Reviews is turned on per organization. If you don’t see Reviews in the
Boom app, ask your account manager.
How it works
- Boom learns your orders. From your connected Shopify store, or from the products and orders your store sends through Boom’s API (below).
- Boom plans the asks. Every hour, it picks the orders due for an ask (when they were placed, shipped or delivered, plus the days you choose), merges orders shipped close together, and keeps the ask to your most valuable products. Turn on Shadow first to see who would be asked without sending anything.
- The agent collects the reviews. Set up asks creates a “Product reviews” initiative with a ready journey: the ask, a reminder, and the conversation. Pick your WhatsApp templates, launch it, and switch asks to Live.
- Your rules decide what’s public. Publish automatically unless the AI check flags something, only from a minimum rating, or always by hand. Photos can wait for a person even when the text is published.
Show reviews on Shopify
In Reviews → Install, choose Connect. Then, in your theme editor, turn on the Boom Reviews app embed and add the Boom product reviews and Boom star rating blocks to your product template. One more block goes on product pages:
These blocks show reviews from across your store:
Each has a heading you can change or hide. Left empty, the heading appears in
your store’s language. In the theme editor you also choose which products a
block covers (all, a collection’s first 50 products, or products you pick) and,
for the carousel and testimonials, how many reviews it shows (up to 24; featured
reviews stop at 12); the banner takes
the page its one-line style links to. How a block looks and which reviews it
picks are set in Boom (see below). If you connect more than one Shopify store
to Boom, each store’s blocks show only that store’s products. While you edit
your theme, an empty block says why it’s empty; your shoppers see nothing until
there is something to show.
Moving widgets (the carousel and testimonials, when set to move on their own)
stop while a shopper hovers or is inside them, have a pause button, and stay
still for shoppers who ask their device for reduced motion.
Choose the look
Reviews → Widgets shows each widget on sample reviews, at desktop or phone width and on a light or dark theme, while you change it. Your changes reach your store when you choose Publish to store, within a few minutes. Start with the store look, which every widget follows:- Style: start from a preset (Editorial, Minimal, Soft or Bold), then pick the star color (or your theme’s text color), corners, how reviews are framed (lines, outlines or filled cards) and whether headings use your theme’s heading font.
- Content: turn the AI summary, the row of customer photos, photos in reviews, the verified-buyer mark, reviewer initials, review dates and your replies on or off.
- Settings: the default sort, and whether products without reviews show the section at all.
- Product reviews and All reviews: the layout (summary beside the list, cards, or one column).
- Star rating: three badge styles.
- Carousel: which reviews, the card (photo on top, quote only, or a wall), cards per view on desktop, whether it moves on its own, and the product.
- Review wall: which reviews, and the photo filter.
- Testimonials: which reviews, whether it moves on its own, and the product.
- Rating banner: a band with quotes, or one line.
- Review highlights: the AI summary and the best quote.
Show reviews on any website
In Reviews → Install → Install on any website, copy the code into your product pages:data-product-ref is the
product’s id: the same id you send Boom as the product’s externalId. The
script loads once however many elements a page has, so a list of products can
show stars for each.
The same script shows reviews from across your store anywhere on your site.
These elements need no product id:
<div data-boom-reviews="highlights" data-product-ref="YOUR_PRODUCT_ID"></div>
adds the highlights card.
Add data-heading="Your title" to change a heading, or data-heading="" to
hide it. On the carousel, wall, testimonials, gallery and banner, add
data-refs="ID1,ID2" (up to 50 product ids) to show reviews of those products
only. On the carousel and testimonials, add data-max="8" to show at most that
many (up to 24; featured reviews stop at 12). The all-reviews element always
covers your whole store.
data-link takes a web address (https://…) or a path on your site.
Elements show nothing until there is something to show. On a website, these
elements show reviews from every store you connect to Boom.
The script looks for these elements once, when the page loads. Elements your
site adds later, such as a single-page app rendering a new page without a full
reload, aren’t picked up.
Send products and orders through the API
A store that isn’t on Shopify sends its catalog, buyers and orders to Boom’s CDP with an API key. First, in Reviews → Store data, choose Set up the commerce API: it creates the two types below and the link from a person to their orders.
Each line item is
{ "id", "productId", "title", "variantTitle", "unitPrice" },
where id and productId are required and productId is a
commerce_product externalId. Boom asks about each line once, ever.
