{"id":14237,"date":"2026-09-13T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/docs\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/venue-review-statuses-moderation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:04:43","password":"","slug":"venue-review-statuses-moderation","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/knowledgebase\/docs\/mm-guides\/utsav-venues\/reviews-ratings-utsav-venues\/venue-review-statuses-moderation\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding venue review statuses and moderation in Utsav Venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background:#f3f0fb;border-left:4px solid #7c5cbf;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#128100; <strong>Who this is for<\/strong><br \/>Venue listing owners who want to know what happens to a review after a guest writes it, and where to follow its progress. It is useful to any signed-in MyMahotsav member who has left a venue review and is wondering why it has not appeared yet. You need a MyMahotsav account, and you need to be signed in.<\/div>\n<h2>Quick answer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A venue review goes through three stages: a guest writes it after a completed stay, it waits for approval, and only then is it published on the venue&rsquo;s page. Approval is done by the MyMahotsav team &mdash; no member can approve a review, and an owner&rsquo;s reply waits for approval in exactly the same way. Owners follow all of this on the Host Dashboard&rsquo;s My Reviews page, which is the only screen that tells you where a review has got to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:28px 0 42px;\"><video controls preload=\"metadata\" style=\"width:100%;aspect-ratio:16\/9;border:0;border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 5px 25px rgba(0,0,0,0.12);display:block;background:#000;\" src=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-walkthrough.mp4\">Your browser cannot play this video. You can open the walkthrough file directly instead.<\/video><figcaption style=\"margin-top:14px;font-size:0.9em;color:#6b7280;line-height:1.55;\">Video walkthrough for this article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Before you begin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign in to MyMahotsav first. The review pages are part of your account, so none of them open for a signed-out visitor.<\/li>\n<li>Open the account menu in the MyMahotsav header, choose <strong>Venue &amp; Space Selling<\/strong>, then <strong>Host Dashboard<\/strong>. In the dashboard&rsquo;s left-hand menu, choose <strong>My Reviews<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You can also go straight there: <strong>https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-venues\/my-reviews\/<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you land back on the Utsav Venues home page instead of the dashboard, or a sign-in box appears, you are not signed in. Sign in and open the address again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>My Reviews<\/strong> shows reviews that guests have left on venues <em>you<\/em> listed. If you have not listed a venue, the page will be empty &mdash; that is normal, not a fault.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing here needs to be switched on. Review approval applies across the whole Utsav Venues marketplace and is not something you set up for your own venue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 1 &mdash; Sign in first (and what you see if you are not)<\/h2>\n<p>Everything to do with review status sits behind your account. If you open the <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> address while you are signed out, Utsav Venues does not show you an error or a sign-in form &mdash; it simply returns you to the Utsav Venues home page, with <strong>Login<\/strong> and <strong>Register<\/strong> still showing in the header. It is easy to mistake that for a broken link, so check the header before you go looking for a problem.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:34px auto 42px;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-01.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Click to view full size\" class=\"docbot-zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 5px 25px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.06);display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto;cursor:zoom-in;\" src=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-01.png\" alt=\"The Utsav Venues home page as it appears to a signed-out visitor, with Login and Register in the header\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"margin-top:14px;font-size:0.9em;color:#6b7280;line-height:1.55;\">This is where the My Reviews address sends you when you are not signed in: the public Utsav Venues home page. Note <strong>Login<\/strong> and <strong>Register<\/strong> at the top right &mdash; the giveaway that you have been signed out. The ring on the right of the banner is only the picture slider&rsquo;s next arrow; it has nothing to do with reviews.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The banner on that home page rotates through featured venues, so the picture changes while the page stays the same. Whichever venue is showing, the header still offers <strong>Login<\/strong> rather than your account menu.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:34px auto 42px;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-02.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Click to view full size\" class=\"docbot-zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 5px 25px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.06);display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto;cursor:zoom-in;\" src=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-02.png\" alt=\"The same signed-out Utsav Venues home page with the banner showing a different featured venue\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"margin-top:14px;font-size:0.9em;color:#6b7280;line-height:1.55;\">The same signed-out home page a moment later &mdash; the banner has simply moved to the next featured venue, and the ring is again on the slider arrow. Sign in from <strong>Login<\/strong>, then open <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Step 2 &mdash; Open My Reviews from your Host Dashboard<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the account menu in the MyMahotsav header.