Module 3 resource

Review Link & QR Generator

Turn your Google listing into a link that opens the review box directly, with the star rating already showing, then print it as a table card. The gap between intending to ask for reviews and actually asking is usually just a piece of card.

Your listing

You need your Google Place ID. If you don't know it, the steps underneath take about a minute.

Venue name Google Place ID

Enter a Place ID to generate your review link

How to find your Place ID 1 minute

Open Google's Place ID Finder at developers.google.com and scroll to the map tool.
Type your venue name and suburb into the search box on the map.
Click your venue's pin. The Place ID appears in the info window, starting with ChIJ.
Copy it and paste it above. It never changes, so you only ever do this once.

If your listing is brand new and doesn't appear yet, finish the profile setup in lesson 3.2 first and come back.

Your table cards

Two per page when printed. Cut along the dashed line. Put one on every table, one at the counter, and keep a few by the till for staff to hand over with the bill.

Your venue

Enjoyed it tonight?

Scan to leave us a Google review. It takes about twenty seconds and it genuinely helps a small business.

Your venue

Thanks for coming in

If we got it right, a quick Google review would mean a lot. Scan here — it takes twenty seconds.

Before you print 500 of them

Scan the code above with your own phone camera first. It should open the Google review box for your venue with the star selector showing. If it opens the wrong listing, the Place ID is wrong; if nothing happens, the code hasn't generated yet.

Where these actually work. On the table from the start of service, not handed over with the bill, because the moment to ask is while they're still enjoying themselves rather than while they're reaching for a card. On the receipt footer. On a counter stand for takeaway. And in the follow-up SMS from Module 9, where the same link goes straight into the message. What does not work is a sign by the door nobody reads on the way out.

What you cannot do: offer anything in exchange for a review, or ask only the happy customers. Both breach Google's policies and the ACCC's guidance on reviews, and both are easy to do accidentally with a well-meaning staff script. Ask everyone, every time, with no incentive attached.