- Dates are ISO 8601 date-times with a timezone, like
2026-10-01T15:00:00Zor2026-10-01T10:00:00-05:00. A date alone (2026-10-01) isn’t read, and an order without a readableplacedAtis never asked about. - Shipped time is
fulfilledAt. If you only know when the order arrived,deliveredAtalone counts as shipped too. - Ids (
externalId, lineid,productId) are strings. Keep them the same every time you send the order: a changed id reads as a new line, and Boom may ask about it again. - A line without a
titleuses the product’stitlein the ask.
1
Send your products
2
Send the buyer
Boom asks on WhatsApp, so the person needs a phone number.
3
Send the order
externalId makes the call an update. An update replaces the order’s
attributes, so send the whole order each time, or add "mode": "merge" to
send only what changed:4
Link the buyer to the order
Find the
placed link once with GET $BASE/relationship-types: the
entry with role: "placed" and customObjectType: "commerce_order"
carries the relationshipTypeId to use. Then:PARTIAL) waits until it’s fully shipped; if it is still partial 30 days
after it first shipped, Boom doesn’t ask about it. Asks timed from the order
date don’t wait for shipping. A cancelled or refunded order is never asked
about, and an ask whose orders were cancelled after it was planned is dropped
before it’s sent. A record Boom can’t read (no readable placedAt,
lineItems not a list) is skipped, every hour until it’s fixed, and the rest
are planned.
The AI summary on product pages
Turn on AI summary in Reviews → Widgets → Content to add what customers say to each product with 5 or more published reviews: a short summary and the topics shoppers mention, labelled as an AI summary of the reviews it read (the newest 60 at most). Boom writes it from the reviews’ ratings and words, never their authors’ names, writes it again after 5 more reviews or when reviews are removed, and takes it down when fewer than 5 published reviews remain. In Reviews, open a product to read its summary, keep it off your product pages, or have it written again.Reach shoppers by what they rated
Boom keeps two numbers on each reviewed product in your CDP:boom_reviews_rating (the published average, one decimal, empty until the
product has a published review) and boom_reviews_count. They update when a
review changes, and your Shopify product syncs leave them in place. In
Segments, they work like any product attribute: for a Shopify store,
“people who bought a product rated below 3” is a person who placed an
order whose line item references a product with
boom_reviews_rating less than 3.
For reviews Boom collects over WhatsApp, the person also gets a
review_submitted event when they leave the review, with its rating, so
“reviewed a product with 2 stars or less” works for any store. Imported and
manually added reviews don’t create that event.
Thank photo reviews with a gift card
In Reviews → Follow-up, turn on Thank photo reviews with a gift card and choose the amount. It needs a connected Tremendous account (Settings → Rewards). Then choose Add to the journey: Boom adds the reward step to a draft of your reviews journey. Publish the draft to start offering it; until then, buyers aren’t offered anything. Sending gift cards in WhatsApp also needs your approved reward-delivery template, and the journey won’t publish without it. Once the journey with the reward is published:- Boom’s agent tells buyers that the store sends one gift card per order when they add a photo or video to a review, whatever their rating. It never offers anything else.
- Each gift card waits for your approval in Drafts before it’s sent. Approve every photo review’s gift card whatever its rating: approving only happy buyers would make the reward depend on what they said, which consumer-protection rules forbid.
- Reviews written with the reward show as Incentivized review on your store and in Boom.
- To stop offering it, publish your journey without the reward step.
When a buyer is unhappy
Boom hands a review conversation to your team when the buyer’s lowest rating is at or below your threshold (2 stars by default; choose 1, 2 or 3 stars in Reviews → Follow-up). Your team finds it in the inbox with a note of what was rated low, in the buyer’s words, and the instructions you wrote in What your team should do. Boom’s agent never offers anything itself. With Notify the team in Boom on, everyone in your organization sees a notification that opens the conversation.Bring reviews from another app
Reviews → Import takes a CSV export from Judge.me or Revie, or any CSV with a column mapping. A dry run shows how many rows are ready, which products weren’t found and which rows are duplicates before anything is saved. Imported reviews keep their date, rating and photos and publish straight away.Related
CDP overview
People, custom objects and relationships: what the commerce API writes to.
Relationship types
How links like
placed are defined and found by id.Journeys
The journey Set up asks creates, and how to adjust it.
Authentication
Create the API key the calls above use.