How WholesaleUp™'s reputation summary works — what the Review tab shows, where the data comes from, who can view it, and why member-submitted reviews are a planned feature.
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Each supplier profile on WholesaleUp™ has a Review tab that surfaces a reputation summary compiled from external review sources. This article explains what the tab shows, where the data comes from, who can view it, and what’s planned for member-submitted reviews.
Two sibling Review tabs — this article covers one of them
WholesaleUp™ shows reputation summaries in two places, with the same layout but different scope, different data source, and different gate:
/supplier/<slug> profile. Scope: the whole supplier. Data: external review sites, forums, public feedback about the business. Gate: Premium+ buyers and Supplier Pro members./deal/<slug> page. Scope: the specific goods in the listing. Data: product reputation signals about the brand / model. Gate: Standard, Premium, Premium+, and Supplier Pro (every paid tier).The two tabs are complementary: use the per-deal tab to vet a specific product you’re about to sample, and the supplier-wide tab to vet the business before starting a longer-term relationship.
When you’re deciding whether to place a first order with a new supplier, what other buyers have actually experienced matters more than any marketing copy. The Review tab compresses the reputation evidence that already exists on the public web into a single, scannable summary — so you get the shape of the supplier’s track record in seconds rather than spending an hour piecing it together across five different review sites.
The supplier-wide Review tab is visible to Premium+ buyers and Supplier Pro members. Other tiers see a locked preview on the supplier page. The sibling per-deal Review tab uses a less strict gate (Standard, Premium, Premium+, and Supplier Pro all see it) because product-level reputation is a less sensitive vetting signal than business-level reputation. For full tier comparisons, see the buyer access packages page.
The Review tab surfaces six pieces of information, all derived from the same underlying reputation dataset:
Overall score
A single aggregate rating derived from the underlying source set. Shown alongside the number of sources so you can gauge how much evidence sits behind it.
Source count
How many external review sources were aggregated (independent review sites, forum threads, public feedback, etc.). A high overall score backed by many sources is stronger than the same score backed by two.
Plain-English summary
A short paragraph that captures the common themes — what buyers consistently praise and what comes up as concerns.
Reputation data is compiled from the public web — not from on-platform buyer reviews (which don’t exist yet). The summary draws on three kinds of source:
Independent review sites
Public reviews on Trustpilot, Google, industry-specific review platforms, and similar services that buyers and suppliers reference day-to-day.
Forum threads and public feedback
Trade forums, reseller communities, and other public discussions where buyers share experiences with specific suppliers.
Aggregation & summarization
The underlying signals are aggregated, de-duplicated, and summarized so that no single unverified post dictates the score, and the summary emphasizes recurring patterns over one-off outliers.
A member-submitted review feature — where eligible buyers can add their own experience on top of the existing summary — is on the roadmap but not live today. When it launches it’ll sit alongside the existing summary rather than replacing it, so the Review tab shows both aggregated public-web evidence AND on-platform buyer experience. Eligibility rules, submission flow, and moderation will be announced closer to launch.
Because the Review tab is compiled from what the public web says about your business, improving the summary is mostly a matter of improving your public footprint. Here’s how:
Keep a clean public footprint
Your Review tab summary is assembled from what the public web already says about your business. A professional presence on Trustpilot, Google Business, and industry-specific review sites directly feeds the summary's source set.
Ask happy buyers to review you on those public platforms
Since the summary draws on external review sites (not on-platform buyer reviews), encouraging satisfied buyers to leave a review on Trustpilot or an industry forum is the most direct way to strengthen your Review tab summary.
Address recurring concerns in public responses
Where you're able to respond to reviews on the original platform (Trustpilot, Google, etc.), a professional, specific response is picked up on the next re-aggregation — it shows commitment to resolution and shapes the cautions the summary surfaces.
Don't game it
Incentivised or fake reviews get filtered by the review platforms themselves, and patterns of coordinated reviewing tend to show up in the Review tab summary as cautions rather than highlights. Authentic feedback compounds; fake feedback backfires.
If the summary or cautions block contains factual errors (e.g. reviews from a different business with a similar name were incorrectly attributed), contact support with specifics. We’ll investigate and refresh the dataset.
The Review tab is a useful shortcut but shouldn’t be the only thing you check before a first order. Combine it with the standard due-diligence checklist (registry lookup, paid sample, bank-account-name match, written terms) — no directory can guarantee every transaction.
A single caution doesn’t mean the supplier is a scam; a spotless highlights list doesn’t mean every order will go perfectly. Look at patterns across the summary and, if something looks off, ask the supplier about it directly — how they respond to a fair question is itself signal.
The Review tab is one signal among several
Reputation is just one part of evaluating and connecting with suppliers. For the fuller picture, read our guides on how to evaluate a supplier and how to contact suppliers effectively, plus the Verified badge FAQ for how the verification signal complements reputation. Together, these tools help you build long-term, mutually beneficial sourcing partnerships.
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Per-dimension scores
Individual scores for the dimensions identified as signal for THIS supplier — typically things like communication, product quality, delivery reliability, or pricing accuracy. The set of dimensions varies by supplier; it's not a fixed template.
Highlights & cautions
Short bullet-point callouts pulled from the sources — positive patterns on the highlights side, recurring concerns on the cautions side.
Last updated
The date the summary was last refreshed. Reputation data is re-gathered periodically so the view stays current.