Australcode Product Reviews & Review Reminders for WooCommerce
Reviews on the product page — rating summary, sorting, verified-buyer badges, photo reviews and helpful votes.
Your reviews live in your own database, and the reminder emails leave from your own server. No review cloud in the middle — nothing to cap, nothing to cut off.
Australcode Product Reviews enhances the native WooCommerce reviews and sends automatic review reminder emails from your own site, through Action Scheduler.
Two things follow from that, and neither is common in this category. The consent opt-in can be geo-aware: require it in the EU and the UK, where the GDPR asks for it, and skip it in Chile and Latin America, where it was never required — so you stay compliant without losing reviews everywhere else. And the reviews look right on your theme out of the box, on light and dark themes, with no setup.
Switching from a review service? Import your existing reviews from a CSV export in one step, so moving never means losing your review history — and export them again whenever you want.
Why it is different
- Truly self-hosted — reminders are sent from your server with Action Scheduler. No monthly cap on invitations and no third-party account required.
- You own your data — reviews are stored as native WooCommerce reviews in your database. Nobody can wipe them or cut off your access.
- GDPR-ready geo-aware consent — require the opt-in only where the law asks for it (EU/UK, for GDPR and UK GDPR) and skip it where it does not (Chile and Latin America). Stay compliant without losing reviews everywhere else.
- Lightweight — conditional asset loading; it does not block the rendering of your pages.
- Looks right on your theme, out of the box — the reviews inherit your theme’s font and colours, and hold up on light and dark themes with no setup. Shortcode, Gutenberg block and native widgets for Bricks, Elementor and Divi.
- Fully translatable, Spanish included — every string is internationalized, and Spanish (es_CL and es_ES) ships with the plugin for free and paid users alike. Any other language can be translated at translate.wordpress.org.
- Hook-based integration, no template override — it never silently overwrites WooCommerce templates.
Free features
- Self-hosted review reminder after purchase (no monthly limit)
- Configurable geo-aware consent (per country)
- Photo reviews
- Honest verified-buyer badge
- Rating summary bar, sorting and filtering, helpful votes
- Richer JSON-LD product schema — fills your product’s brand into WooCommerce’s structured data when nothing else did, running last so it never overwrites your theme or SEO plugin
- Shortcode, Gutenberg block and Bricks/Elementor/Divi widgets to display reviews anywhere
- Style panel: card style, corner shape and accent/star/badge colours that adapt to your theme
- Automatic discount coupon for each approved review — thank reviewers with a WooCommerce coupon, emailed to them automatically
- Google Shopping product reviews feed — publish your ratings so they can appear in Google Shopping
- One-click migration — import your existing reviews from other review plugins and standard CSV exports, so switching never means losing your review history. Export anytime: your data is yours.
Pro (scale and automation)
The free plugin is fully usable on its own. Pro adds:
- Multi-step reminders — chase the review with a 2nd and 3rd follow-up email
- Visual email editor with test sending
External services
This plugin connects to Freemius for licensing, software updates and (optionally) anonymous usage diagnostics. Freemius is the Merchant of Record for the paid version of Australcode Product Reviews.
When it connects:
- On activation you may opt in to share basic, non-sensitive environment data. This opt-in is skippable — the free version is 100% functional without opting in.
- For the paid version, the plugin contacts Freemius to validate your license and deliver automatic updates.
- The “Contact Us” menu entry opens the Freemius support form. In the free version it is an external link to freemius.com, and opening it already passes your site URL, your site’s login URL, the current admin page URL and this plugin’s public identifiers to Freemius, so the form arrives with your context. In the paid version the same form is embedded inside your dashboard instead. Whatever you then type into the form — your name, email address and message, plus its optional fields, which include WordPress and FTP credentials you may choose to share so we can reproduce a problem — is sent to Freemius when you submit it, so they can route it to us. Those credential fields are optional and blank by default. If you never open “Contact Us”, none of this is sent.
What is sent: site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, active plugin/theme information and — only if you opt in or purchase — your license key and account email. Your store data and your customers’ reviews are never sent to Freemius or any other third party: reviews stay in your own database and reminders are sent from your own server.
- Service provider: Freemius, Inc. — https://freemius.com
- Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/
- Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/