Need to buy participants to complete your OpinionX survey? You're in the right place. Below you'll find a list of guides for recruitment panels you can use to buy participants for your OpinionX survey:
⭐ Top recommendation! Prolific is easy to use, doesn't require complex configuration, and you can sign-up for free to check if their panel matches your needs. | |
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Ideal if you don't have a budget to buy respondents |
If you decide to use a different recruitment tool, we'd love add it to this list of guides for others to use too — let us know via the live chat or email [email protected] :)
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What features are most commonly required when using a third-party panel to recruit survey participants?
Feature | Explanation |
Survey question used to identify who a participant is by name, email, or panelist ID | |
Pull the panelist ID number and/or any other data into OpinionX via the survey link. | |
Send the panelist ID number and/or any other data from OpinionX to the panel website at the end of the survey to validate completion. | |
Send unsuitable participants to a different Finish Page once you know they are not the right kind of person to complete your survey. | |
Create different finish pages with different redirect links for each type of participants (eg. complete, screened out). |
Here are examples of how some of these features are used in surveys for recruiting participants from third-party panel platforms...
A. Multiple Finish Pages
When customizing your Finish Page, you'll find a new button labelled "Add Another Finish Page." Use this to create separate end points and send participants to a different conclusion based on their survey answers (via branching logic). This is an essential feature for screening out unsuitable participants during recruitment.
B. Hidden Fields
Most recruitment tools require the ability to include the participant's ID number inside the survey URL. We added Hidden Fields, an extension of our Enrichment Tab functionality, to do exactly that — it lets you pull data from an external source and associate it against that participant's survey answers (without having to import it manually beforehand!).
C. Redirect URL Parameters
Once the survey is finished, these recruitment platforms need to receive confirmation that the participant completed it fully. To do this, they usually require the survey tool to redirect participants back to the recruitment website and to include their ID in the redirect link, allowing that website to save that ID and mark it as "complete".
The Finish Page now includes a customization setting for URL Parameters. When enabled, it will pull all of your Hidden Fields data (via the data set up on the Enrichment Tab) and include it at the end of the redirect links on your Finish Page:
D. Screening Logic
Once you've created your Multiple Finish Pages, go to any question in your survey and you'll see all of your Finish Pages listed as potential destinations to send participants. You can then use branching logic to send incompatible participants directly to a "Screen Out" Finish Page.
