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Ask Review

For local businesses

Get more 5-star reviews and make more revenue.

Every extra star on your rating is worth 5–9% more revenue: Harvard's math, not ours. One QR code per teammate. Two taps to Google. Every review traced back to who earned it.

First month free, up to your first 20 reviews No app or password for your staff Set up in minutes

A waiter shows their personal QR code on a phone while a guest scans it at a restaurant table.

New review matched to Sarah

Why teams use Ask Review

A QR code for every team member

No account or password for staff

Works with your existing Google review link

Live dashboard from day one

Why it matters

Reviews decide who gets picked

Before anyone walks through your door, they compare you to the three other places on the map. Your review count and your rating are what they compare.

266%
more likely to show up in Google's local pack with 50+ reviews than with under 10BrightLocal, 2026
97%
of people read reviews before choosing a local businessBrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026
47
reviews is the median for businesses ranking in the top three map resultsLocal Falcon, 50M search results
5–9%
more revenue for every extra star on your average ratingHarvard Business School

None of these are absolute numbers to hit. What counts is having more than the place across the street: Google will happily show a business with hundreds of reviews over a closer competitor with a handful, and so will your customer.

How it works

From scan to review in a few taps

No accounts, no apps. This is the exact page your customers see, and the moment they see it.

The Corner Bistro's storefront with four smiling team members in black aprons in front of the door.
Sarah's personal QR code on her phone, with 'Ask your customer to scan this code'.

Step 1 of 5: Your customer scans

Star check

Every complaint reaches you first

The rating comes before anything else. Low scores open a private form to the owner, so a bad visit becomes a conversation instead of a surprise.

  • A low rating opens a private feedback form that reaches you as the owner directly.
  • Happy customers go to Google with the employee's name ready to mention.
  • Two modes, per location: keep low scores in-house, or keep the Google link visible for everyone, including guests who rate you low. Your call in settings.

31%

of people now only consider businesses rated 4.5 stars or higher, up from 17% a year earlier. One bad review costs more than it used to.

BrightLocal, 2026

For your team

Your team turns asking into a game

Shifts become a friendly challenge: who collects the most reviews this month? Teams that challenge each other ask more often, and that shows up in your review count.

Everyone plays their own game

Every team member gets a personal page with their own QR code and their own score, live during the shift.

A fair fight, every shift

The leaderboard counts reviews per hour worked, so a part-timer can beat someone with twice as many shifts.

Every period crowns a winner

Periods close on schedule and each winner keeps their spot on the board. Something to beat next round.

Your call, one switch

Not your team's style? Turn the leaderboard off and everything else keeps working exactly the same.

74%

of people look for reviews written in the last three months, and a third want them from the last two weeks. Reviews go stale, so a team that keeps asking beats a one-off push.

BrightLocal, 2026

The difference

Same street. One of them gets more business.

Two restaurants across the street from each other. One hopes reviews happen; the other has a team that asks on every shift. Can you guess which one wins the year?

Curious where you stand on your own street? →

Without Ask Review

Review growth
+0%
Rating
4.2★
Revenue vs. average
−15%
  • Reviews only happen when a customer thinks of it: often when something went wrong.
  • One angry review drags the average down for months.
  • The place across the street shows up above you in the map results.
  • Nobody on the team owns the number, so nobody asks.
With Ask Review

Team asks every shift

Review growth
+600%
Rating
4.7★
Revenue vs. average
+54%
  • The whole team asks on every shift: each teammate has their own QR code and score.
  • Unhappy customers get a private form that reaches the owner directly.
  • More recent reviews than the neighbors, so Google shows you first.
  • Every review is matched to who earned it, so asking stays a game worth playing.

Businesses with above-average review counts earn 54% more revenue, and with 200+ reviews, almost twice the average.

Womply, across 200,000 U.S. businesses. Below-average review counts earn 15% less. Illustrative numbers; your results depend on your traffic and starting point.

A restaurant owner in a dark apron stands smiling in the doorway of his own bistro, with a full dining room behind him.

A year of asking

“We stopped hoping reviews would happen. Now every shift ends with a few more, and the team argues about who is on top.”

Owner, The Corner Bistro

Reviews
34236
Rating
4.24.7
Per month
320

The dashboard

See where the funnel stalls

Every scan moves through the same five steps, from picking stars to claiming a reward. Filter by week, month, or a custom range to see where people drop off, for the whole team and for every team member separately.

WeekMonthCustom
Example
Scans248
Stars picked218
Sent to Google176
Reviews matched60
Rewards claimed42

Spot your top performers

The same funnel per team member, ranked by the share of scans that made it to Google. You see who turns conversations into reviews and who needs a hand. And because it's a rate, not a total, someone working fewer shifts isn't punished for it.

