complaint form
Feedback Survey
An unresolved complaint is a public review waiting to happen. Deploy this automation and every complaint submission is routed to the right department instantly, with a resolution deadline and an escalation path if it is not addressed within your defined window.
About this automation
Type
Feedback Survey
Industry
Free to use
✓ Yes
Deploy time
Under 5 min
Triggers
API, QR Code, Web
Delivers via
Email, SMS, Web
What this survey asks
01
What category best describes your complaint?
Multiple choice: billing / product / staff / other, drives routing
02
Please describe what happened
Open text, required, the core complaint detail
03
When did this occur?
Date picker
04
How would you rate the severity of this issue?
Low / Medium / High, sets escalation priority
05
How would you like us to follow up?
Email / Phone / No follow-up needed
The automation
Trigger: customer submits the form via QR code, web, or API
Fires the instant the complaint is submitted, whichever channel it comes through.
API, QR Code, Web
Complaint routed the instant it's submitted
Delivered to the responsible department via Email, SMS, or Web notification.
Routed by department and urgency
Every submission classified the instant it arrives:
Positive sentiment
Acknowledged and logged for the department record.
Needs attention
Escalated to the department head immediately.
Complaint resolution dashboard
Open, resolved, and overdue complaints by department, updated in real time.
Why this automation matters
The gap between receiving a complaint and resolving it is where customer relationships are won or lost. A complaint that arrives in a shared inbox, gets read by three people who each assume someone else will handle it, and goes unanswered for four days is not just an operational failure. It is an almost guaranteed negative review, posted by a customer who felt dismissed after already feeling let down. Deploy FeedbackRobot's complaint form automation and the routing problem is eliminated. Every submission is classified on arrival by topic, department, and severity. A billing complaint goes directly to the finance team's queue. A product quality issue routes to operations. A staff-related complaint routes to the relevant manager. Each is assigned a resolution deadline. If the deadline passes without a marked resolution, an escalation fires to the next level of management automatically. The resolution record this creates has value beyond the individual complaint. A pattern of complaints about the same product feature, the same staff shift, or the same delivery window becomes visible in the aggregate data and tells you exactly where to focus operational improvement effort. You are not just resolving individual complaints. You are building a feedback loop that prevents the same complaint from arriving again.
Expected outcome
Connects to the platforms that matter
Triggers
API, QR Code, Web
Channels
Email, SMS, Web
Common questions
What happens if a complaint doesn't fit any of my defined categories?
It routes to a default catch-all queue rather than getting lost, though most businesses find that after the first month of real complaints, three to five categories cover the large majority of cases.
Can a customer submit a complaint anonymously?
Yes, the follow-up field is optional, though anonymous complaints obviously can't receive a personal response, they still count toward the pattern data used to spot recurring issues.
What happens if the resolution deadline passes on a weekend?
The deadline counts in real calendar time, not business hours, so weekend gaps are worth factoring into the deadline you set if your team doesn't work weekends.
Is this different from a general customer feedback survey?
Yes, this is an intake form for something specific that's already gone wrong, not a satisfaction check, so it skips rating questions entirely and goes straight to category, description, and severity.