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Free Booking.com Review Widgets for OpenCart

Embed verified-guest Booking.com reviews on any OpenCart site in 60 seconds — works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x via a CMS page or the bundled HTML Content module. Booking.com's official widget only books tables; BlooTrue shows the reviews.

Key facts: 60-second install on OpenCart · verified guests only — every reviewer honored a booking · works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x · CMS page + HTML Content module · no Booking.com API key required · schema.org markup on paid plans

Last updated September 27, 2026·by Mike Ragimov

SEO + AI schema · paid plans

Review schema markup, on paid plans

Paid widgets add schema.org Review and AggregateRating JSON-LD to the page they sit on, so search engines and AI answer engines can read your Google reviews as structured data. Google does not show review stars for reviews a business shows about itself, so the gain is readability, not stars. The free plan shows the reviews without the schema. See how the schema works

Install guides

Same Booking.com widget, platform-specific install guide. Pick where your hotel's site lives.

Looking for a different review source? See all Booking.com widgets

Setting this up on a different platform? See all Booking.com review widgets · Want a different review platform on OpenCart? All review widgets for OpenCart

Why Use BlooTrue for Booking.com on OpenCart?

Booking.com's official widget only takes bookings — BlooTrue is the free way to put the reviews themselves on your OpenCart site.

Shows Reviews, Not Just a Booking Form

Booking.com's official website widget embeds a booking form and nothing else — your reviews stay on booking.com. BlooTrue pulls them from your public hotel page automatically, so guests see the proof before they book.

No OpenCart Extension Required

Pure HTML embed. No marketplace purchase, no vQmod / OCMOD patch, no PHP file edits. Pastes into the core CMS Information system or the bundled HTML Content module.

Works on OpenCart 3.x and 4.x

Same install path on both major versions. The Source toggle in the editor and the HTML Content module from Extensions → Modules exist in core on both 3.x and 4.x.

Verified Guests, Real Star Ratings

Every Booking.com review comes from a guest who booked and honored a booking — no drive-by reviews. The widget header shows your real 1–5 star Booking.com average, no conversion, no percentages, and no API key or hotel-account login is required.

How Do I Install BlooTrue Booking.com on OpenCart?

Takes less than a minute. No coding, no extension, no Booking.com API key.

Decide Where The Reviews Go

Log into your OpenCart admin and pick the placement:

A static Information page — Catalog → Information.
A sidebar or footer module using the bundled HTML Content module — assigned via Design → Layouts.

For a CMS Page: Catalog → Information

In the OpenCart admin, open Catalog → Information, edit the target page. In the rich-text editor toolbar, click the Source button (looks like </>) to switch to raw HTML view.

Paste the BlooTrue embed code there. This step is critical — if you paste in the visual view instead, OpenCart sanitizes the<script> tag and the widget disappears on save.

Save the page. Visit the storefront URL — your Booking.com reviews are live.

Or Use the HTML Content Module

For sidebar / footer / homepage placement, open Extensions → Modules, find HTML Content (a core module — already installed in OpenCart 3.x and 4.x), click Add Module, give it a name like "Booking.com Reviews", click the Source button in its editor, and paste.

Assign to a Layout and Publish

Open Design → Layouts, pick the layout to target, and add the HTML Content module to a position — Column Left, Column Right, Content Top, Content Bottom, or Footer.

Save the layout. Reviews auto-sync from Booking.com every 24 hours.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other Booking.com-on-OpenCart Options

Booking.com's official widget only books tables — it never shows reviews. Here's how BlooTrue compares to the next-best paths.

Option	BlooTrue	Booking.com official	Paid OC extensions
Free Booking.com review embed available		—	—
No widget view caps		—	—
No Booking.com API key needed		—	Sometimes
No marketplace purchase required		—	—
Works on OpenCart 3.x AND 4.x		—	Often 3.x only
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	Sometimes
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	$20–$60 each

Booking.com Review Widget for OpenCart — Free, Shows the Reviews the Official Widget Hides

BlooTrue's Booking.com Review Widget for OpenCart is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Booking.com reviews on any OpenCart-built hotel site. Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it books tables but never shows the reviews guests left for you. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turning them into a paste-ready OpenCart embed. Every review comes from a verified guest — someone who booked through Booking.com and honored the booking — and the widget header shows your real 1–5 star Booking.com average, no conversion, no percentages. OpenCart is a free, open-source PHP e-commerce platform widely used in MENA, Eastern Europe, and South-East Asia, and it ships with both a CMS Information system (Catalog → Information) and a bundled HTML Content module (Extensions → Modules) — BlooTrue pastes into either. No OpenCart marketplace purchase, no PHP edits, no Booking.com API key, no developer application, no hotel-account login required. Works on OpenCart 3.x (the dominant deployed version) and OpenCart 4.x with any theme. The single biggest install gotcha is the Source button (the </> toggle that switches the editor between WYSIWYG and raw HTML) — without clicking it, the visual editor escapes the embedded<script> tag and the widget disappears on save.

