By default, anyone can post a review on your product page. While this can boost the number of reviews you get, it also opens the door to potential spammers or competitor-driven attacks.
To prevent this, you can limit who can leave a review and allow only actual buyers to review your products.
Web reviews restriction
From your Judge.me admin, go to Collect reviews > Moderation > Review restriction > Web reviews
Select Only buyers who have received a review request email and API users.
This will hide the Write a review button for web visitors. Reviews can still be submitted through our review request emails or via API requests.
For other platforms
For other platforms
From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Review Widget > Review Moderation > Web Reviews.
Enable Restrict review creation enabled.
Heavy restriction
For added protection against spammy automated reviews created through API requests, you can select the Only buyers who have received a review request email option.
For other platforms
For other platforms
From your Judge.me admin, go to Settings > Review Widget > Review Moderation > Web Reviews > activate the Heavy Restriction feature.
If you need help restricting web reviews, contact our team at [email protected]. We're available to help 24/7!