Free Customer Effort Score Calculator
Calculate the Customer Effort Score (CES) to measure how easy it is for customers to interact with your company, resolve issues, or complete tasks.
Customer Effort Score
3.50
Customer Effort Score vs Sum of All Effort Scores
How to Calculate Customer Effort Score
Formula
CES = Sum of All Effort Scores / Total Responses
CES typically uses a 1-7 scale where customers rate agreement with a statement like "The company made it easy for me to handle my issue." Lower scores indicate lower effort (easier experience) on some scales, while others define higher as easier. The key insight behind CES is that reducing customer effort is a stronger predictor of loyalty than delighting customers. Make things effortless, and customers stay.
Example Calculation
100 customers responded to a CES survey. The total of all individual scores is 350 (on a 1-7 scale where 7 = strongly agree it was easy).
- 01CES = 350 / 100 = 3.50
- 02On a 7-point scale, a score of 3.50 is below the midpoint, suggesting room for improvement.
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