Highlight your Product Listing Ads in Google Shopping by displaying your product reviews through a valid and adapted data feed with Google Product Ratings.
Display your products reviews in Google Shopping with Google Product Ratings
Attract more potential buyers and drive traffic to your website by making all the information necessary for their purchase available.
Easily display your product reviews in Google Shopping
Multi-website — Create product reviews files according to the website, the store, and the store view.
Rating range — Define a minimum and maximum rating range.
Anonymous users — Send the product reviews from anonymous users.
Scheduled tasks — Configure days and hours to automatically generate the review feed.
Generation reports — Check your product reviews feed generation by enabling the reports.
Generate button — Manually generate the product review feed.
Be totally compliant with Google's requirements
Easily map your product attributes to the information Google is asking for.
Automatically send the product reviews file to Google in the right format.
Automatically and regularly send your updated product reviews feed to Google
Use the scheduled tasks to periodically generate your product reviews feed.
Content
What is the Product Ratings program
The Product Ratings on Google Shopping allows the merchants to attract more potential buyers and to draw traffic to their website making available all the information needed for their purchase.
In order to help buyers to find this information more easily, Product Ratings are now directly displayed in Product Listing Ads in the following countries:
Germany
United-States
France
United-Kingdom
Japan
Australia
The program is available for each merchant who wants to share product ratings with Google. The potential buyers can see the ratings directly in the Google Shopping results. These results are interpreted in the form of 5 stars next to which is displayed the total number of reviews for the product.
The global notation is based on reviews that may come from different sources such as merchants, editorial sites, users or third-party aggregators. The ones that are approved by Google are:
Bazaarvoice
eKomi
Feefo
PowerReviews
ShopperApproved
Reevoo
Avis Vérifiés
Yotpo
Trustpilot
Trusted Shops
Program policy
Any review provided by the merchants is subject to validation by the Google team. They must respect several conditions otherwise they will be deleted from the feed.
Contain all the reviews of the merchant and be updated regularly
The merchants must share all their reviews with Google even low star ones. The reviews feed must also be updated regularly, ideally every week.
Adhere to content policies
The reviews feed shouldn't include any spam.
Google doesn't allow promotional information such as telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs to other websites...
Personal and confidential information are forbidden, for example, credit card information, identification numbers...
The language used in the reviews must be neutral and shouldn't contain any personal offense.
Any review that Google judges as not being sincere and objective will be deleted.
The reviews shouldn't contain any illegal content such as URLs to unlawful websites...
The reviews provided by the merchants shouldn't include copyrighted content.
Plagiarism is forbidden in the reviews.
Any review that contains sexually explicit material will be deleted and reported.
Google doesn't allow hate speech and violent language in the reviews.
The cross promotion is also forbidden for other products or websites.
Any off topic review will be removed by the Google team.
Impersonation is forbidden in the reviews.
Be of high quality
The reviews will be evaluated by the Google team and will have to provide useful and relevant content.
Merchants who are already sending their products to Google Shopping can now send the associated reviews. The simple act of sending the product ratings feed to Google is not a guarantee that these reviews will be approved and published to Google Shopping. Indeed, the reviews must meet the above conditions to have a chance of being validated.
You also need to pay attention to several essential points while creating your product ratings feed:
each product must have at least 3 reviews
your feed must contain at least 50 reviews to be subject to validation from the Google team
the product ratings feed must be in XML format
you must host your own data feed
the data feed shouldn't exceed 100 Mb otherwise it won't be handled by the Google team
you can send one or more feeds in a zip file
The Google Product Ratings extension will allow you to meet all the conditions that Google requires in order to be able to import your product ratings feed to your Google Merchant Center account in a simple way.
To start submitting your reviews, you can start with completing the ratings interest form from Google so that they can determine if they can collect your product reviews. According to the results, they should contact you within 10-15 days with more details.
How to use the Google Product Ratings extension?
To start configuring the Google Product Ratings extension, you can go to: STORES › SETTINGS › Configuration › Wyomind › Google Product Ratings
Configure the extension
In the configuration of the Google Product Ratings extension, you'll find several tabs that allow you to define your own settings for the feed.
General settings
Allows you to activate the log file available under the var/log directory.
The file is named GoogleProductRatings.log.
You will also find a log file for the cron tasks named GoogleProductRatings-cron.log.
