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Free Facebook Review Widgets for Square Online

Embed Facebook reviews on your Square Online site in 60 seconds — add a Custom code section and paste. Made for the restaurants and salons that run Square: Facebook has no official embed, BlooTrue is the free path.

Key facts: 60-second install on Square Online · fills Facebook's missing embed gap · Custom code section — under 'More' · works on the Square Online free plan · no Facebook API key required · made for restaurants, salons, local services

Last updated September 16, 2026·by Mike Ragimov

SEO + AI schema · paid plans

Star ratings in search results, 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. The free plan shows the reviews without the schema. See how the schema works

Install guides

Same Facebook widget, platform-specific install guide. Pick where your site lives.

Looking for a different review source? See all Facebook widgets

Setting this up on a different platform? See all Facebook review widgets · Want a different review platform on Square Online? All review widgets for Square Online

Why Use BlooTrue for Facebook on Square Online?

Square restaurants and salons live on Facebook — but Facebook has no embed and Square has no Facebook app. BlooTrue is the free path.

Facebook's Core Categories, Square's Core Users

Restaurants, salons, and local services are both Facebook's strongest coverage AND Square Online's main user base. Putting your Facebook stars next to your menu or booking button is the natural move.

Fills Facebook's Missing Embed

Facebook doesn't publish an official embed widget for merchants, and Square's App Marketplace has no Facebook display app. BlooTrue is the free, paste-and-go alternative.

Works on the Free Plan

Square Online supports Custom code sections on the free plan on most layouts. No plan upgrade, no Square App Marketplace install — paste and Publish.

No Facebook API Key Required

Works with any public Facebook Page. No Facebook Fusion application, no API quotas, no business-level claim required.

What makes a Facebook widget different from a Google review widget?

Facebook's recommendation system works differently from star-based platforms like Google. Knowing how recommendations become stars, and how Page moderation works, avoids surprises after you embed.

How BlooTrue turns Facebook recommendations into star ratings

Facebook retired numeric star ratings in 2018. Instead, visitors tap Recommends or Doesn't recommend and write a short comment, and the Page shows a percentage of people who recommend it. BlooTrue normalizes that into the star format your other widgets use: each “Recommends” renders as a 5-star review, each “Doesn't recommend” as 1 star, and the Page's overall recommendation percentage becomes a clean 0–5 star header rating. The result is a Facebook widget that looks and reads exactly like your Google or Yelp widget — no confusing percentages on your site. The header rating always comes from Facebook's own published aggregate, never from averaging the individual cards.

Where the recommendations come from and how often they refresh

BlooTrue fetches the publicly-visible recommendations from your Facebook Page on a server-side schedule — roughly once every 24 hours on paid plans — and caches the result. Your site never calls Facebook directly, so visitor traffic to your page doesn't depend on Facebook being reachable, and the widget loads instantly from cache. Only recommendations that are public on your Page are included; anything set to private or hidden by the Page owner is never pulled. Each recommendation keeps its reviewer name, photo, and comment, and links back to your Facebook Page.

Turning on recommendations and what shows up in the widget

Recommendations only appear if your Page has the Reviews / Recommendations section enabled and public. If your Page is brand new or has recommendations switched off, there's nothing for the widget to import yet — turn the section on in your Page settings and the widget will populate as soon as your first public recommendation lands. Once enabled, the widget shows whatever your Page shows publicly: no more, no less. If a recommendation disappears from your widget after a sync, it almost always means the reviewer deleted it or Facebook removed it — the widget simply follows your Page's public state.

Moderation, Community Standards, and attribution

Facebook moderates recommendations under its Community Standards and removes spam, hate speech, and content that violates its policies. Because BlooTrue reads only your Page's public recommendations, the widget automatically reflects those removals on the next sync — you never display content Facebook has already taken down. Every card keeps the Facebook mark and the reviewer's name, and clicking a review links back to your Facebook Page, so attribution stays intact. BlooTrue never fabricates a rating: an empty “Recommends” with no comment is still shown as a real recommendation, and the header number is always Facebook's own aggregate.

Facebook tips for Square Online

Square Online sites are mostly restaurants, salons, and local services — exactly the businesses Facebook recommendations influence most.
The Custom code section works on the free Square Online plan; no upgrade is required to show Facebook recommendations.
Place the widget near your ordering or booking section — Facebook proof next to the action button is where it lifts conversions.

Want more on Facebook itself? See the Facebook widget overview or our guide to the best review widgets for websites.

How Do I Install BlooTrue Facebook on Square Online?

Takes less than a minute. One section type: Custom code. Works on the free plan.

Open the Square Online Editor

Log into your Square dashboard and go to Online → Website. Click Edit site to open the editor on the page where you want reviews — the menu page, booking page, or homepage all work.

Works on the Square Online free plan — no upgrade required.

Add a Custom Code Section

Click + Add section where you want the reviews, open the More category, and choose Custom code.

The Custom code section accepts raw HTML and JavaScript — exactly what the BlooTrue Facebook embed is.

Paste the Embed Code

Paste the BlooTrue Facebook embed code into the Custom code section's code box and confirm. The editor shows a placeholder while editing; the live widget renders on the published site.

Publish

Click Publish in the top-right of the editor. Your Facebook reviews appear on the live site immediately.

Placement tip: restaurants put the widget right above the online-ordering button; salons next to the booking link — that's where Facebook proof converts browsers into customers.

Reviews auto-sync from Facebook every 24 hours.

How BlooTrue Compares to Other Facebook-on-Square-Online Options

Facebook has no embed. Square has no Facebook app. Here are the only paths.

