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Customizing Your Review Emails

4 min read·Updated Jul 15, 2026

Customizing Your Review Emails

Every email your store sends about reviews — asking for one, following up, thanking a customer, or notifying them of a reply — can be customized to match your brand. This guide covers every email type, what you can change, and how the automatic sending works.

The email types

Email

Purpose

Customizable?

Review request

Sent to a customer after their order, asking them to leave a review

✅ Fully — layout, colors, logo, copy, blocks

Past-order review request

A one-time batch email to customers who ordered before you installed the app

✅ Subject, heading, body, button text

Reply notification

Lets a customer know you replied to their review

✅ Heading, body, button text

Review submitted confirmation

Sent after a review is created, letting the customer confirm/dispute authorship

✅ Heading, body, button text

Review reward email

Sends a discount code after a customer leaves a review

Sent automatically; not template-customizable

Review edit notification

Tells a customer their review was edited or reverted

Fixed system template, not customizable

You'll find all of these under Settings → Email Templates, where each opens its own editor.

What you can customize

Depending on the email, you can adjust:

  • Logo and brand/accent color

  • Layout — for review request emails, choose from four ready-made designs (Minimal, Branded, Product-Focused, Compact), or build a fully custom layout from blocks (header, text, image, product, button, divider, footer) on paid plans

  • Subject line (past-order email only — other emails use a fixed or auto-generated subject)

  • Heading, body copy, and button text

  • Footer text

Every editor includes a live preview (with a desktop/mobile toggle) so you can see exactly how the email will look, filled in with sample data, before you save. There's currently no "send me a test email" button — the preview is the way to check your design before it goes live.

Changes are saved as a draft first; nothing goes out to customers until you click Publish/Save. A Reset to default option is available if you want to start over.

Personalizing with variables

You can drop placeholder tags into your subject line and body text, and they'll be automatically replaced with the real customer/order details when the email sends:

Variable

Replaced with

{{ buyer_name }}

Customer's full name

{{ buyer_first_name }}

Customer's first name

{{ buyer_last_name }}

Customer's last name

{{ order_name }}

Order number

{{ order_quantity }}

Number of items in the order

{{ n_days_ago }}

Number of days since the order

{{ product_title }}

Product name

{{ product_url }}

Link to the product page

{{ shop_name }}

Your store's name

{{ shop_url }}

Your store's URL

Use the variable picker in the editor to insert these without typing them by hand — it's easy to add extra spaces or a typo if you write them manually, and the app is tolerant of small formatting differences but not of misspelled variable names.

Who the emails come from

The sender name and address are generated automatically from your store's name — you don't set this manually. If your account is configured to send from a dedicated per-store subdomain, that address is fixed and can't be changed from the editor.

When emails actually get sent

Review request emails are sent automatically based on rules you set for each channel:

  • Trigger point — either when the order is created or when it's fulfilled.

  • Delay — how many days to wait after that trigger before sending the first request.

  • Follow-up (reminder) — an optional second email sent a set number of days after the first, if the customer hasn't left a review yet.

Automated sending on a schedule is available on the Premium plan. You can also send review requests manually at any time from Settings → Request Review, or send a one-time batch to customers who ordered before you installed the app from Settings → Schedule Previous Orders.

Reply notifications and review submitted confirmations are sent automatically when the corresponding event happens (you reply to a review, or a review is created) — you can turn each of these on or off independently in their settings.

Review reward emails send automatically right after a customer's review is approved, if you have a review-reward discount configured.

Sending limits by plan

Plan

Manual review request emails

Automated scheduled emails

Past-order batch emails

Free

1/month

Not available

Limited allowance

Pro

10/month

Not available

Higher allowance

Growth

Unlimited

Not available

Higher allowance

Premium

Unlimited

✅ Available

Highest allowance

If you go over your past-order batch allowance, additional emails can be purchased as credits.

The custom block-based email builder (fully custom layouts) is available on paid plans; the four ready-made layouts are available more broadly, but customizing template copy/branding requires a paid plan.

Good to know

  • Draft changes don't affect live emails until published — safe to experiment.

  • Automated scheduling (delay days, follow-ups) is a Premium feature; on other plans, sending is manual.

  • There's no built-in test-send — rely on the live preview panel to check your design and variable placement before publishing.

Related

  • Verified Reviews — how reviews collected through these emails get (or don't get) the Verified badge.

  • Importing and Exporting Reviews

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  • Customizing Your Review Emails
  • The email types
  • What you can customize
  • Personalizing with variables
  • Who the emails come from
  • When emails actually get sent
  • Sending limits by plan
  • Good to know
  • Related

On this site

Email Template Customization
  • Templates Customization
    • Customizing Your Review Emails
Review Import Export
  • Export import
    • Importing and Exporting Product Reviews
Understanding Verified Reviews
  • How Reviews get verified
    • Understanding Verified Reviews

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