SaaS Plan Change Intent & Migration Blockers Survey
Measures plan-change intent, upgrade/downgrade drivers, and migration friction among active SaaS users. Use with account holders and team leads to identify churn risk, prioritize feature investments, and reduce plan-change barriers.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
Which plan are you currently on?
- Free
- Starter
- Team
- Pro
- Business
- Enterprise
- Custom/Legacy
- Not sure
Over the next 90 days, which best describes your plan intention?
- Upgrade to a higher plan
- Downgrade to a lower plan
- Keep my current plan
- Not sure yet
Please rank the following upgrade reasons from most to least important to you.
- Unlock needed features
- Lift usage/API limits
- Security/compliance requirements
- Faster support/SLA
- Team growth (more seats)
What are the main reasons you are considering a downgrade? (Select all that apply)
- Cost savings
- Low or variable usage
- Missing required features
- Internal policy or budget change
- Switching to an alternative
- Support/service issues
- Other
Which of the following factors are influencing your decision to stay on your current plan? (Select all that apply)
- Price is acceptable at current level
- Unclear value/ROI of changing
- Waiting on procurement/contracting
- Security/legal review needed
- Migration seems complex
- Feature gaps in other plan tiers
- Budget cycle timing
- Happy with current plan
- Other
The following questions ask how much each factor would block a plan migration in the next 90 days. Please rate each one.
In the last 30 days, the product delivered adequate value relative to its price.
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional thoughts or concerns about your plan decision.
What is your company size (number of employees)?
- 1–10
- 11–50
- 51–200
- 201–1,000
- 1,001–5,000
- 5,001–10,000
- 10,001+
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for your time — your feedback directly helps us improve your plan experience.
Approximately how many seats were active on your account in the last 30 days?
- 1
- 2–5
- 6–10
- 11–25
- 26–50
- 51–100
- 101–250
- 251+
- Not sure
Which specific capabilities are motivating your upgrade? (Select all that apply)
- Advanced permissions/SSO
- Higher automation/API limits
- Advanced analytics/reporting
- More seats
- Security & compliance (e.g., SOC 2, SAML/SCIM)
- Premium support
- Data residency
- Key integrations
- Other
Please rank the following cost-reduction actions from most to least likely for your account.
- Reduce seats
- Move to a lower plan tier
- Remove add-ons
- Limit integrations
- Lower support tier
What would need to change for you to consider upgrading or switching plans?
How much would data migration risk block a plan change in the next 90 days?
Please rank the following factors from most to least important for your next plan decision.
- Features we need
- Total cost/price
- Security/compliance
- Seat scalability (adding/removing seats)
- Support/SLA responsiveness
- Integrations and migration effort
We'd like to understand your plan decision in more detail. An AI moderator will ask a couple of brief follow-up questions based on your previous responses.
Which industry best describes your organization?
- Software/Technology
- Finance/Insurance
- Healthcare/Life Sciences
- Retail/Ecommerce
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Media/Entertainment
- Government/Nonprofit
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Which best describes your role on this account?
- Account owner/admin
- Team lead/manager
- Individual contributor
- Procurement/finance
- Developer/IT
- Other
When do you expect to upgrade?
- Within 30 days
- 31–90 days
- 3–6 months
- More than 6 months
- Not sure
What risks or concerns, if any, do you anticipate if you downgrade?
How much would potential downtime or service disruption block a plan change in the next 90 days?
In which region is your organization primarily based?
- North America
- Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- Latin America
- Middle East & Africa
- Other
- Prefer not to say
How confident are you that budget approval for the upgrade will be secured?
How much would contract or procurement complexity block a plan change in the next 90 days?
How long have you been using our product?
- Under 3 months
- 3–12 months
- 1–2 years
- 3+ years
- Not sure
How much would team retraining or change management block a plan change in the next 90 days?
What is your role in plan-change decisions for this account?
- Sole decision-maker
- Shared decision-maker
- Influencer/recommender
- Not involved in plan decisions
- Not sure
How much would integration reconfiguration block a plan change in the next 90 days?
Overall, how concerned are you about data migration if you were to change plans?
Which of the following would make migrating to a different plan easier for you? (Select all that apply)
- Step-by-step migration checklist
- White-glove setup assistance
- Sandbox to test changes
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Transparent pricing calculator
- Change-management templates
- Other
Are you currently evaluating any alternatives to your current plan with us?
- Another vendor
- In-house solution
- Open-source option
- Staying with current plan only (no alternatives)
- Other
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
Why this template
What this template is built to do — we found no directly comparable template from other survey tools to review.
What sets it apart
- Uses adaptive AI follow-up interviews to probe further on plan-change intent and migration blockers beyond fixed-choice answers
- Includes a dedicated AI moderator interview segment to explore plan decisions in depth after the structured questions
- Combines quantitative measures (opinion scales, rankings, dropdowns) with open-text questions on upgrade/downgrade risks and required changes, giving both breadth and depth
- Segments respondents by role, plan, seats, and company firmographics so churn-risk and migration-friction findings can be prioritized by account type
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