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Share a review link

Send clients a link where they can pin comments with no account.

A review link is your staging address with ?review=1 added at the end. Your clients open it, type their name once, and start pinning comments. They never need an account.

Before you start

  • You are signed in to the dashboard.
  • You have a project, and the widget is on your staging site. See Install the widget.

Steps

  1. Open the dashboard. You see the Projects page with your project cards.
  2. Find the card for your project.
  3. Click View site on that card. Your staging site opens with ?review=1 at the end of the address.
  4. Copy the full address from your browser's address bar.
  5. Paste it into an email or a chat, and send it to your client.

You can also build the link by hand: your staging address plus ?review=1. That part tells the widget to switch on, even on a host it would normally skip.

What your client sees

They see the Coohoo toolbar at the bottom of the page. They click a spot, write a note, and send it. You see the comment in your dashboard.

Inside a project page, the one that lists comments, View site and the page links work differently. They add a moderation token to the address, ?coohoo-mod=.... A moderation token is a key that lets that browser edit or delete any comment on the project. It helps you tidy up feedback while you review.

If something looks wrong

  • The link you sent contains coohoo-mod. You copied it from a project page. Send the plain ?review=1 link from the project card instead.
  • Your client sees no toolbar. Check that you sent the staging address. The widget never shows on your production domain, even with ?review in it.

Tip: Coohoo remembers ?review for each host, so after the first visit, later pages on the same site work without it.

See also