Mystery Shopping vs Call Monitoring

We offer 2 types of approaches to reviewing and measuring your call handling teams customer service skills:

Telephone Mystery Shopping

Telephone mystery shopping calls are conducted by our experienced field-based telephone assessors, routed through our state of the art digital remote recording technology.

Call Quality Assurance Monitoring

Contact centre quality assurance monitoring involves our specialist team reviewing existing call recordings from real customers. Call recordings are uploaded to our secure data transfer infrastructure, ensuring date is protected during transit.

BMS® | The Science Behind Great Customer Service


All call quality monitoring and telephone mystery shopping programmes incorporate the award-winning Behavioural Measurement Score® (BMS®) research methodology. BMS® is an objective way of measuring the 4 key telephone behaviours that impact most on the customer experience. Improvements in BMS® is proven to link directly to improvements in independent Customer Satisfaction Survey, Voice of the Customer and Net Promoter Score® measures.

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Telephone Behaviours Face-to-Face Behaviours

How is BMS® used for Call Centres?

BMS® Direct e-Learning | Learn how to deliver a great telephone experience with every customer interaction


Our Telephone BMS® e-Learning course is specifically designed to improve your contact centre team members’ knowledge of the Behavioural Measurement Score (BMS®), what the 4 key telephone behaviours and their contributing characteristics are, the scoring methodology and what they can do to deliver a great customer experience with every customer interaction.

For as little as £17.86 per team member, the online fundamentals course takes no longer than 60 minutes to complete and has been CPD-certified. Our courses are engaging, interactive and include fun activities along the way to check learners’ understanding.

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“The BMS® insight has given us a deeper understanding of how we can positively affect customer experience across our contact centres. Coupled with PiP’s emphasis on equipping teams with impactful coaching resources, has aided our relentless drive for industry-leading levels of service excellence.”

Andy Connelly, Customer Experience Manager

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Once the call is quality-controlled and scored by our team of evaluators at PiP HQ, it is provided to the client online via our reporting platform, ‘Vision’. Vision hosts an extensive range of engaging tools and insights including:

Custom client-branded infinity dashboard

Interactive dashboard tiles and reporting

Drill-down analysis and dynamic reporting suite

Bespoke dashboards based on hierarchy/access level

Self-assessment and action-planning tools

Custom library of resources and support items

Individual evaluation score impact assessments and ‘improvement areas’

And so much more…!


PiP’s in-house CX Lab is an incredibly powerful and valuable service to the organisation and their clients. The CX Lab team analyse and provide detailed bespoke insights into every single element of the customer experience, utilising millions of data points from 800+ annual mystery shopping programmes.

The CX Lab produce an extensive range of value-added insights in multi-media formats including video and audio compilations, benchmark reporting, behavioural analysis, bespoke reports, industry reports, and so much more...

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“We are absolutely delighted with the impact of our work with PiP. They have helped us identify trends in the customer journey from both a process and behavioural perspective that has given us real clarity around the opportunities to develop our customer experience”

Mike Plante, Head of Customer Operations

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