✨ New version: Automation method for collecting reviews by importing a CSV file

You can import your orders via a CSV file directly from your Verified Reviews account.

By importing your orders, we’ll then be able to ask your customers about their experience with your services.

If you have more than 3,000 rows of orders, you’ll need to split the file and upload it in several batches.

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First collection 

Requirements 

  • We recommend retrieving orders from the last three months to get relevant reviews. 
  • Prepare your file using the correct format: CSV. 

Downloadable templates 

The review collection will be done based on the data in your file. Download the template that best fits your needs below:

Make sure to follow the expected formats and headers for each field by checking the examples; otherwise, rows with errors won’t trigger a review request. For example, date formats like dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd

  • Brand review requests are about the shopping/order experience.
  • Product review requests are about the product(s) purchased online or in-store.

Required fields for all types of review requests are the following:

FIELD NAME DESCRIPTION
channel Default: "online"
Enum: "online" "offline"
How the purchase was made ("online" if made on a website, "offline" if made in a store)
shop_id The shop where the purchase was made.
Required if channel=offline
purchase_date

The date of the purchase and the purchase time.
formats:

YYYY-MM-DD, eg: “2022-10-15”
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss ou hh:mm, eg: "2022-10-15 05:19:46"
DD/MM/YYYY, eg: "15/10/2022”
DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss ou hh:mm, eg: "15/10/2022 05:19”

purchase_reference The reference of the purchase.
ex: "#1855"
first_name Consumer's first name
Ex: John
last_name Consumer's last name
Ex: Doe
email Consumer’s contact email
Ex: john@doe.com
language

Enum: "fr" "en" "es" "de" "it" "pt" "br",”be”
ISO 639-1, 2 letters language code.

If the language isn’t available in our system, or if the language is missing from your file, English will be used by default.
(e.g. “en”).

Required fields for product review requests are the following:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
product_ref The reference of the product
Required if product review request
name Name of the product
Required if product review request

The product information above is essential for submitting a review on Google Shopping.

Non required fields for all types of review requests are the following:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
purchase_event_type

Enum: "BRAND_AND_PRODUCT" "PURCHASE_ONLY" "PRODUCT_ONLY"
The type of review requests that will be sent:
 

  • BRAND_AND_PRODUCT: brand and product review requests sent at the same time.
  • PURCHASE_ONLY: brand review request only or brand review request sent before product review request.
  • PRODUCT_ONLY: product review request only or product review request sent after brand review request.
purchase_price The amount of the purchase.
Default: 0
Ex:300
phone

Consumer’s phone number
ex: 3361111111

Warning: this field must always contain numeric characters, without decimals.

hide_personal_data

Default: false
true if the personal data should be hidden during display of this purchase event.

Warning: the value must be entered exactly as true or false, in lowercase.

Non required field for the brand review request only is the following:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
delay

Default: 0
Number of days after the order is integrated into the system before sending the brand review request to the consumer
(If you want to choose a different delay than the one set in the review collection configuration page: sending the brand review request for this purchase event)

Please note:

  • If the delay column is present but left empty, a default value of 0 will be applied. This will override the delay set in your Verified Reviews account
  • If the delay column is not present at all, then the value configured in your Verified Reviews account will be used.

For catch-up files (past orders), the delay starts from the integration date, even if the order has already been placed.

Non required fields for the product review requests only are the following:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
product_delay

Default: 0
 

  • No brand review collection: number of days after the order is integrated into the system before sending the product review request to the consumer.
  • Brand review collection enabled: indicates the sending delay after the brand review request.
     

(if you want to use a delay different from the one used in the collect review configuration page to send a product review request regarding this product)

Category The category of the product
Brand The brand of the product
product_price Default: 0
The price of the product
Ex:150
product_url A link to the product page
image_url A link to the product image.
This will be used to display your product on Skeepers.
ean The EAN of the product (< =13 characters)
sku The SKU of the product
upc The UPC of the product
isbn The ISBN of the product
jan The JAN of the product
mpn The MPN of the product

 

If you want to start collecting reviews right now, you can send a review request to your customers from the last three months by setting delay = 0 for brand reviews and delay_product = 0 for your product reviews.

One-time import

You use another automation method (SFTP, API, Connector...) but want to do a one-time import of your orders.

Prerequisites

  • We recommend retrieving orders from the last three months to get relevant reviews.
  • Prepare your file in the correct format, CSV.
  • Verify that all required data is present.

Procedure (first collection and one-time import)

  1. From the left sidebar menu of your Verified Reviews dashboard, click on Collect Reviews, then Configuration.
  2. Click on the CSV File tab.
  3. Upload the completed CSV file in the designated area.
  4. The total number of lines to import will then be displayed, as well as any lines with errors (incorrect format) or duplicates.
  5. Click on Import Data and confirm the import.

Remember the CSV format must use these settings: UTF8 encodingsemicolon separator and Max size: 5MB

As a trusted third party, whose review management is certified compliant with NF ISO 20488, we are required to survey all of your customers. Moreover, European regulations prohibit manipulating consumers, meaning no selection should be made in the collection process.

Import failure of requests

The import may fail if there is an issue with the file. Reasons will be indicated:

The file exceeds 5MB: we recommend splitting your imports into smaller files.

The file format is incorrect: change your file format – make sure it is indeed the CSV format to download at the beginning of this article, and that the columns match our recommendations.

If you import a file containing purchase/service proofs that already exist in our database, the system will block the import of these purchase proofs.

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