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Venue &amp; Space Selling<\/strong>, then <strong>Host Dashboard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the dashboard&rsquo;s left-hand menu, choose <strong>My Reviews<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The page opens with a band headed <strong>Property Reviews<\/strong>. It lists the reviews guests have written about the venues you listed, newest first, spread over several pages if you have a lot of them. If no guest has reviewed one of your venues yet, you will see <strong>You don&rsquo;t have any reviews yet!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3 &mdash; Read what each review is telling you<\/h2>\n<p>There are no coloured badges or status labels on this page. A review&rsquo;s stage is told to you in plain sentences, and by whether the reply box is there at all. Each entry shows the venue&rsquo;s name, the guest&rsquo;s name and picture, the overall score as <strong>( N of 5 )<\/strong>, a <strong>Posted on<\/strong> date, the review itself, and then a <strong>Your Reply<\/strong> block that shows one of three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A box to type in, with a <strong>Reply to Review<\/strong> button &mdash; the review is approved and published, and you have not answered it yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your reply is waiting for approval.<\/strong> &mdash; you have answered, and your answer is now in the queue. Your words are shown to you, but guests cannot see them yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This review has not been approved yet.<\/strong> &mdash; the review itself is still in the queue, so there is no reply box. Nobody but the team can see the review at this stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f8;border-left:4px solid #9aa4b2;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#8505;&#65039; <strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>The list on this page is built from approved reviews, so it is not a queue of everything waiting. If a guest has told you they left a review and you cannot find it here at all, it has almost certainly not been approved yet &mdash; check again in a day or two rather than assuming it was lost.<\/div>\n<h2>Step 4 &mdash; Reply to a published review<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Find the review you want to answer and type your response in the reply box under it.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Reply to Review<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The box is replaced by your words and the line <strong>Your reply is waiting for approval.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your reply is now in the same queue the review went through. It appears under the guest&rsquo;s review on the venue&rsquo;s page once the team has approved it. There is no way to edit or withdraw a reply once you have sent it, so read it through before you choose the button.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 5 &mdash; Find one venue&rsquo;s reviews with the search box<\/h2>\n<p>The only control on the page is a single field marked <strong>Search by listing name.<\/strong> with a <strong>Search<\/strong> button. Type a venue&rsquo;s name and choose <strong>Search<\/strong> to see only that venue&rsquo;s reviews. It matches venue names only &mdash; there is no filter by stage, no sort, and no way to list only the reviews you have not answered. If nothing matches what you typed, the page answers <strong>No results!<\/strong>; clear the box and search again to get the full list back.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 6 &mdash; See where an approved review ends up<\/h2>\n<p>An approved review does not stay in your dashboard. It goes onto the venue&rsquo;s own page, where every visitor can read it &mdash; the star rating sits just under the venue&rsquo;s name at the top of the page, and the reviews themselves sit in a panel further down, with your approved answer shown under each one as <strong>Owner Reply<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:34px auto 42px;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-03.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Click to view full size\" class=\"docbot-zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 5px 25px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.06);display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto;cursor:zoom-in;\" src=\"https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-03.png\" alt=\"A published venue page on Utsav Venues, with a star rating shown under the venue name\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"margin-top:14px;font-size:0.9em;color:#6b7280;line-height:1.55;\">A published venue page. The stars under the venue&rsquo;s name are the score from its approved reviews; the reviews and any approved owner replies appear in a panel further down the same page. Anything still waiting for approval is not counted here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>How a venue review moves from submission to published<\/h2>\n<p>The same three stages apply to every review on Utsav Venues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Written.<\/strong> A guest opens <strong>My Reservations<\/strong>, finds the booking for a stay that is confirmed and finished, and chooses <strong>Post Review<\/strong>. The form scores the venue on a fixed set of points and takes a written comment. Reviews can only be written against a real, completed booking, which is why an Utsav Venues review always comes from someone who actually stayed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Waiting for approval.