exit survey
Feedback Survey
Customers who cancel without being asked why are a permanent blind spot. Deploy this automation and a short survey fires at the moment of cancellation or inactivity, capturing the exit reason while the customer is still reachable.
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 primary reason you're leaving?
Multiple choice: price / feature gap / switching / no longer needed
02
Was this decision price-driven or feature-driven?
Price / Feature / Both / Neither
03
Is there anything that would change your decision?
Open text, triggers a same-hour save attempt if answered
04
Which competitor, if any, are you moving to?
Open text, optional, logged for market intelligence
05
Save attempt timing
Triggered within the hour for responses suggesting reconsideration
The automation
Trigger: cancellation, declined renewal, or extended inactivity
Fires automatically at cancellation, a declined renewal, or extended inactivity.
API, In-App
Exit survey delivered immediately
Fires at the moment of departure, while the customer is still reachable.
Reason-based routing
Each exit reason routes to the team best placed to act on it.
Positive sentiment
Logged as market or product intelligence.
Needs attention
Responses suggesting reconsideration trigger a save attempt within the hour.
Exit reason dashboard
Exit reasons by category, updated in real time.
Why this automation matters
Exit data from customers who have already left is retrospective and skewed. The customers most likely to respond to a post-departure survey are those who felt strongly enough about the experience to engage further, which misses the majority who left because of a gradual erosion of value or a feature gap that was never loud enough to raise directly. Deploy FeedbackRobot's exit survey automation and the survey arrives at the moment of departure. When a customer initiates a cancellation, when a renewal is declined, when an account goes inactive past your defined threshold, a short survey fires immediately. It asks for the primary exit reason, whether the decision was price-driven or feature-driven, and whether any specific change would have made a difference. Responses are classified on arrival. Price-driven exits route to the retention team with the customer's lifetime value visible. Feature-driven exits route to product management as direct demand evidence. Competitive exits are logged for market intelligence. Customers whose responses suggest they might reconsider trigger a targeted save attempt within the hour. The rest provide the exit data that reduces future churn from the same cause.
Expected outcome
Connects to the platforms that matter
Triggers
API, In-App
Channels
Email, In-App
Common questions
How is this different from the cancellation or churn survey templates?
This one fires across the broadest set of exit triggers, active cancellation, declined renewal, or extended inactivity, consolidating what the other two templates handle separately.
Why do post-departure surveys give skewed data compared to this?
Customers who respond after already leaving tend to be the ones who felt strongly enough to engage further, missing the majority who left from a gradual, quieter erosion of value.
What happens to a response that suggests the customer might reconsider?
It triggers a targeted save attempt within the hour, while there's still a real chance of reversing the decision.
Is competitor information actually useful, or just curiosity?
It's logged as market intelligence, aggregated over time it shows which competitors are actually winning your churned customers and why.