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5 ways to get more—and respond faster to—customer reviews

By Nick Moore · July 25, 2024
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Customer reviews are important: In fact, 75% of consumers say they always read online reviews. And how you react to those reviews is just as important—88% of consumers are highly likely to use a business that responds to their reviews.

Reviews are essential for providing the social proof your potential customers need to make a purchase. But soliciting, responding to, and tracking all this feedback can take a lot of time and manual work, especially as your business scales.

That's where Zapier comes in. Zapier connects user review tools and websites with the rest of your tech stack. These workflows—called Zaps—can automate huge chunks of the user review process, letting you get more reviews with less effort.

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Table of contents

  • Automatically invite users to leave reviews

  • Respond to reviews faster

  • Track user reviews automatically

  • Create tasks from reviews

  • Track brand mentions across social media

To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button. It only takes a few minutes to set up. You can read more about setting up Zaps here.

Automatically invite users to leave reviews

One of the best times to get user reviews is right after your customer's last interaction with you. If you'd like to know how buyers felt shopping on your online store, for example, you’ll want to get reviews right after they complete their order or pay.

These Zaps automatically invite users to leave a review after placing an order.

Create Trustpilot invitations from new WooCommerce orders

Create Trustpilot invitations from new WooCommerce orders
  • WooCommerce logo
  • Trustpilot logo
WooCommerce + Trustpilot

Create Birdeye customers from new WooCommerce orders

Create Birdeye customers from new WooCommerce orders
  • WooCommerce logo
  • Birdeye logo
WooCommerce + Birdeye

Create new Grade.us recipients from new WooCommerce orders

Create new Grade.us recipients from new WooCommerce orders
  • WooCommerce logo
  • Grade.us logo
WooCommerce + Grade.us

Trustpilot Invitation from new BigCommerce Order

Trustpilot Invitation from new BigCommerce Order
  • BigCommerce logo
  • Trustpilot logo
BigCommerce + Trustpilot

Create Trustpilot invitations from new Shopify orders

Create Trustpilot invitations from new Shopify orders
  • Shopify logo
  • Trustpilot logo
Shopify + Trustpilot

It's tempting to focus on what new customers think and feel. After all, making new sales is an important part of your business growth.

But it's just as important—if not more important—to check in with your existing customers. To increase retention, make sure you respond—and respond well—whenever your customers reach out to you for support or with questions. To see if you gave them what they needed, use these Zaps to invite reviews from forms, surveys, and support tickets.

Create Trustpilot review invitations from Typeform entries

Create Trustpilot review invitations from Typeform entries
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  • Trustpilot logo
Typeform + Trustpilot

Send Trustpilot review invitations to Enalyzer respondents

Send Trustpilot review invitations to Enalyzer respondents
  • Enalyzer logo
  • Trustpilot logo
Enalyzer + Trustpilot

Send Trustpilot review invitations to contacts from Zendesk tickets

Send Trustpilot review invitations to contacts from Zendesk tickets
  • Zendesk logo
  • Trustpilot logo
Zendesk + Trustpilot

Respond to reviews faster

Businesses depend on feedback. But that doesn’t mean you should spend all day refreshing your page on G2 Crowd or Google Business Profile.

Instead, you can use one of these Zaps to notify your team about new reviews instantly in team chat, in email apps like Slack and Gmail, or via SMS. That way, your team can respond quickly without wasting time watching for incoming reviews.

Send new SMS messages with Google My Business reviews

Send new SMS messages with Google My Business reviews
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • SMS by Zapier logo
Google Business Profile + SMS by Zapier

Send Microsoft Teams channel messages for new Google My Business reviews

Send Microsoft Teams channel messages for new Google My Business reviews
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • Microsoft Teams logo
Google Business Profile + Microsoft Teams

Send new Gmail emails with Google My Business review submissions

Send new Gmail emails with Google My Business review submissions
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • Gmail logo
Google Business Profile + Gmail

Message a Slack channel when specific organizations visit your G2 Crowd listing

Message a Slack channel when specific organizations visit your G2 Crowd listing
  • G2 Crowd logo
  • Slack logo
G2 Crowd + Slack

If you want to respond instantly, you can also let AI do the heavy lifting for you. This Zap will generate a response to customer reviews with ChatGPT, then reply automatically:

Learn more: Follow our step-by-step guide to automatically responding to Google Business Profile reviews with ChatGPT.

Track user reviews automatically

Not every business needs this kind of instant feedback. If you're more interested in how reviews change over time, these Zaps automatically track new reviews in Google Sheets.

Create new rows in Google Sheets from Google My Business reviews

Create new rows in Google Sheets from Google My Business reviews
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • Google Sheets logo
Google Business Profile + Google Sheets

Log G2 Crowd visits to a Google Sheet

Log G2 Crowd visits to a Google Sheet
  • G2 Crowd logo
  • Google Sheets logo
G2 Crowd + Google Sheets

Create Google Sheets rows for new Appbot reviews

Create Google Sheets rows for new Appbot reviews
  • Appbot logo
  • Google Sheets logo
Appbot + Google Sheets

Create tasks from reviews

The more you monitor and track your reviews, the more you’ll find feedback worth acting on. If you want to build a reputation for being a responsive business, use these Zaps to automatically create tasks in your project management tool as new reviews get posted.

Create new Trello cards from Google My Business reviews

Create new Trello cards from Google My Business reviews
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • Trello logo
Google Business Profile + Trello

Create Todoist tasks from new Google My Business reviews

Create Todoist tasks from new Google My Business reviews
  • Google Business Profile logo
  • Todoist logo
Google Business Profile + Todoist

Create Productboard notes for new G2 Crowd reviews

Create Productboard notes for new G2 Crowd reviews
  • G2 Crowd logo
  • Productboard logo
G2 Crowd + Productboard

Save new Appbot reviews to Jira as issues

Save new Appbot reviews to Jira as issues
  • Appbot logo
  • Jira Software Server logo
Appbot + Jira Software Server

Track brand mentions across social media

A lot of your best feedback won't even happen on review sites.

With Mention, you can monitor keywords related to your brand across the Internet. Once you add these Zaps, you can automatically send these notifications to tools like Slack and Gmail.

Send Slack channel messages for new mentions in Mention

Send Slack channel messages for new mentions in Mention
  • Mention logo
  • Slack logo
Mention + Slack

Send Mentions to a Google Spreadsheet

Send Mentions to a Google Spreadsheet
  • Mention logo
  • Google Sheets logo
Mention + Google Sheets

Send Gmail messages for new Mentions

Send Gmail messages for new Mentions
  • Mention logo
  • Gmail logo
Mention + Gmail

Create an RSS feed of new Mentions

Create an RSS feed of new Mentions
  • Mention logo
  • RSS by Zapier logo
Mention + RSS by Zapier

Harness your user reviews to grow your business

Social proof makes your business stand out. People rely on honest opinions, especially when they're on the fence about making a purchase. Don't leave them without guidance.

With automation, you can encourage more user reviews and track them across different sites and tools. Your current users will have the chance to shape the growth of your business, and your future users will have all the testimonies they need.

Related reading:

  • Automatically follow up on customer reviews

  • How to automate Google Business Profile

  • Send Slack notifications for new Facebook reviews

This article was originally published in June 2020. It was most recently updated in July 2024.

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