Why reviews tied to a real receipt change the incentives for everyone

Most review systems reward whoever shouts loudest — real customers, competitors, and bots all get the same blank box. Tie a review to a real receipt, and the incentives shift for both sides.

For customers, it means their honest experience actually counts, because it can be shown to come from a real visit. For local businesses, it means feedback they can act on: a real transaction behind the words, not an anonymous pile-on or a suspicious burst of five stars. And for everyone reading reviews, it means less guessing about what is real.

That is the idea behind Proofix: reviews are verified by a real customer receipt, and it is free for businesses to get started. No receipt, no review — so the review reflects a real purchase, not just an opinion about a business someone may never have visited.

What do you think changes first when reviews have to be earned by a real visit — the quality of the reviews, how businesses respond, or how much customers trust what they read? Please follow us here on Product Hunt for more.