Ready-to-Use Templates
Copy these templates and customize them for your needs. Each includes HTML and plain text versions.
How's your {{productName}}?
We'd love to hear your thoughts.
Quick reminder: share your thoughts on {{productName}}
Your feedback really does help.
Add a photo to your review, get {{incentive}}
Your review was great. A photo would make it even better.
Did your {{productName}} arrive okay?
Just checking in on your order.
Get {{incentive}} for sharing your opinion
Tell us what you think about {{productName}} and save on your next order.
Would you record a quick video review of {{productName}}?
30 seconds on camera helps more than you'd think.
You've ordered {{orderCount}} times - mind sharing why?
Your experience matters more than most.
How was your experience with us?
We'd love your honest take on shopping with {{companyName}}.
Would you review us on {{platformName}}?
Takes 2 minutes and helps other teams find us.
Join {{reviewCount}} other customers who reviewed {{productName}}
You're in good company.
Thanks for your review - here's {{incentive}} on us
We read your review and wanted to say thanks properly.
Enjoying {{appName}}? A quick rating would mean the world
It takes 10 seconds and helps us reach more people like you.
Love {{productName}}? Share it and you both save
Leave a review, share your link, and your friend gets {{referralIncentive}} too.
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How to Use These Templates
Set up the review request sequence to trigger based on delivery date. For most products, 7-14 days after delivery is the sweet spot. Products that take longer to show results (skincare, supplements) should wait 21-30 days.
The most important optimization: make the review form as frictionless as possible. The button in these emails should link directly to the review form for the specific product, not to your homepage or a generic review page. Every extra click you add loses reviewers.
With Sequenzy's Shopify integration, order fulfillment events sync automatically so your review requests fire at the right moment after delivery.
The editing pass that matters for Review Request Email Templates
For Review Request Email Templates, the danger is copy that sounds tidy but could fit any business. Ready-to-use review request email templates for ecommerce. Ask for product reviews at the right time with copy that gets results - from simple asks to incentivized requests, G2 reviews, and more. Keep the layout, but make the trigger, proof, and next step unmistakably tied to Simple Review Request.
Start by mapping the templates to real customer moments. Use Simple Review Request when the reader needs first request, sent 7-14 days after delivery, and rewrite the first paragraph around the exact trigger that made the email relevant. Use Review Reminder when sent 5-7 days after the first request to non-reviewers is the real job, not because the template sounds polished. Incentivized Photo Review Request should carry the strongest practical detail. Post-Delivery Check-In can usually be shorter if the reader already understands the context, while Incentivized Review Request should only exist if it gives the reader a genuinely different reason to act.
The most important triggers on this page are order has been delivered (confirmed or estimated), customer's order has been delivered, customer hasn't already reviewed the product, customer is subscribed to transactional/post-purchase emails. Use those as the opening context instead of starting with a generic greeting. Write with Ecommerce stores that need more product reviews, Shopify stores launching new products, DTC brands building social proof in mind, because those audiences have different tolerance for detail, urgency, and hand-holding. For this category, prioritize tie the email to product, order, stock, or delivery context, make the offer and logistics precise, and keep the CTA close to the shopping moment. The core problem is that only 1-2% of customers leave reviews on their own. a well-timed email with a simple ask bumps that to 5-15%. without reviews, product pages underperform and new customers hesitate. Timing matters here too: First request 7-14 days after delivery. Reminder 5-7 days after the first request. Only send to customers who haven't left a review.
Use merge fields like {{productName}}, {{companyName}}, {{firstName}}, {{reviewUrl}}, {{companyAddress}}, {{incentive}} only where they make the email more useful. If {{productName}} or {{companyName}} can be missing, write the sentence so it still reads naturally without the field. The search intent behind "review request email template", "product review email", "ask for review email", "customer feedback email template" is practical. Readers want copy they can adapt quickly, so keep the on-page guidance direct and keep the sent email free of SEO phrasing.
| Template | Use it when | Customization that improves it |
|---|---|---|
| Simple Review Request | First request, sent 7-14 days after delivery | Open with the real trigger behind first request, sent 7-14 days after delivery. |
| Review Reminder | Sent 5-7 days after the first request to non-reviewers | Add one detail that proves this is not a batch blast. |
| Incentivized Photo Review Request | Sent to customers who left a text review, asking for a photo | Make the CTA match the reader's current task. |
| Post-Delivery Check-In | Sent 3-5 days after delivery as a soft ask before the formal review request | Cut background copy if the reader already knows the situation. |
| Incentivized Review Request | Offering a discount or reward in exchange for any review | Send a follow-up only if silence tells you something useful. |
The benefit language should stay concrete: Increase review volume by 5-10x with automated requests; Boost product page conversion rates with fresh social proof; Collect photo reviews that are more persuasive than text alone. If a draft cannot support one of those outcomes, it probably needs a sharper CTA or a stronger proof point. During QA, check the reason for sending, the proof, the CTA, and the follow-up rule. Those four checks catch most weak template edits. If the draft feels flat, do not just add warmer language. Add missing context, remove competing CTAs, or make the offer easier to understand.
A final QA pass should confirm that Review Request Email Templates support increase review volume by 5-10x with automated requests. If the CTA, timing, or segment does not serve that outcome, rewrite before designing. One extra check for Review Request Email Templates: write down the exact rule that decides who receives Simple Review Request and who receives Review Reminder. If the rule is vague, the copy will feel vague too. A useful rule might be based on customer's order has been delivered, while the send should still depend on whether customer's order has been delivered. That keeps the automation from turning a helpful template into noise and makes the message support boost product page conversion rates with fresh social proof.
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