CSAT

Customer Satisfaction Score CSAT

What is the customer satisfaction score and why is this an important metric?

The customer satisfaction score, or CSAT as it’s often called, intends to measure a customer’s satisfaction with the service received.

In its simplest form, CSAT is expressed as a percentage between 0 and 100, with 100, representing complete customer satis-faction. There can be a large variance between the CSAT scores of companies in a given industry, or at the same company over time. Many companies that boast high customer satisfaction are those with CSAT scores in the upper 80, or 90’s.

CSAT is often determined by a single question in follow-up surveys along the lines of “How would you rate your overall satisfaction with the service you received,’ This is often graded on a scale of one to five, with a score of one representing “very dissatisfied” and five representing “very satisfied”.  Surveys are then averaged for a composite CSAT score. Some organizations set their standard at a 4-out-of-5; any customer who provides a score of 3 or less triggers a callback from a manager or QA team member.

A Few Notes about CSAT

This methodology doesn’t take into account that many mildly satisfied or mildly dissatisfied customers don’t tend to complete surveys. It also fails to differentiate specific factors that contribute to customer satisfaction such as good value (the quality and quantity of the service for its price), how closely the customer’s expectations are met, and how valued the customer feels at the end of a transaction with this company. This lack of detail can skew CSAT results in either direction.

As with other metrics, one of CSAT, most useful purposes is to track the correlation between changes in training or procedures and the satisfaction of customers. As long as the method used to measure satisfaction does not change between pre and post-change surveys, CSAT can help companies determine the effect of new initiatives on their customers’ satisfaction.

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