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The program, end to end

From your standards to a scored survey in your dashboard

Six steps, one cadence. This page shows what happens at each stage, who does it, how long it takes and what lands in your dashboard as a result.

At a glance

First survey live
Same day
Scoring on submission
Instant
Review
Your team
Notice given to locations
None
01

Configure the program

Day 0

Set the program up yourself in the platform. You define what a great visit looks like at your locations — with operations, training and, where it exists, brand standards — choose which locations run first, and decide how often you want responses.

What you get

  • Locations, formats and dayparts in scope
  • Program goals tied to the metrics you already report
  • Critical items that fail a survey outright, if you have them
02

Build and weight the survey

Day 0–1

You turn your standards into scored questions with defined evidence and skip logic, starting from a template or from scratch. Every question tells the participant exactly what to observe and what to keep, and weights are published in advance so nobody argues about the math after the fact.

What you get

  • Weighted questionnaire mapped to your training material
  • Evidence rules per question: receipt, photo, timestamp, name
  • Skip logic so each format only asks what applies to it
  • A draft survey you approve before it goes live
03

Choose how responses arrive

Same day

This is the part most platforms get wrong. You decide who shops: an open survey link that anyone you share it with can complete, your own panel of managers and regulars, or a branded sign-up page where guests pick a date and a time window.

What you get

  • Open survey links and QR codes per location, daypart or campaign
  • Your own participant panel, managed inside the platform
  • Guest sign-up page with date, window and capacity limits
  • Confirmations, reminders and no-show handling automated
04

Responses come in

Any day

Questions capture the moments that matter, evidence is attached where your rules require it, and partial answers are saved if a survey is interrupted.

What you get

  • Timed observations: greeting, order, delivery, check-back, farewell
  • Itemised receipt and required photographs attached to the response
  • Device, location and time recorded with every submission
  • Progress saved, so a survey can be finished at the table
05

Review before it counts

As responses arrive

Every submission is scored on arrival and queued for review. Your team can review it, and hold it before it goes to the location, or set up a workflow. Anything that fails your evidence rules is queried, re-surveyed or excluded — it never silently lands in a manager's scorecard.

What you get

  • Evidence audit against your rules, before release
  • Duplicate and re-use detection across the program
  • Query and re-survey workflow with a full audit trail
  • Auto-release rules for programs that need no manual step
06

Read, coach, repeat

Continuous

Scores, narratives and coaching notes land in your dashboard, rolled up by location, region and brand. From there the cadence does the work: the next survey measures whether the fix held.

What you get

  • Location scorecards with dimension-level detail
  • Recognition notes and coaching points by role
  • Alerts when a location crosses a threshold you set
  • Trend view that shows movement since the last survey
07Quality control

A survey is only worth reading if it survives scrutiny

Three controls run on every response. They are the reason a GuestSignals scorecard can be handed to a general manager without a caveat attached.

Participant verification

One response per person per period, location-locked links, optional access codes and device checks. Whoever you put in the field, the platform knows when and where they responded.

Evidence discipline

Timings, receipt and required photographs are attached to the questions they answer. A claim without evidence is dropped from the score rather than argued about later.

Review workflow

Nothing is released until it passes your rules. Every decision is logged, so a challenged score can be traced back to the response it came from.

08From submission to scorecard

What happens after a participant taps submit

There is no batch process and no monthly report run. A response is scored the moment it arrives and reviewed on the rules you set.
  1. Minute 0Participant submits the survey from their phone01
  2. InstantResponse is scored against your weights and skip logic02
  3. Same dayEvidence checks and duplicate detection run automatically03
  4. ReviewYour reviewer signs the response off, queries it or excludes it04
  5. LiveScorecard, alerts and trend update in the dashboard05

Programs that want no manual step can auto-release responses that pass every evidence rule.

09Program questions

The four questions we are asked before starting

How quickly can a program start?

As soon as you're done creating your first survey. The survey builder, the location list and the collection links all live in the platform, so there is nothing to schedule and nothing to wait for.

Do we need to recruit shoppers before we begin?

No. You can publish an open survey and start collecting immediately with people you already have. Scheduling is there for when you want specific visits on specific dates, and it can be switched on for one location or the whole estate.

Can we change the survey after launch?

Yes, and most clients do. Questions, weights, evidence rules and skip logic can be adjusted between cycles. Scorecards are labelled with the survey version, so trends stay honest across a change.

What happens if a response fails our evidence rules?

It is queried, re-surveyed or excluded before it can affect a score. Excluded responses stay in the audit trail, so you can always see what was removed and why.

Ready when you are

Bring us one location and one standard that keeps slipping.

We will show you the builder, the scoring and the dashboard on the demo call — and you can publish your first survey the same day.

Or email hello@guestsignals.com. We reply to every enquiry within one business day.