Customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys collect feedback instantly after an interaction. With Dialpad's contact centre platform, you can set up a CSAT survey in minutes—and also use the Ai CSAT feature to accurately predict feedback for customers who don't respond. See how it works with a demo!

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Do you use CSAT surveys for your business?

A customer satisfaction survey is a questionnaire that customers are asked to complete after an interaction, usually after purchasing something or contacting customer support. You may already be using CSAT surveys to gauge respondents' opinions, but if not, here's how you can easily implement them in Dialpad.

The purpose of customer satisfaction surveys

CSAT surveys are useful because they help you gauge customers’ overall satisfaction with different touchpoints in the buyer’s journey. Used well, they can give you key customer insights that help you improve customer experience, boost customer loyalty, and better understand your target demographic.

More than just your typical customer satisfaction survey software

With Dialpad, you get more than a customer satisfaction survey tool. As a truly unified communications platform, it also comes with product features like:

All your communications in one place

Dialpad isn’t just a business phone system. It brings all your communications together in one place, from phone calls and video calls to external customer communications channels like social media and live chat. One user interface, one login, one beautiful experience.

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Custom call routing

Dialpad comes with advanced call routing features that are fully customizable. Provide a better customer service experience by making sure your callers are reaching the right person or right department as efficiently as possible.

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Live transcription

One of the unique things about Dialpad is its built-in artificial intelligence technology, Dialpad Ai. Not only does it transcribe conference calls and video meetings—in real time—it also does live sentiment analysis, which shows supervisors at a glance whether calls are going south and if they need to jump in to help an agent.

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Want to run customer satisfaction surveys?

Set up surveys in a few clicks, use the Ai CSAT feature to glean even more customer insights, and a whole lot more with Dialpad. Get a demo to see how it works, or take a self-guided interactive tour of the app on your own!

Sentiment analysis

Dialpad can analyze sentiment for customer calls in real time, making sure that supervisors always know when calls are going south and whether they might need to step in and barge a call.

Screenshot of Dialpad Ai analyzing the sentiment of multiple calls in real time

Real-time assists for agents

Dialpad Ai can also pop up RTA (Real-Time Assist) cards with tailored notes to help agents. Say you just released a new product and agents aren't familiar with it yet. You can create an RTA card with notes about that product—and set it to trigger whenever it's mentioned on a call! That way, your agents always get the help they need, even when their managers are busy—and higher first call resolution.

Screenshot of Dialpad's AI-powered real time assist card feature that is useful for an agent or rep when a tricky question comes up on a call

Integrations with your favourite tools

Dialpad offers native integrations with popular business software and CRMs like Salesforce, Zoho CRM, and Zendesk to embed the dialer inside those tools, auto-log activities, and reduce app-switching. Want to go custom? Build your own integrations with the open APIs.

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Built-in call analytics

Dialpad’s call analytics help you keep track of contact centre metrics like inbound calls, missed calls, average speed to answer, and more. No need to contact Support or IT, no need to wait hours for someone to pull the data for you.

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How to set up CSAT surveys in Dialpad

It’s easy to set up a CSAT survey in Dialpad's contact centre platform:

  • Go into your Settings dashboard to Office > Office Settings

  • Click on “Add CSAT Survey"

  • You'll be prompted to name your new survey. You can also choose whether you want to run a Voice/DTMF or SMS survey.

Screenshot of Dialpad CSAT surveys providing key insights to improve customer experience boost loyalty and understand your

After that, you’ll be able to customize your customer experience survey depending on what questions you want to ask your target audience. Choose your question, add a post-survey thank-you message, and more.

Dialpad also lets you create multiple surveys, which lets you measure more than one kind of user experience or interaction. For example, you might create two separate surveys for existing loyal customers and new customers, asking each group different questions.

The benefits of using Dialpad's platform to run customer satisfaction surveys

Customer satisfaction surveys are your window into your customers’ minds—they let you grasp customer needs, understand the customer experience, and learn about where you need to grow. With Dialpad, you can harness that benefit and more besides:

Customer feedback from every call

Leveraging CSAT for call centre improvement used to only be possible if you got decent response rates. With Dialpad, you can collect opinions from all calls to better understand customer needs, thanks to its predictive Ai CSAT feature, which lets you gauge satisfaction even when customers don’t complete a survey:

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Robust, built-in analytics

Dialpad’s contact centre analytics dashboard don’t just show you your CSAT scores. It also helps you track everything from average call times to missed and abandoned calls, and even average speed to answer.

Incredible ease of use

With Dialpad, you can set up CSAT surveys and collect survey responses in just a few clicks from your online dashboard. No need to reach out to a Customer Support or IT team for help, no need to wait hours or days to get a simple online survey set up.

How to optimize your satisfaction survey questions for higher response rates

Make sure they trigger at touchpoints that make sense

A CSAT survey’s goal is to help you find out what customers think of specific interactions throughout the customer lifecycle. You can ask respondents how satisfied they are with a variety of touchpoints, from a product purchase to a customer support interaction.

The most important thing is to make sure that you don’t wait too long to send the survey. Ideally, a customer will see it right after the interaction you’re trying to measure. For example, emailing them the survey right after they bought something on your website.

The longer you wait, the less likely they’ll answer the survey—or remember the interaction accurately enough to give you a valuable answer.

Questions should speak the “language” of your customers

One of the best ways to improve your CSAT score is to prove you’re listening to your customers, and what better way to do that than to write the surveys themselves in your customers’ own language?

Let’s consider what this looks like in a practical context.

If your target demographics primarily include tech-literate people, you shouldn’t over-explain simple concepts, or you’ll risk talking down to them. On the opposite end of things, if you’re gearing the survey towards people who don’t know much about modern tech, get rid of all the jargon. Keep things as simple as possible so you don’t come off as elitist or exclusionary.

When in doubt, it’s always best to tend towards simplicity and ease of understanding.

Use AI to get more survey responses

Regardless of how tech-savvy your target audience’s demographics are, the fact is that most people don’t take the time to fill out CSAT surveys—unless they’re extremely upset or very happy with you. This leads to overly skewed responses that aren’t quite as helpful because you’re not getting the full picture. Maybe the vast majority of your customers are perfectly satisfied with their service experience, and didn’t feel like answering the survey. But if you just took the responses from your very upset customers into consideration, you wouldn’t know that.

To get a more comprehensive—accurate—understanding of customer satisfaction, use something like Dialpad’s Ai CSAT feature!

Give an incentive for answering the survey

Even the quickest surveys take at least a few seconds to complete. That’s time the customer could be spending on something else, so you’ve got to show them why your survey is worth their time. Incentives are a great way to do this.

Maybe you can offer them a discount or a freebie with their next purchase. You could also offer to include them in a raffle or giveaway.

Scale your company with customer satisfaction surveys from Dialpad

If you're looking for a built-in CSAT survey tool that comes included in your contact centre platform, Dialpad Ai Contact Centre lets your team handle all their internal and external communications (phone calls, messaging, video meetings, you name it)—and manage a call centre team, all from a single, beautifully designed platform.

See how it works with a demo!

Get a personal walkthrough of Dialpad Ai Contact Centre

Book a demo to see how Dialpad Ai can empower your agents with Ai CSAT, Real-Time Assist cards, live sentiment analysis, and more. Or, take a self-guided interactive tour of the app on your own!

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