Data Feed settings
In the Data Feed settings tab, you can configure several fields:
Publisher name:
Super Company Inc.
Collection method You need to choose between: Unsolicited: The review was submitted by the user without any solicitation. Post_fulfillment: The review was submitted by the user in response to a solicitation after the order was placed.
Rating range min Define the lowest possible number for the ratings. By default:
1
Rating range max Define the highest possible number for the ratings. By default:
5
Use "Anonymous" as the name of the user who posted the review If enabled, the review's username will be Anonymous, otherwise, the customer's name will be used.
Product settings
In the Product settings tab, you can choose to Use minimal configuration.
By choosing No, you'll have the possibility to map the information that Google is requiring, with the attributes available in your Magento admin.
For example, you'll be able to map the Brand attribute with the attribute of your Magento admin that stores the brand for each product, by default Manufacturer.
Data feed update
In the Data feed update tab, you have the possibility to define a scheduled time to automatically generate your product review feed from your Magento admin. To do so, simply select the days and hours when you want your data feed to be generated.
Cron job reporting
You can enable cron job reporting for the Google Product Ratings extension and send a report to one or more email addresses in order to check that the data feed has been successfully updated or if there are errors.
When enabled, you need to fill in the email settings:
Sender Email
Sender Name
Send the report to Note that emails must be separated with a comma (,).
Email subject
File storage
In the File storage tab, you'll be able to define the name and the path to your data feed as in the example below.
Generate your product review feed
Once you've configured the Google Product Ratings extension, you can generate your feed.
Default Configuration
To do so, in the File storage tab, click on Generate now!. The URL of the product review feed should be displayed followed by the date and the hour of the last generation.
To have a look at the feed, you can either click on the URL, or check on the directory you have indicated to store the data feed.
In our example, the data feed will be stored in:
/feeds/ratings
Store view Configuration
You can also configure the product review feed according to the scope of the configuration.
Depending on the scope of the configuration, the URL of the data feed will be different as well as the folder in which it will be stored.
You could for example configure the data feed for the English store view so that it retrieves only the reviews for the English store view.
Generation of the feeds via CLI
You can use the command lines to generate all your feeds:
bin/magento wyomind:googleproductratings:run
Options:
--website (-w) Website id
--storeview (-s) Storeview id
For example to generate the website feed with id 1, run:
bin/magento wyomind:googleproductratings:run -w 1
To generate the storeview feed with id 3, run:
bin/magento wyomind:googleproductratings:run -s 3
Send your product reviews to Google Shopping
Now that you have configured the Google Product Ratings extension, you must import your product review feed to Google Merchant.
Upload your product review feed to Google Shopping
Start with logging into your account, then go to the Feeds tab.
Attention, your product review feed must meet Google's specifications and policy.
There you can add a new feed by clicking on the + button.
Approval of your product review feed
Once you've imported your product review feed, it will be displayed in the list of your data feeds in the Feeds tab of your Google Merchant account.
The Google team will assess your product review feed within a few days. During that time, the state of your feed will be:
Processing: your product review feed is processing, you should check the status later.
Once the product review feed has been assessed by the Google team, the state of the feed will be approved or refused:
Processed: your product review feed has been successfully received and validated.
Failed: the validation of your product review feed has failed and the feed content won't be processed.
FAQ
Pre-sales informations
Magento Open Source vs Magento Commerce vs Magento Commerce Cloud
Magento offers three variations of its product.
As their names have changed over the past few years, here is a recap:
Magento Open Source: previously Magento Community Edition (CE), is a free and non-hosted e-commerce platform.
Magento Commerce: previously Magento Enterprise (EE), is the paid version of Magento and offers support services.
Magento Commerce Cloud: is the paid version of Magento and offers support and hosting services.
License and domains
License validity
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single installation
If you're using more than one installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each instance.
if you're running several domains on a same installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your Support & Upgrade period does. By purchasing a module, you’ll be granted a 12-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to pay for a new one (see FAQ: Extend your Support period)
Domains pre-registration
You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the module ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
Go to: mY account › Licenses & DOwnloads
Click on the Settings icon next to the module you want your domain to pre-register on.
Click on the link at the bottom of the page saying: Do you want to pre-register your domain in order to be ready to go live?
Finally, enter your domain name and click on pre-register now .
