How to use VoC (Voice of Customer) Diagnosis

Product Analytics

Summary

What is the Voice of Customer (VoC) feature on TikTok Shop, and why is it important for sellers?

  • VoC aggregates customer feedback from reviews and refund requests using AI to detect negative sentiment, helping sellers identify product or service issues early.
  • It enables proactive improvements to customer experience, boosting satisfaction, trust, and sales performance before problems escalate.

How does TikTok Shop classify and display VoC status for products, and how can sellers use this information?

  • Products are categorized into four VoC levels—At Risk, Needs Attention, Market Average, Below Average—based on negative feedback compared to category benchmarks.
  • Sellers should prioritize addressing At Risk and Needs Attention products, focusing especially on high GMV and high sales volume items for maximum impact.

What tools and insights does the VoC module provide to help sellers diagnose and address customer issues?

  • The module highlights the top 5 frequent negative issues per product with proportions, flags major concerns (>50%), and extracts key customer feedback keywords.
  • Sellers can quickly access Refund Management and Product Rating pages to monitor and resolve issues, enabling targeted corrective actions.

What are common VoC issues identified, and what specific seller actions can mitigate these problems?

  • Issues include product mismatches (color, style), quality defects, logistics delays, and misleading influencer promotions.
  • Sellers can improve product descriptions, upgrade quality, switch logistics providers, communicate proactively with customers, and manage influencer content to reduce negative feedback.

What are the benefits of regularly monitoring and acting on VoC data for TikTok Shop sellers?

  • Proactive VoC management helps sellers turn negative feedback into positive outcomes, improving product ratings and increasing sales.
  • Successful cases show that timely adjustments based on VoC insights sustain healthy growth and enhance overall customer sentiment.
This feature is currently in limited availability.

Understanding VoC (Voice of Customer): Sentiment Analysis

What is VoC (Voice of Customer)?VoC represents consumer feedback regarding a product, service, or overall shopping experience. Negative VoC is an important signal for assessing the health of user experience, as it may indicate potential issues such as product quality problems, poor logistics experience, or discrepancies in product descriptions.Understanding and proactively monitoring VoC not only helps improve customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. The module aggregates data from product reviews and return/refund requests, using NLP techniques to detect negative sentiment signals in these channels, providing a diagnostic view of customer sentiment for each product.
Where to find VoC Diagnosis:The VoC Diagnosis module is located under Analytics > Product Analytics.With the VoC module, sellers can:
  • View the VoC status of each product
  • Understand the issues causing negative feedback and their frequency
  • Identify the core problems affecting consumer experience
By leveraging these insights, sellers can detect potential risks earlier and take effective actions before sales are impacted.

Why is VoC Important for Sellers?

Customer feedback, especially negative feedback, is the most direct signal for assessing the health of the shopping experience. A poor experience not only reduces a user’s willingness to purchase but also weakens their trust in the seller, ultimately affecting overall sales performance.
For both the platform and sellers, timely identification and handling of negative VoC is crucial to maintaining healthy and sustainable business growth.
In the past, however, sellers often only noticed issues after VoC problems had already escalated. By the time they received platform alerts, VoC metrics were usually already high. Therefore, sellers need earlier and more proactive insights to detect potential risks at an early stage and take corrective actions before GMV is impacted.

How is the VoC level calculated?

In the VoC column, sellers will see four status states. We compare the negative VoC of each product against the category benchmark and classify the product's VoC into four levels:
  • At Risk – Significantly above the benchmark
  • Needs Attention – Slightly above the benchmark
  • Market Average – In line with the benchmark
  • Below Average – Below the benchmark
We recommend that sellers prioritize products marked as At Risk and Needs Attention, as these statuses indicate overall negative VoC from users. Timely attention and adjustments for these products can help address potential issues and improve performance.

How to check your VoC performance?

