Review Management Services

Your reputation is being shaped right now. Are you in the room?

Every review left unanswered is a missed conversion. Every 1-star review ignored is a customer your competitor wins. We monitor, respond, protect, and grow your review presence — across every platform — so you never lose a customer to silence.

6 platforms monitored 24/7
Average response time under 6 minutes
100% review response rate, guaranteed
Google-approved methods only
0
% of buyers read reviews before choosing
0%
avg revenue lift from 4.5★ vs 3.8★ rating
53%
of customers expect a reply within 1 week
MONITOR

Every review, every platform, every minute — nothing slips through.

Most businesses find out about a damaging review days after it was posted — long after other customers have read it. We watch Google, Facebook, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Apple Maps, and Bing Places in real time, so you know the moment a review lands and can respond before it shapes perception.

  • Real-time monitoring across 6 major review platforms
  • Instant alerts for 1-star and 2-star reviews within minutes
  • Unified inbox — all platforms in one view, zero tab-switching
  • Auto-tagging by theme, star rating, and sentiment score
  • Multi-location support — manage every branch from one dashboard
Review Inbox — All Platforms
Harborside Café · 6 platforms connected
Live feed
G
Google
314 reviews
FB
Facebook
87 reviews
Y
Yelp
52 reviews
TA
TripAdvisor
41 reviews
A
Apple Maps
28 reviews
B
Bing Places
19 reviews
Latest reviews — unified feed 4 new today
SK
Sarah K.★★★★★Best coffee in the neighbourhood, the staff remember your order...Google2m ago
MR
Mike R.★★☆☆☆Waited 20 mins for a table. No one acknowledged us at the door...Yelp14m ago
PT
Priya T.★★★★★Absolutely stunning views and impeccable service. Will be back...TripAdvisor1h ago
JC
James C.★★★★☆Great food, slightly slow on a Saturday night but forgivable...Facebook3h ago
REPLY

Every review answered. In your voice. In under 6 minutes.

Responding to reviews is one of the highest-ROI tasks a local business can do — and one of the most consistently neglected. We write professional, on-brand responses to every review you receive, positive or negative, 24 hours a day. Our AI learns your tone, your service language, and your brand personality so each reply sounds like it came from your best team member.

  • Brand voice onboarding — we learn how you communicate
  • 100% response coverage — positive, neutral, and negative
  • Average first response under 6 minutes, any time of day
  • Auto-detected theme tagging — Quality, Speed, Service, Price
  • Human approval mode available for sensitive or complex reviews
AI Response Engine
Harborside Café · All platforms
2 need reply
SK
Sarah K.
Google · 8 min ago
★★★★★
Best coffee in the neighbourhood. The staff remember your order by your third visit. This is what local hospitality looks like.
AI Reply · Sent
Thank you so much, Sarah! Knowing your regular order is one of our favourite things about what we do — see you for your next one soon ☕
ServiceExperience
Sent · 6 min
MR
Mike R.
Yelp · 14 min ago
★★☆☆☆
Waited 20 minutes for a table with no acknowledgement. Staff were pleasant once seated but the wait was unnecessary.
AI Draft · Awaiting approval
Hi Mike, we're sorry the wait wasn't communicated better on your visit — that's on us and we appreciate you saying so. We're reviewing our front-of-house process this week. We'd love a chance to do better. Please reach out directly at hello@harborsidecafe.com and we'll make it right.
Wait timeCommunication
Pending approval
PT
Priya T.
TripAdvisor · 1h ago
★★★★★
Stunning harbour views and the eggs benedict were exceptional. Service was warm and attentive from start to finish.
AI Reply · Sent
Priya, what a wonderful thing to read on a Sunday morning! The views are our favourite thing to share with guests. We can't wait to welcome you back.
Food qualityAtmosphere
Sent · 4 min
SHIELD

A 1-star review at the wrong moment can cost you weeks of bookings.

