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Rolling daily CSAT (% of conversation ratings that are positive, 4-5★) charted across 90 days so you can read direction, not just a single snapshot.

At a glance

CSAT Trend is a customer-satisfaction metric tracked from your Intercom workspace. It takes the same positive-rating percentage that the headline CSAT gauge reports and stretches it across 90 days as a line, so you and the founder can see whether Blitz shoppers are getting happier or angrier week over week — well before a single bad month shows up in a board deck. A satisfaction score is only useful in motion: one quiet week of 92% means nothing next to a four-week slide from 92% to 81%. Pair it with the siblings below to turn a moving line into a root cause.
What it countsThe percentage of rated conversations scored positive (4 or 5 stars in Intercom’s conversation_rating object), computed per day and plotted across the window. Unrated conversations are excluded from the denominator — this is satisfaction among customers who chose to rate, not all customers.
Sample typeAPI-derived from the Intercom conversations endpoint. Each closed conversation may carry a conversation_rating with a rating (1-5), remark, and created_at; Vortex IQ buckets those by rating date and rolls them into a daily positive-share series.
Why it mattersA single CSAT number hides the story. The trend tells you whether a process change, a staffing gap, a shipping delay, or a product issue is steadily eroding goodwill. For Blitz — a sports retailer with seasonal demand spikes — catching a downward slope early lets you intervene before peak season amplifies it.
Reading the valueRead the slope, not the last dot. A flat line near your target is healthy; a sustained downslope is the signal. Overlay the alert (a >5-point week-over-week drop) and check whether the dip lines up with a volume spike, an SLA breach, or a specific agent’s coverage.
Currencypercent
Time window90D
Alert triggerdrop >5pts WoW
Sentiment keycsat
Rolesowner, operations

Calculation

For each day in the 90-day window, Vortex IQ counts conversations whose conversation_rating.rating is 4 or 5 (positive) and divides by all conversations rated that day (rating 1-5). The daily series is plotted as a line; the week-over-week comparison that drives the alert compares the most recent 7-day positive share against the prior 7 days. Conversations with no rating never enter the calculation — see Rating Response Rate for how much of your volume is actually being scored.

Worked example

A representative reading of CSAT Trend for Blitz across a quarter. For ten weeks the line holds between 90% and 93% — comfortably above the 70% floor. In week eleven a carrier starts missing delivery windows on football boots; shoppers open conversations tagged delivery and where-is-my-order, and ratings on those threads come back at 2 and 3 stars. The daily line bends from 92% down to 85% over five days, and the week-over-week drop crosses the 5-point alert threshold. Because the slide is gradual, the headline CSAT gauge still reads “green-ish” at a glance — but the trend card has already flagged it. You cross-reference Top Topics (Tags), confirm delivery is spiking, and escalate to the carrier before the dip deepens into peak season. To trace the upstream cause, open Vortex Mind; to ask “which tags are dragging CSAT down this week?” in plain English, use Ask Viq.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

CardWhy merchants reach for it
ic_csat_scoreThe headline gauge this line expands: the single positive-rating percentage for the current window.
ic_csat_by_agentWhen the trend dips, break it down by agent to see whether the slide is broad or concentrated on one queue.
ic_negative_ratingsThe actual 1-2★ conversations behind a falling line — read the remarks to find the cause.
ic_alert_csat_dropThe real-time alert twin: fires the moment a >5-point drop is detected so you do not have to watch the chart.
ic_top_tagsCorrelate a CSAT slide with a rising topic (delivery, refunds, sizing) to pinpoint what changed.

Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Intercom’s own dashboard: In Intercom, open Reports → Customer satisfaction (or the legacy Conversation rating report). Set the date range to the last 90 days and view the satisfaction-over-time chart. The percentage there is Intercom’s “happy” share of ratings — the same positive (4-5★) numerator Vortex IQ uses. You can also spot-check individual ratings in the Inbox by filtering conversations on rating. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
ReasonDirectionWhat to do
Rating-date vs conversation-date bucketing. Vortex IQ buckets each rating by when it was submitted; some Intercom views bucket by when the conversation opened or closed.VariableMatch the report’s “based on” date setting to rating submission date.
Positive-rating definition. Vortex IQ counts 4-5★ as positive; if your workspace uses a 3-point (good/ok/bad) scale or a custom mapping, the threshold may differ.VariableConfirm your rating scale and which scores count as positive.
Time zone. Intercom reports in the workspace time zone; Vortex IQ aligns to your merchant reporting time zone, so day boundaries can shift a rating between two days.MarginalConfirm time-zone match before chasing a one-day discrepancy.
Window edges. A rolling 90-day window and a calendar-quarter report will include slightly different conversations at the boundaries.MarginalAlign the date range exactly.
Cross-connector reconciliation: when CSAT slides, complement this card with Median First-Response Time and First-Response SLA Attainment — slow replies are the most common upstream cause of falling satisfaction. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.

Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Q: How often does CSAT Trend update? The card refreshes on the standard data refresh (typically every 30-60 minutes). Because it is derived from rated conversations, the latest day fills in as ratings arrive — customers often rate hours or days after a conversation closes, so the most recent point can keep rising for a day or two. Q: Why does my Intercom satisfaction report show a different number? The usual culprits are rating-date vs conversation-date bucketing, a different positive-rating threshold (3-point vs 5-point scale), and time-zone day boundaries. Match those three settings before assuming a real divergence. Q: The line dropped but my CSAT gauge still looks fine — which is right? Both. The gauge is a single window-wide percentage that smooths out recent movement; the trend reveals the slope inside that window. A trend that is bending down while the gauge still reads acceptable is exactly the early-warning case this card exists for. Q: Can I customise the alert threshold? Yes. The >5-point week-over-week drop is configurable per profile in the Sensitivity tab. If Blitz runs a noisier baseline during sale events, widen it to cut false positives.

Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

CSAT Trend is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Intercom and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.