Blog

The promise of convenience.

Convenience should never equate to inconvenience, yet customers often face hurdles when issues arise. It doesn't have to be this way.

Screen capture featuring Nick Powless, Neil Swindale, and Greg Elisara

When a customer reaches out after a bad experience – it can be a great opportunity to build loyalty.

There’s an implicit promise in convenience services. One that we try to build into ZippyAssist, because it’s right there in the name: “convenience”.

For Zippy, it means trying to build convenience into the customer experience when something goes wrong, and they need to reach out for help or support. Things like:

  • Simple text activation, using machine IDs.

  • An efficient way for customers to provide information

  • Little notifications to let them know when something has happened

  • Support for Spanish and French for customers who speak those languages

It also means making things simple and easy for operators and their people.

  • A task-focused dashboard design

  • Simple processes for the most common tasks

  • All relevant information at hand

  • Automations, integrations and workflows to reduce work or speed things up

Luckily, most customers in unattended and self-service understand that things can go wrong from time to time. But if the experience of getting help doesn’t deliver on that promise of convenience – if it’s difficult, slow, or complicated – it can lead to frustrated customers, lost revenue, and lost accounts.

But also, the experience of getting help doesn’t have to be perfect. Most customers are understanding, and often they just want to be heard. And give them an experience beyond what they expect, and you’ll quickly turn a disgruntled customer into a loyal one.

Feedback from customers who have received help from operators via ZippyAssist.

Score

Comment

10/10 excellent

Tech came out and replaced our broken coffee machine within a couple of hours of me reporting the issue. Very quick and efficient.

10/10 excellent

Always keeping the machine filled and honoring refunds

9/10 great

Fast response, clear and courteous communication, included my electronic surcharge costs in my refund, above the cost of product.

10/10 excellent

Thank you for responding so quickly to fix the out of service coffee machine

10/10 excellent

They responded very promptly and the issue was resolved above what was expected. Thank you.

10/10 excellent

I really appreciate you guys taking care of my refund so fast

10/10 excellent

I liked the texting option and the response time was great

10/10 excellent

You took care of my refund very efficiently! Thank you

While it’s not possible to undo someone’s disappointing experience, it is entirely possible to make their next experience a much better one.

That’s why ZippyAssist exists.

If that’s something you believe, too, get in touch and let’s chat about how Zippy can help deliver the promise of convenience, even when the unexpected happens.



Streamlining Processes in Unattended Retail

Next Article

New ZippyAssist™ feature eases preauthorization confusion for customers.

Previous Article