Recommending a business
How the 'Recommended by N' trust signal works — recommendations come from real buyers, are a simple yes, and refresh over time.
LocalFor.Me doesn't use 1-to-5 star ratings. Instead, businesses carry a simple, honest trust signal: Recommended by N — the number of real customers who'd recommend them.
How recommending works
A recommendation is a single yes — there's no star rating and no written review to fill in. It's deliberately simple: either you'd recommend a place, or you don't.
You can recommend a business once you've bought from them on LocalFor.Me. The Recommend button only appears on a business's profile when you have a qualifying paid order with them and haven't already recommended them.
- After your order is paid, open the business's profile (or use the prompt on your order confirmation).
- Tap Recommend.
- Your recommendation is added to their Recommended by count straight away.
Because every recommendation is tied to a real, paid order, the count can't be padded with fake praise. Refunded orders don't qualify.
Changing your mind
You can remove your recommendation at any time from the business's profile — the count goes back down. You'll find everything you've recommended under My recommendations (/me/recommendations/).
Why recommendations refresh
Recommendations have a rolling lifespan (about 90 days by default). After that they quietly drop out of the public count, so Recommended by N always reflects how a business is doing recently — not praise from years ago. Your past recommendations stay on record for history, they just stop counting towards the live total once they age out.
The list on a profile shows the most recent recommenders, with a '+ N more' note when there are more than can be displayed.