Not all negative reviews carry the same weight. A low-scoring review from a first-time customer is different from a detailed complaint from a long-term patron — and both are different from a fake review posted by a competitor. We identify, prioritise, and escalate every damaging review so nothing falls through the cracks at the worst possible time.

  • Instant alert for any review rated 1–2 stars, any platform
  • Fake review detection and Google dispute filing
  • Severity scoring — Critical, High, and Informational tiers
  • Human escalation protocol — your team is looped in when needed
  • Carefully crafted de-escalation responses — never defensive
Crisis Alert Queue
Harborside Café · last 7 days
1 critical
★☆☆☆☆ — Potential fake review detected
Profile created today · no prior reviews · language pattern flags competitor activity. Dispute filing initiated with Google.
Critical
★★☆☆☆ — Recurring complaint: wait times
3rd review in 10 days mentioning Saturday wait times. Flagged for operational review with management summary attached.
High
★★★☆☆ — Mixed review: food praised, pricing concern
Positive food mention offset by pricing comment. Addressed with standard appreciation response. No escalation required.
Info
Escalation protocol — critical review
Review detected
Severity scored
Alert sent
Dispute filed
5
Resolution
GROW

More reviews, more consistently — without chasing customers yourself.

Happy customers rarely leave reviews unprompted. They mean to — and then life gets in the way. We build and run ethical review generation campaigns via SMS, email, and WhatsApp that ask at exactly the right moment: right after a completed job, a check-out, or a positive service interaction. The result is a steady, compounding flow of authentic reviews every month.

  • Automated campaigns via SMS, email, and WhatsApp
  • Trigger-based timing — sent at the moment satisfaction peaks
  • Direct-to-platform links — one tap to leave a Google review
  • 100% Google-policy compliant — no incentivisation, ever
  • A/B tested message variants — we find what converts for your audience
Review Generation Campaigns
Harborside Café · May 2025
Post-visit SMS — Dine-in guests
Running
0
Sent
0
Opened
0
Reviews
21%
Conv. rate
72% of monthly target reached · 183 / 250 reviews
Post-order email — Takeaway customers
Scheduled · 1 Jun
SMS
SMS · sent 2h after visit21% conv. rate
@
Email · sent next morning14% conv. rate
WA
WhatsApp · opt-in only28% conv. rate
ANALYSE

Hundreds of opinions distilled into three things to fix this month.

Reviews are the most honest market research your business will ever receive — and most businesses never read them systematically. We analyse every review across every platform, surface the repeating themes, score your overall reputation health, and give you an executive summary you can act on immediately. No charts to decipher, no exporting spreadsheets.

  • Cross-platform sentiment score with month-on-month trend
  • Top positive and negative themes surfaced automatically
  • Exact customer phrasing — the words they use, verbatim
  • AI executive summary — shareable with your team in one click
  • Competitor sentiment benchmarking — how you compare locally
Sentiment Intelligence
541 reviews analysed · Harborside Café · all platforms
8.7
Overall sentiment score
22 positive themes identified. 4 areas to address. Trending up 0.6 points vs last quarter across all platforms.
Positive themes
Food quality
287
Harbour views
214
Friendly staff
168
Coffee quality
128
Areas to address
Weekend wait time
38
Seating availability
24
Pricing vs portion
16
Noise levels
9
AI Summary

Food quality and the harbour view are your two strongest conversion drivers — mentioned positively in 53% and 39% of all reviews respectively. The highest-impact fix is weekend wait-time communication: 38 reviews mention it, and a simple queuing update system could move your score to 9.1 next quarter. Start there before addressing pricing perception.

REPORT

One report a month. Everything that moved. Nothing buried in data.

You run a business — you shouldn't need to log into a dashboard to understand how your reputation performed last month. We send you a plain-English report every month covering every platform, every metric that matters, and a clear priority list for the next 30 days. Read it in 5 minutes. Act on it the same morning.

