Research Incentives

Research incentives simplified

Effortlessly track, manage and distribute incentives to your research participants, so your team can focus on doing great research.

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Participants with session status, incentive payment status and incentive payment options – Pre-paid Visa card, Gift card, Cash and Donation to Charity.

Flexible Incentive Management Options to Suit Your Needs

Select how you want to handle incentives – do it yourself or let OpenQ automate it for you.

Do It Yourself

Pay incentives yourself

Pay incentives yourself – you're in full control of distributing incentives to participants after each session. Mark it as Paid to preserve an audit trail inside OpenQ.

OpenQ dashboard showing two participants and incentive control panel for one participant with option to mark incentive as Paid or Held.

Automate

Or, Automate with OpenQ

Let OpenQ automatically distribute incentives to participants after each research session on your behalf, saving you valuable time and effort.

OpenQ dashboard showing two participants and incentive control panel for one participant with incentive status as Paid.

Effortlessly Set Up Automated Incentive Payments

Get started in just a few clicks by connecting your card and enabling automation when setting up your study.

Create a new User Interview or Survey study on OpenQ

Create a Study

Create a new research study or modify the Incentive settings for an an existing study from your workspace.

Configure incentive settings for a study

Enable 1-click automation

Enable our 1-click incentive automation by connecting your card during the study setup process. That's it.

Auto-distribute incentives to participants after they are marked as Complete.

Distribute incentives automatically

As sessions complete, OpenQ automatically charges your card and triggers incentive distribution to participants.

Offer a Variety of Options

Provide a variety of incentive redemption options to your research participants, globally with OpenQ's Tremendous integration.

Prepaid Cards

Allow your participants to redeem their incentives as Prepaid Visa® cards with, both virtual and physical (US only).

Gift Cards

Reward your participants with gift cards from 700+ popular retailers across the globe in 80+ countries.

Cash Payouts

Enable participants to redeem incentives as cash rewards using ACH (US-only), Paypal (80+ countries) or Venmo.

Charity Donations

Allow participants to donate their incentives to top global charities, like the Red Cross or Children International.

Stay In Control with Tracking and Notifications

Efficiently manage and monitor your research incentive payments with intuitive dashboards and workflow notifications.

Dashboards

Incentive payment tracking

Monitor incentive payment status at study and workspace level with intuitive dashboards, so you always know where you stand with your incentives.

An intuitive dashboard showing Incentives summary for a study and a Payout Summary table summarizing the distributed incentives.

Notifications

Workflow notifications

Receive timely email reminders to mark sessions as Completed or No-Show for automated incentive processing or to distribute incentives manually.

Email notification to Research team to mark Session as No-Show or Complete to trigger auto-processing incentives.

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