Testing environments
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one installation only. However, it is possible to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
If you would like to add your testing environments to your license. In that case, it is possible to extend your license to an unlimited number of domains for free. For mywebsite-staging.com or mywebsite-dev.com
If you want to transfer your license to another live domain. In that case, the Support & Upgrade period for your license must still be active.
To be able to use Google Product Ratings on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Install Google Product Ratings on your environment. (see FAQ: Modules installation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Activate the license. (see FAQ: Licenses activation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Also, if you are managing a large amount of domains, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Modules versioning and download
Extensions download
In order to download Google Product Ratings, log into your Wyomind account:
Go to: my account › Licenses & downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Google Product Ratings.
A new window opens.
Click on the download icon.
Only the latest extension version released within your Support & Upgrade period is available. In order to get the very latest extension version make sure your Support & Upgrade plan is up to date.
Modules upgrade
When purchasing a module from wyomind.com, you benefit from 12 months of upgrade. Within this period you can at any time download the latest version of the module directly from your account.
To upgrade Google Product Ratings, follow the steps below:
Go to: my account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Google Product Ratings.
Click on the download icon.
Install the new version of Google Product Ratings in your Magento admin or your WooCommerce back-office.
Modules Installation/Uninstallation
Extensions manual installation
You can install Google Product Ratings manually.
Download Google Product Ratings (zip file) on: mY ACCOUNT › Licenses & Downloads Refer to the FAQ: Extensions download
Once Google Product Ratings is downloaded, open the folder and unzip it.
Copy the content of the unzipped folder and paste all files and directories in your Magento 2 root directory.
In your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento setup:upgrade
If you are using a production mode, execute also:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
bin/magento setup:di:compile
Extensions installation via Composer
You can install Google Product Ratings using Composer software in two cases:
if you purchased Google Product Ratings on Magento Marketplace.
if you purchased Google Product Ratings on Wyomind.com AND requested access to our repository: repo.wyomind.com
Add to your composer configuration our repository:
Extensions activation from the back-office of Magento
Once Google Product Ratings is installed, you have to activate the license. For previous versions, you can activate the license from your back-office:
Go to your Magento admin panel. A message pops up at the top of the page.
If the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
1. The Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are well enabled. 2. The HTML output of the Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are not disabled in: storesconfigurationadvanced advanced 3. The encryption key well exists in app/etc/env.php:
Copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
You can find your activation key in 2 different places: - In the confirmation email that you received after purchasing Google Product Ratings. - In your Wyomind account: My account › Licenses & downloads Select Google Product Ratings and click on .
A new page opens where you'll find your activation key (see below).
In your Magento admin go to: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
Paste the activation key in the Activation Key field and choose between the automatic (yes) or the manual (no) activation method: - By choosing Yes, the connection to Wyomind license server will be automatic. - By choosing No, you will have to log on to Wyomind license server yourself.
Click on Save config .
A message appears at the top of your admin panel. Click on that link: Activate it now!
Copy and paste the license code in theLicense code field from your admin or simply click on Activate now!
Finally, refresh your cache, log out and log in back straight after, to complete the installation.
Add another domain to your license
To activate the license on another domain (test, staging...):
Once the extension is installed on the new domain, copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
After having saved the configuration, a notification appears. Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour. Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email. If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Google Product Ratings on both environments at the same time.
Note that the order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter. You can start with your staging/dev/local environment or with your live domain, the process will be the same.
Also, if you have loads of staging domains, or if you are an agency managing load of domains for your customers, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Extensions activation from the CLI
Once Google Product Ratings is installed, you have to activate the license.
For this, you can use the below command line (change the Activation key with the corresponding value):
Been using magento for the last 8 years. During the years i been using loads of different extensions with wide variety of quality. Google product rating feed is the second extension im using from wyomind and im impressed! It is rare to find a something that "just works" no problems what so ever. Very happy and i can very much recommed
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Brandon
United States · User for 10 years
★★★★★
Easy to install and maintain
Installation of the extension was relatively straight forward and worked without any issues with other customizations. Support is responsive and have been helpful in resolving issues. I would recommend this extension to others looking for a product ratings extension!
