# Which survey platforms are good for tracking NPS trends over time and flagging detractors so you can follow up with them?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">We're building out a continuous NPS program and which<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/survey"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/survey">survey</a> platforms are good for tracking NPS trends over time and flagging detractors so you can follow up with them is exactly what our evaluation is stuck on. The basic NPS score is easy to get from almost any survey tool. Trend tracking and automated detractor follow-up is where the shortlist gets much shorter.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Based on G2 reviews specifically around NPS and CX workflows:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/surveysparrow/reviews"><strong>SurveySparrow</strong></a> (4.4 stars, 2,066 reviews): NPS, CSAT, and CES dashboards described as reflecting a real-time picture of customer sentiment. Workflow automation triggers follow-ups and notifies the right teams when a detractor response comes in. Does the detractor routing work reliably at high volume?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/surveymonkey/reviews"><strong>SurveyMonkey</strong></a> (4.4 stars, 23,497 reviews): Built-in NPS tracking with trend visualization and segment filtering. Reviewers describe being able to spot trends and catch red flags in the data automatically. How granular does the trend view get for tracking NPS movement over quarters?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/questionpro/reviews"><strong>QuestionPro</strong></a> (4.5 stars, 1,144 reviews): Strong for ongoing NPS programs with scheduled sends and automated detractor follow-up workflows. Comes up specifically in mid-market CX contexts.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/qualtrics-market-research/reviews"><strong>Qualtrics Market Research</strong></a> (4.4 stars, 3,017 reviews): Enterprise-level NPS analytics with segment-level trend tracking and full closed-loop workflow management. More than most teams need, but the trend analysis depth is real.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For teams that have been tracking NPS over 12+ months: which platform gave you the clearest picture of movement, and did the detractor flagging actually result in follow-ups that closed the loop?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

QuestionPro&#39;s scheduled sends paired with automated detractor workflows is the combination that actually closes the loop, versus tools that flag a detractor and stop there. The follow-up automation is the unglamorous part that makes an NPS program actually useful.

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### Comment 2

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Delighted is built specifically for this, tracking NPS over time and flagging detractors so you can follow up quickly rather than after a delayed reporting cycle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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### Comment 3

&lt;p&gt;Extending that a little, there&#39;s a second thing that moves the line: your own follow-up. If detractor outreach works, some of those people re-score higher next cycle, so an improving trend is partly measuring the closed-loop program rather than the product. Good problem to have, bad number to report without saying so. The version I&#39;d trust is a cohort read, meaning score movement among people who answered in both periods, held next to the aggregate. When the two diverge you learn something real: aggregate up with cohort flat means the mix changed, both up means sentiment genuinely moved. Worth checking whether a platform can even produce that repeat-respondent cut, because it&#39;s a different query from segment filtering and not every NPS dashboard exposes it.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 11 days ago
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### Comment 4

One thing that muddies every NPS trend line: sample composition. A five-point swing month over month can mean sentiment moved, or just that this month&#39;s respondents skewed toward a different segment or channel with sentiment unchanged. So before comparing trend dashboards, the question worth asking is whether the platform lets you hold the segment mix constant when reading the trend, because a raw aggregate line can move for reasons that have nothing to do with customers changing their minds.

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- Posted at: 3 months ago
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