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Star ratings

Your Complete Guide To Show Star Ratings, Enhance Your Store's Online Reputation and Customer Confidence Through Product Ratings.


Step 1: Enable LAI core script (LAI app embed)

  • From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
  • Find the theme you want to edit, then click Edit theme.
  • In the top-left menu, click the App embeds icon.
  • Enable the LAI Core Script.
  • Click Save in the top-right corner.


Step 2: Add star rating


Depending on your theme version and the page where you want to display it, you may need to either add a block (for 2.0 themes, product pages) or insert code (for 1.0 themes, collection pages) to show star rating.


  • Go to Widgets > Click Customize under the Star rating widget:

On 2.0 themes

1. Under product title in product pages

  • Click Add to theme:
  • A star rating block will be added to your Default product template:
  • Hover over the Star rating block, then click and hold the 6-dot icon (⋮⋮). Drag the block up or down to reposition it > CLick Save

2. Under product title in collection pages

  • Follow the instruction in app or click Contact us so our support team can further assist you.

On 1.0 themes

  • Follow the instruction in app or click Contact us so our support team can further assist you.
  • This is a piece of code to show star ratings:
<div class="scm-reviews-rate" data-rate-version2={{ product.metafields.scm_review_importer.reviewsData.reviewCountInfo | json | escape }} data-product-id= {{ product.id }}></div>


Questions

Q1: Where does the star rating show?

  • The star rating shows right under product title as default. It's clickable and directs you to the review section.

Q2: How to show the average rating instead of the total number of reviews?

Step 1: Please go to Display > Toggle on Show star rating texts

Step 2: Replace {{n}} with {{average_rating}}

Step 3: Click Save and re-check it on your online store



Updated on: 25/05/2026

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