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Review request script generator
Most customers are not unwilling - nobody asked them. The hard part is saying it without it being awkward. Two choices, three lines you can say.
How to use it
Pick your trade, pick the moment you plan to ask, and you get three usable lines plus a practical note for that moment. The three are alternatives to choose from, not three steps — take whichever sounds like you.
Adapt rather than recite. Swap the wording for how you normally talk to customers and it works far better. A stiff template sounds like a template.
Timing beats wording
Most people fail on the moment, not the phrasing.
- Ask while the customer is still pleased. Just finished, just collected, just said thank you — that is the window. After it, they are already thinking about the next thing.
- Hand over the code or link there and then. "Look us up when you get home" loses nine out of ten.
- Say it once and stop. "Sure" is not a review, but chasing annoys people and can earn you the opposite of what you wanted.
Three things not to do
One: do not ask only the customers who look pleased. Most owners think this is just common sense; Google prohibits it outright. Reasons and consequences are in Why you cannot ask only your happy customers.
Two: do not trade discounts, gifts or prize draws for reviews. Discounts are fine; tying them to a review is not. Where the line sits is in Can you offer a discount for a Google review?
Three: do not write it for them. Ghost-writing, posting on their behalf, or handing over text to paste are all violations, and the usual penalty is the whole batch being wiped.
If you are unsure whether your current practice crosses a line, run the seven questions in the Google review policy self-check.
What to have ready
What you hand over after asking: a one-tap link (Google review link generator) or a printed code (Google review QR code generator). Where to put that code so people actually scan it is in Where to put your review QR code so people actually scan it.
How many people to ask each week is the Review pace estimator; the full method is How to ask customers for Google Reviews.
After you ask, they still have to type
The script solves how to ask. Once they say yes, the thing that stops them is the next step: thinking of something to say and typing it out.
In practice, ten happy customers, and often not one of them writes a review — not because they do not want to, but because it is a hassle, and typing it out is worse. Review Helper cuts that step to thirty seconds: the customer scans your code, ticks a few things they actually experienced, and the page turns it into a sentence in their own words. Copy, paste, posted. We do not ghost-write and we do not post for anyone — what they write, and whether to post it, stays their call. Three free reviews for every Google listing, nothing to pay up front, no card needed. No monthly fee: you pay per use.