Booking.com Review Widget for Ecwid (by Lightspeed) — Free, Shows the Reviews Booking.com's Widget Can't
BlooTrue's Booking.com Review Widget for Ecwid is a free, app-free embed that displays your Booking.com reviews on any Ecwid (Ecwid by Lightspeed) site. Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it never shows your reviews or your star rating, so the verified-guest praise you earned stays locked on booking.com. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turning them into a paste-ready Ecwid embed. Every Booking.com review comes from a verified guest — someone who booked through Booking.com and honored the booking — so there are no drive-by reviews from people who never ate at your hotel. Ratings are native 1–5 stars; the widget header shows your real Booking.com average with no conversion. Ecwid is unusual compared to BigCommerce or Shopify: it's primarily designed to be embedded inside other websites (Wix, WordPress, Squarespace, Weebly, plain HTML) rather than be a standalone store. So the install path branches. For a standalone Ecwid Instant Site (Ecwid-hosted site with its own URL), paste the BlooTrue embed via the storefront editor's Code element. For embedded-Ecwid setups (the more common path), paste the embed on the host page's HTML widget instead — outside the Ecwid iframe — because the iframe is sandboxed and the reviews look better surrounding the Ecwid store. Ecwid was acquired by Lightspeed in 2021; the product is now Ecwid by Lightspeed but the dashboard still says Ecwid in most places. No Booking.com API key, no developer application, no hotel-account login required.
How to embed Booking.com reviews on Ecwid in 60 seconds
- Paste your full Booking.com hotel URL (https://www.booking.com/hotel/your-hotel) into the configurator above.
- Pick a widget style and customize colors, theme, and layout.
- Click Copy Code to get the one-line HTML embed.
- Standalone Ecwid Instant Site: open Ecwid control panel → Sales Channels → Storefront → Edit Site, click + Add Element, drop in the Code element, paste, click Publish.
- Embedded Ecwid: paste the embed on the host page's HTML widget — Custom Code in Wix, Custom HTML block in WordPress, Code Block in Squarespace.
- Save / publish — your Booking.com reviews are live on Ecwid.
Why doesn't Booking.com's own widget show reviews?
Booking.com's official widget is built for one job: booking tables. It embeds a booking form, not your reviews — the verified-guest feedback stays on Booking.com's own directory. Booking.com does not publish a review-display embed the way Trustpilot publishes TrustBox or Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets are the standard way hotels on Ecwid surface their Booking.com reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category, for boutique hotels, boutique inns, guesthouses, resorts, and hotel groups alike.
