The Reviews page holds what customers write about your products. A new review waits for you as Pending and shows on your store only after you approve it. Approve the ones you want, hide the rest, and reply to your customers.
Approving, replying and deleting can each be allowed on their own, so you see only the buttons your role includes.
Step 1. Open Reviews
In the side menu, under Sales, pick Reviews. The Reviews & Ratings page opens.
Everything your customers wrote about your products is on this one screen.
Step 2. Check the four cards
The cards at the top show Total Reviews, Avg. Rating, Approved and Pending.
How many reviews you have, your star average, how many are approved, and how many still wait for you.
Step 3. Find a review
Type a customer, a product or a word in Search reviews.... In the first list choose All Reviews, Approved or Pending.
In the second list choose the order: Newest First, Oldest First, Highest Rating or Lowest Rating.
Show all, approved or pending, sort them, or search by customer, product or wording.
Step 4. Read a row
Each row shows the customer, the product, the rating, the comment, the status and the date. Verified Purchase under the name shows that the customer bought the product from you.
One row: the customer, the product, the stars, the comment, the date and the status.
Step 5. Approve or hide a review
To show a pending review on your store, press Approve on it. To take an approved review off your store, press Hide; it goes back to Pending.
The first action button is a toggle: it publishes a pending review, or takes an approved one back off your storefront.
Step 6. Reply to the customer
Press the Reply button, write your answer, then press Send Reply. You see Reply posted successfully, and your reply shows under the review on your store.
The reply window keeps the customer's words in front of you while you write your answer.
Step 7. Delete a review
Press the red Delete Review button, then press Delete Review again to confirm. You see Review deleted successfully. This cannot be undone, so use it for spam and abuse, not for criticism.
Deleting asks for a confirmation first, because it removes the review for good.
Result
Your store shows only the reviews you approved, with your replies under them. The Pending card counts the reviews waiting for you.