Set Your Own Survey Send Cadence with Custom Throttling

Survey throttling already keeps you from over-surveying the same contact. The catch was that it only allowed a fixed set of day intervals.

Now you set the number yourself. One day, two days, whatever cadence suits your program. Throttling runs globally across your account, and when a survey fires through an integration like Zendesk or Salesforce, you can choose to bypass it.

So the gap between surveys is yours to decide, not ours.

👉 Available on all Growth & Enterprise plans.

Add a Login Layer with Multi-Factor Authentication

A password on its own leaves a gap. We've added Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) so there's a second check at login. 

With MFA on, signing in needs a one-time password along with the usual credentials. It's a small step for your team and a meaningful one for account security.

For teams that need a higher bar, it puts an extra check between your feedback data and anyone trying to get to it.

👉 Available on all Enterprise Plans.

Reputation Hub Now Pulls Real-Time Reviews from Trustpilot, App Store, and Play Store

We're rolling out three new native review sources in Reputation HubTrustpilot, Apple App Store, and Google Play Store — all syncing in real time, the moment a review is posted.

Until now, monitoring third-party reviews meant exporting CSVs, refreshing dashboards, or relying on overnight jobs. With this update, every new review lands in Reputation Hub the moment it goes live — across all three sources, with no manual sync and no waiting.


What's New?

Trustpilot

Connect your Trustpilot account once and every new review syncs into Reputation Hub in real time — alongside your survey responses, NPS scores, and other reputation signals.

Apple App Store

Connect your iOS app and Reputation Hub starts pulling reviews as users post them — across versions, ratings, and geographies.

Google Play Store

Same for Android. Connect your Play Store app and reviews stream in continuously, ready to monitor, respond to, and track.


Why Real-Time Matters

Reviews don't wait. A bad release can spike negative App Store reviews in hours, a viral product mention can flood Trustpilot overnight, and a Play Store rating shift can affect downloads before your team even sees it. With real-time sync:

  • Spot negative trends as they emerge — not at end-of-week reporting
  • Respond to reviews while they still matter — within the window where engagement is meaningful
  • See cross-channel reputation in one view — surveys, Trustpilot, App Store, and Play Store side by side
  • Trigger alerts on what counts — low ratings, recurring complaints, or surges in volume

Who Is It For?

  • CX and reputation teams are monitoring brand health across surveys and third-party sources
  • Mobile product teams tracking store reviews as a leading indicator of release health
  • Marketing teams watching sentiment trends across campaigns and launches
  • Support teams catching public complaints early and routing them to the right channel
  • Leadership seeing one unified reputation view across every channel that matters

Plan Availability

Available on plans with Reputation Hub access. The same connections also work in AI Feedback Intelligence if you have access — themes, sentiment, intent, and emotion get extracted automatically on every review that comes in.

🚀 Ready to Get Started?

Got questions or want to set up the new sources for your team? Reach out to us at hello@zonkafeedback.com or 👉 Book a Demo to see real-time review sync in action.

Introducing AB Group: Run A/B Experiments Inside a Single Survey

Excited to announce AB Group — a new question group type that lets you run A/B experiments inside a single survey, no second link required.

Until now, testing two versions of a question meant building two surveys, distributing two links, and stitching results together afterward. With AB Group, you add multiple questions to one group, assign each a display probability, and Zonka serves only one of them to each respondent — automatically.


What's New?

🎲 Probability-Based Question Display

Add multiple questions to an AB Group and assign each a display weight — 50/50, 70/30, 60/20/20, or any split that adds up to 100. Zonka handles the random assignment per respondent.

📊 Built-In Comparison

Because both variants live in one survey under one response stream, results sit side-by-side in your reports — no manual reconciliation, no cross-survey math.


Why It Matters

Survey experimentation usually carries enough overhead that teams skip it entirely. AB Group removes the friction:

  • Test the metric, not just the wording — run NPS against CES on the same audience to see which one your customers actually engage with
  • Find phrasings that get clearer answers — test "How likely are you to recommend us?" against "Would you recommend us to a friend?" without splitting your sample
  • Compare response richness — buttons vs. open-text key driver questions, side by side
  • Make incremental survey decisions with real data — not opinions

Example Use Cases

📈 Metric Selection Test NPS vs. CES on a post-purchase survey to see which one your e-commerce audience answers more consistently.

✍️ Question Phrasing Compare two wordings of the same key question to find which gets higher completion and clearer responses.

🎛️ Answer Format Testing Pit a button-choice key driver question against an open-text version to see which one yields richer qualitative input.


Plan Availability

Available on all plans.


HubSpot Integration Now Supports Companies and Deals — Sync Feedback Across Accounts and Pipeline

HubSpot users, your integration just got deeper.

Until now, survey responses synced only to the Contact object in HubSpot. With this update, you can map and sync responses to Companies and Deals as well — opening up a whole new layer of account-level and pipeline-level feedback context.


What's New?

