When you post a customer review on Amazon, it won’t be instantly posted because it needs to go through moderation. Amazon moderates reviews to ensure they comply with the guidelines, keeping the review section trustworthy and helpful to both sellers and buyers.
So, you’ve posted a review, but it’s not posted yet. If this makes you worried that your review won’t be posted, you don’t have to worry because you can check pending Amazon reviews. How do you do that? Keep reading to find out.
Why Do You Need to Check Pending Reviews?
You may need to check pending reviews because your review hasn’t shown up yet when you check the product page. If you’re just reviewing products regularly, reviews taking a long time to show up may not be a big concern. However, the story is different if you’re an Amazon Vine reviewer.
As an Amazon Vine reviewer, you need to do a minimum number of reviews to stay within the program. Most Vine reviewers consider 50% of your orders over a 90-day period to be the bare minimum to stay enrolled.
Since you have a quota to fulfill, every review counts as an Amazon Vine reviewer, and it becomes extra important to know which reviews are pending and which ones are already posted. If a review didn’t make it through moderation, you want to know as soon as possible so you can review something else to make up for that shortfall.
How to Check Your Pending Amazon Reviews
Unfortunately, there’s no way to specifically check which of your reviews are still pending. However, you can check the reviews page on your Amazon profile to check which items you haven’t written reviews for. If an item isn’t on the list, then you’ve submitted the review, and it’s either still pending or has been posted.
If you’re trying to fulfill a review quota because you’re on Amazon Vine, many members use spreadsheets to track items they’ve received and reviewed to get around Amazon’s inability to show you pending reviews.
Does Amazon Notify If Your Review Wasn’t Approved?
Amazon notifies you via email if your review wasn’t approved. But if you’ve submitted a review over 14 days ago and still haven’t seen it on the product page, you can assume it’s probably not going to make it out of moderation and you can resubmit an edited version.
How Long Does It Take for Amazon Reviews to Show Up?
After you write an Amazon review, it usually shows up within 72 hours of submission. However, in some cases, moderation may take longer and your review can take up to 14 days to show up on the product listing.
Reviews may take longer to moderate because they’re close to breaking review policies and guidelines, but not quite breaking them outright. These edge cases make moderation harder, so they may take longer to approve.
How to Get Reviews Approved Faster
The best way to get reviews approved faster is to follow Amazon’s review policy and guidelines. So, ensure your reviews:
- Are relevant and focused on the product.
- Contain no profanity or harmful language.
- Doesn’t include any identifying private information like email addresses or phone numbers.
Many Amazon Vine members also mention that reviews with videos or pictures take longer to approve, likely because there’s more content to moderate. If you’re focused on getting reviews published fast, consider writing text-only reviews.
Factors That Can Cause Your Reviews to Not Appear
Amazon has strict review guidelines to ensure that a review section remains trustworthy and helps both buyers and sellers have better experiences on the site. If your review contains the following, it’s very likely to be rejected by Amazon.
- Feedback about the seller, order, or shipping. Product reviews must be focused on the product itself.
- Pricing comments that don’t apply to a wide audience, like “This item is $10 cheaper on Amazon than at my local store.”
- Reviews written in a language unsupported by the current Amazon site. For example, Amazon.com in America only allows English and Spanish-language reviews.
- Repetitive text and spam content, like ASCII art and reviews that only contain punctuation.
- Private information like home addresses, order numbers, and phone numbers.
- Profanity, harassment, threats, and other harmful language.
- Hate speech and the promotion of organizations that use hate speech.
- External links to other websites, especially phishing and malware sites.
- Compensated or bribed reviews.
- Content that infringes on other people’s intellectual property.
- Content that encourages illegal activities and crime.
In addition to your reviews not being posted, some violations may lead to account suspensions or Amazon limiting your access to certain features.
Editing and Deleting Posted Reviews
Changed your mind and want to edit your review or delete it outright? Amazon allows you to do just that. Here’s how:
- Sign into your Amazon account.
- Go to your profile.
- Go to your Community Activity section and find the review you want to change.
- Edit or delete the review.
You can edit reviews to correct typos or inaccuracies you found out only after your review’s gotten posted. You can also edit to update with new information after using the product further. Either way, review updates help your review become more relevant and helpful to the seller and would-be buyers.
If you want to make the review update more helpful to readers, you should be specific about which parts contain new information and mention when you updated the review. Moreover, there’s no time limit for review updates, so you can edit reviews anytime, even a long time after you have posted them.
Conclusion
There’s no way to explicitly check which of your Amazon reviews are currently pending. However, you can work around this by checking the reviews page on your profile to see which items you haven’t written reviews for. If an item isn’t listed there, then the review’s been submitted, and you can check the product page itself to see if it’s been posted.
It’s also worth mentioning that most Amazon reviews get posted within 72 hours of submission, or up to 14 days if it needs a lot of moderation. If your review hasn’t shown up after 14 days, assume that it didn’t make it through and write a new one.
