Prolific is a paid service. You need to fund your account to access the pool of participants. The cost depends on the number of participants you want to reach and the demographics you’re targeting. You can get an estimate of the cost with the Prolific price calculator

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Purpose

External research panels are useful when:
  • You don’t have access to enough people who match your target audience
  • You want to reach a specific demographic
  • You want to reach a large number of people quickly

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Steps to Follow

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Step 1: Add hidden fields to the Formbricks survey

To be able to attribute a completed answer to a research participant, you need to add hidden fields to your Formbricks survey. To do so, edit your survey and scroll down to the Hidden Fields card. Add three fields with the IDs PROLIFIC_PID, STUDY_ID, and SESSION_ID. Hidden fields added

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Step 2: Create an account on Prolific

Go to Prolific and create an account.

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Step 3: Create a study on Prolific

Once you’re logged in to Prolific, create a new study. Create a study on Prolific We connect the Formbricks survey with the Prolific study by copying the survey link from Formbricks and pasting it into the Prolific study: Copy the survey link

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Step 5: Choose URL parameters for attribution

To attribute responses to the correct participant, you need to add URL parameters to the Formbricks survey link. The parameters are PROLIFIC_PID, STUDY_ID, and SESSION_ID, exactly like the hidden fields you added. Adding URL parameters to the survey

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Step 6: Update the Formbricks Redirect URL

To ensure that participants are redirected back to Prolific after completing the survey, add the redirect URL provided in the Prolific study setup (e.g. https://app.prolific.co/submissions/complete?cc=I2PWSFRG) Copy from Prolific: Copy redirect URL Set it up as Redirect URL in the Response Options in Formbricks: Add redirect URL to Formbricks

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Step 7: Preview the study

Preview the study using Prolific’s Preview-functionality Preview study Got to the success screen? Then you’re ready to publish your study! Preview complete

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Step 8: Publish the study

After you’ve published the study, you’ll get the first responses within a few hours.
Prolific is a paid service. You need to fund your account to publish your study.

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That’s it! 🎉

Once you’ve published the survey, you can sit back and watch the responses come in. Prolific will take care of the rest.