🏢 Sync to Companies

Push NPS, CSAT, and CES scores as Company properties, and log the full response on the Company timeline. Map any survey attribute, response field, or hidden variable to a HubSpot Company property.

💼 Sync to Deals

The same now works at the Deal level. Feedback signals attach directly to open opportunities, with the full response logged on the Deal timeline.

⚙️ Pick the Sync Action That Fits Your Workflow
  • Create new — add a fresh record for every response
  • Update existing — modify the matched record only
  • Create or update — create if no match, otherwise update
  • Log activity to timeline — record the response as a timeline event

Why This Matters

Customer feedback rarely belongs to a single person — it belongs to an account and to a deal. This update closes that gap:

  • Account-based teams can finally see consolidated feedback at the Company level
  • Customer success teams can monitor account health inside HubSpot without external dashboards
  • Revenue teams can tie feedback signals to open deals — not just individual contacts

Plan Availability

Available on Professional, Growth, and Enterprise plans.

Native Zoho CRM Integration — Sync Survey Feedback to Customer Records Automatically

We're rolling out a native Zoho CRM integration that keeps your customer records in sync with feedback — automatically, in real time, with no manual cleanup.

The moment a survey response comes in, Zonka creates or updates the matching Contact record in Zoho. If the email already exists, the record is updated. If it doesn't, a new contact is created. No duplicates, no batch jobs, no copy-paste between tools.


What's New?

With this integration, you can:

  • 🔌 Connect your Zoho CRM account to Zonka Feedback in a few clicks
  • 🎯 Map any survey field — question answers, hidden variables, question attributes, response attributes, and survey attributes — to any Zoho Contact field
  • 🔄 Auto-create or update contacts based on email match logic
  • 📥 Sync NPS, CSAT, and CES scores as Zoho Contact fields, ready for filtering and reporting

Why It Matters

When feedback lives in one tool and customer records live in another, sales and CX teams miss the signal. With this integration:

  • Scores live alongside the customer record — no more switching tabs to see if an account is at risk
  • Sales follow-ups get richer — your team sees the last NPS score before they pick up the phone
  • Churn signals surface earlier — low scores become visible inside the CRM where account reviews happen
  • No duplicate contact hygiene work — the integration handles match logic automatically

Who Is It For?

  • Sales teams running post-purchase NPS who need scores attached to the right Zoho contact
  • Customer success teams monitoring account health from inside Zoho
  • CX teams running support CSAT or onboarding surveys who want context to live with the customer record
  • RevOps teams building churn risk views and renewal workflows in Zoho

Plan Availability

Available on Professional, Growth, and Enterprise plans.

🚀 Ready to Get Started?

Got questions or want to set it up for your team? Reach out to us at hello@zonkafeedback.com or 👉 Book a Demo to see the Zoho CRM integration in action.


Multilingual Surveys Now Available for Email and SMS

Multilingual support now extends to Email and SMS surveys sent directly from Zonka Feedback. Configure one survey, and every contact receives it in their own language — from a single setup, with no separate send per language.


What's New?

🤖 Auto-Translated Templates, Ready to Refine

Your default template is automatically translated into every language you enable — you don't write each version from scratch. Switch between languages from the dropdown to review any version and adjust the wording, subject line, or layout to match your tone, then Save.

🗂️ Turn On Only the Languages You Need

In the Email or SMS channel, open Configure Template → Configure Multilingual Templates. Every language assigned to your survey appears in the list. Toggle on the ones this survey should support and Save.

📥 Language-Matched Delivery

Send via CSV upload or a segment carrying a language attribute, and each contact receives the matching template — a contact tagged "German" gets the German version. If a contact's language is blank or doesn't match an enabled language, they receive your default template, so no send is dropped.


Why It Matters

  • One setup, every language: a single configuration replaces a separate send per region.
  • Translation is the starting point, not the work: you refine generated copy instead of authoring it.
  • No silent failures: unmatched contacts fall back to the default template rather than being skipped.

Use Cases

📊 Multi-region customer base — Upload one CSV spanning languages and let each contact get the right template automatically.

💬 Localized CSAT or NPS — Run one program across regions instead of maintaining parallel surveys per language.


Plan Availability

Available on all plans with Multilingual Support

Zonka AI Feedback Intelligence - Advanced Theme Management for AI Thematic Analysis

We’re excited to introduce Advanced Theme Management, giving you complete control over how Themes and Sub-Themes are structured and maintained within your AI Thematic Analysis projects.

As feedback grows, themes often need refinement or restructuring. With this update, you can now merge, edit, reorganize, archive, or remove themes and sub-themes while ensuring historical and future responses remain accurately tagged.


