About the “vouchforthis” Project

Almost every website contains testimonials of some sort, snippets and quotes from past and present customers that paint the website owners products, services or personal credentials in a positive light. Many of these testimonials are genuine and an accurate representation of the customers experiences, but with the editorial control in the hands of the website owner it is impossible to be sure.

Vouchforthis helps verify the testimonials that website owners place on their sites, giving visitors to the website more confidence that the testimonial is genuine, and that it represents the precise words used by the customer to describe the experience they had with the company.

How does it work?

Website owners register with vouchforthis.com and upload the testimonials they have received from their customers. Vouchforthis then asks the testimonial giver to confirm that they have used the products or services of the website owner and that the testimonial is an accurate representation of their views. The website owner then builds one or more “widgets” to enable them to list the testimonials on their website. We offer some flexibility in the way that testimonials are listed, so that website owners can match the colour schemes of their own websites, and to allow them to display different testimonials on different pages, or even different websites, to feature testimonial comment that is relevant to that page.

Who operates vouchforthis.com?

This website is owned and operated by DMJ Computer Services Ltd, a software and website developer with over 30 years experience. Managing Director Martin Jarvis, whilst being an advocate of displaying testimonials on websites, was increasingly concerned that many website owners were misleading their potential customers by fabricating certain comment, and that a large proportion of visitors dismissed testimonials because of their own suspicions anyway. Martin says, “We hope that giving website owners a way of proving the validity of the testimonials on their websites will help them give confidence to their visitors, and should result in the conversion of more new customers.”

Do members need to pay?

No.

The basic level of service to enable you to add your testimonials and build widgets to display verified testimonials on your web pages is absolutely free, but we automatically add a small piece of advertising to your widgets.

Premium Membership

It takes time and money to build, improve and support a service like this and the advertising revenues do not cover these costs. So to help us (and you) we also offer a premium level of membership which automatically removes this advertising from your widgets. For a low investment of just £9.99 per year we believe this is a very small price to pay and really does help us to continue supporting our members. How many new clients would you need to cover that cost?