Academic research

Surveys for your next study.

Build a study with informed consent, attention checks, timers, randomization, screening and quotas. You can draft and preview on Free, which includes 100 responses a month. Publish with the research controls on Pro for $15 a month and collect up to 10,000 responses.

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The quality controls

Check response quality before analysis.

Informed consent gate: A consent screen before the first question. Participants must agree to continue; declining records nothing at all.
Attention checks: Instructed-response items that render like any other question. A wrong pick flags the response in results and exports; nothing is revealed to the participant.
Minimum-time locks: Hold a question on screen for a minimum time for forced exposure to stimuli, and every response records its completion time.
Randomization: Shuffle option order with the last option pinned if you need it, and shuffle question order within a page. Seeded per participant, stable within a session.
Screening & quotas: Disqualify participants on their answers and cap segments with quotas enforced server-side, so a race between two respondents cannot overfill a cell.
Quality flags: Speeders (relative to the survey's own median), straight-liners on matrix questions, and failed attention checks are flagged automatically, with a one-click clean-only filter.
Demographics section: Age, gender, education, income and more as a one-toggle section with editable wording, instead of rebuilding the same questions every study.
Panel passthrough: PROLIFIC_PID, STUDY_ID, or another link parameter is captured with each response (up to 10 per response), shown in results, and included in every export.

Prolific & panel workflow

From recruitment to clean file.

Recruit

Post your Plumeform link on Prolific or your panel with the ID parameter appended. IDs are captured automatically with each response.

Screen

Screening rules disqualify non-eligible participants early, and quotas close segments as they fill. Screened-out participants see your screen-out code and redirect, and never count against your response volume.

Collect

Participants who complete see a completion code and are redirected back to the panel automatically. Partial responses save at every page, so you can see exactly where anyone stopped.

Analyze

Export status, duration, quality flags, panel IDs and answers to CSV (or XLSX on Pro). Review flagged responses, apply your exclusion rules, and download the data for R, SPSS or Python.

Research budget

$144

per year for 10,000 responses a month

Qualtrics' self-serve plan is $5,040 a year, capped at 1,000 responses a year

100

free responses a month, forever

enough to pilot an instrument without touching a card

other option to consider

if your institution already licenses Qualtrics, that is free for you. Use it.

Common questions

Research setup questions.

Are responses anonymous?

By default, nothing in a response names the person. Answering never requires an account, and a response holds the answers plus limited context: a device class (mobile or desktop), a country code from network headers, the site that linked to the survey, how long questions took, and any link parameters you chose to pass, such as a Prolific ID. A panel ID makes responses pseudonymous rather than anonymous, so disclose it. Plumeform does not attach names, emails, or IP addresses to responses. If you need identity, you ask for it as a question, which keeps the decision, and the disclosure, yours.

How does the informed consent gate work?

You write the consent text and the agree and decline labels. Participants who agree continue to the first question; participants who decline see a polite exit and nothing is stored, not even the fact that they declined.

How do Prolific completion codes and screen-outs work?

Set a completion code and a redirect URL in survey settings, and Plumeform shows the code on the thank-you screen and redirects automatically. Screened-out participants can get a separate code and redirect, so screened-out and quota-full cases resolve cleanly on the panel side, and so can people who decline consent (on Prolific, a No consent path that asks for the study's return). Without a decline redirect, panel participants who decline are told how to return the study.

Can I edit a live study without corrupting collected data?

Yes. Publishing freezes a version, and every response remembers which version it answered. Fix a typo mid-study and your existing data still lines up.

What does Plumeform not do?

Plumeform does not provide conjoint analysis or a full statistical modeling environment. It includes summaries, cross-tabs, significance tests, weighting and MaxDiff questions. Export your data for models or analyses that need a dedicated statistics package.

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