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Julian
Merchant · United Kingdom · User for 10 years
★★★★★
Good Extension
Have used the extension for many years and have generally been pleased with the results. I needed to map the attributes in the Product Settings configuration to my Custom Attributes which worked fine until the latest version. If you don't map the attributes you get the warning from Google "Strong IDs not present". Unfortuntately the latest version of the extension doesn't appear to allow mapping of the GTIN attribute to my Custom Attributes, so cannot get rid of the Google warning.
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John
Netherlands · User for 8 years
★★★★★
Thx
Works fine for me. Just what i need!
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turuncu
Türkiye · User for 8 years
★★★★★
Great Support!
They solved my problem in 20 minutes. Extension working awesome!
JG
Julian Gooddy
United Kingdom · User for 10 years
★★★★★
Very Happy with the Product Review Extension.
I considered using one of the Google Approved Agents (e.g. Trustpilot) for handling my Product Reviews on my Magento site, but the prices quoted for such a simple task were high. Managed to find the Wyomind add-on which has proved to work well for me without having to pay monthly fees to agents. Happy with my purchase.
Magento 2 Compatibility
Supported by our master extension versions
2.4.8
2.4.7
2.4.6
2.4.5
2.4.4
2.4.3
2.4.2
2.4.1
2.4
2.3.7
2.3.6
2.3.5
2.3.4
2.3.3
2.3.2
2.3.1
2.3
Supported by our legacy extension versions
2.2.11
2.2.10
2.2.9
2.2.8
2.2.7
2.2.6
2.2.5
2.2.4
2.2.3
2.2.2
2.2.1
2.2
2.1.18
2.1.17
2.1.16
2.1.15
2.1.14
2.1.13
2.1.12
2.1.11
2.1.10
2.1.9
2.1.8
2.1.7
2.1.6
2.1.5
2.1.4
2.1.3
2.1.2
2.1.1
2.1
2.0.18
2.0.17
2.0.16
2.0.15
2.0.14
2.0.13
2.0.12
2.0.11
2.0.10
2.0.9
2.0.8
2.0.7
2.0.6
2.0.5
2.0.4
2.0.3
2.0.2
2.0.1
2.0
Use cases
How merchants put Google Product Ratings to work, step by step.
Fixed a fatal error when loading the module with PHP 8: the execute() method of the Run console command is now compatible with Symfony Command::execute(): int
3.0.5
Bug fix
Exporting reviews wasn't possible if product's entity_type_id wasn't 1
3.0.4
Compatibility
PHP 7- compatibility
3.0.3
Improvement
Compatibility with alternative file systems, like Amazon S3 buckets
3.0.1
Improvement
Display reviewers' names on a single line
3.0.0
Initial release for the master version
2.0.0 legacy
Initial release for the legacy version
1.6.0
Improvement
Apply database upgrade and database install from patches instead of the setup scripts
Remove drop table instruction in setup patches
1.5.2
Fix for manually generating the data feeds in specific storeviews
1.5.1
Fix for retrieving the child products IDs
1.5.0
Child products are added to the list of product identifiers if the product concerned by the review is a configurable product
1.4.3
Fix for product URLs when there's only one store
1.4.2
Fix for spaces in the products' URLs
1.4.1
Disabled products are not sent anymore
1.4.0
Improvement
Improved license management system (Clear code)
1.3.4
Minor fix on code
1.3.2
New option to filter out unavailable products
1.3.1
Minor fix in code
1.3.0
Compatibility fix for Magento 2.3.3
1.2.0
New feature
Possibility to send the reviews from Anonymous reviewer
Bug fix
Fix on the directories tree view when XML files are generated
Patch v1.2.0.1
Sample date available for the demo
1.1.0
Improvement
Possibility to define the min/max of review ratings
1.0.0
First public release
Patch v1.0.0.9
Fix for the average ratings calculation
Patch v1.0.0.8
Scope added in product_url and review_url
Patch v1.0.0.7
Fix when installing simultaneously with Magento
Patch v1.0.0.6
Minor fix on a variable
Patch v1.0.0.5
Fix for the rating
Wording fix
Patch v1.0.0.4
Do not include the the reviews if the product doesn't exist anymore
Patch v1.0.0.3
Fix for the license registration
Patch v1.0.0.2
Fix for the ACL
Patch v1.0.0.1
Fix for the error messages
Feature request
Specific needs or any ideas of enhancements and new features to add to the extension? Tell us more, we'll get back to you shortly!