EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“Switched from Trustpilot because they cap invitations. EarnedStar sends 2,000/month on Growth. We went from 200 reviews to 1,800 in three months.”
D
Diane K.
JDM Parts Direct
5.0 ★
Manifesto · Edition IEarnedStar — A Trust Manifesto for E-Commerce
The Trust Stack · Post-Yotpo Era
Reviews that earned
their place — and prove it.
The only e-commerce review platform where every star is order-verified, AI-fraud-audited, and publicly provable. Bundled with native email, SMS, and loyalty — at flat prices that don't punish you for growing.
Trusted by merchants in
14 verticals22 countries1 promise
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Verified reviews
live ledger
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Fraud attempts blocked
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Avg. dispute SLA
Trustpilot: 7–14 days
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Reviews ransomed
your data, forever
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Editor's NoteChapter 01
Stars used to mean something. Somewhere between the affiliate marketers, the fake-review services, and the “pay-to-protect” quotas, they stopped. We built EarnedStar to put them back where they belong: earned, audited, and yours.
M
M. Benav
Founder & CEO — EarnedStar
The Manifesto
Four promises. Publicly.
No platform in this category has ever committed to truth publicly. We are. Every promise below becomes a feature you can audit, share, and hold us to — in the open.
est. January 2026
I.
Verified
Every review tied to a real, fulfilled order. Never an open form. Never an exception.
II.
Auditable
Every star ships with a public Trust Receipt. Order hash, identity tier, fraud signals — all readable by anyone.
III.
Portable
Your reviews are your data. One-click export to JSON-LD or CSV. They survive your cancellation. Forever.
IV.
Fair
Flat pricing. Multi-domain included. No pay-to-protect schemes. Negative reviews never bought, never buried.
The Mark
A trust badge worth earning.
Padded navy leather. Gold piping. A medallion that holds your logo — because every star on the platform points back to a real merchant who earned it.
Primary — Navy / Gold
The EarnedStar mark.
Brand System · Edition I
Vol. 01 · 2026
Quarterly Leaders Award
For merchants who earn it.
Anti-AI · Phase I
Verified Human.
Live review
See why stores trust EarnedStar
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase
“Every review tied to a real order. Shoppers finally trust our ratings because they know each one was earned — not posted by anyone with a browser.”
5.0out of 5 · Exceptional
S
Sarah M.
Verified purchase · December 2024
4,832 reviews
4.9 avg
Why EarnedStar
Everything generic review tools get wrong
Open platforms let anyone post anything. EarnedStar only publishes what was earned.
AI Fraud Detection
Every submission runs behavioral scoring, device fingerprinting, and NLP analysis in under 200ms. Fake reviews never reach your product page.
2,847 verified reviews
EarnedStar Verified
2,847 order-verified reviews
The Origami EarnedStar Badge
Four embed variants — Pill, Card, Stamp, and Dark — with your logo in the center medallion. Merchants display them with pride.
Verified by Purchase
Every review ties to a confirmed order invitation. No guest reviews. No open submissions. No adding stars without verification.
Google Seller Ratings
JSON-LD schema auto-injects. Stars appear in Search and Shopping within 72 hours.
Multi-Channel Invitations
Email, SMS, or QR code. Smart timing sends 7 days post-delivery.
White-Label for Agencies
Custom domain, your logo in the star center, 25 sub-accounts — one Agency plan.
Full Analytics
Rating distribution, sentiment trends, invitation response rates, and conversion correlation.
How reviews earn their star
No random reviews. No fake scores. Just buyers who actually ordered.
Every review passes order verification, fraud screening, and your approval before it publishes — or it never touches your rating.
01
Connect orders
Link your store or import past reviews matched to orders — one-time migration, then invitations only.
02
Invite real buyers
Fulfilled orders trigger branded invitations. No open form, no guest reviews, no bought ratings.
03
Every review earns its star
Purchase check → fraud score → your approval → publish. Only then does it count toward your badge.
Receipts — vs. theirs
Look at the whole table.
Not the brochure.
Sourced from competitor docs, G2, and merchant complaint threads on Reddit (2026). Updated continuously. We'll correct any line within 24 hours if you flag it — that's a public promise, not a button.
| Feature | EarnedStar | Trustpilot | Yotpo | Judge.me |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified-by-purchase only | Yes | No | partial | No |
| Public Trust Receipt | Yes | No | No | No |
| Public Moderation Ledger | Yes | No | No | No |
| 24h dispute SLA, public counter | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI Smart-Reply on entry plan | Yes | enterprise | premium | No |
| Native email + SMS | Yes | No | discontinued 2025 | No |
| Multi-domain on one plan | Yes | per-domain | No | No |
| Portable reviews — yours forever | Yes | No | No | No |
| Flat pricing, no annual lock-in | Yes | No | volume-based | limited |
| Starts at | Free / $29 | $199 | $79 | Free / $15 |
The Yotpo Exodus
Yotpo killed Email & SMS on Dec 31, 2025.
