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Reviews integration

Yelp Reviews + CaptiFi

Prompt happy WiFi guests to review you on Yelp, on its own or alongside Google and TripAdvisor, with no API key needed. Hardware included, 30-day trial.

Overview

What does the Yelp Reviews integration do?

The Yelp Reviews integration points your automated review requests at Yelp, on its own or alongside Google and TripAdvisor. Paste your venue's Yelp business page link, choose where happy guests should land, and the review request email and text message your guests already receive start sending them to Yelp when their rating meets your Minimum stars for a public review. No Yelp account connection and no API key are needed. Available on the Growth plan and above, the same as the Google and TripAdvisor prompts.

You choose the destination per venue: Google only, TripAdvisor only, Yelp only, or a branded choice page that lists every review platform you have set up so the guest picks. Lower ratings open the private feedback form, and the rating and any comment reach you by email.

Yelp offers no licensed API for review text, so Yelp reviews are not pulled into the Review Inbox and CaptiFi does not draft replies to them. The inbox covers Google and TripAdvisor. For venues whose customers search on Yelp, the integration adds Yelp as a destination for the review requests you already send.

What you get

Why connect Yelp Reviews to CaptiFi

Yelp prompts from one pasted link

Your Yelp business page link is the whole connection. There is no Yelp login, no API key and no approval process; guests are sent to your public Yelp page to write their review.

Let the guest choose

The branded choice page shows a button for every platform you have set up, so a guest who lives on Yelp and a guest who lives on Google each land somewhere they already have an account.

Same flow your guests already know

The review request email and text message do not change. The link routes each guest once they rate their visit, so adding Yelp never needs a template edit.

Complaints still reach you first

Ratings below your minimum open the private feedback form, and every rating and comment is emailed to the address you choose, whichever public platform you send happy guests to.

What data flows to Yelp Reviews

Your venue Yelp business page link (public)
How it works

Up and running in minutes

1

Paste your Yelp business page link

Open the Yelp Reviews card on the Integrations page and paste the address of your business page on yelp.com. You can copy it straight from your browser on your Yelp page.

2

Choose where happy guests land

Pick Yelp only, or let the guest choose on a branded page that lists every platform you have set up. Google only remains the default if you change your mind later.

3

Save and test

Save the card, then use Send test email to try the flow on yourself: rate the test visit at or above your minimum and confirm you land on your Yelp page.

Read the Yelp Reviews setup guide

Step by step, with screenshots.

In the real world

How venues use Yelp Reviews with CaptiFi

Restaurant

A neighbourhood restaurant in a city where diners pick where to eat on Yelp sends every happy guest straight there, and keeps the private feedback form for anyone who had a poor night.

Bar

A cocktail bar lets the guest choose. Locals with a Google account post there, visitors who found the bar on Yelp post on Yelp, and the bar sends one review request to cover both.

Salon

A salon that gets most of its new clients from Yelp switches its review requests to Yelp only, so every good appointment has a chance of turning into the review a new client reads first.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Yelp API key or account connection?
No. Review prompts only need your public Yelp business page link; guests are sent to your Yelp page to write their review exactly as if they had found it themselves.
Does CaptiFi pull my Yelp reviews into the Review Inbox?
No. Yelp offers no licensed API for review text, so Yelp reviews are not synced and CaptiFi does not draft replies to them. The Review Inbox covers Google and TripAdvisor. Yelp Reviews is a review prompt destination only.
Does the review request email or text message change?
No. Your guests receive the same branded request they always have. The link inside it routes each guest to the destination you chose once they rate their visit.
Can I use Yelp alongside Google and TripAdvisor?
Yes. Choose "let the guest choose" and guests whose rating meets your Minimum stars for a public review see a branded page with a button for every platform you have set up. Set up only Yelp and Google, and the page shows those two.
Is review gating allowed?
CaptiFi asks every guest who gave marketing consent the same way, at most once every 90 days per venue, with no incentive offered. The routing happens after the guest has given their rating, and the private feedback form for lower ratings keeps your public review links visible, so nobody is prevented from reviewing you publicly. Review solicitation rules vary by platform; check Yelp's current policies for your situation.
Which plan do I need?
Yelp Reviews is available on the Growth plan and above, the same as the Google and TripAdvisor review prompts.

Start using Yelp Reviews with CaptiFi today

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