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Mystery Shopping

Execute reliable evaluations faster, enable multimedia evidence capture, and facilitate immediate reporting to enhance customer experience and drive strategic decisions with confidence.

An anonymous shopper doing checks using mystery shopping software

SafetyCulture has helped businesses around the world achieve

50%

improved efficiency in training*
60%

increased audit efficiency*
49%

savings from safety & compliance improvements*

*Reported in Forrester’s study: The Total Economic Impact™ of SafetyCulture’s Operations Platform

Deliver a consistent customer experience

Equip your teams with the tools and knowledge to deliver a great customer experience consistently. By streamlining processes and conducting timely retail audits, you and your teams can address problems faster, maintain high standards, and drive an efficient shopfloor, ultimately leading to happier customers.

“Using paper checklists, no one could see results of audits or the risks associated with poor processes. SafetyCulture allows us to see the results immediately and identify where we need to focus.”

Enrique Espinoza

Process Improvement Manager for Lowe’s

Maintain brand standards

Deliver a great retail experience consistently by streamlining processes across all branches. Digitize brand standard assessments and training courses to communicate changes to operating procedures, visual merchandising, promotions, and more.

“Getting SafetyCulture platform out to 760+ shops, with so many employees was surprisingly easy. It’s not often you get that in a rollout of this magnitude. We rolled it out in a matter of weeks.”

Simon McBurney

Senior Delivery Analyst, Coles Supermarket

Optimize shopper assignments

Improve data accuracy and reliability by ensuring each assignment goes to the most qualified shopper. Reduce administrative workload by streamlining task distribution and tracking progress effortlessly. Execute evaluations faster, cover more locations, and gain deeper insights into customer experience with automated shopper task assignments.

Enable multimedia evidence capture

Strengthen quality assurance efforts with documentation that brings insights to life and helps drive meaningful improvements. Enhance the credibility of mystery shopping reports with built-in photo and document uploads. Empower shoppers to document their evaluations with multimedia evidence, providing undeniable proof of service quality and compliance.

Facilitate real-time feedback reporting

Stay ahead of potential problems with live data monitoring, ensuring every customer interaction meets the highest standards. Gain instant access to mystery shopping insights with real-time dashboards that display reports as they are submitted. Identify service gaps, compliance issues, and exceptional performance without delays to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.

Drive improvement across your stores

Retail Store Compliance Audits

Ethics Monitoring

Training Effectiveness Evaluation

Policy Violation Inspection

Employee Product Knowledge Testing

Service Experience Evaluations

Queue & Wait Time Analysis

B2B & Wholesale Mystery Shopping

Customer Support Evaluations

Retail Loss Prevention

Franchise Operational Consistency Audits

Pricing Accuracy Verification

Improve customer satisfaction today

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Explore customizable solutions ready to meet your business needs

EHS

Health & Safety Management

Keep teams safe on the job while promoting a safety culture across your organization

GRC

Risk & Compliance

Identify, evaluate and mitigate risks to your teams and assets through greater visibility and a data-driven approach.

Quality

Operational Excellence

Optimize processes and drive productivity, greater efficiencies and quality products or services at scale.

ESG

Environment & Sustainability

Digitize SOP’s, reduce waste and adapt sustainability best practices the moment conditions change.

Explore retail resources & solutions

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Mystery Shopper Checklists

Discreetly accomplish mystery shopper checklists and efficiently submit mystery shopper reports anytime anywhere.

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Training Evaluation Forms

Gather and analyze training feedback through digital and customizable training evaluation forms.

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Retail Store Audit

Efficiently standardize retail outlets and guarantee store compliance with digital retail store audit checklists.

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Retail Management

Know more about the basics of retail management, the responsibilities and skills of retail managers, and how retailers can optimize operations with best practices.

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Retail Audit

Learn more about retail audits, their importance to retail management, and the best ways to conduct your own.

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Facility Management

Everything you need to know about facility management: importance, services, basic areas, and scope.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A mystery shop program is a customer experience evaluation method where trained shoppers anonymously assess service quality, compliance, and operational standards. Businesses use mystery shopping software to automate shopper assignments, collect real-time feedback, and generate actionable insights. This helps organizations improve customer satisfaction and optimize employee performance across multiple locations as part of their overall retail management.

Real-time reporting in mystery shopping software provides instant insights into customer experience, compliance issues, and service quality. With live dashboards and automated alerts, retailers can quickly identify problems, address inefficiencies, and enhance customer interactions. This data-driven approach ensures prompt corrective actions, improves store performance, and drives consistent operational excellence across all retail locations.

Mystery shopping software highlights employee training gaps by analyzing performance data from real shopper interactions. Customizable evaluation forms assess product knowledge, service etiquette, and adherence to company standards. Analytics dashboards detect recurring weaknesses, enabling targeted coaching. By identifying areas for improvement, retailers can enhance employee skills, boost customer satisfaction, and drive sales growth.

To benchmark performance, mystery shopping software compares individual store results against company-wide, regional, or industry standards. Performance trends, compliance scores, and customer experience metrics provide clear insights. Likewise, customizable dashboards help retailers track top-performing locations, identify underperforming branches, and implement best practices. Data-driven benchmarking fosters continuous improvement and ensures consistent brand excellence.

Businesses can measure improvements by comparing past and current evaluation scores using mystery shopping software. It tracks changes in service quality, compliance, and customer experience after corrective actions are implemented. Automated reports highlight trends, making it easy to see what’s working and where further improvements are needed. This data-driven approach ensures ongoing progress and accountability in retail operations.