Product review collection & moderation portal

A product review portal is where customers submit a rating and review for what they bought, a moderator approves or rejects each one, and approved reviews appear on a public page anyone can read.

Pattern: Requests

Describe it to Pory

“Customers who bought our teas should be able to leave a rating and a review. We moderate each one before it goes live, and approved reviews show on a public page.”

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My reviews

My reviews

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In plain English

How Pory sets it up

Pory gives every customer and moderator a sign-in of their own. Each customer sees only their own reviews. It covers submit → moderate → publish. Reviews, teas to review, teas, tea calendar and kiln & Leaf team live in Pory's own database, so there's no spreadsheet to keep in sync.

What it does

01

Customers leave a rating, a review and a photo of their brew

Reviews used to arrive as replies to the order confirmation email, which meant nobody else ever read them. In Pory a signed-in customer picks the tea, gives it a rating out of five, writes a title and a review, and adds a photo if they like. It lands as Pending for moderation instead of sitting in someone's inbox.

Forms to submit a recordDone by: Customer
02

A moderator approves or rejects each review before anyone sees it

Without moderation, one spam review with a discount code for another shop could sit on the product page for a week. In Pory the moderator sees new reviews as cards, opens each one, and approves it or rejects it with a note on the review. Honest two-star reviews go through; the discount-code spam doesn't.

Approve / reject with a reasonDone by: Moderator
03

Approved reviews appear on a public page shoppers read signed out

Good reviews got screenshotted into social posts and then lost. In Pory every review the moderator approves shows on a public page anyone can open without an account, with its rating and photos; pending and rejected ones never appear. Shoppers get opinions from real tea drinkers, and the team stops curating screenshots.

Public pages & formsDone by: Moderator

Who sees what in a product reviews portal

Every person signs in to their own view. This is what each role in the demo gets.

Customer

Sees only their own reviews.

Pages
Home, My reviews, Teas to review, Our teas, Review guidelines
Can start
New review

Moderator

Sees every review in the portal.

Pages
Home, Reviews, Review invites, Tea catalog, Review guidelines
Decides
Marks reviews Approved or Rejected, with a reason

What’s in the product reviews portal template

The tables and fields Pory sets up for this portal. Describe your own version and change any of them in the editor.

Reviews

  • Review title (text)
  • Tea (link)
  • Rating (choice: 5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars, 2 stars, 1 star)
  • Your review (long text)
  • Photo (file)
  • Reviewer (link)
  • Submitted (date)
  • What happened (text)
  • Status (choice: Pending, Approved, Rejected)
  • Moderator note (long text)

Teas to review

  • What you bought (text)
  • Order (text)
  • Delivered on (date)
  • Customer (link)
  • Status (choice: Waiting, Reviewed)

Teas

  • Tea (text)
  • Origin (text)
  • Type (choice: Black, Green, Oolong, Scented)
  • Photo (file)
  • Price per 4 oz ($) (number)
  • Stock (choice: In stock, Low stock, Sold out)
  • How to brew (long text)

Tea calendar

  • What's on (text)
  • Date (date)
  • Kind (choice: Tasting, New harvest, Restock, Shop news)

Kiln & Leaf team

  • Name (text)
  • Role (text)

The parts behind this portal

Each one reads and writes the same records, so a form, its approval and the status page someone checks are one system. How Pory builds a portal

Collect

2 parts
  • Forms

    Signed-in or public, with typed fields and file uploads. A form files a record; it doesn't start an email thread.

  • Public pages

    An application page, a notice board, an open directory: pages and forms anyone can use without signing in, on your domain.

Decide

1 part
  • Approve / reject with a reason

    Decision buttons for whoever may edit the status. Who decided, when, and why stays on the record.

Control

3 parts
  • Who sees which records

    Each person sees their own records, the ones assigned to them, or the ones they manage. Fields can be hidden per role. Pory sets this up from your description, and you can adjust it in the editor.

  • Passwordless sign-in

    A sign-in link by email, by default. Password sign-in if you'd rather.

  • Your brand

    Your domain, your colors, your logo. Members see you.

Frequently asked questions

A customer signs in with a link sent to their email and lands on Home. They see Home, My reviews, Teas to review, Our teas and Review guidelines, and only the reviews that are theirs. From there they can use “New review”.

Moderator decide: they mark each one Approved or Rejected and give a reason. Everyone else sees the decision and the reason on the record, without the buttons to change it.

The public pages: Reviews and Our teas. Anything about a particular person stays behind their sign-in.

Build your product reviews portal with Pory

Describe who signs in and what each person needs, and Pory builds it. Join the waitlist while signups open; paid plans are a flat price with unlimited customers.

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