Scans sent to Google, this week

Example
  1. SarahTop performer
    82%

    96 scans · 26 reviews

  2. Milan
    69%

    88 scans · 19 reviews

  3. NoahNeeds support
    41%

    64 scans · 6 reviews

Team average 71%

Example numbers

Google click rate

71%

of customers who picked stars

Average rating sent on

4.8

low scores stay off Google

Reward claim rate

17%

of customers who scanned

Everything included

One tool, from first scan to claimed reward

Every account starts with the full set, for every person on the team. There is no bigger plan to move up to.

  • Personal QR codesEvery team member gets a personal QR code and link, no account or password needed. Customers scan it right where the interaction happens.Included
  • Private feedback inboxLow scores come in as a private message to the owner, so you can respond before anything else happens. You hear about a bad visit from the guest, not from your rating.Included
  • Rewards that people claimSet a reward, and the customer leaves an email address and consent to claim it, getting a claim code in return. The reward is tied to leaving those details, not to a positive review.Included
  • Fair leaderboardRankings show both totals and results per hour worked, so part-time team members compete fairly. Set periods and keep a saved history of past winners.Included
  • Reviews matched to peoplePublished Google reviews are matched to the right team member by first name. You can always correct a match by hand.Included
  • Funnel you can actually readSee scans, star ratings, clicks through to Google, and claimed rewards in one dashboard. Filter by week, month, or a custom period.Included

Why this works differently

How Ask Review compares to the pattern common among review platforms
Who asksAsk ReviewThe person who served them, at the tableTypicalAn automated email, a day later
Team membersAsk ReviewUnlimited, all includedTypicalPriced per user
A review counts forAsk ReviewThe team member who earned itTypicalThe location
LeaderboardAsk ReviewPer hour worked, so a part-timer can winTypicalTotals, or none at all
An unhappy guestAsk ReviewGets a private form that reaches you directlyTypicalIs sent the same way as everyone else
Getting startedAsk ReviewMinutes, on your ownTypicalAn onboarding call to book
PriceAsk Review$29 / month, everything includedTypical$75 – $110 / month

The price range reflects the publicly listed entry pricing of five comparable review platforms (2025–2026). The right-hand column describes the pattern those platforms have in common, not any single product, and not every tool on the market.

The math

What one review is actually worth

One review rarely wins you a customer on its own. But every review nudges someone comparing you to the place next door, and once in a while that nudge is the one that decides it.

So here is the honest version: what a single extra customer is worth to you. Not lifetime value, just their spend over a first year of visits.

Estimated value of one extra customer per type of local business
Type of businessOne extra customer
Coffee shop / bakery~$40
Restaurant / bar~$100
Barber / salon~$175
Garage / auto repair~$400
Dentist / clinic~$600

Rough estimates for illustration, based on typical spend per visit and a handful of return visits in the first year.

And that is just one customer. Your rating moves the whole business: research from Harvard Business School found 5–9% more revenue for every extra star on your average rating.

Which is why the goal is not one perfect review. It is a steady flow of them, from every shift, from everyone on the floor. Keep that one extra customer in mind for the next section: it is what the whole thing costs.

Pricing

One price. Everything included.

No tiers, no per-user fees, no setup costs. Your whole team is in from the first shift.

First month free

$29/month

Excl. VAT · per location

The first month is free, up to your first 20 reviews. After that it is $29 a month. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.

  • Your whole team. Unlimited team members: nobody is priced per seat.
  • Every feature. No tiers and no add-ons. One plan, everything switched on.
  • No setup fee. No onboarding call to book and nothing to install.
  • Cancel any time. Cancel before your free month ends and you are never charged at all.

$29 a month is less than one extra restaurant guest.

The table above puts one extra customer at roughly $100 for a restaurant, $40 for a coffee shop, $175 for a salon. You do not need a stream of new customers for this to pay for itself. You need one, and the rest is upside.

And while your free month runs, the only thing that happens is that reviews come in. Twenty of them, on us, before anything is charged.

Getting started

Live in a few minutes

No installs, no training sessions. Set up your business and your team, then start collecting reviews the same day.

ask-review.com/setup
The 'Business details' form with 'The Corner Bistro' filled in and a field for the Google review link.
Step 1 of 4

Add your business

Enter your business name and your existing Google review link.

Create your account with Google or your email. Your first month is free, up to your first 20 reviews.

Set up my team

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Not signing up yet?

Coming soon

See how your street compares

Pick your business and get your review count and rating next to the places closest to you: the same comparison your customers make on the map without thinking about it. Free, and you keep the report whether you sign up or not.

Almost ready. In the meantime, your first month is free anyway.

What you get back

  • Best in your area2104.6★
  • Two doors down884.4★
  • Your business344.2★

Example report. Real numbers come from your own Google listing and the listings around it.

More reviews. A higher rating. More revenue.

The customers who'd gladly leave you a review are already walking through your door, and the ones who came in today are gone tomorrow. Set up your team in minutes and start collecting tonight. No app, no passwords.

Your first month is free, up to your first 20 reviews. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.

A guest shows their claim code on their phone at the counter while a barista hands over a free coffee.

Free coffee, claimed on the next visit