How to Integrate GetKudos App with Your KartRocket Store
Have you ever received testimonials from people on social networks? If so, time to show them off in one convenient spot: Your Website!
GetKudos helps you do this. It is a business tool that Collects, Curates & Displays positive customer reviews, testimonials or simplifies social reviews and testimonials. It allows you to ‘social Proof’ your brand online by picking positive mentions from your Facebook & Twitter feeds and embedding the result as a widget on the pages of your choice.
GetKudos, headquartered in Singapore is created by Zopim, a live chat solution that lets you have conversations with visitors on your website
Key Features
1.Import reviews from your social channels into Get Kudos
2.No reviews? Companies can use Get Kudos- Collect-Kudos features to collect new reviews through email & website from visitors
3.Custom reviews- Make your own review. Showcase industry awards, media mentions e.g.- As mentioned on Techcrunch, Asia’s top 10 web apps
4.Suggested reviews- It automatically suggests the best reviews for your businesses to display
5.Designed to be mobile-friendly and with multiple widget sizes to choose from
6.Gives the stats of the reviews e.g.-total no of reviews, reviews from Facebook, reviews collected via GetKudos through email & website collect Kudos feature
Benefits
1.Promotes positive social media posts on your business website
2.Establish trust with online visitors by showcasing other customer experiences
3.Show off positive reviews from past customers
4.Custom reviews help you to showcase your company better
5.Companies can use GetKudos “ Collect-Kudos” feature to collect new reviews
6.By pulling reviews from registered users on Facebook and Twitter, Get Kudos helps ensure authenticity
7.Business have multiple Widget sizes to choose from
8.All plans are free during betaSIGN UP PROCESS
1.To start using the app, request an invitation at http://signup.getkudos.me/
Signing up or registering for Get Kudos Application has can be done via 3 ways:
a.Connecting with Twitter
b.Connecting with Facebook
c.Signing up with EmailPlease Note: The current sign up for GetKudos accepts new users through Facebook or Twitter for now. Leave your email address and you shall be added to the waiting list.
2.Here, we have selected the © option i.e. sign up with email. See below for reference
a.)An email will be sent to you to verify your account on the given email ID
b.)Click on verify email. Once you verify your email it shows that the user has been verified. Please see below for reference.
c.)Your Account has been created , log into your dashboard with the username and password on https://getkudos.me/login
d.)After signing in there is a short Tutorial page for a deep understanding of the application
Collect curate display
1. Collect
We need to add a social media channel in the ‘Add Channel’ to import reviews from there. Click on ‘Add Channel’. Here we have added Taskr’s Facebook page.
a.)Now after adding Taskr, , get Kudos pulls comments from its Facebook page. In case of twitter channel, it will pull all tweets by your twitter followers. In this case, it has imported all the comments and posts on taskr’s Facebook page. Any new review is automatically imported every 10 minutes.
COLLECT KUDOS FEATURE
1.No reviews? No fear, you can get new reviews with our collect-Kudos feature.
This can be done via email- send out an email to your loyal customers, asking them to give you reviews in your emails
2.Collect Kudos from Customers
3.Preview of Give me Kudos Link in my email Signature
4.By clicking on ‘Give me kudos’ customer is taken to the collect form
CUSTOM REVIEWS
You can also add custom reviews.
•Go to Custom reviews click on it and add customer review
•Fill the fields as shown and then click on create custom review
•Your own created custom review
2. CURATE
•Curate reviews into Kudos for display on your website.
•Click on ‘Curate’.
•Click the ‘Crown’ icon to select which testimonials will appear in your widget
3.DISPLAY
a)Floating Widget
b)Inline widget
You can choose between the above 2 options, also customize & preview the changes. Refer below:
a) The above is a floating widget with window state.
b)Above is a button
c)Above is a floating widget Banner
d)Above is an inline widget
STEPS TO INTEGRATE WITH YOUR STORE
1.This is the step of integrating Get Kudos App with Your store
2. Click on ‘Display’ Button.
3.Choose floating or an inline widget , whichever you want
4.Customize & Preview
5.Save changes
6.Scroll down and look for embed widget where the code is displayed
7. This is the code above which needs to be copied and pasted to your store on KartRocket’s Panel.
Now in order to do that follow the steps below
a) Open your store on Kartrocket panel , log in with the username and password details and your dashboard would open. See Below for reference.
b)Click on Apps on the right hand side. This will show a list of apps in the app store. See below for reference
c)Now, Click on marketing category on the top bar. This will show a list of marketing apps. See below for reference
d)Scroll down to reach GetKudos App or you can search on the search bar. Click on the green install button and install the application
e)The page will refresh and the install would change to a settings button showing ‘ON’ status
f)Click on settings and paste the entire code that you copied (refer step no 4) as shown below and save it. It shows a message saying success, you have modified module Register Get Kudos. Take a look at the steps below
OUTPUT ON LIVE STORE
a)Click on View store in the Kartrocket panel and view the output.
Below is an example of inline widget selected
b)Below is an example of floating widget banner
