SmartSurvey

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Online survey & questionnaire tool

About SmartSurvey

SmartSurvey is tool which allows users to create, distribute, manage, and analyze responses to an unlimited number of surveys and questionnaires. The software is suitable for use across a range of organization types, including education, government, business, and not-for-profit, and can be used to gather responses from clients, partners, suppliers, students, patients, and more.

SmartSurvey includes a range of question types, allowing users to select from basic multiple choice, text box, ranking, and choice matrix questions, and advanced Likert scale, net promoter score (NPS), continuous sum, and semantic differential questions. Users can customize the fonts and text sizes of questions, add ‘other’ choice fields and comment boxes, apply text and answer validation, randomize answer choices, and more. Frequently-used questions can be saved into a question library, from which they can be instantly added to new surveys. Skip logic can be utilized to hide irrelevant pages based on previous answers, and response piping automatically inserts previous responses into upcoming questions.

SmartSurvey allows users to distribute survey invitations via bulk email and SMS, with the ability to send reminders and track invite statuses, open rates, views, opt-outs, and failures. Surveys can also be embedded in web pages with a copy-and-paste embed code, and shared across social media. Response quotas and end dates can be set to manage the number of responses for each survey, and emails can be sent out to users every time a new response is received. SmartSurvey’s analytics and reporting tools allow users to view responses in real-time, export data for further analysis, analyze text, filter responses using specific criteria, create custom charts, and more.


Key benefits of SmartSurvey

  • Multiple question types are included, including ranking, rating, and open-ended questions, and users can randomize answer options, add custom validation prompts, mark questions as mandatory, set word count limits, and create ‘other’ choice fields to reduce incomplete, inaccurate, and invalid responses.

  • Surveys can be customized with brand logos, background images, colors, and fonts, with the ability to adapt built-in themes or create designs from scratch using HTML and CSS.

  • Users can distribute their surveys via SMS, email, social media, or by embedding forms into their website using SmartSurvey’s survey embed code.

  • Response quotas and survey end dates can be set, and users can track the completion rate for each survey.

  • Customized themes and frequently-used questions can be saved into libraries in SmartSurvey, and users can also upload documents and images to be used in surveys.

  • Responses can be viewed in real-time, and users can create custom charts and graphs to summarize results.

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    SmartSurvey Software - Discover the future of survey creation with our AI-powered tool! Effortlessly design surveys to gather invaluable insights from your users.
    SmartSurvey Software - Easily add and edit the questions in your survey through the intuitive editor interface.
    SmartSurvey Software - Simplify your survey distribution with our versatile response collection options.
    SmartSurvey Software - No more sifting through reports! Our dashboards make your survey data easy to understand. See trends and actionable insights. Empower your team to make data-driven decisions quickly and efficiently.
    SmartSurvey Software - Make sense of your survey data in seconds with our advanced results visualisation tools. Seamlessly analyze responses in a variety of chart types, show and hide questions, create multiple views and more!
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    SmartSurvey Software - Discover the future of survey creation with our AI-powered tool! Effortlessly design surveys to gather invaluable insights from your users.
    SmartSurvey Software - Easily add and edit the questions in your survey through the intuitive editor interface.
    SmartSurvey Software - Simplify your survey distribution with our versatile response collection options.
    SmartSurvey Software - No more sifting through reports! Our dashboards make your survey data easy to understand. See trends and actionable insights. Empower your team to make data-driven decisions quickly and efficiently.
    SmartSurvey Software - Make sense of your survey data in seconds with our advanced results visualisation tools. Seamlessly analyze responses in a variety of chart types, show and hide questions, create multiple views and more!

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    Mark
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    • Industry: Mental Health Care
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Great survey product

    Reviewed on 2017/10/30

    It enables us to better support our clients.

    It enables us to better support our clients.

    Pros

    We've only just started using SmartSurvey but so far it seems like a great survey product which meets our needs.

    Cons

    Haven't spotted anything yet as such. Although I would suggest some initial set up support from SmartSurvey would be useful to help familiarize with the UI and the different product features, especially if like us you've never used any survey software.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Excellent surveying tool

    Reviewed on 2023/04/29

    Overall, the SmartSurvey app has been very useful in rolling out surveys, collecting data for...

