Reviews are collected on your storefront, moderated in your admin, and stored in your database — with verified-buyer status derived from real orders rather than trusted from a badge script.
Verified-buyer status is checked against real orders in the same database, so the badge reflects an actual purchase.
New reviews wait in a queue for approval, so nothing publishes to a product page before you've read it.
Average rating and review count appear on the product page and in its structured data automatically.
Reviews are stored in your own database, with no widget to embed and no per-review fees.