, replies in your voice, and rule breakers reported properly, across every location. from $5.33 per location each month, three day trial.

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