exit survey

Feedback Survey

Exit Survey: Capture Why Customers Leave Before They Are Gone

Exit Survey: Capture Why Customers Leave Before They Are Gone

Deploy an exit survey that fires the moment a customer cancels. Capture the reason while they're still reachable.

Deploy an exit survey that fires the moment a customer cancels. Capture the reason while they're still reachable.

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

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

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: 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

Businesses with automated exit surveys save 12% of churning customers through targeted save offers triggered by the exit reason

Businesses with automated exit surveys save 12% of churning customers through targeted save offers triggered by the exit reason

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.

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