Customer feedback is invaluable – it helps you see how you’re doing and helps you build a better product or service. But it can be tricky to collect customer reviews and address feedback, especially when timing is everything.
In this article, we’ll show you how to easily gather customer reviews and tackle negative feedback automatically with OpenPhone and Zapier.
Capture customer reviews automatically
The best time to ask a customer for a review is as soon as you make the sale or complete a project – you’re still fresh in their mind.
But it’s easy to forget to ask for those reviews at the time. That’s where automation comes in.
With Zapier, you can set up workflows (called Zaps) to automatically send a review request after a specific milestone is reached in your CRM. For example, you can use this Zap to ask for a Google review one day after you close a deal:
Trigger: Stage to closed won (sale completed)
Action: Only continue for certain filter criteria (ex: company size, if the customer is interested in sharing a review etc)
Action: Zapier Delay for XYZ Days
Action: Send a text message asking for feedback and Google Review
By automating the review request process, you ensure that every happy customer gets the nudge to share their experiences – without adding extra tasks to your plate.
Handle negative reviews with pre-written snippets and fast responses
A negative review is never nice to receive, but it gives you a chance to show your commitment to improving your customer experience. With OpenPhone, you can create a workflow to manually respond to low reviews, so you can address those concerns faster.
Create a snippet for quick responses
Snippets are pre-written text templates that you can use to message contacts quickly. They save time and help to maintain a consistent tone across your team’s responses.
This is an example of a potential snippet for responding to negative reviews:
“Hi there, we're sorry to hear about your recent experience with [company/service]. We'd like to make it right. Could you please share more details? Thank you.”
Here’s how to set up snippets in OpenPhone:
- Open a conversation and type /snippets in the reply box.
- Click on the /snippets button to add or create a snippet.
- Select an existing snippet or create a new one for future use.
Schedule your message
Timing matters when reaching out to unhappy customers. Ideally, you should send the message immediately after receiving negative feedback to show you’re proactive.
But if it’s late at night or your customers work in a different time zone, you can use OpenPhone’s scheduling feature to send the message at a more appropriate time.
Follow these simple steps to schedule a response:
- Draft your text, then select the Clock icon instead of the send button.
- Select a time to send the message.
Automate how you respond low reviews
Proactively addressing low reviews allows you to improve customer satisfaction by showing that you care about their experience and are willing to make things right.
With Zapier, you can trigger an automation to monitor low reviews and automatically text customers to offer help and troubleshoot their issue.
Here’s how to set up this automation:
- Trigger: Set the workflow to activate when a review is received (for example, in More Good Reviews).
- Filter: Add a condition to continue only if the review is below a specific rating.
- Action: Automatically send a follow-up text offering help and showing your commitment to fixing the issue.
OpenPhone makes managing negative reviews less stressful. By using these workflows, you’ll not only gather more valuable customer feedback, but also transform low reviews into opportunities to improve customer satisfaction.
Looking for other ways to improve your customer service? Check out these related resources:
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Preventing customer conversations from slipping through the cracks