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We had an outage on one of our modules inside the Dealpad platform this week and didn’t know it until a customer informed us. Not ideal. We have a robust quality assurance process in place that all new code passes through prior to deploying into our production environment, yet this slipped. Shit happens and as a team we found the root cause and fixed it. Yet this moment reinforced how important the customer relationship is and always will be. As we’ve grown, naturally so has our customer base. When we first started out 4 years ago it was a business imperative to provide unscalable customer service and we’ve tried our best to keep to this level. It’s meant we’ve had to invest in customer success faster than most would and it’s forced us to prioritize customer feedback, questions and concerns above all else as a company, from product and engineering to marketing and sales, to finance and across non commercial motions. It’s kept us super close to the coalface with our customer, enabled us to provide the right kind of support that adds value and makes a difference, as opposed to just ‘checking in’ and my team deserve a huge amount of recognition for their unwavering commitment to exceptional success, as do our customers for their advocacy and partnership. This year, thus far, we have a 100% renewal rate, which frankly is incredible. What triggered this post? Well, one of our customers, Marilee Benson at Zen Healthcare IT sent this note into our support team and it made our week! “The care and attention DealPad clients receive is truly amazing. This morning I went to upload a file and ran into an error. I used the in-product "FEEDBACK" button Within MINUTES, I had an email from our Account Manager who asked for a bit more detail. Within a few more MINUTES, I had a note back that the issue had been fixed (they'd rolled an update out that morning) and the team even uploaded the document for me! DealPad truly sets the client support bar extremely high - it's a model the rest of us should take note of!” It’s the response to mistakes that’s important, not the mistake itself. #customersuccess #saas