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Survey Incentives and Completion Codes

Plan incentives, completion codes, end screens, redirects, and export checks before participants begin.

Plan Incentives Before Publishing

If respondents receive compensation, course credit, or panel credit, the survey should make completion requirements clear. Incentive language usually belongs in consent, end screens, and any external recruitment instructions.

Decide before launch who qualifies for the incentive, what happens to screen-outs and quota-full respondents, whether a completion code is shown inside Domandata, and whether a panel redirect or outside payment workflow is involved.

Completion Workflow

  1. Step 1: Explain the incentive early. Add incentive conditions to the consent or introduction when appropriate for the study.

    Step 1: Explain the incentive early

    Block Builder: Content Block

    Add instructional text or embed a YouTube video as a stimulus.

    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
  2. Step 2: Screen before costly tasks. Use eligibility screeners and quotas before expensive study tasks or treatment exposure.

    Step 2: Screen before costly tasks

    Block Builder: Question Type

    Use the question type selector to switch between multiple choice, slider, grid, ranking, and more.

    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
  3. Step 3: Create the completion screen. In Block Builder, add an end screen with completion instructions, code text, or redirect guidance.

    Step 3: Create the completion screen

    Block Builder: End Screens

    Four path-specific end screens: Completion (with code), Screen Out, Quota Full, and Debriefing. Each routes from a Flow condition.

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    Validation
    Shuffle

    Use one random flip direction for selected flip-enabled questions.

    reCAPTCHA
    Data Collection

    Records browser type, browser version, operating system, screen resolution, and user agent. Not shown to respondents.

    Question Names

    Simple assigns Ask1, Ask2… in full survey question order (including follow-ups).

    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)

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  4. Step 4: Create alternate endings. Add separate ineligible or quota-full end screens when respondents should not receive the same message.

    Step 4: Create alternate endings

    Block Builder: End Screens

    Four path-specific end screens: Completion (with code), Screen Out, Quota Full, and Debriefing. Each routes from a Flow condition.

    Timing
    Breaks
    Validation
    Shuffle

    Use one random flip direction for selected flip-enabled questions.

    reCAPTCHA
    Data Collection

    Records browser type, browser version, operating system, screen resolution, and user agent. Not shown to respondents.

    Question Names

    Simple assigns Ask1, Ask2… in full survey question order (including follow-ups).

    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)
    Closing text
    Redirect (optional)

    Trash is empty.

  5. Step 5: Connect endings in Flow. Route completion, screen-out, and quota-full paths with Flow to the correct end screens.

    Step 5: Connect endings in Flow

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    Flow Canvas

    Interactive routing surface from the app, running in no-persist help mode.

    Consent and Study Intro

    1 question

    Political Knowledge Block

    2 questions

    Control Message

    1 question

    Treatment Message

    1 question

    Outcome Measures

    2 questions

    Survey Ends

    Anchors explicit end of survey

  6. Step 6: Test the exact live workflow. Use the draft or public link to complete the path, verify the code or redirect, and inspect the export.

    Step 6: Test the exact live workflow

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    Preview

    Walk through respondent-facing behavior in the same preview surface.

Completion Codes And Redirects

If your recruitment source uses completion codes or external confirmation pages, put clear instructions on the final end screen. If the workflow uses a redirect, test it from the public survey link before launch.

  • Static code: show the same code to every completed respondent only if the recruitment workflow accepts it.
  • Panel redirect: test the redirect after a full completion path and after any screen-out path that should not receive credit.
  • Course credit: explain whether students need to copy a code, submit a screenshot, or wait for manual confirmation.
  • Partial completion: decide whether incomplete respondents receive anything, and make that rule clear in consent or recruitment text.

Deploy: Publish and Links

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Deploy

Configure publishing, links, quotas, and theme from the Deploy tab.

Export Notes

Keep a record of completion status, end screen paths, and any recruitment identifiers allowed by your protocol. Do not collect personally identifying payment information inside the survey unless your study approval requires it and your workflow is designed for it.

Before paying or granting credit, compare the export against your planned eligibility, quota, completion, and quality-check rules. If you exclude responses from analysis later, keep the payment or credit decision separate from the analytic exclusion log unless your protocol says otherwise.

Deploy: Publish and Links

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Deploy

Configure publishing, links, quotas, and theme from the Deploy tab.

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