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Product reviews

The Product Reviews section reads your review data from product metafields and renders it in a layout designed to be looked at, not skimmed.
Product reviews section

Product reviews with a rating summary and review cards

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Setup

VARAHI reads review data from product metafields, so you need a review app that writes to metafields.
The most common Shopify review apps that write to these namespaces are Judge.me and Loox. If you use a different app, tell us the metafield names and we will add support — the rendering layer does not care where the data comes from.

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Which product’s reviews?

The section uses, in order of priority:
  1. The current product, when the section is on a product page
  2. The Product handle setting, for the homepage
  3. The first product in the store, as a final fallback
Because of that fallback chain, deleting the product you pointed the homepage reviews at will silently switch the homepage to reviewing a different product. If your homepage reviews matter, re-point the setting after any product deletion.

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What it renders

If your review app stores the verified flag in a different metafield, the badge will not appear. The theme renders it when reviews.verified is truthy; otherwise it renders nothing rather than an empty badge.

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The empty state

When a product has no reviews, the section renders a considered empty state rather than disappearing — a heading, a line of copy, and a muted placeholder. This is deliberate: a missing section shifts the page layout, and a visible but honest empty state reads as “no reviews yet” rather than “something is broken”.
Do not seed fake reviews to fill the space. Every major marketplace treats seeded reviews as a policy violation, and it is a fast way to get a store delisted.

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Best practice

Social proof above the fold reduces hesitation; social proof next to the buy box closes the deal. Having it in both places is the single most common high-impact arrangement.
VARAHI’s review cards are minimal by design. If your app also injects its own review markup, disable the app’s frontend output and let the theme render.
The review count is the number shoppers trust. If your app’s metafield is stale relative to the app’s own count, fix the metafield — a mismatched count reads as manipulation.

Main product

Where reviews sit next to the buy box.

Feature overview

Every capability in one table.