Option	BlooTrue	Facebook official	Hand-rolled HTML
Free Facebook embed available		—	Manual scrape
Works on the Square Online free plan		—
Auto-sync new Facebook reviews		—	—
No Facebook API key needed		—	Sometimes
No coding required		—	—
Restaurant / salon ready styles		—	Manual
SEO rich snippets (JSON-LD)		—	Manual
Pricing for full features	$9/mo	N/A	Dev time

Facebook Review Widget for Square Online — Free, Made for Restaurants and Salons

BlooTrue's Facebook Review Widget for Square Online is a free embed that displays your Facebook reviews on any Square Online site. This may be the highest-affinity pairing in our catalog: Square Online is the free site builder bundled with Square POS — the platform restaurants, salons, barbershops, and local services build on — and those are exactly the categories where Facebook coverage is strongest and where diners and clients check Facebook before choosing. Yet there's a double gap: Facebook does not publish an official embed widget for merchants (its Fusion API is gated for partner apps like Apple Maps and Trivago), and Square's App Marketplace has no Facebook review-display app. BlooTrue fills both gaps with a pure HTML embed pasted into Square Online's standard Custom code section: open Square dashboard → Online → Website → Edit site, click + Add section, choose Custom code under More, paste, Publish. Custom code sections are supported on the Square Online free plan on most layouts. 100+ widget styles, light and dark themes, free custom color picker. On paid plans, schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is added to the page, which makes it eligible for star ratings in Google search results where the embed runs inline rather than inside an iframe.

Why Facebook + Square Online is the natural pairing

Square Online powers the websites of restaurants, cafes, salons, and local service businesses — Facebook's core categories. Diners check Facebook before choosing where to eat; clients check Facebook before booking a chair. Embedding your Facebook reviews next to your menu, online-ordering button, or booking link keeps that proof on YOUR site at the moment of decision — no detour to facebook.com where competitors are one tap away — and it reinforces the Square business profile presence your regulars already know.

Why doesn't Facebook have an official embed?

Facebook's Fusion API is positioned as a partner-channel product (used by sites like Apple Maps and Trivago) rather than as a merchant self-service product. Facebook does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Google publishes Place Cards, and Square's App Marketplace has no Facebook display app. Third-party widgets like BlooTrue are the canonical way to surface Facebook reviews on a Square Online site.

About Facebook reviews in this widget

The Facebook widget embeds the recommendations left on your Facebook Page. Facebook retired star ratings for Pages in 2018, so there is no native Facebook star average; the widget shows each Recommends as a 5-star card and turns the Page's overall recommendation percentage into a 0 to 5 star figure for the header, both read from your Page. A customer leaves a recommendation by tapping Recommends or Doesn't recommend and writing a comment, which only works once Reviews are switched on in your Page settings. Many owners reach for Facebook's Page Plugin instead, an iframe of your timeline with no way to feature recommendations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Facebook only lets people click Recommends, so what rating does my widget display?

Facebook dropped numeric stars for Pages in 2018, so the widget does not invent a Facebook star average. Each Recommends becomes a 5-star card, and the header converts the Page's overall recommendation percentage into a 0 to 5 star figure. Both come from your Page, not from a calculation over the cards on your site.

Can I use Facebook's own Page Plugin to embed my recommendations?

No. The Page Plugin drops your whole Page timeline into an iframe and has no setting to show only recommendations, and Facebook's own tools cannot place them on an external site at all. The BlooTrue builder takes your Page URL instead and gives you a one-line embed, with no Facebook ad spend and no plugin required.

My Page has no Reviews tab, so where would the recommendations come from?

They only exist once you turn them on: open your Facebook Page settings, find the Reviews or Recommendations option and switch it on. Until then customers cannot tap Recommends and the builder finds nothing to import. A free widget holds the recommendations found that day; paid plans check the Page daily and drop the BlooTrue badge.

Is the BlooTrue Facebook widget free for Square Online?

Yes. BlooTrue is completely free for Square Online. No app install, no recurring fee, unlimited views. The free plan shows your Facebook reviews with BlooTrue branding in the footer.

Does Facebook or Square offer an official Facebook embed for Square Online?

No on both counts. Facebook does not provide an official embed widget for businesses — Facebook's Fusion API is gated for partner apps, not merchant self-embeds. And Square's App Marketplace has no Facebook review-display app. BlooTrue fills both gaps with a free embed pasted into a Custom code section.

Can I add it to a Square Online free plan?

Yes. Square Online supports Custom code sections on the free plan on most page layouts — no upgrade needed. Click + Add section → More → Custom code, paste, and Publish.

Do I need a Facebook API key or Facebook Fusion access?

No. BlooTrue works with any public Facebook Page — no Facebook API key, no Facebook Fusion application, no business-level claim required.

I run a restaurant on Square — why embed Facebook reviews?

Because restaurants are Facebook's home turf and Square Online is the restaurant site builder. Diners check Facebook before choosing where to eat — putting your Facebook stars next to your menu and online-ordering button keeps that proof on YOUR site at the moment of decision, instead of sending visitors to facebook.com where competitors are one tap away.

Where is the Custom code section in the Square Online editor?

From your Square dashboard: Online → Website → Edit site. On the page you're editing, click + Add section, open the More category, and choose Custom code. Paste the embed into the code box and click Publish.

Will it slow my Square Online store?

No. The widget loads asynchronously after your page content. The script is under 20KB and reviews are served from a CDN cache. Typical impact on Largest Contentful Paint is under 50ms — your ordering and checkout flows are untouched.