Assessment Channels
how we can assess your business
Assessment Channels
You might be looking to monitor compliance, drive performance improvement or gather insight into the customer experience. We can offer many different types of mystery shopping and customer experience assessments to assess a range of touchpoints.
Our bespoke and flexible approach means that wherever a customer experience exists and through whatever channel, we can put a programme in place to meet a wide range of objectives. We have over 30 years’ of experience doing so!
Face to Face
Physical Visit Assessments
Mystery Shoppers can pre-book visits where required and visit their allocated location. They then carry out an assessment based on your objectives. We can monitor:
- Team member appearance and performance.
- Response to specific enquiries or action.
- Security protocols.
- Premises appearance and available facilities.
- Stock display, availability and prices.
Over 350,000 mystery shoppers worldwide!
Our mystery shoppers meet a huge range of demographics, enabling us to match your typical customer profile and provide more in-depth feedback as a result.
Video/Audio Recording
To further aid feedback and coaching, we can also audio or video record assessments, which enables you to listen to/watch the experience and decide yourself whether the experience meets the standard you expect.
- Professional panel of video/audio shoppers.
- Full UK and Ireland coverage.
- State of the art covert recording equipment.
- Great for training teams on best practice.
Telephone
Response Testing
Mystery shoppers can call portraying particular scenarios to determine not only whether phones are being answered in accordance with company standards, but also to measure the quality of the interaction. We’ve assessed:
- Customer service lines
- Complaints lines
- Sales teams
- Individual Branches
Call Scoring
We’re also able to assess calls that have already been recorded on your own recording system. Once recordings are listened to, they are then scored against a set of agreed criteria.
Recordings to aid feedback
Calls can be recorded to assist with feedback and employee coaching. Other measures include:
- Response times.
- Enquiry handling.
- Transfer skills.
- Rapport building & information provided.
- Sales process and techniques.
Response Monitoring
Much time and money is spent on moving customers through the journey from awareness all the way to becoming brand advocates.
It’s frustrating for customers if they’re not receiving the response in the way they would expect so it’s really important that teams responsible for customer service through social media, don’t let customers down or allow them to fall out of the funnel.
Mystery shoppers write comments on your posts across any social media site or app to see how quickly they are responded to, allowing you to assess the speed and quality of response.
They can make social media enquiries to the contact team and track response times, content of replies and the complete customer experience.
Responses to Direct or Private Messages
We will arrange for mystery shoppers to send messages or DMs to your company pages or accounts to assess:
- The speed of response
- Quality of information provided
- Query resolution
The shoppers can take screenshots and/or record their screens whilst doing so and provide the footage for you to review.
Website
Usability Testing
Trained website assessors can provide valuable insight into what is often the first interaction customers have.
Certified website assessors and/or mystery shoppers are given tasks, and navigate the website or mobile app/page whilst recording the screen to enable the viewer to monitor their progress.
Assessment Areas Include:
- Ease of navigation
- Information availability
- Response times
- Enquiry handling
- Purchase process
- Availability of products
- Usability of web page/app/mobile view
- Chatbots / Live chat
Review Assessments in Real-Time
The mystery shoppers can have their webcams turned on as well so that their facial expressions can be seen and they will give verbal feedback on the process throughout.
Response Tracking
Mystery shoppers can make email or web form enquiries to the contact team and track response times, content of replies and the complete customer experience.
We can arrange for emails/enquiries to be sent from business email addresses if business to business is required.
Assessment Areas Can Include:
- Timeliness of replies
- Content of replies
- Professionalism & communication skills
- Information accuracy and depth
- Friendliness and rapport building
- Next steps explained
- Follow up offered
Supporting Materials
The shoppers provide screenshots of their interactions to support their feedback as well as copies of any materials they are sent in response to their enquiries.
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