Seller Center >> Analytics >> Product analytics >> Product listimage

Diagnosis Summary

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  • In the Product list, we added a Diagnosis summary on top of the page, which reveals the VoC performance of all products.
  • We made a special call out for those high GMV products (GMV ≥ 10,000 or items sold ≥ 300 in the past 30 days)

Filter products by status

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  • You can click on any VOC status category of products in the Diagnosis Summary to view all products with that status
  • You can also directly select the status you want to view from the Status dropdown menu
  • You can also select multiple statuses at the same time to view products with those statuses

Filter products by GMV

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  • You can filter the product list you want to focus on based on their GMV performance and the number of items sold
  • It is recommended to prioritize products with high GMV and high sales volume

Check VoC on product list

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  • Clicking on a product's VoC diagnosis status in the product list will open a drawer window on the right
  • We only display the top 5 most frequently mentioned issues along with their respective proportions
  • We highlight in red any VoC with a proportion greater than 50%. If all VoCs have proportions below 50%, we highlight the top-ranked VoC

Check the reason and take actions

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  • Click on a product's VoC status to open the right-hand drawer, where you can view the current status and compare it with the previous period.
  • The system uses AI to aggregate negative VoC feedback for the product and displays issues in descending order of frequency (Note: a single customer feedback may involve multiple issues, so total percentages may exceed 100%).
  • Below the AI summary, we display a set of important keywords extracted from customer feedback. We recommend that sellers review these keywords as a supplement, ensuring they consider the full set of issues highlighted by both the AI summary and the keywords.
  • Sellers can click the buttons below to quickly access the Refund Management or Product Rating pages to monitor and address the corresponding issues.

Previous Success Cases

Sellers who have leveraged user feedback from VoC to make targeted optimizations were able to turn their products' VoC from negative to positive, resulting in improved overall sales and performance eventually.
We recommend that all sellers, like those in the examples below, regularly monitor their products' VoC performance and make corresponding adjustments based on user feedback. This proactive approach can help enhance overall customer sentiment toward their products.
Fashion & Sports
Issues Identified from VoC
Corresponding Seller Actions
[Goods Do Not Match Description]
  1. The product color does not match the displayed image, misleading consumers
  2. The product style does not match the description. For example, the top style is strange
  1. Replaced the colors in the image with more suitable ones and added real-life photos
  2. Add a size chart to the PDP.
  3. Communicate with suppliers to change clothing styles
[Product Quality]
  1. The product has quality issues, such as fading or stains
  2. Unreasonable product prices and low cost-effectiveness
  1. Improve quality inspection requirements
  2. Upgrade products and improve product quality
[Logistics] Goods failed to be delivered on time, and in some cases, goods were not received at allCommunicate with the logistics provider to deliver the goods on time as much as possible
3C & Electrical
Issues Identified from VoC
Corresponding Seller Actions
Slow delivery speed
  1. Replace with new logistics warehouse and provider;
  2. Before shipping, proactively inform consumers via IM: if goods aren’t received on time, feedback separately for immediate reshipment – turn potential negative reviews/refunds into positive ones/no refunds;
  3. Later switch to CBT official logistics.
Slow charging speed
Investigation finds the influencer’s false promotions. The seller communicates with the influencer to remove such content.Additionally, the seller uses appeals and video inspections to ensure no false promotions in the influencer’s videos, correcting consumers’ expectations.
Quality issueOptimize product quality and switch to selling a new batch of products
Beauty & Personal care
Issues Identified from VoC
Corresponding Seller Actions
Only 1 out of 2 bottles received
  1. Comprehensively switch to FBT
  2. Responses to every rating and review with tracking ID of both shipments from Amazon logistics to avoid confusion
  3. Acceptance of all replacement/refund requests to satisfy customer
Smell & longevity issue
  1. All perfume products are accompanied by an instruction card, and the fragrance characteristics are described in detail on the PDP to reduce the discrepancy between consumers' expectations and actual experience.
  2. Pushed all review analysis on the fragrance front to our perfumer for improvements going forward
Empty or damaged bottle
  1. Instructions pushed for added padding in packaging to reduce damage while handling;
  2. added fragile stickers on boxes

FAQ

What does "At Risk" and "Needs Attention" stand for?These tags compare your product's VoC with the overall VoC level in your industry. Our goal is to provide sellers with a benchmark across the industry, offering a target they can aim to reach.
Why can't I directly see the VoC-related issues after entering the Manage Refund / Product Rating pages?At the moment, individual VoC cases are not surfaced on these pages. The goal of this feature is to help sellers stay focused on the key issues highlighted through aggregated user feedback, so they can better understand what consumers are saying and take clear actions to improve performance.
Why is a hyphen "-" displayed under the VoC diagnosis for some of my products?There are two possible reasons for this:
First, all VoC data has been collected starting from October 16th. If the selected date is earlier than October 16th, the VoC status will be displayed as a hyphen "-".
Second, it will also show as "-" when the data volume related to that product is insufficient to be statistically reliable.