Mystery shopper of an online store

Let’s look at the business through your customer's eyes

Online shopping is at the peak of popularity right now. The competition is growing every day. To remain competitive and increase profits, you need to provide excellent service to your customers.

What do visitors (buyers) of an online store value first and foremost? How do they evaluate whether it is worth buying here or not?

  • Speed of order processing.
  • Speed of delivery.
  • Warm communication at all levels of checkout.
  • The site is user-friendly and easy to use.

How do you check that employees are doing everything by the book and adhering to standards?

Turn to the mystery shopper service. This is the most objective method that will give you an understanding of the level of service in your online store.

Mystery client - an employee specially selected according to the set parameters (an average customer) - who performs a check according to the set scenario

Audit of online store personnel

In the process of verification, certain indicators formed from the goals and objectives of a particular study are evaluated. Then the obtained data are analyzed by our specialists. At the end of the audit, you will know

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  • What are the nuances of maintenance.
  • Whether the order is promptly fulfilled. How efficiently each employee works. Whether the salesperson recognizes the sales technique.
  • Whether the salesperson knows how to use sales techniques.
  • Whether the employee follows the script of the conversation.
  • Whether the manager is oriented in the assortment and characteristics of the product.

Online store verification is divided into two categories (depending on the units to be verified):

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Sales department
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Delivery and pickup department
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How personnel are screened sales department

By placing an order on the website
When placing an order on the website, the mystery shopper selects a product, sends it to the shopping cart and makes an order, fixes the time of the order, the time when the store employee calls or receives an e- mail. If the employee calls back by phone, the mystery shopper pays attention to how friendly and polite the employee is during the conversation, how quickly he or she answers the questions posed.
Making the call
The mystery shopper calls the number listed on the website and asks questions that are specified in the questionnaire. The telephone conversation can be recorded on a voice recorder.
Using the contact points on the website
Mystery shopper through the feedback form on the site (phone, e-mail) makes an online order, evaluates the work of site managers according to the approved scenario.

How delivery is verified and self-delivery

Having made an order, the mystery shopper waits for a courier or goes to a pickup point. The courier's performance is evaluated according to the following parameters:

  • -delivery time,
  • -correct and polite communication of the courier,
  • -what a courier looks like,
  • -availability of change,
  • -receipt,
  • -receipt,

At the pickup point, the mystery shopper records:

  • -cleanliness of the entrance area and inside the premises,
  • -speed of order issuance,
  • -the appearance of the employee issuing the order,
  • -staff competence.

Audit of online store website

Use a mystery shopper service to check the site in terms of attractiveness and visitor usability:

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Whether it is convenient to search for goods (services) on your site

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Is it possible to find the information you need quickly

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Is the payment and shipping information clear

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Is it convenient to use the shopping cart

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Preparing a mystery shopper for an online audit

We use the following tools in our work in order to carry out the audit effectively

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Visiter’s cover up stories

Our experts analyze and approve the most important aspects for the evaluation of each specific company. All the customer's wishes are taken into account: checking on certain dates, mandatory evaluation of certain parameters, ordering certain goods, checking the work of the courier during certain hours.

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Cover up stories of visits

Several standard behavioral patterns of real visitors are taken as a basis for a visit scenario.

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Questionnaire for the study

A questionnaire is developed specifically for each project. The questionnaire specifies all the necessary items for the research.

Casting of performers

An important stage of the mystery shopping is the selection of a mystery shopper. In accordance with the portrait of a potential client, the characteristics of people suitable for the role of a mystery shopper are determined. Our company Control Service has an extensive base of mystery shoppers, which is constantly growing.

All mystery shoppers receive audio training on the features and specifics of each project. Each mystery shopper receives all the necessary materials to effectively conduct the audit:

  • • Questionnaires,
  • • Legends,
  • • Instructions,
  • • Addresses.
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Before the audit, mystery shoppers undergo a survey to control the assimilation of information necessary for participation in the project

Analysis and report of the study. Creating an online project

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A project is created for each client in the online reporting system.

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Personal accounts are prepared, accesses are set up depending on the area of responsibility of the client representatives.

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The address program is loaded.

Processing of results

After completion, the reports are entered into the online system. The questionnaires are then checked by specialists from the validation department. After all checks, the reports become available to the client.

Each report undergoes several reviews:

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Checking to make sure all fields are filled with sufficient information and that all necessary artifacts (audio, photos, receipts, etc.) are present.

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Checking whether the provided data corresponds to the audio recording

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Checking for spelling, logical and punctuation errors

What the final accounts contain

Our specialists prepare a final analytical report based on the information obtained in the course of audits. The summary report contains

  • General information about the project carried out
  • Assessment of service level by predetermined blocks
  • Integrated results
  • Correlation analysis
  • General conclusions
  • Information on "points of growth"
  • Recommendation box

Conducting mystery shopper research on an ongoing basis is:

  • - Supervision of personnel work regardless of geography
  • - Maintaining service at a high level
  • - Tracking strengths and weaknesses in staff performance
  • - Timely identification and correction of errors
  • - Continuous increase in profits
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Why you should contact us

Huge experience of carrying out audits throughout Russia (in large and small towns). We can organize audits of any level of complexity.

Individual approach to each customer. We take into account the specifics of each company. In accordance with this we form checks.

We know all about mystery shopper research:

  • • how to organize,
  • • how to recruit staff,
  • • how to analyze the data obtained,
  • • what effective recommendations to offer.

Privacy

All research results will be guaranteed to be shared only with you under a non-disclosure agreement.

Data obtained in the course of audits will not be passed on to third parties!

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We work throughout Russia and the CIS

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