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Virgin Money

  Financial Services in the UK

Virgin Money overall Effort Score: 52 Virgin Money vs 53 Virgin Money last quarter
Sector Effort Score benchmark: 59 Virgin Money vs 58 Virgin Money last quarter

Virgin Money is in 9th position of the UK Financial Services ranking this quarter, following a -1 point drop in its Overall Customer Effort Score, now 52.

Three of its four pillars have dropped by -1 point, with its Valuing the Customer score remaining the same at 53.

Although it has remained the same, there are improvements and core areas the bank could focus on next quarter. Last quarter, 44% rated the bank as ‘excellent’ for how they made them feel valued/important as a customer. This quarter, this has dropped to 40%.

Looking at the pillars that experienced a drop in score, there are clear areas for the bank to look into. Under its Style of Communication pillar, which decreased from 62 to 61, 41% of its customers rated the politeness of its customer service agents as ‘excellent’. While this is still a strong score, it has declined 3% wave on wave.

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Customer Effort in detail

Style of Communication 61 vs 62 last quarter

45% say the politeness of their customer service agents is 'excellent'

41% rate the ability to communicate with them in their chosen language (other than English) as 'excellent'

Knowledge and Expertise 54 vs 55 last quarter

41% rate the expertise of the customer service agent as 'good'

41% say the way details were clearly explained to them was 'good'

42% rate how well the customer service agent understood their particular problem or question as 'good'

Understanding & Valuing the Customer 53 vs 53 last quarter

40% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

39% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'excellent'

54% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'excellent'

Speed Solving the Problem 49 vs 50 last quarter

37% rate how they were not left on-hold or in a call queuing system for a long time as 'excellent'

40% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

41% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'excellent'

ContactEngine sponsors the Customer Effort Index

ContactEngine believes that a great customer experience is an effortless one, where life is made as easy as possible for the customer. ContactEngine commissioned the Customer Effort Index to measure how real people perceive the effort it takes to be a customer of some of the leading brands in the world. By enabling a comparison of effort not only within an industry, but across industries, we can identify and learn from the brands who lead on making it easy for their customers to do business with them.