What is the Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)?
CSAT is the simplest customer-sentiment metric in the canon: ask the user how satisfied they were with a specific experience, on a 1-5 or 1-10 scale, and report the percentage who answered favourably. It's not the deepest measure of loyalty, but it's the fastest to collect and the easiest to act on.
When to send CSAT prompts
- After a support interaction closes
- After a key product flow completes (checkout, onboarding, first-value moment)
- After a major release lands
- On a rolling schedule for relationship-level pulse checks
CSAT vs NPS
CSAT measures satisfaction with a specific event. NPS measures willingness to recommend the product overall. Most teams need both. Sleekplan ships both, plus a custom-question mode, plus the threaded-feedback follow-up that lets you actually talk to the customer who answered badly.
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