    Overall, the SmartSurvey app has been very useful in rolling out surveys, collecting data for research and development and automating the survey forms.

    Pros

    SmartSurvey is a very good application to rollout surveys, automate the forms, data collection and market research. Not just these, it has excellent reporting capabilities which helps to extract a meaningful information out of the data collected. The tool is very easy to use and can be customized as per our requirements. It allows to add queries of all types and has various options like drop down, radio buttons, logic creation capabilities, etc. Overall, I find it a fantastic application to conduct online surveys.

    Cons

    The forms have very minimal options to customize the look and feel of the forms. Also, the free basic version has very less features which lets the users to upgrade mandatorily.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

    Very limited usage

    Reviewed on 2020/02/21

    Would not recommend it for a variety of options. There are better options out there.

    Would not recommend it for a variety of options. There are better options out there.

    Pros

    We used SmartSurvey for a limited amount of time and quickly replaced it for another one. It was good for a very short time.

    Cons

    SmartSurvey has very limited features and it is not very user friendly. We stopped using it after a very quick time.

    Nicholas
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    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    Quick to start, good support, but it can also take some time to figure out all the details

    Reviewed on 2017/11/01

    Pros

    I've been using SmartSurvey for social science research for about 6 weeks now, and agreed to write a brief review and first impressions of the product and my experience using it in return for a not-for-profit discount on the product.

    I'm using the service to conduct open-ended social scientific questionnaires about how online communities help people care for those with chronic health conditions, and have so far found SmartSurvey to be quite a nice way for doing so. It allows me to post links to surveys within online communities and efficiently each a globally distributed population.

    I was originally attracted to the product because I needed a service provider that adhere to EU data privacy laws but offer a product that is in English (since this my native language and the common language of my respondents). A lot of the US providers could not meet the requirements, especially regarding data deletion. SmartSurvey quickly responded to a question I had on this account and told me they could guarantee that upon request, survey data would be deleted from active servers within a week and from backups within 30 days. Most US providers could not come close to guaranteeing this.

    While you can get a basic survey going quickly, there is a lot of customizability on the back end, and this can take some time to learn. My experience is that documentation is good and support tickets I have submitted have always been answered promptly and helpfully.

    Cons

    One example of the tool's behavior that takes some getting used to so this is not so much a con as a part of the tool that is a bit more complex and takes more time to learn is the anonymous response function. This function hides respondent IP and geographic information from responses when activated. However, if it is off, and then someone responds, and you then turn it on, the system seems to continue to log the information, although it hides. You can then turn the setting back off and reveal all this information. This means a survey is not a truly anonymous UNLESS you design it so from the get go. Similarly, it is possible to activate both the complete it later function, which lets respondents save incomplete surveys by entering a name and email (identifying information that allows them to receive a unique link). But this identifying information will only be permanently hidden if you set the anonymous response feature to on before your first response. Otherwise, the complete it later function undoes the anonymous response setting. So make sure you peruse the full set of privacy features before opening up your survey to respondents so that the settings are correct before you begin. (Also, if you are testing features, be sure to start with a fresh, unopened survey, rather than just changing features on a survey that for which you have already gathered test responses.)

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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
    • Company size: 201–500 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    HR & Quality Manager

    Reviewed on 2020/10/09

    We have been able to use the product to collect feedback from external users, communicate and...

    We have been able to use the product to collect feedback from external users, communicate and consult with our own workforce, data capture for reporting and beyond. Functionality for creating surveys and reporting exceeds our requirements.

    Pros

    Easy to set up variety of surveys depending on your output requirements. Excellent reporting functionality.

    Cons

    We haven't experienced any issues with the product.

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    SmartSurvey FAQs

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    SmartSurvey offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: £45.00/month
    • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    14-day free trial, no credit card required. Basic: free Pro: £30/month (£360/year) Business: £40/month (£480/year) Enterprise: £85/month (£1020/year) Business Team: £30/user/month Enterprise Team: £75/user/month Enterprise Plus: POA nonprofit organisations up to 40% discount students up to 50% discount

    SmartSurvey has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    SmartSurvey supports the following languages:

    English

    SmartSurvey supports the following devices:

    SmartSurvey integrates with the following applications:

    Google Analytics 360, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zapier

    SmartSurvey offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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