churn survey

Feedback Survey

Churn Survey: Capture Why Customers Leave and Act on It Automatically

Churn Survey: Capture Why Customers Leave and Act on It Automatically

Deploy automated churn surveys triggered by cancellations and lapsed subscriptions. Route save attempts automatically.

Deploy automated churn surveys triggered by cancellations and lapsed subscriptions. Route save attempts automatically.

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

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

What happens when you deploy it

What happens when you deploy it

Set it up once on FeedbackRobot, it runs on its own and routes every customer response to the right outcome.

Set it up once on FeedbackRobot, it runs on its own and routes every customer response to the right outcome.

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

SaaS companies with churn surveys reduce monthly churn rate by an average of 18% within two quarters of implementation

SaaS companies with churn surveys reduce monthly churn rate by an average of 18% within two quarters of implementation

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.

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