FOR RESEARCHERS
Research-grade surveys, without the site license.
The quality controls reviewers expect, attention checks, timers, randomization, screening and quotas, informed consent, live on a tool you can start using this afternoon. 250 responses a month free for pilots, 10,000 a month for $15 when the study runs. If your university hands you a Qualtrics license, use it. If the license, the training, and the sales call are the product, this page is for you.
THE QUALITY CONTROLS
Built so your data survives review.
- 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.
- Per-page timers
- Enforce a minimum time on any page 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 any link parameter is captured with each response, shown in results, and included in every export.
⁓PROLIFIC & PANEL WORKFLOW
From recruitment to clean file.
01
Recruit
Post your Plumeform link on Prolific or your panel with the ID parameter appended. IDs are captured automatically with each response.
02
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.
03
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.
04
Analyze
Every quality signal lands in your CSV or XLSX: status, duration, flags, panel IDs, and one column per question. Filter the flagged rows in one click, then take the clean file to R, SPSS, or Python.
THE HONEST MATH
$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
250
free responses a month, forever
enough to pilot an instrument without touching a card
1
honest caveat
if your institution already licenses Qualtrics, that is free for you. Use it.
The questions reviewers ask.
Are responses anonymous?+
By default, yes. Answering never requires an account, and a response contains only the answers, a device class (mobile or desktop), and any link parameters you chose to pass, such as a Prolific ID. 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 no-consent and quota-full cases resolve cleanly on the panel side.
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?+
In-tool statistical modeling, conjoint, and MaxDiff. Analysis beyond summaries, cross-tabs, and quality filtering is meant to happen in your stats package, from our exports. If you need those in the survey tool itself, that is Qualtrics territory, and our comparison page says so.
Going deeper: how to write attention checks · randomization, explained
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