<\/strong> The moment it is sent, the review is held for the MyMahotsav team. It is not on the venue&rsquo;s page, it is not in the star rating, and it does not yet count for anything. The message the guest sees after sending &mdash; <strong>Review posted successfully!<\/strong> &mdash; only confirms that it was received; it does not mean the review is live.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Published.<\/strong> Once the team approves it, the review appears on the venue&rsquo;s page, counts towards the star rating, and shows up in the owner&rsquo;s <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> list with a reply box under it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Owner replies follow exactly the same path. A reply is held after you send it and only joins the review publicly once it has been approved.<\/p>\n<h2>What &ldquo;pending approval&rdquo; means, and who can change a review<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Pending approval&rdquo; simply means a review or a reply has been written and received, but a person on the MyMahotsav team has not yet released it to public view. It is a normal step that every review goes through, not a sign that anything is wrong with what was written.<\/p>\n<p>Moderation itself is handled entirely by the MyMahotsav team. They are the only people who can approve a review or a reply, amend one, remove one, or add one on a member&rsquo;s behalf. There is no control anywhere in your dashboard that lets you approve, hide, edit or delete a review about your own venue, and there is no setting that turns approval off for your listings &mdash; it applies across the whole marketplace. What you can do is answer: a calm, factual reply sits publicly under the review and is usually worth far more to the next guest reading it.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips and best practices<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#eef8f0;border-left:4px solid #2e9e5b;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#127919; <strong>Best practice<\/strong><br \/>Answer every review, warm or difficult, and answer it once. Your reply is published under the review permanently, it cannot be edited afterwards, and it is read by people deciding whether to enquire about your venue. Thank the guest, correct anything factual in a sentence, say what you have changed, and stop there.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#fff6f1;border-left:4px solid #e0592b;border-radius:8px;padding:14px 18px;margin:22px 0;line-height:1.6;\">&#128161; <strong>Tip<\/strong><br \/>Look at <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> on a rhythm &mdash; once a week is plenty for most owners &mdash; rather than waiting to be told. Nothing chases you when a review is approved, and a reply written a week after the review still reads as attentive; one written three months later does not.<\/div>\n<p>A few more things worth knowing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tell guests plainly that reviews are checked before they go live. It saves them worrying that their review vanished.<\/li>\n<li>Do not ask a guest to repost a review that has not appeared &mdash; each booking allows one review, and a second attempt is refused with <strong>You already reviewed this property!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A guest can only review a stay that is confirmed and past its end date, so a cancelled or still-upcoming booking will never produce a review.<\/li>\n<li>The star rating on your venue&rsquo;s page is built from approved reviews only, so it can lag a day or two behind what guests have actually written.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n<h3>I opened the My Reviews link and ended up on the Utsav Venues home page<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> you are not signed in. The review pages are part of your account, and a signed-out visitor is quietly returned to the public home page rather than being shown a sign-in form.<br \/>\n<strong>Fix:<\/strong> choose <strong>Login<\/strong> in the header, sign in with your MyMahotsav details, then open <strong>https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-venues\/my-reviews\/<\/strong> again, or go through the account menu &rsaquo; <strong>Venue &amp; Space Selling<\/strong> &rsaquo; <strong>Host Dashboard<\/strong> &rsaquo; <strong>My Reviews<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> you are definitely signed in on MyMahotsav &mdash; your name shows in the header &mdash; and the venue pages still treat you as a visitor.<\/p>\n<h3>My Reviews says &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have any reviews yet!&rdquo;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> the page only lists reviews written about venues you listed, and only once those reviews have been approved. An owner with no reviews yet, or with reviews still waiting, sees the empty message.<br \/>\n<strong>Fix:<\/strong> check that you are looking at the right account, and give a recent review time to be approved before treating it as missing.<br \/>\n<strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> a guest has shown you the review they wrote and it has still not appeared several days later.<\/p>\n<h3>There is no reply box under a review<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> the reply box only appears once the review itself has been approved, and it disappears once you have replied. The line above the space tells you which of the two it is.<br \/>\n<strong>Fix:<\/strong> read the wording. <strong>This review has not been approved yet.<\/strong> means you need to wait; <strong>Your reply is waiting for approval.<\/strong> means you have already answered and your answer is in the queue.<br \/>\n<strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> a review has been sitting on the page with neither sentence and no reply box for more than a few days.<\/p>\n<h3>My reply is not showing on the venue&rsquo;s page<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> replies are approved in the same way reviews are, so a sent reply is not public straight away.