  • Total reviews received, platform breakdown, average rating trend
  • Response coverage, average response time, sentiment score change
  • Review generation campaign performance — sent, opened, converted
  • Crisis summary — what happened, what we did, current status
  • Next month's 3 priorities — specific, justified, ordered by impact
Monthly Reputation Report
Harborside Café · May 2025
New reviews
0
↑ 31% vs last month
Avg rating
4.8
↑ from 4.5
Response rate
100%
All platforms · all reviews
Sentiment score
8.7
↑ from 8.1 last month
312 reviews replied across all platforms
Avg response time 6 min · 100% coverage maintained
Done
SMS review campaign sent to 847 guests
183 new Google reviews generated · 21% conversion
Done
1 fake review disputed and removed
Google dispute filed · resolved in 11 days
Done
Target: 4.9★ average on Google
Currently 4.8 — 28 more 5★ reviews needed this month
June
Common questions

Everything you need to know about review management.

Do Google reviews actually affect my rankings — not just my reputation?

Yes, significantly and on two separate levels. First, review quantity, recency, average rating, and whether the owner responds are all confirmed Google Maps ranking signals — businesses with more reviews and active response patterns consistently outrank those that don't in the Local Pack. Second, even when ranking is equal, a 4.8-star business with 200 reviews will attract dramatically more clicks than a 3.9-star business with 40. Review management improves both your position and your conversion rate from that position.

What platforms do you manage reviews on?

We monitor and respond across Google Business Profile, Facebook, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Apple Maps, and Bing Places as standard. For businesses in specific industries — hospitality, healthcare, legal, real estate — we can extend monitoring to category-specific platforms like Zomato, Healthgrades, Avvo, RealSatisfied, and others. Multi-location businesses are fully supported from a single dashboard.

Can you remove negative reviews?

We can flag and file disputes for reviews that violate platform policies — fake reviews, reviews from people who never visited, reviews containing prohibited content, and competitor review attacks. Google removes a meaningful proportion of flagged reviews, particularly when the reviewer profile shows suspicious patterns. However, no provider can guarantee removal of any specific review, and we never attempt to remove legitimate negative feedback — instead, we respond to it in a way that demonstrates accountability and often recovers the relationship.

Is asking customers for reviews against Google's policy?

Asking for reviews is explicitly permitted and encouraged by Google. What is prohibited is incentivising reviews (offering discounts, free items, or payment in exchange for a positive review) or directing only happy customers to leave reviews while discouraging unhappy ones. Our review generation campaigns are fully compliant — we ask all recent customers via SMS, email, or WhatsApp, and link directly to your Google profile without filtering by anticipated rating.

How quickly do you respond to reviews?

Our average first response time is under 6 minutes, 24 hours a day, including weekends and public holidays. For critical reviews — 1 or 2 stars — we alert your team immediately and draft a response within minutes. For businesses that prefer to approve responses before they go live, we offer a human-in-the-loop mode where drafts are sent to you for sign-off before publishing.

What happens when a customer escalates a complaint online?

We have a three-tier escalation protocol: Informational (handled automatically), High (flagged to you with context and a recommended response), and Critical (immediate alert, human-drafted response, and ongoing status updates until resolved). Critical triggers include 1-star reviews with detailed complaints, reviews mentioning legal action or media, sudden spikes in negative reviews, and any review that appears coordinated or fake.

Will the responses sound like us or like a bot?

We spend the first two weeks learning your brand — your tone of voice, your service language, what you're proud of, and how you typically address problems. We also study your existing responses to understand your register. After that, every response is written to match how your best team member would reply. Clients routinely tell us their responses are indistinguishable from what they'd write themselves — only faster and more consistent.

What do you need from us to get started?

Manager access to your Google Business Profile and any other review platforms you want covered. A brief brand voice document or examples of how you communicate (your website About page and any existing review responses work perfectly). Your contact email for escalation alerts. Onboarding takes less than one business day, and you'll see your first responses within 24 hours of going live.

See what your reputation looks like right now — for free.

We'll pull your current review profile across every platform, show you your response rate, your sentiment score, and the three things most likely to be costing you customers today. No obligation. Takes 20 minutes.