Key Capabilities

  • Merge Themes: Combine multiple themes into one while consolidating metadata, sub-themes, and automatically retagging responses.
  • Merge Sub-Themes: Merge multiple sub-themes under the same parent theme with automatic response retagging.
  • Edit Themes & Sub-Themes: Update names or definitions with automatic embedding updates while keeping existing matches intact.
  • Convert Between Levels: Convert themes into sub-themes or promote sub-themes into themes as your taxonomy evolves.
  • Move Sub-Themes: Reassign sub-themes from one theme to another with automatic response retagging.
  • Delete Themes & Sub-Themes: Permanently remove themes or sub-themes with controlled response untagging
  • Archive Themes & Sub-Themes: Hide themes or sub-themes from the interface while keeping them available for historical matching and restoration.

Use Cases

Refine Your Feedback Taxonomy
As new feedback patterns emerge, teams can merge similar themes or reorganize sub-themes to maintain a clean and meaningful structure.

Adapt to Evolving Product Insights
Promote frequently appearing sub-themes into full themes or move topics across categories as product priorities change.

Clean Up Redundant or Low-Value Themes
Delete or archive themes that are no longer useful without disrupting historical analysis.

Maintain an Organized Large-Scale Analysis
For projects with hundreds of feedback responses and multiple themes, easily restructure the hierarchy to keep analysis manageable.


Benefits

  • Greater Flexibility: Easily evolve your thematic framework as feedback patterns change.
  • Improved Insight Accuracy: Reduce duplication and ensure responses are categorized under the right themes.
  • Better Governance: Built-in logging and controlled actions maintain transparency across teams.
  • Scalable Feedback Analysis: Manage large volumes of qualitative feedback without losing structure or clarity.


Zonka AI Feedback Intelligence - Define Your Own Themes with AI Thematic Analysis

We’re excited to introduce a powerful enhancement to Zonka AI Feedback Intelligence  — Manual Theme & Subtheme Configuration.

Until now, when creating a project for AI thematic analysis, the system automatically generated themes and subthemes using AI based on the responses provided. While this automated approach worked well for discovering patterns, many teams wanted greater control over how feedback is categorized.

With this new update, you can now define your own themes and subthemes before running the AI process, giving you the flexibility to analyze feedback exactly the way your team needs.


What’s New?

🧠 Manual Theme & Subtheme Setup

You can now provide a predefined list of themes and subthemes with definitions while creating your thematic analysis project. These themes act as the framework for the AI model to classify responses.

Instead of generating themes automatically, the AI will now analyze and match responses against the themes and subthemes you define.

🔍 AI-Powered Matching with Your Framework

Once the themes and subthemes are configured, you can run the AI processing step, where the AI reviews survey responses and intelligently maps them to the most relevant themes and subthemes.


Why This Matters

While automatic AI theme generation is great for discovery, many organizations already have structured frameworks for analyzing feedback, such as product areas, service categories, or operational themes.

With Manual AI Thematic Analysis, you can:

  • Maintain consistent categorization across projects
  • Align analysis with existing business frameworks
  • Improve the accuracy and relevance of insights
  • Gain faster AI-driven tagging without losing control

Key Use Cases

📊 Product Feedback Analysis
Define themes like UI, Performance, Pricing, Feature Requests, and let AI classify feedback accordingly.

💬 Customer Support Insights
Create subthemes such as Response Time, Agent Behavior, Resolution Quality, and quickly analyze large volumes of responses.

🏢 Voice of Customer (VoC) Programs
Maintain standardized themes across departments for consistent reporting and trend analysis.

📈 Enterprise Feedback Analytics
Use predefined taxonomies to analyze feedback across multiple surveys and customer touchpoints.


Who Is This For?

This feature is especially valuable for:

  • Customer Experience (CX) Teams analyzing open-ended feedback
  • Product Teams organizing feature feedback and improvement areas
  • Research & Insights Teams conducting qualitative analysis
  • Enterprise organizations that require structured feedback frameworks

Start Analyzing Feedback with Greater Control 🚀


Email & Mobile OTP Verification for Surveys

With this update, you can now require respondents to verify their email address or mobile number using a One-Time Password (OTP) before they begin a survey. This ensures that responses come from real users while also helping you automatically capture and store verified contact information for future engagement.


Key Features

🔐 Email & Mobile OTP Verification

You can now add an OTP verification step before a survey begins, where respondents verify their email address or mobile number to proceed. Once verified, the respondent can start the survey seamlessly.

This adds an extra layer of validation to your surveys and helps maintain the quality of feedback collected.

👤 Automatic Contact Creation & Saving

When respondents verify their email or mobile number, the system can automatically save them as a contact in Zonka Feedback. This makes it easier to manage contacts and use them for future feedback campaigns or engagement workflows.

🛡️ Verified and Authentic Responses

OTP verification ensures that survey responses come from verified users, reducing spam, duplicate entries, and inaccurate responses.



Why This Matters

Collecting feedback from verified respondents allows you to build more trustworthy insights and stronger customer profiles.

With verified contact information, teams can:

  • Maintain clean and reliable customer data
  • Follow up on feedback more effectively
  • Build targeted outreach and feedback campaigns
  • Reduce fake or duplicate responses

Plan Availability

The Email and Mobile OTP Verification feature is available on:

  • Growth Plan
  • Enterprise Plan
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