Free · No signup · No tracking
Your Google review link,
ready to print.
Find the Place ID behind your listing, turn it into a one-tap review link, then design the QR code and counter card your customers actually scan.
- Lands straight on the star box — no hunting through Maps
- Print-ready counter cards, table tents and stickers
- Everything runs in your browser
01Which one is yours?
Your listing
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What a Place ID actually is
Every business, park and post box on Google Maps carries a permanent identifier —
a string like ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4. Names change,
addresses change, phone numbers change. The Place ID doesn't.
That permanence is the whole point. A review link built on your business name breaks the day you rebrand. A link built on your Place ID keeps working, which is why every booking tool, review platform and listing integration asks for one.
- Direct review links
- Customers land on the five-star box, not a search page they have to navigate.
- QR codes that survive
- Printed once, valid for the life of the listing — no reprints after a rebrand.
- Integrations
- Widgets, booking systems and reputation tools all key off the Place ID.
- API access
- Pull live ratings, review counts and opening hours through the Places API.
Getting the link used
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Ask at the peak, not the end
The moment right after the thing went well — the plate cleared, the job signed off, the keys handed back — beats a follow-up email two days later by a wide margin.
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Put the QR where hands already are
Counter, receipt, table tent, back of the invoice, the van door. Scanning is the lowest-friction ask you have; typing a business name into Maps is not.
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Send the link, not the instructions
“Search for us on Google and leave a review” loses most people. One tappable link, in a text message, right after the visit, does not.
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Reply to every review
Responses are public, they're read by the next customer, and they make the next reviewer more likely to bother.
Google allows you to ask any customer for a review. It does not allow incentives, and it does not allow filtering out unhappy customers before you ask — that's review gating, and it's a policy violation.
Questions
Is this really free?
Yes. No account, no limit, no analytics. The page is static files; your lookups never touch a server of ours because there isn't one.
Why does search by name want an API key?
Querying Google's place database goes through the Places API, which requires a key tied to a billing account. There's no way around that for a page with no backend. The other two tabs — paste a link, or enter an ID — need no key at all and produce exactly the same review link and QR code.
How do I get a key?
In the Google Cloud Console: create a project, enable Places API (New), then Credentials → Create credentials → API key. Restrict it to your own domain under HTTP referrers. Google's monthly free allowance covers ordinary use of a tool like this.
My business doesn't come up.
Add the street address and state. If it still doesn't appear the listing may be unverified or suspended. Open it in Google Maps instead, copy the URL from the address bar, and use the “Paste a Maps link” tab.
My short maps.app.goo.gl link doesn't work.
Short links hide the ID until they're expanded, and browsers can't expand another site's link for you — that's a cross-origin restriction, not an oversight. Open the short link, let it redirect, then copy the long URL.
Does the review link work on phones?
Yes — it opens the Google Maps app or the mobile browser with the rating box ready. Google does require the reviewer to be signed in to a Google account; no link can skip that step.
Is a Place ID the same as a CID?
No. A CID is an older numeric identifier that still shows up in some Maps URLs. The Place ID is the current identifier used across Google's APIs and the one nearly every tool asks for.
Where is my API key stored?
In your browser's local storage, on your device only. It's sent directly to Google when you search and nowhere else. Remove it any time from the key icon in the header.