Banking & Finance

    Coding NPS and satisfaction comments in banking

    From "why did you give us that score?" to a table of reasons by segment, channel and product: the AI proposes the codebook, codes every comment, and your team reviews only the doubtful answers.

    What makes open-ends hard at a bank

    One comment mixes channel, product and service. If the codebook doesn't separate those layers, the table can't drive a decision.

    A detractor talks about the app, a fee and the branch in one sentence: with a single code per answer, half the reason is lost.

    Relationship NPS runs monthly or quarterly, and if the codebook drifts between waves the trend stops being comparable.

    Cards, loans, accounts and the app each have their own vocabulary (annual fee, one-time passcode, cash advance), and a new coder takes time to learn it.

    Complaints arrive in volume and need to be grouped the same way every month for the customer experience committee.

    How a banking open-end works in Survey Coder Pro

    You generate the codebook from the responses, or load the one your bank or client already uses. The AI codes every comment with all the codes that apply and flags doubtful cases for a person to review.

    Nets that separate channel (app, branch, call center), product (card, loan, account) and service.

    The same codebook is reused in every wave of relationship or transactional NPS.

    Comments in English, Spanish or Portuguese in one dataset, coded with a single codebook.

    Upload the .sav and the tabulation book crosses reasons by segment or product with significance testing.

    Banking Use Cases

    Specific applications for the financial sector

    Digital Banking NPS Analysis

    Code promoter and detractor comments identifying satisfaction drivers in digital channels.

    Mobile App Feedback

    Analyze reviews and comments from your banking app to prioritize UX improvements.

    Branch Experience

    Satisfaction studies at physical service points with wait time and service analysis.

    Complaint Categorization

    Stable grouping of complaints by reason for internal tracking and continuous improvement.

    Customer Onboarding

    Analyze feedback from account opening and product onboarding processes.

    Fintech Evaluation

    Comparative studies of fintech services vs traditional banking.

    Illustrative example

    Example: reasons behind a bank's NPS score

    Relationship survey of retail banking customers. Respondents scoring 0 to 6 are asked why; here is part of the dataset after coding.

    Open-ended question

    What is the main reason for the score you gave us?

    Responses and assigned codes

    ResponseCodes
    “The app crashes right when I'm making a transfer, and the security code takes forever to arrive.”
    App failuresOne-time passcode
    “They charged me the annual card fee without any notice and nobody on the phone could explain it.”
    Unexpected fees and chargesCall center service
    “Went to the branch to update my details and waited almost two hours in line.”
    Branch wait time
    “The personal loan rate is higher than at other banks.”
    Loan rates
    “My card got blocked for security while I was traveling and unblocking it was a nightmare.”
    Security blocksLengthy procedures
    “The advisor was really nice, but the direct debit issue still isn't fixed.”
    Friendly advisor (positive)Issue not resolved
    “All good, except the app won't let me pay other banks on weekends.”
    Missing app feature

    Codebook excerpt

    Net / code% of respondents who answered
    NET Digital channels41%
    App failures22%
    Missing app feature13%
    One-time passcode9%
    NET Costs34%
    Unexpected fees and charges24%
    Loan rates14%
    NET Service and resolution29%
    Issue not resolved15%
    Call center service11%
    Branch wait time8%
    NET Security and procedures17%
    Security blocks9%
    Lengthy procedures10%

    Multi-code question: one response can carry several codes, so percentages add up to more than 100%. A net counts each respondent once, even if they have several codes from that group.

    Example built for this page: this is not client data and the percentages are illustrative.

    For market research agencies

    • Multi-wave banking NPS trackers: each new wave inherits the codebook and only codes that appear for the first time are added.
    • You deliver a .sav or Excel file with codes as columns per respondent, ready for the bank's own processing.
    • If the bank already has a codebook, you load it and the AI codes with that one, not an invented one.
    • Your coding team reviews only the doubtful answers instead of reading the whole dataset, and makes the call on each one.

    For CX and insights teams at banks and lenders

    • Monthly NPS comments get coded without an analyst reading them one by one at every month-end.
    • Same codebook month after month: if "unexpected fees" goes up, it is because it went up, not because the coding changed.
    • Export to Excel or .sav and cross it in your BI tool with segment, product or channel.
    • Upload the .sav and you get a tabulation book with a banner and significance testing by segment.

    Frequently asked questions

    Does it work for both relationship and transactional NPS?

    Yes. The usual setup is one codebook per survey type, because the reasons behind a transaction (a branch visit, a call) are not the same as those behind the relationship with the bank. Each codebook is reused across its own waves.

    Can we use the codebook the bank already has?

    Yes. You load it and the AI codes with those codes. If reasons appear that the codebook doesn't cover, they are proposed as new codes and your team decides whether they go in.

    How do you separate the channel from the reason?

    With nets. One comment can carry both a channel code ("app") and a reason code ("unexpected fee"), and the table shows them separately or crossed.

    What happens with ambiguous or very short comments?

    The AI flags them as doubtful and they go into the review queue. Your team decides the final code; nothing is accepted without a person being able to see it.

    Try the workflow on one of your own open-ended questions

    Upload a dataset with an open-ended question and see the codebook the AI proposes. The free trial includes 250 responses.