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Switch from SurveyMonkey to Domandata

SurveyMonkey is built for fast, general-purpose feedback surveys. Randomized treatment arms, stratified assignment, and analysis-ready exports for a research paper are not its focus.

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SurveyMonkey is optimized for the common case: quick surveys, NPS, and customer feedback. Logic branching, piped text, and advanced question types are usually gated to higher-tier plans, and the platform has no purpose-built concept of a randomized treatment arm or a stratified sample.

Why researchers switch from SurveyMonkey

What Domandata does specifically to make social science research easier than SurveyMonkey.

Built for an experiment, not a feedback form

Treatment arms, permutation sets, and stratified assignment exist because a study design needs them — not bolted onto a customer-feedback platform.

No logic paywall

Branching, piping, and the question types a real instrument needs aren't gated behind a higher-priced plan tier.

Real stats-software exports, standard

Native SPSS/Stata files and a generated codebook ship on every plan, not as an add-on you have to justify to a department budget.

Preregistration support that doesn't exist elsewhere

Instrument fingerprinting, OSF integration, and complete replication packages — SurveyMonkey has no equivalent to any of this.

Domandata vs. SurveyMonkey

Feature	Domandata	SurveyMonkey
Randomized treatment assignment	Randomized treatment arms with weighted, stratified, or balanced allocation, plus permutation sets that shuffle values across variables without within-respondent repeats — all built in, no scripting.	No dedicated concept of treatment arms or permutation sets; random question/answer order exists but isn't built for experimental designs.
Quotas & partner status links	Path-aware quotas on treatment arms and Flow endings, with shareable quota-status links so partners can watch fill counts live without editor access.	Quotas are available on higher-tier plans, without path-aware routing to an over-quota ending or shareable partner-facing status links.
Branching, piping & flow logic	Visual flow canvas shows every routing path, condition, and piped variable at a glance.	Skip logic and piped text are available on paid plans, authored per-question rather than as a single visual map.
Research-specific question types	Conjoint, MaxDiff, card sort, constant sum, text highlighter, click heatmaps, signature, file upload, and AI text/voice chat ship as built-in question types.	Question library is aimed at CX/market-research use cases; conjoint, MaxDiff, and similar experimental types aren't core building blocks.
AI-simulated pilot testing	Silicon Samples pilot-test a survey with AI-simulated respondents — built from personas, panel data, or prior responses — before fielding it with real people.	No AI-simulated respondent feature; piloting an instrument means fielding it to a small real sample first.
Power & sample-size planning	Built-in power and sample-size planning with a Sankey view of expected allocation, right where the survey is built.	No built-in power or sample-size planning tool.
Data-quality tooling	Automated quality scores (speeding, straightlining, duplicate devices, bot signals), author-defined attention/dwell/impossible-combination rules, and a human review queue with an exportable cleaning log.	Basic response validation and CAPTCHA; no author-defined attention-check or dwell-time rule system.
Export to SPSS/Stata/R	Native SPSS (.sav) and Stata (.dta) files, a generated codebook, and randomization audit columns (answer order, treatment assignment, fixed-order comparisons) in every export.	CSV/XLS export is standard; SPSS export and codebook generation typically require a higher-tier plan, and randomization audit columns aren't offered.
Open Science / preregistration	Lock and fingerprint a preregistered instrument, push study artifacts to OSF or Harvard Dataverse, and export a complete replication package — data, code, codebook, and instrument bundled together.	No built-in OSF/Dataverse integration or instrument fingerprinting.
Pricing	Free plan for drafting and previewing instruments; paid plans add Flow, Deploy, Export, and team collaboration, with published self-serve pricing.	Consumer-oriented tiers gate logic, piping, and export depth behind higher-priced plans.

Migrating from SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey doesn't share a file format with Domandata's importer. Print or export your survey to PDF or Word, then upload it through Domandata's Import dialog — the document parser reads in your questions and answer choices for you to clean up in Block Builder.

Import method: Upload a PDF or Word export

Export your survey as PDF or Word
In SurveyMonkey, use Design Survey → Preview & Score or the print/export option to generate a PDF or Word copy of your questionnaire.
Upload the document to Domandata
Open Import from your workspace dashboard, choose File, and select the exported document. Domandata parses questions and choices into Block Builder.
Review and finish each question
Document parsing is a starting point, not a guarantee — check question types, required flags, and answer choices before moving on.
Build routing and randomization in Flow
Recreate any skip logic in Flow, and add treatment-arm randomization or quotas if your study needs them — neither carries over from a document import.
Preview, then re-point distribution links
Walk the survey in Preview, then update any panel or email links to point at your new Domandata deploy link before archiving the SurveyMonkey version.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I import my SurveyMonkey survey automatically?

SurveyMonkey doesn't share a file format with Domandata's importer. Export or print your survey to PDF or Word, then upload it through Domandata's Import dialog — the document parser reads in your questions and answer choices for you to review in Block Builder.

Does my SurveyMonkey skip logic carry over?

No — skip logic isn't captured by a document import. You'll rebuild any branching in Flow, and add treatment-arm randomization or quotas if your study needs them, since neither concept exists in SurveyMonkey to import from.

What happens to my existing SurveyMonkey response data?

Import brings over your questionnaire structure, not historical responses. Export your existing response data from SurveyMonkey as CSV and keep it alongside your new Domandata dataset.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Domandata's free plan covers drafting and previewing instruments, so you can bring your SurveyMonkey survey over and try it before upgrading for Flow, Deploy, and Export.

Ready to bring your survey over?

Create a free account, then use Import from your workspace dashboard to bring in your SurveyMonkey survey.

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