Customer Reviews for WooCommerce vs Starfish Reviews
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| Feature | Customer Reviews for WooCommerce v5.125.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | Starfish Reviews v3.1.31 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 80,000+ | 100+ |
| Last updated | October 19, 2026 | October 23, 2026 |
| Editions | Customer Reviews for WooCommerce · Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Pro ($) | Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress · Starfish Reviews Premium ($) |
| Pros | Automatic review request emails after orders; Product Q and A tab and review photos; Review reward coupons and a trust badge | Funnels route happy customers to public review sites; Testimonials and feedback collected on your own site; Shortcode and embed options for funnels and testimonials |
| Cons | Some features need a Pro licence and the vendor's service; Email verification and review feeds run on vendor servers | Review importing, reports and scraping need Premium; Freemius licence and account flow comes with the plugin; Large plugin with many premium-gated screens |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Automatic review reminder emails after orders, Product question and answer tab, Captcha on review and question forms, Trust badge shortcode and block, Review grid, slider and rating blocks, Email verification through the vendor service, Licence key check against the vendor API ($) | Review funnels that route happy customers to review sites, Funnel shortcode for embedding on pages, Testimonial capture and storage on your own site, Private feedback entries from unhappy customers, Custom branding on funnels and collections ($), Scheduled scraping of existing review profiles ($), Import reviews from funnel destinations and display them ($), Basic reports ($), Premium-only feedback screens ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | WPML, Polylang | Freemius |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha | Starfish community feed |
| Requires WordPress | 4.5 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.0.4 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | z4jhozi8lc.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, www.google.com, api.cusrev.com | starfish.reviews, api.freemius.com, checkout.freemius.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com |
| Blocks | 4 | — |
| Shortcodes | 7 | 1 |