We built the replacement.
EarnedStar Reviews + EarnedMail + EarnedSend + EarnedLoyalty — one platform, flat price, fully integrated. Replace Klaviyo, Attentive, and Yotpo with a single $99/month plan.
EarnedMail
Drag-drop campaigns, review-triggered flows, behavioral segments.
EarnedSend
Native SMS plus WhatsApp and Apple Business Messages.
EarnedLoyalty
Points, referrals, VIP rewards — native to your review data.
AI Layer
Smart-reply, summaries, sentiment, fraud — included.
Bill calculator
Your current stack
- Klaviyo · Email · 10K subs$150/mo
- Attentive · SMS · 10K sends$300/mo
- Yotpo Reviews Pro$199/mo
- Smile.io Loyalty$49/mo
- Total$698/mo
EarnedStar Growth
$99/mo · all-in
You save $599/mo · $7,188/yr
Merchant stories
What store owners actually say
Real verified reviews from merchants on Growth, Pro, and Agency plans.
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“The fraud detection caught fake 1-star reviews before they published. That feature alone is worth the subscription.”
R
Rafael S.
TruckParts.io
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“Setup took 22 minutes. Google stars showed up in our ads within 4 days. CTR on Shopping went up 18%.”
A
Amelia W.
EuroParts Chicago
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“The agency plan lets me run reviews for 14 clients under my brand. I charge $149/month each. EarnedStar costs me $749 total.”
J
James L.
Commerce Marketing Agency
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“Switched from Trustpilot because they cap invitations. EarnedStar sends 2,000/month on Growth. We went from 200 reviews to 1,800 in three months.”
D
Diane K.
JDM Parts Direct
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“The fraud detection caught fake 1-star reviews before they published. That feature alone is worth the subscription.”
R
Rafael S.
TruckParts.io
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“Setup took 22 minutes. Google stars showed up in our ads within 4 days. CTR on Shopping went up 18%.”
A
Amelia W.
EuroParts Chicago
5.0 ★
EarnedStar
Verified Purchase“The agency plan lets me run reviews for 14 clients under my brand. I charge $149/month each. EarnedStar costs me $749 total.”
J
James L.
Commerce Marketing Agency
5.0 ★
Pricing
Simple plans. Earned trust at every tier.
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free
$0/mo
Prove verified reviews work on your store — upgrade when you outgrow 25 invites.
- 25 review invitations/month
- Verified by Purchase core
- 1 widget
- 1 user seat
- 1 domain
- EarnedStar branding on widgets/emails
starter
$29/mo
Perfect for stores just getting started
- 200 invitations/month
- Verified by Purchase badge
- Photo reviews
- Google rich snippets
- 2 widgets
- Basic AI fraud scoring
- 1 user seat
Most Popular
growth
$99/mo
The complete review stack for growing stores
- 2,000 invitations + SMS/month
- Video reviewsComing soon
- AI review summaries
- Google Seller Ratings
- 6 widget types
- 3 user seats
Best Value
pro
$249/mo
For high-volume stores
- 15,000 invitations/month
- AI Q&A SEO module
- Multi-platform syndication
- Full analytics + API
- 10 user seats
- 99.9% SLA
White-Label
agency
$749/mo
Run reviews for all your clients
- Unlimited invitations
- Full white-label branding
- 25 sub-accounts
- Dedicated CSM
- Priority Slack support
Every plan includes the EarnedStar badge · Verified by Purchase on every review
A free public toolPaste any Trustpilot or Yotpo profile.
Paste any Trustpilot or Yotpo profile.
We'll estimate how many reviews are fake.
The Review Audit runs an AI forensic scan and returns a shareable PDF report — language clusters, timing anomalies, reviewer history patterns. We do this free because we have nothing to hide.
Run a Review AuditQuestions? We've got answers.
No. Reviews require a purchase-matched invitation. Without a verified order, a submission never reaches your public profile — that's core to the EarnedStar name.
A trust manifesto
We're not building another review widget. We're building the trust layer that e-commerce should have had from the start.
Volume I · Edition 2026