# Quickstart: collect and show customer testimonials

> Collect your first customer testimonial and show it on your website in about five minutes, with two lines of embed code and no plugins.

Source: https://sitebackend.com/docs/testimonials/quickstart · Updated: 2026-09-28

SiteBackend collects testimonials from your customers and shows the ones you approve on your website. You paste two embed codes: one for the form customers fill in, one for the widget that shows approved testimonials. There's nothing to install and no code to write.

### Create an account and a site

[Sign up](https://sitebackend.com/signup) and click **Add site** (the **+** next to **Sites** in the sidebar). A site is one website, for example `example.com`.

### Add the collect form to your site

Open your site's **Testimonials** tab, then **Collect**. Choose what to ask for (a star rating, a photo, their role and company), check the live preview, and copy the embed code:

```html
<div data-sitebackend-widget="c_YOUR_COLLECT_ID"></div>
<script src="https://sitebackend.com/widget.js" async></script>
```

Paste it into the page where customers should leave a testimonial, or send them a link to that page.

### Approve a testimonial

Leave a test testimonial through the form. It lands in **Testimonials → Inbox** as **Pending**, and owners and admins get an email about it. Click **Approve**.

To skip this step for good ones, set **Auto-approve** on the Collect page so 4★ and 5★ testimonials go live on their own.

### Show approved testimonials

Go to **Testimonials → Widgets**, click **New widget** and pick a layout: wall, carousel, single highlight or rating badge. Copy its embed code into the page where the testimonials should appear:

```html
<div data-sitebackend-widget="w_YOUR_WIDGET_ID"></div>
<script src="https://sitebackend.com/widget.js" async></script>
```

If the page already has the collect form, you only need the `div`: the script is needed once per page.

> **Tip:** Set your site's **domain** in **Settings** so your widgets only load on your own website (and on `localhost` for testing).

## Next steps

- Choose which testimonials each widget shows, and style it, in [testimonial widgets](https://sitebackend.com/docs/testimonials/widgets).
- Set up Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, WordPress or Webflow with the testimonial guides.
- See what the Free plan includes in [plans and limits](https://sitebackend.com/docs/workspace/plans-and-limits).