Available for Early user program participants.
Ways to improve is a new section on your Analytics Review collection section. It looks at how your store is set up and shows you up to three ranked things you're not doing yet that would help you collect more reviews — each one applied in a single click, after showing you exactly what will change. On the Awesome plan, it also compares each stage of your collection against stores like yours, so you can see which stage is behind rather than guessing.
How it looks
The section sits on Analytics > Review collection, just below Stores like yours and above your collection funnel. Each recommendation is a row; clicking it opens a window that spells out what will change before anything is saved.
A row about one of your collection rates shows two figures: your own number, and what stores like yours are at — plus the time period it measured, for example Last 12 months.
How it works
Use Ways to improve to:
See what to fix, ranked — recommendations that are costing you a measurable number of reviews come first, then setup gaps in a fixed order.
Know exactly what a change does before you make it — every window shows a What will change and a Not changing list, and nothing is saved until you click Apply.
Keep a tidy to-do list — fix something (here or on its own settings page) and the row disappears next time the page loads. Undo it and the row comes back.
See which stage is behind, not just that something is — your request rate, review collection rate, open rate, click rate and deliverability are each measured and compared separately.
Jump to the stage on your funnel — rows about those stages carry a Show in funnel chip, and clicking a stage on the funnel chart highlights the matching row.
Know when we can't tell you — any rate we can't compare is listed with the reason, rather than quietly left out.
Supported plans
The section and most recommendations are available on the Free plan, and you'll always see at least one recommendation you can act on.
Five recommendations are part of the Awesome plan: Turn on review reminders, Translate your review requests, Enable coupons, Your review coupon is set up but switched off, and Send requests after delivery. Opening one of these offers a free trial or an upgrade instead of applying directly.
Considerations
The section only appears when there's something to improve. A store that's already well set up sees no section at all — that's expected, not a bug.
You'll see at most three recommendations at a time, and the list is never padded — one recommendation means there's one thing worth doing.
Two recommendations depend on your order history ("Ask repeat customers again" and "Stop discarding requests for products that left your store"). If your store has no matching orders yet, those rows won't appear even if the setting looks off.
Recommendations don't follow the date filter at the top of the page — changing the date range won't change what's suggested.
Applying a change makes the smallest edit it describes. For example, enabling coupons on a store that uses tiered discounts won't switch you to a single discount — your tiers stay as they are.
Setting up email authentication and Translating your review requests open a separate settings page in a new tab; the recommendation stays on the list until the change is actually done, then clears when you come back.
Comparing your rates needs the Awesome plan. On the Free plan, these five rates show up in the "Rates we aren't comparing" list instead of as a recommendation, with upgrading listed as the reason. Letting customers leave a star rating on its own (below) is a separate Free recommendation, and isn't affected by plan.
Some rates can't be compared yet, and we say so. Each one is listed with its reason: you've turned off benchmark sharing, we need more of your data to compare it reliably, comparing it is part of Awesome, or it's a measure we haven't built yet. Reminder uplift always reads "Coming soon" — that's not a fault with your store.
"We need at least 200 orders to compare this reliably" is a condition, not a countdown. We don't promise that waiting will change it.
You may stop seeing recommendations you used to see. Only three recommendations are shown at a time, and a stage that's behind ranks ahead of a setup suggestion. So on a store with rates to fix, the setup recommendations can be pushed off the list until those are dealt with.
Deliverability and reminder uplift have no funnel chip, because the collection funnel has no stage for them.
After you apply the star-ratings recommendation, it won't come back for a while. We wait until enough new requests have gone out to judge the change fairly — that's 3, 6 or 12 months depending on how much data your store produces. There's no countdown and no report; the recommendation is simply absent. This wait applies only to that one recommendation.
Comparing yourself to stores like yours
Available on the Awesome plan.
Some rows in Ways to improve don't just tell you what to fix. They tell you how a stage of your collection compares to similar stores, so you can see whether it needs attention instead of guessing.
We compare five parts of your review collection:
Request rate — how many of your orders get asked for a review.
Review collection rate — how many of your requests turn into reviews.
Open rate — how many of your requests get opened.
Click rate — how many opened requests reach your review form.
Deliverability — how many of your request emails actually arrive.
The first four are compared against stores like yours. Deliverability works differently: we compare it to a fixed target of 98%, not to other stores. Almost every store already sits close to 100%, so comparing it to peers would be misleading.
You'll only see a row for a stage that's behind. A stage that's already doing fine gets no row and no message — that's why you'll often see fewer than five rows.
We never say a stage is above, below or behind in the text itself. You get your own figure and the comparison figure, and you judge it.
Which stores am I compared to? Stores similar to yours in size, country and category. We will never tell you which stores they are, how many there are, or anything else that could identify one.
Finding and applying a recommendation
From Judge.me admin, click View analytics.
Scroll to Ways to improve, below Stores like yours.
Click a recommendation row to open its window, e.g. Ask repeat customers again.
Read What will change and Not changing — these are the exact edits that would be applied once you confirm.
Click the Apply button (its label names the change, e.g. Turn review requests on, Ask repeat customers again, Enable coupons).
For a recommendation that needs a value (like a coupon discount), enter it first — Apply stays disabled until you do.
The window confirms the change, and the recommendation clears from the list on the next load.
Letting customers leave a star rating on its own
Available on the Free plan.
This recommendation appears when a lot of the customers who reach your review form leave without finishing one.
Here's how it works:
From Judge.me admin, go to Analytics.
Click the Review collection tab.
Find the row Let customers leave a star rating on its own and click it.
Read the window that opens. It shows what changes: reviews with no written text move from Not accepted to Accepted. It also shows what doesn't change: the title and text fields stay on the form, they just stop being required.
Click Turn on star-only reviews.
Interactions
Ways to improve doesn't work in isolation. Here's how it interacts with a couple of other things you might see on the same page:
The "Stores like yours" card above this section — if that card already shows your collection rate as average or better, we won't also show a recommendation saying it's behind. The page won't say two different things about the same number.
Sending review requests through another platform (Klaviyo, Shopify Flow, Mailchimp) — we only measure what goes through Judge.me, so those comparisons are held back rather than shown against incomplete data.
Troubleshooting
I don't see the Ways to improve section at all.
I don't see the Ways to improve section at all.
Either your store has nothing it can suggest right now (a good sign), or the feature isn't switched on for your store yet — it's rolling out to Early user program first.
A recommendation came back after I thought I'd handled it.
A recommendation came back after I thought I'd handled it.
The list reads your live settings every time it loads. If the underlying setting went back to its old value, the recommendation returns — there's no waiting period.
Resources
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