<br \/>\n<strong>Fix:<\/strong> check <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> &mdash; if it reads <strong>Your reply is waiting for approval.<\/strong>, the reply has been received and there is nothing more to do. Do not send it again; there is no way to remove a duplicate yourself.<br \/>\n<strong>Escalate if:<\/strong> the reply is still unpublished after a week, or you need something removed from a reply you have already sent.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q: What does &ldquo;pending approval&rdquo; mean?<\/strong><br \/>A: It means the review or reply has been written and received, but the MyMahotsav team has not yet released it to public view. It is not visible on the venue&rsquo;s page and does not count towards the star rating until it is approved. Every review and every reply goes through this step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Who can edit or remove a review?<\/strong><br \/>A: Only the MyMahotsav team. They approve, amend, remove or add reviews behind the scenes. Neither the guest who wrote it nor the owner of the venue can edit or delete a review, and there is no control for it anywhere in your dashboard. If you believe a review breaks the rules, contact support rather than looking for a delete button.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Where do owners see review status?<\/strong><br \/>A: On the Host Dashboard&rsquo;s <strong>My Reviews<\/strong> page at <strong>https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-venues\/my-reviews\/<\/strong>, under the heading <strong>Property Reviews<\/strong>. It is the only screen that shows where a review or a reply has got to, and it says so in plain sentences rather than with status badges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Can I turn review approval off for my own venue?<\/strong><br \/>A: No. Approval applies across the whole Utsav Venues marketplace, and there is no per-venue setting for it. Every review and every owner reply is checked in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How long does approval take?<\/strong><br \/>A: There is no published turnaround time, so treat it as a short wait rather than an instant step. If a review or reply is still not public after several days, contact support with the venue name and the date it was written.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Can a guest change a review after sending it?<\/strong><br \/>A: No. Each booking allows one review, it cannot be edited or deleted afterwards, and a second attempt is refused with <strong>You already reviewed this property!<\/strong> Ask your guest to write it carefully the first time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mahi=\"context\">\nAlso asked as: what does pending approval mean on a venue review; why is my Utsav Venues review not showing; how long do venue reviews take to be approved; where do I see reviews of my venue; how do I reply to a guest review on Utsav Venues; who can delete a venue review; can I remove a bad review of my venue; why is there no reply box under a review; what does &#8220;This review has not been approved yet&#8221; mean; where is My Reviews on the Host Dashboard; can I turn off review moderation for my listing; why is my owner reply not public. Applies to: Utsav Venues review statuses, review moderation, owner replies, the My Reviews page. Where to find it: MyMahotsav account menu > Venue &#038; Space Selling > Host Dashboard > left dashboard menu > My Reviews, heading &#8220;Property Reviews&#8221;, direct link https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/utsav-venues\/my-reviews\/ (page opens for any signed-in member; a signed-out visitor is redirected to the Utsav Venues home page with no sign-in form). Canonical facts: three stages only &#8211; written, waiting for approval, published. Every review AND every owner reply is created pending and must be approved by the MyMahotsav team before it is public; approval is marketplace-wide and cannot be switched off per venue. There are NO status badges or labels in the member interface &#8211; status is shown as the sentences &#8220;This review has not been approved yet.&#8221; and &#8220;Your reply is waiting for approval.&#8221;, and by whether the reply box is present. Reply control is a text box plus the button &#8220;Reply to Review&#8221;; replies cannot be edited or withdrawn. My Reviews lists reviews on venues you listed, approved ones, newest first, paged; empty state &#8220;You don&#8217;t have any reviews yet!&#8221;; only control is the single field &#8220;Search by listing name.&#8221; plus &#8220;Search&#8221;, matching venue names only &#8211; NO status filter and NO sort; no match returns &#8220;No results!&#8221;. Each entry shows venue name, reviewer name and avatar, overall score as &#8220;( N of 5 )&#8221;, &#8220;Posted on&#8221; date, review text, and a &#8220;Your Reply&#8221; block. No member can approve, edit, hide or delete any review; only the MyMahotsav team can approve, amend, remove or add one. Reviews are written by the guest from My Reservations using &#8220;Post Review&#8221; on a booking that is confirmed and past its end date; one review per booking, no edit or delete, second attempt refused with &#8220;You already reviewed this property!&#8221;; the confirmation &#8220;Review posted successfully!&#8221; does NOT mean the review is live. Approved reviews appear on the venue&#8217;s own page, with the star rating under the venue name and approved owner answers shown as &#8220;Owner Reply&#8221;. No published approval turnaround time. Video walkthrough: https:\/\/mymahotsav.com\/kb-img\/understanding-venue-review-statuses-and-moderation-in-utsav-venues-mu001rui-walkthrough.mp4\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Utsav Venues a guest writes a review after a completed stay, and that review then waits for approval by the MyMahotsav team before anyone can see it \u2014 an owner&#8217;s reply waits in exactly the same way. 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