Why doesn't Booking.com's own widget show reviews?

Booking.com's first-party website widget is built for one job: taking bookings. It embeds a booking form, not your review feed — the verified-guest reviews stay on booking.com. Third-party widgets are the standard way OpenCart-built hotel sites surface their Booking.com reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category, and because every Booking.com review comes from a guest who honored a booking, the social proof it displays is unusually hard to fake.

About Booking.com reviews in this widget

For Booking.com the widget shows the guest reviews from your property page at booking.com/hotel. The number at the top is your Booking.com review score on its 10-point scale, with the review count, both taken from the page rather than the cards. Only a guest who completed a stay booked through Booking.com can leave a review, and Booking.com invites them after checkout, so every card ties to a real stay. It is easy to confuse the star class next to a property name on Booking.com, a hotel category, with a review rating; the widget shows the guest score.

Frequently Asked Questions

My Booking.com score is 8.7, does the widget show that or convert it to stars?

The header carries the score as Booking.com reports it on its 10-point scale, so an 8.7 stays an 8.7, along with the review count from your property page. The widget does not average the reviews on your site to make its own number. Each card keeps the score the guest gave after their stay.

Can someone who never stayed at my hotel post a Booking.com review that ends up on my website?

No. Booking.com only invites a review once a stay booked through Booking.com is completed, so a person who never checked in has no way to submit one, and the widget takes only what is on your booking.com/hotel page. Your widget therefore holds reviews from completed stays and nothing else.

Booking.com already gives me a widget for my website, why would I need another one?

Because Booking.com's widget takes bookings and shows none of your guest reviews; Booking.com keeps those on its own marketplace. The BlooTrue embed is built from your property page URL and shows the guest reviews with your review score out of 10 in the header. The free plan adds a small BlooTrue badge; paid plans refresh daily and drop it.

Is the BlooTrue Booking.com widget free for OpenCart?

Yes. BlooTrue is completely free for OpenCart. No marketplace extension purchase, no recurring license fee, unlimited widget views, no credit card. The free plan shows your Booking.com reviews with BlooTrue branding in the footer.

Doesn't Booking.com already offer a website widget for OpenCart?

Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it puts a booking form on your site but never displays your reviews or star rating. BlooTrue fills that gap: it pulls verified-guest reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turns them into a paste-ready OpenCart embed. Run both side by side — the booking widget converts, the review widget convinces.

Do I need a Booking.com API key or developer access?

No. BlooTrue works with any public Booking.com hotel page — no Booking.com API key, no developer application, no hotel-account login required. Just paste your https://www.booking.com/hotel/your-hotel URL into the BlooTrue builder.

Why does my embed code disappear after I save the OpenCart page?

Because you pasted into the WYSIWYG (visual) editor, which strips or escapes the <script> tag. Click the Source button (looks like </>) in the editor toolbar to switch to raw HTML view, paste the embed code there, and save. The Source toggle is the #1 install gotcha on OpenCart.

Does this work on both OpenCart 3.x and OpenCart 4.x?

Yes. The embed is pure client-side HTML and JavaScript and the install path (Source toggle in the editor, HTML Content module from Extensions → Modules) exists in both major versions.

Where exactly should I paste the embed code on OpenCart?

Two paths. (1) For a static page (About, Reviews, Menu, Bookings): Catalog → Information → edit the page → click the Source button (</>) in the editor → paste. (2) For sidebar/footer placement: Extensions → Modules → install HTML Content → edit it → click Source → paste → assign via Design → Layouts.

Will the widget slow down my OpenCart site?

No. The widget loads asynchronously after page content, so it never blocks rendering. The script is under 20KB and reviews are served from a CDN cache. Typical impact on Largest Contentful Paint is under 50ms — well within Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds.