Configure the Shopreview & Customer

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First, you will need to configure general information such as the layout and general review settings.

Review Settings: 
Allow Customer Reviews.
Select if you wish to allow customers to write a shop review.

Allow Guest Reviews.
Select if you wish to allow guests to write a shop review.

Paging.
Enable paging to create multiple pages when the maximum number of reviews has been exceeded. 

Reviews Per Page.
When the paging function is enabled, select the maximum number of reviews, after which a new page will be created.

Layout Options:
Front end URL.
Select the front end URL where the shop reviews will be displayed.

Add a Link to Top link.
Enable this function to create a shop review link in the top menu of your store

Thank You Message.
Enter the message that will be displayed on the page when the shop review is completed. 

Title.
Enter a Search Engine friendly title for the shop review page.

Description.
Enter a Search Engine friendly description of the shop review page.

Keywords.
Enter a maximum of 20 Search Engine friendly keywords for the shop review page.

It is possible to enable extra customer fields if you wish to.

Customer Image.

Select if you want to allow customers to upload images.

Customer Extra Field 1.

Enable an extra customer field to gain more information about the customer that wrote the shop review. Select the right name and decide if it needs to be a required field.

Customer Extra Field 2.

Enable an extra customer field to gain more information about the customer that wrote the shop review. Select the right name and decide if it needs to be a required field.

After the customer has filled in the required customer details, they may then review your store. You may select which kinds of fields are important for you. This could be something about your service, deliverability or more.

Review Field 1.
Select the name of the first review field.
Fill in the text for the placeholder. This text will be shown as a light grey text within the text area. Here, you may fill in some tips or general information about the review field. You may also enter a minimum length for the shop review to ensure that it is a valuable review.

Review Field 2.
Select if you wish to enable this review field and choose the name of the first review field.
Fill in the text for the placeholder. This text will be shown as a light grey text within the text area. Here you may fill in some tips or general information about this review field. You may also enter a minimum length for the shop review to ensure that it is a valuable review.

Review Field 3.
Select if you wish to enable this review field and choose the name of the first review field.
Fill in the text for the placeholder. This text will be shown as a light grey text within the text area. Here you may fill in some tips or general information about this review field. You may also enter a minimum length for the shop review to ensure that it is a valuable review.

Review Field 4.
Select if you wish to enable this review field and choose the name of the first review field.
Fill in the text for the placeholder. This text will be shown as a light grey text within the text area. Here you may fill in some tips or general information about this review field. You may also enter a minimum length for the shop review to ensure that it is a valuable review.

Review Field 5.
Select if you wish to enable this review field and choose the name of the first review field.
Fill in the text for the placeholder. This text will be shown as a light grey text within the text area. Here you may fill in some tips or general information about this review field. You may also enter a minimum length for the shop review to ensure that it is a valuable review.

The sidebar functionality will automatically add a block in your sidebar when it is activated.

Left Sidebar.
 
Select if you wish to enable the extension and fill in the desired title of the sidebar block.
Display the big stars in this sidebar and select if you wish to show the score out of 5 or out of 100. You may also show a couple of reviews with the desired length for the review. Last of all, select if you wish to sort the reviews based on the review date or to show it randomly.

Right Sidebar. 
Select if you wish to enable the extension and fill in the desired title of the sidebar block.
Display the big stars in this sidebar and select if you wish to show the score out of 5 or out of 100. You may also show a couple of reviews with the desired length for the review. Last of all, select if you wish to sort the reviews based on the review date or to show it randomly. For more information, click here

Effects.
It is possible to give the sidebar block a fade effect. In this option, you can activate or de-activate this effect easily.

Rich Snippets.
Only when the sidebar block is shown on your homepage can you activate this option as it will add a little snippet markup to the sidebar and this markup may only be shown on the homepage, so if the sidebar is not on your homepage, please do not use this Rich Snippet option but use the Rich Snippets from the Homepage block. Also, do not use this option when you use the Homepage widget.

Enable the homepage block to show the shop reviews and product reviews to encourage attention to the reviews. There is a big theme and a small theme. Only with the big theme can you show a few shop reviews and product reviews. The small widget will show your shop review results and will also generate the Rich Snippets.

You can add the homepage widget to your CMS homepage by adding the following code without the spaces between the
{ {block type="shopreview/widget" name="shopreviewwidget"} }

Note: 
make sure you do not use the rich snippet option from the sidebar when you are using the homepage widget.

First of all, select the right Email sender that is configured in your Magento Store.

Admin Notification.
Select if you wish to receive an e-mail whenever a new shop review is written. If you enabled this option, select the right e-mail address and template for this notification.

Email Customer After Submitting.
Select if the customer will receive an e-mail after they have submitted the shop review. If you enabled this option, select the template for this notification.

Email Customer After Review is Approved.
Select if the customer will receive an e-mail when the written shop review is approved in your Magento store. If you enabled this option, select the template for this notification. 

You may enable the option to automatically send the customer a coupon code when they write a shop review. By selecting the trigger, you may choose between 2 different options:

- After the review is placed (the coupon code will be shown on the success page)
- After the review is approved (the coupon code will be sent by e-mail)

In the e-mail as well the success page, you may enter a description of this coupon. Use some variables in your description as shown below to display this data in the success page or e-mail.

Code:  
Function: Will show the expiration date of the coupon, in order to show that the discount is temporary.

Code:
Function: Will show the coupon code that can be used.

Price Rule.
You will need to generate a shopping cart price rule to add this to the coupon generation functionality. Ensure that you enabled the Use Auto Generation in the Rule Information tab to make this functionality work. When you have selected the right shopping cart price rule, you will be able to set the number of the days that this code will be valid.

Coupon Code.

As the coupon code is automatically generated, you may add more variable values to the automatically generated code such as Length, Format, Prefix and Suffix. 

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