How to Import Reviews from Aliexpress to Shopify with AI & Bulk Import for Free Easily 2026

Search the Shopify App Store for Kudosi (Ali Reviews), built by FireApps, and click Install. Before confirming, Shopify shows exactly what the app can access: personal data covering customers, store owner, and content providers, and store data covering customers, products, orders, discounts, and your Online Store. This is worth reading rather than skipping, since a reviews app legitimately needs product and storefront access to import and display reviews, but you should know what you're granting before you click Install.

After installing, Kudosi walks you through its own three-step setup rather than dropping you straight into the dashboard. Step 3 of 3 is titled "Almost there!

Install Review Box" — you select your store theme (Dawn, in most new stores) and choose which page to add the Review Box to, typically the home page or product pages. A visual preview on the right shows exactly where the box will sit in your theme's layout, circled on a mock product page, so you're not guessing at placement.

Once you click Add Review Box, the app automatically inserts the widget into the right spot in your theme, and the setup screen confirms with a green "Review Box added" message. Click Save in the theme editor, return to the app, and click Finish to complete setup. From here the review display mechanics are handled — the remaining work is actually getting reviews into the system.

Inside the app, the left-hand menu splits review handling into Import Reviews, Collect Reviews, Manage Reviews, Show Reviews, Translation, Settings & Pricing, and Integration. Import Reviews is the section built for pulling existing AliExpress product reviews in, typically by pasting the AliExpress product URL you're sourcing from so the app can scrape and format matching reviews for your Shopify listing. Collect Reviews, by contrast, is for gathering new reviews from your own customers going forward — the two features solve different problems, so don't confuse them.

The reviews list uses status tabs — All Status, Scheduled, Sent, Opened, Partially reviewed, Reviewed, Cancelled, and Error — so you can track exactly where each batch of imported reviews stands. On a fresh install this list is empty, showing "Hmm, no data updated yet" until your first import job runs. Watching the Error tab specifically matters, since AliExpress listings occasionally fail to scrape cleanly and those failures need a retry rather than getting silently skipped.

Once reviews are imported, use Show Reviews to control the layout, star styling, and which reviews surface first on a product page. Matching the widget's font and color scheme to your store's theme matters more than it seems — a review box that looks bolted on rather than native to your storefront undercuts the exact trust signal you installed the app to build in the first place.