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How to create canceled subscribers survey about pricing and value perception

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Aug 23, 2025

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This article will guide you on how to create a Canceled Subscribers survey about pricing and value perception. With Specific, you can build a custom survey in seconds—just generate and launch with zero hassle.

Steps to create a survey for Canceled Subscribers about pricing and value perception

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Why survey canceled subscribers about pricing and value perception?

Let’s be clear: if you’re not running these surveys, you're leaving opportunities and feedback on the table. The importance of canceled subscribers recognition surveys is huge—these are the customers who know your product and cared enough to opt in but something wasn’t working for them.

  • First, you get direct insight into where your pricing strategy is falling short, or if your perceived value just isn’t matching expectations.

  • Acting on this feedback can move retention rates—remember, a 5% increase in customer retention drives a profit growth of 25–95% [2].

  • Canceled subscriber feedback is your fastest path to unlocking the fix that can actually bring people back or improve for future customers.

If you're not running these surveys, you risk guessing instead of knowing why subscribers left and you’re blind to silent issues. The benefits of canceled subscribers feedback go beyond reducing churn—they help sharpen your positioning, offering, and product roadmap. And in industries where retention hovers around just 55% [1], who can afford to ignore that signal?

What makes a good survey on pricing and value perception

A good survey captures both breadth and depth. The best pricing and value perception surveys combine clear, unbiased questions with a conversational tone that encourages open, honest feedback. You want canceled subscribers to feel comfortable pointing out both the good and the bad.

The measure of greatness? High response rate and high-quality insights. If you’re not getting both, you’re missing the mark.

Bad practices

Good practices

Leading or loaded questions
"Don't you think our prices are fair?"

Neutral, specific questions
"How do you feel about our pricing relative to the value you received?"

Jargon or overly technical language

Conversational, user-friendly language

No opportunity for elaboration

Room for follow-ups and context

Common question types for canceled subscribers survey on pricing and value perception

Mixing your question types is key to drawing out different perspectives and levels of detail from canceled subscribers. Let’s walk through the top options:

Open-ended questions allow respondents to voice their thoughts fully, which is perfect for uncovering nuanced opinions. Use these when you want depth, not just data points. Good examples:

  • What influenced your decision to cancel your subscription in relation to our pricing?

  • Can you describe any moments when you felt the value didn’t justify the cost?

Single-select multiple-choice questions are invaluable when you want structured data that’s easy to analyze. Use them to quantify the main drivers or blockers. For example:

Which of the following best describes your primary reason for canceling?

  • I found a better value elsewhere

  • The price was too high for my needs

  • I didn’t use the service enough

  • Other

NPS (Net Promoter Score) question are standards for measuring overall value perception and future loyalty. Quick to answer and easy to benchmark. For a ready-to-use template, generate a NPS survey for canceled subscribers about pricing and value perception here.

On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend our service to others, based on the pricing and value you experienced?


Followup questions to uncover "the why" matter most when you want to fill in the gaps behind people’s answers. Instead of letting a vague comment slide, use automated followups to get specific. For example:

  • Respondent: “It was too expensive.”

  • Follow-up: “What would have made the pricing feel more fair for you?”

If you want to explore even more question types, best practices, and tips on framing them, check out this article on the best questions for canceled subscribers pricing and value perception surveys.

What is a conversational survey?

A conversational survey uses natural, chat-like interactions rather than rigid forms. This means respondents engage the way they would with a friendly interviewer, making feedback richer and participation higher. With AI survey generators, building these isn’t just easier—it’s fundamentally better. You save the headache and the time it would take to script or edit each question manually.

Manual surveys

AI-generated surveys

Static forms
Manual editing
Missed followups

Conversational interface
AI-powered question generation
Adaptive real-time followups

Why use AI for canceled subscribers surveys? Leveraging AI dramatically shortens survey creation, ensures expert-quality language, and unlocks powerful features like real-time follow-ups—collecting insights you’d otherwise miss. Searching for an AI survey example or practical guide? Here’s how to create strong surveys and analyze responses that stand out.

Specific makes this all seamless, with a best-in-class user experience that removes friction for both creators and respondents. Conversational surveys aren’t the future—they’re the new standard, and Specific makes them easy whether you’re starting from scratch or customizing via the AI survey editor.

The power of follow-up questions

If you want to unlock full context and honest feedback, follow-up questions are non-negotiable. Automated AI followups do what forms can’t: they dig deeper, clarify, and adapt in real time, just like a live conversation with a skilled researcher. No more sending emails back and forth to clarify vague answers—survey takers are guided on the spot.

  • Canceled subscriber: “The value just wasn’t there for me.”

  • AI follow-up: “Can you share more about which features didn’t meet your expectations or seemed overpriced?”

How many followups to ask? In our experience, two or three well-timed followup questions are enough to capture essential context without overwhelming respondents. If you’ve hit the core insight, you can skip the rest. Specific lets you control this level of probing so you strike just the right balance.

This makes it a conversational survey: followups transform a generic form into a dynamic exchange—now every answer becomes a jumping-off point for deeper learning.

AI survey response analysis: Even if you end up with heaps of open-ended responses, analyzing them is easy. Specific’s AI survey analysis tools (learn more here) summarize, extract themes, and let you chat directly about the findings. Qualitative insight, quantified and accessible.

Trying out automated followup questions is a new kind of game—generate a survey and experience firsthand what granular, contextual feedback really feels like!

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Sources

  1. Exploding Topics. Customer Retention Rates by Industry: Stats and Benchmarks

  2. Propel. Latest Customer Retention Statistics, Benchmarks, and Insights

  3. Propel. Latest Customer Retention Statistics, Benchmarks, and Insights

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Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.

Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.

Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.