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Customer feedback somebody acts on

Who closes the loop?

A customer has a bad experience. Somebody should get back to them, sort it, and write down what they did. In most businesses that is not tracked, and not because nobody cares. Avota asks one question after something happened, then keeps the answer open on a named desk until closed.

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A customer taps 4 out of 10 on their phone, and that answer arrives on a manager's screen as a job with a name against it.

Why it has to be early

By the time it is a public review, it is already too late.

A review is written after somebody has given up, and everyone can read it. Avota gets there first, privately, while it is still fixable.

How it works

An answer becomes a job with somebody's name on it.

Ask after something happened, sort the answer, route the unhappy ones to a person, close it by writing what you did, then ask that customer again. Everything said is kept.
You close it by writing a sentence about what you did, not by ticking a box. That is what makes it checkable later.
Why the loop, and not the score?

A business at 30 that closes every loop beats a business at 60 that files the data. Getting back to somebody inside 48 hours is worth roughly 12% in retention.

The score is the reading. The loop is the machine. The method, and where it does not hold up, is on the method page.


Two ways in

Same engine. Different front door.

A printed sign for a counter, carrying a QR code and a short code people can type in instead.
Shops, branches, service businesses

A QR code and ten minutes

Print a code for the counter, the van, the job sheet. Someone scans and taps a number. You find out which location is annoying people, and you hear about the bad ones the same day.

How it works for shops →

Your own system reports that an order closed, an invoice cleared or a quote was lost, and that event is what triggers the question. Nothing is written back into it.
Distributors and manufacturers

Ask because your system says to

An order closed, an invoice cleared, a quote lost. Scored by account and routed to the rep who owns the relationship. Nothing is installed in your systems.

How it works for distributors →


Getting started

Share what you're comfortable with. Stop on any step.

Most tools want a full customer import before they will do anything. This works at every level, and a QR code on its own is a real level.

Five steps of sharing, from a QR code on its own up to a connection to your own system. Each step gives you more, and you can stop at any of them.
Each step gives you more. None of them is a prerequisite for the one below it. The exact fields we read are published →
Do you need our sales figures?

No. We never need your sales figures. Ranking the queue works off your own A/B/C tiers, or just how often somebody orders. If you would rather share revenue you can, and we keep a band, never the amount.

What goes into our system?

Nothing. Read-only, on a connection your admin can revoke in one click, and nothing is installed anywhere. We post answers out to whatever you already use; we never write into it. The whole field list is published, and it is eight fields.

Why is there no free tier?

Because free is what killed the last three tools in this category, and their customers lost their history with them. 21 days, everything switched on, no card. Then you decide. The longer answer, and what happened to Delighted →


Pricing

Priced on how many customers you're watching.

Two numbers, because there are two ways in: locations if you print codes, accounts if you connect a system. Whichever you use, you fit or you don't. Not priced on responses, because caps punish the people getting the most value. And not on your revenue.

PlanLocationsAccounts or customersPer monthWho it's for
Starter3250$49A shop or two, or a small book of accounts
Standard151,500$199A branch network, or one system of record
Multi407,500$399Several branches, or several systems
Groupunlimitedunlimited$799Multi-entity, multi-subsidiary
  • No caps on responses, comments or seats. At any tier.
  • Nobody gets a surprise invoice. There is no code path that raises your price on its own. Outgrow a plan and we tell you in the app; you decide.
  • A busy location can be told to expect a crowd, so a Saturday rush is never mistaken for somebody playing with the sticker.

Ten minutes for a shop, twenty for a distributor

Print a code, or connect the thing you already run.

Bring your old scores if you have them: a Delighted export, a spreadsheet, whatever you kept. Your trend line should not start at zero.