Taknalogy Reviews Plugin is a product review platform best suitable for new and old ecommerce stores based on WooCommerce and WordPress. It offloads reviews management from owners who can then focus on their real business. Taknalogy Reviews gathers reviews from external websites (currently only supports aliexpress) and also from customers and presents those in a responsive user interface which is fully optimized for all device types.
Taknalogy Reviews Plugin is a product review platform best suitable for new and old ecommerce stores based on WooCommerce and WordPress. It offloads reviews management from owners who can then focus on their real business. Taknalogy Reviews gathers reviews from external websites (currently only supports aliexpress) and also from customers and presents those in a responsive user interface which is fully optimized for all device types.
Taknalogy Review was created after very unpleasant experience of starting an ecommerce store and struggling to get user reviews. Reviews is a chicken and egg problem and is specially very challenging for new drop shippers. It is even more frustrating when drop shippers are selling products which already have tons of user reviews. There was a need for a platform to provide integration between reviews and ecommerce shops. This solution was also required to provide seamless integration.
Existing solutions were tried and it was found that there were very intrusive to ecommerce websites. They spams stores with unwanted data and modify themes as well. We did not want to do this so we came up with a solution which sits in a sandbox totally isolated from the shop. It does a minor data exchange with the shop and cleans it up when users deletes or uninstalls it. No doubt this is the cleanest reviews platform available.
It serves reviews in an iframe which is fully responsive and seamlessly integrates with the shop theme. At the moment customization is not supported but we will be adding these features soon.
How it works
Once installed it adds a tab to the product data screen as shown in the picture. User can copy and paste URL of the product page i.e. (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32705419504.html) from aliexpress in the textbox. When user saves product data Taknalogy Reviews will send this URL to taknalogy.com. Reviews application at taknalogy.com will check whether reviews already exist or not. If reviews exist they are ready to be consumed. If reviews do not exist it will queue a crawl request to our crawler which will then fetch and prepare reviews for consumption.
Crawl request can take some time so please be patient if reviews do not appear straight away. In the worst case it can take couple of days. Please use contact us form if you need reviews urgently and we will try our best to help.
User do not need to take any further action after entering the URL. Checkbox can be used to enable or disable Taknalogy Reviews. It provides capability to manage reviews per product. If checked Taknalogy reviews will be shown if unchecked users local reviews will be shown inside the local theme.
We recommend disabling any existing review plugin while using Taknalogy reviews.
Taknalogy Reviews also collect user reviews directly from the shop. Users can submit product picture as well. Collected reviews go through moderation and once approved they show up in the review panel.
Only data exchange between Taknalogy Reviews and ecommerce store is about reviews count. It updates reviews count every time product page is accessed. When user uninstalls Taknalogy Reviews, it will reset review count at host shop so that store returns to its original state without any spurious data.
Taknalogy Reviews plugin is a wrapper for our review platform announced previously. We will release wrappers for other platforms soon. Please let us know if you want to use it for a platform which is not supported yet. We also provide consulting services to build WooCommerce and WordPress based websites. Some of our sample websites are available here. Please contact us if you need help. We will be more than happy to help.
Enjoy using Taknalogy Platform!