Reviews that earned
their place — and prove it.
The only e-commerce review platform where every star is order-verified, AI-fraud-audited, and publicly provable. Bundled with native email, SMS, and loyalty — at flat prices that don't punish you for growing.
Stars used to mean something. Somewhere between the affiliate marketers, the fake-review services, and the “pay-to-protect” quotas, they stopped. We built EarnedStar to put them back where they belong: earned, audited, and yours.
Four promises. Publicly.
No platform in this category has ever committed to truth publicly. We are. Every promise below becomes a feature you can audit, share, and hold us to — in the open.
Verified
Every review tied to a real, fulfilled order. Never an open form. Never an exception.
Auditable
Every star ships with a public Trust Receipt. Order hash, identity tier, fraud signals — all readable by anyone.
Portable
Your reviews are your data. One-click export to JSON-LD or CSV. They survive your cancellation. Forever.
Fair
Flat pricing. Multi-domain included. No pay-to-protect schemes. Negative reviews never bought, never buried.
A trust badge worth earning.
Padded navy leather. Gold piping. A medallion that holds your logo — because every star on the platform points back to a real merchant who earned it.
The EarnedStar mark.
For merchants who earn it.
Verified Human.
Live review
See why stores trust EarnedStar
“Every review tied to a real order. Shoppers finally trust our ratings because they know each one was earned — not posted by anyone with a browser.”
Sarah M.
Verified purchase · December 2024
4,832 reviews
4.9 avg
Verified on EarnedStar
Reviews open here first
This profile (meridian-gear) collects reviews the same way every EarnedStar merchant does — verified purchase, AI fraud screening, published automatically. Once reviews are published, they show up on this rail with no fabricated placeholders in between.
Why EarnedStar
Everything generic review tools get wrong
Open platforms let anyone post anything. EarnedStar only publishes what was earned.
AI Fraud Detection
Every submission runs behavioral scoring, device fingerprinting, and NLP analysis in under 200ms. Fake reviews never reach your product page.
2,847 verified reviews
EarnedStar Verified
2,847 order-verified reviews
The Origami EarnedStar Badge
Four embed variants — Pill, Card, Stamp, and Dark — with your logo in the center medallion. Merchants display them with pride.
Verified by Purchase
Every review ties to a confirmed order invitation. No guest reviews. No open submissions. No adding stars without verification.
Google Seller Ratings
JSON-LD schema auto-injects. Stars appear in Search and Shopping within 72 hours.
Multi-Channel Invitations
Email, SMS, or QR code. Smart timing sends 7 days post-delivery.
White-Label for Agencies
Custom domain, your logo in the star center, 25 sub-accounts — one Agency plan.
Full Analytics
Rating distribution, sentiment trends, invitation response rates, and conversion correlation.
How reviews earn their star
No random reviews. No fake scores. Just buyers who actually ordered.
Every review passes order verification, fraud screening, and your approval before it publishes — or it never touches your rating.
Connect orders
Link your store or import past reviews matched to orders — one-time migration, then invitations only.
Invite real buyers
Fulfilled orders trigger branded invitations. No open form, no guest reviews, no bought ratings.
Every review earns its star
Purchase check → fraud score → your approval → publish. Only then does it count toward your badge.
Look at the whole table.
Not the brochure.
Sourced from competitor docs, G2, and merchant complaint threads on Reddit (2026). Updated continuously. We'll correct any line within 24 hours if you flag it — that's a public promise, not a button.
| Feature | EarnedStar | Trustpilot | Yotpo | Judge.me |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified-by-purchase only | Yes | No | partial | No |
| Public Trust Receipt | Yes | No | No | No |
| Public Moderation Ledger | Yes | No | No | No |
| 24h dispute SLA, public counter | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI Smart-Reply on entry plan | Yes | enterprise | premium | No |
| Native email + SMS | Yes | No | discontinued 2025 | No |
| Multi-domain on one plan | Yes | per-domain | No | No |
| Portable reviews — yours forever | Yes | No | No | No |
| Flat pricing, no annual lock-in | Yes | No | volume-based | limited |
| Starts at | Free / $29 | $199 | $79 | Free / $15 |
Yotpo killed Email & SMS on Dec 31, 2025.
We built the replacement.
EarnedStar Reviews + EarnedMail + EarnedSend + EarnedLoyalty — one platform, flat price, fully integrated. Replace Klaviyo, Attentive, and Yotpo with a single $99/month plan.
Drag-drop campaigns, review-triggered flows, behavioral segments.
Native SMS plus WhatsApp and Apple Business Messages.
Points, referrals, VIP rewards — native to your review data.
Smart-reply, summaries, sentiment, fraud — included.
Your current stack
- Klaviyo · Email · 10K subs$150/mo
- Attentive · SMS · 10K sends$300/mo
- Yotpo Reviews Pro$199/mo
- Smile.io Loyalty$49/mo
- Total$698/mo
Pricing
Simple plans. Earned trust at every tier.
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free
$0/mo
Prove verified reviews work on your store — upgrade when you outgrow 25 invites.
- 25 review invitations/month
- Verified by Purchase core
- 1 widget
- 1 user seat
- 1 domain
- EarnedStar branding on widgets/emails
starter
$29/mo
Perfect for stores just getting started
- 200 invitations/month
- Verified by Purchase badge
- Photo reviews
- Google rich snippets
- 2 widgets
- Basic AI fraud scoring
- 1 user seat
growth
$99/mo
The complete review stack for growing stores
- 2,000 invitations + SMS/month
- Video reviewsComing soon
- AI review summaries
- Google Seller Ratings
- 6 widget types
- 3 user seats
pro
$249/mo
For high-volume stores
- 15,000 invitations/month
- AI Q&A SEO module
- Multi-platform syndication
- Full analytics + API
- 10 user seats
- 99.9% SLA
agency
$749/mo
Run reviews for all your clients
- Unlimited invitations
- Full white-label branding
- 25 sub-accounts
- Dedicated CSM
- Priority Slack support
Every plan includes the EarnedStar badge · Verified by Purchase on every review
Paste any Trustpilot or Yotpo profile.
We'll estimate how many reviews are fake.
The Review Audit runs an AI forensic scan and returns a shareable PDF report — language clusters, timing anomalies, reviewer history patterns. We do this free because we have nothing to hide.
Run a Review AuditQuestions? We've got answers.
No. Reviews require a purchase-matched invitation. Without a verified order, a submission never reaches your public profile — that's core to the EarnedStar name.
From the blog
Notes on earning buyer trust.
- Review response strategy
How to respond publicly to a bad review — and when not to
A public reply to a bad review is read by every future shopper, not just the reviewer. Here's what it should contain, and the specific cases where staying quiet is the better call.
Read the article → - Review technology and performance
What a review widget needs to load fast
A review widget is usually the heaviest third-party element on a product page. Here's what it technically needs to avoid dragging down page speed.
Read the article → - Reviews and search visibility
How review schema markup affects search visibility
Star ratings in search results come from structured data, not from having reviews. Here's what the markup actually needs and where it commonly breaks.
Read the article →
We're not building another review widget. We're building the trust layer that e-commerce should have had from the start.