churn survey
Feedback Survey
Churn without a reason is the most expensive kind. You lose the customer and learn nothing from it. Deploy this automation and an exit survey fires at the moment of churn, capturing the reason while the customer still has the experience fresh and before the window to act closes.
About this automation
Type
Feedback Survey
Industry
Free to use
✓ Yes
Deploy time
Under 5 min
Triggers
API, In-App
Delivers via
Email, In-App
What this survey asks
01
What's the main reason you stopped using us?
Multiple choice: price / feature gap / switched to a competitor / other
02
Which competitor, if any, are you moving to?
Open text, optional, competitive intelligence
03
What could we have done differently?
Open text, optional
04
How would you rate your overall experience while you were a customer?
Rating, 1 to 5 stars, useful even from a departing customer
05
Would you consider returning if the reason for leaving were addressed?
Yes / Maybe / No
The automation
Trigger: a subscription cancels or lapses
Fires automatically the moment the subscription cancels or lapses.
API, In-App
Churn survey goes out at lapse
Delivered via Email or In-App the moment the subscription cancels or lapses.
Routed by churn reason
Reasons tied to product gaps reach product, reasons tied to price reach the pricing owner.
Positive sentiment
Reason logged to the churn trend record.
Needs attention
Product-related churn reasons routed to the product team.
Churn reasons dashboard
Reasons ranked by frequency, updated as responses come in.
Why this automation matters
Churn data collected manually or from billing system reports tells you how many customers left and when. It does not tell you why, which is the only version of churn data that can actually be acted on. A business that knows its monthly churn rate is 4% knows it has a retention problem. A business that knows 60% of that churn is driven by a specific missing integration and 25% is driven by customers finding a cheaper alternative knows exactly where to invest to move that number. Deploy FeedbackRobot's churn survey automation and exit reasons are captured at the moment they are most accurate. When a subscription cancels, when a customer account goes inactive, when a renewal is declined, a brief survey fires through the appropriate channel. The responses are classified by churn reason and routed accordingly. Price-driven churn routes to your retention team with the customer's account value visible. Feature-driven churn routes to product management tagged with the specific feature mentioned. The aggregate churn reason data over 90 days creates the roadmap for retention investment. Not informed guessing about what might reduce churn, but direct exit evidence from the customers who actually left.
Expected outcome
Connects to the platforms that matter
Triggers
API, In-App
Channels
Email, In-App
Common questions
What's the difference between this and the cancellation survey?
This one is broader: it also fires on lapsed engagement and declined renewals, not just an active cancellation click, so it catches customers who churn passively, not just the ones who explicitly cancel.
Does asking which competitor someone is switching to actually help?
Yes, aggregated over time it's one of the more useful competitive intelligence signals available, since it comes directly from customers who made a real comparison, not from public benchmarking.
What if the account simply went inactive with no explicit reason given?
The survey still fires and asks for a reason, but if there's no response, the churn gets logged as unexplained, which is itself useful data if unexplained churn is a large share of the total.
Can this trigger from a billing system directly?
Yes, subscription cancellation and renewal decline events from most billing systems can be connected via API to fire this automatically.