How to Showcase Reviews on BigCommerce
Overview
Sendlane Reviews allows you to create a hand curated carousel or other testimonial layout for your BigCommerce store. Read on to learn how to highlight reviews in your BigCommerce store with layouts that perfectly match your store's branding!
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Use the Reviews Moderation page to search for review copy and images to promote on your hand curated layout. To find high quality reviews:
- Click the Reviews icon
- Click Moderation
- Click the filter icon
- Select With Images
- Select 5 stars
- Select a review with images and copy that best represents your brand
- Click on the image preview
- Right click on the image to save it to your desktop
Copy your selected reviews' text and the name of the reviewer to a document for easy reference and have that document plus your saved images handy before moving on to create your layout.
If you want to match the color of the stars in your reviews widget on your displayed reviews, navigate to the main widget styling page and copy the hex code of the star color:
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Because we're using BigCommerce's existing theme blocks instead of a Sendlane-created carousel widget, you have multiple options for the layout of your carousel or other reviews display.
Click on the images in the table below to view examples of each layout type, then click on the layout type to see instructions on creating the layout in your BigCommerce store:
Layout Preview Carousel
Horizontal Layout 
Column Layout 
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Create a Carousel
BigCommerce's carousel block is a great way to create a traditional carousel that can be set to auto-scroll or click to rotate the slides. Read about BigCommerce's carousel block for detailed information about the available customization options!
To create a carousel block like the one shown in the preview above:
- Click Storefront
- Click Themes
- Next to your active theme's name, click Customize
- Drag a Carousel widget into your theme where you want your reviews showcase to appear
- Click the edit icon next to Background
- Click the image to add an image from your BigCommerce library (My Images tab), upload a file from your desktop (Upload tab), or paste an image URL (Image URL tab)
- Click the eye icon next to Button and Box to hide these elements if desired
- Adjust the text color
- Copy the following text based star symbols and paste them into the larger text block:
★★★★★ - Copy the text of the review and paste it into the smaller text box
- Repeat steps 1-10 for each slide
Check out the video below for a demonstration of creating the carousel widget and editing the first slide:
Create a Horizontal Layout
BigCommerce's layout widget is a great way to horizontally display multiple hand picked reviews with images. Read about BigCommerce's layout block for detailed information about the available customization options!
To create an image with text block like the example above:
- Click Storefront
- Click Themes
- Next to your active theme's name, click Customize
- Drag a Layout block into your theme where you want your reviews showcase to appear
- Drag the column layout bar to the fourth divider from the left
- Click the back arrow icon to return to the Page Builder
- Drag an image widget into the layout's smaller lefthand container (Column 1)
- Click the placeholder image
- Add an image from your BigCommerce library (My Images tab), upload a file from your desktop (Upload tab), or paste an image URL (Image URL tab)
- To set a static size for your image, click the Image dimensions dropdown and select Custom
- Click into Column 1
- Click the Column background dropdown
- Select Color
- Click the back arrow twice to return to the Page Builder
- Drag a text widget into the layout's larger righthand container (Column 2)
- Select the placeholder text and paste your review's text
- Adjust the font size, color, and alignment
- Click the back arrow to return to the Page Builder
- Drag another text widget into Column 2
- Select the placeholder text and paste the following text based star symbols:
★★★★★ - Adjust the color of the stars
- Click the back arrow to return to the Page Builder
- Drag a spacer widget into Column 2 between the review and star text widgets
- Click into Column 2
- Click the Column background dropdown
- Select Color
- Repeat steps 1-26 for each review
Check out the video below for a demonstration of creating an image with text block:
Create a Column Layout
Shopify's multicolumn block is a great way to display multiple hand picked reviews with images. Read about BigCommerce's column layout for detailed information about the available customization options!
To create a multicolumn block like the example above:
- Click Storefront
- Click Themes
- Next to your active theme's name, click Customize
- Drag two Layout blocks into your theme where you want your reviews showcase to appear and set the columns to 3
- Drag an image widget into the top left layout section
- Click the placeholder image
- Add an image from your BigCommerce library (My Images tab), upload a file from your desktop (Upload tab), or paste an image URL (Image URL tab)
- To set a static size for your image, click the Image dimensions dropdown and select Custom
- Click into the column
- Click column background to adjust the background color
- Click the back arrow icon twice to return to the Page Builder
- Drag two text widgets into the bottom left layout section
- Click into the column
- Click column background to adjust the background color
- Select the placeholder text in the top text widget and paste the following text based star symbols:
★★★★★ - Adjust the text color for the stars
- Select the placeholder text in the bottom text widget and paste the review text
- Adjust the review text's size, color, and alignment
- Add spacers above and below the stars
- Repeat steps 1-19 for each review
- Adjust padding and spacing options when all of your content is completed
Check out the video below for a demonstration of creating a multicolumn layout:
