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Rapid Reviews — new features and updates August 2024

Rapid Reviews — new features and updates August 2024

Remember that Rapid Reviews is the still the fastest full featured product reviews app for Shopify — no other app can compete with our page speed profile. Tell your friends!

Screenshots and details for each update listed below (1–5) can be found below the list:

  1. I’ve added a great new app block widget Global: reviews media. This will allow you to feature media from all global product reviews in a compact scrolling widget.
  2. The Product: reviews media widget has been updated to add a horizontal scroller layout, along with bug fixes.
  3. Shopify Flow app triggers have been added for new reviews and questions.
  4. More admin sorting options have been added to global and product review widgets.
  5. There is a new admin option to include unpublished reviews in your global count. This can be desirable if your catalog is fast-moving with many unpublished items.
  6. Small bug fixes to global and product sorting, amp email language translations, free trial expiration, and groups creation.
  7. AI assisted reviews have been adjusted to reduce capitalization, exclamations, and adverbs. This should help to generate much more realistic reviews without such animated and dramatic language.
  8. NOTE: Our AMP email review requests have been performing great for our customers! Read more about those here.

Details on each update listed above (1–5) can be found below:

1) Global: reviews media - new app block widget

I’ve added a great new app block widget Global: reviews media. This will allow you to feature media from all global product reviews in a compact scrolling widget.

This widget is available in horizontal scroller format, and tiled format, both with pagination—and fully responsive for mobile devices.

As always to be expected with Rapid Reviews, this widget loads all html, css, and javascript to your page in a single request of only 10K! Amazing! All images in the widget are lazy loaded as well.

This means you can confidently include this widget ANYWHERE and know that it will have the smallest page speed impact.

You can preview this on the Rapid Reviews demo store.

Rapid Reviews new global media app block widget for Shopify

2) Product: reviews media - updated app block widget

The Product: reviews media widget has been updated to add a horizontal scroller layout, along with bug fixes.

This widget is available in horizontal scroller format, and tiled format, both with pagination — and fully responsive for mobile devices.

You can preview this on the Rapid Reviews demo store.

Rapid Reviews updated product media app block widget for Shopify

3) Shopify Flow app triggers

Shopify Flow app triggers have been added for new reviews and questions.

This will allow you to set up new automations for customers that might be outside the scope of what Rapid Reviews offers.

Rapid Reviews Shopify Flow app triggers for reviews and questions

4) More admin sorting options

More admin sorting options have been added to global and product review widgets.

Rapid Reviews more sorting options

5) Include unpublished reviews in your global count

There is a new admin option to include unpublished reviews in your global count. This can be desirable if your catalog is fast-moving with many unpublished items.

Rapid Reviews include unpublished reviews in global review count

Install Rapid Reviews now and tell your friends!

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