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Powerful,
feature-rich online data collection and analysis software
SimpleSurvey is a professional, bilingual, web-based
software service to create and manage online surveys, questionnaires, forms and
other similar applications. Offering many advanced, configurable features and
options, SimpleSurvey can support a wide range of online research and
information gathering initiatives. SimpleSurvey offers different annual
subscription packages for its Professional Edition to fit your needs and budget.
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SIMPLESURVEY PROFESSIONAL EDITION:
GENERAL FEATURES
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SIMPLESURVEY : FEATURES & OPTIONS General Characteristics |
SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Create multilingual surveys, questionnaires and forms for a wide variety of online data collection, research and analysis projects | x | x | x | x |
| ● | 100% Web-based software requiring only an active account and Internet browser to use | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Designed, developed, hosted and supported entirely in Canada. Fully bilingual software with multilingual support. | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create anonymous and targeted surveys for public and registered users | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Deploy surveys via personalized email invitations, links on Websites, mobile devices, embedded in Web pages, +++ | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Cross-platform response pages support Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox +++ | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Brand and personalize your projects (logos, style sheets, emails and more) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Manage, assign and track respondents using advanced contact management options | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Invite respondents and collect responses using direct email invitations with links to response pages | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Invite respondents and collect responses via web links (websites, pop-ups, etc) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send invitation emails, notices and surveys in respondent's language or let them choose their preference | x | x | x | x |
| ● | View results instantly as they arrive over web | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Easily create integrated multilingual projects with unified data sets - no need to merge different language response data | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Print viewable reports or save to PDF or other file formats | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create and send personalized email invitations, reminders and messages including web links | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Export detailed response data to popular file formats (e.g. Excel, CSV) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Generate QR Codes to access surveys, reports, access pages and more | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Manage multiple user accounts, divisions, contacts and groups with our Enterprise version | - | - | x | x |
| Design Features | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Create a survey, questionnaire or Web form from scratch, or copy an existing project | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Choose from an expanding selection of question types and options (see Question Types and Options) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | View and test projects in real-time before deploying | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert a page title | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert a page subtitle | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert section titles | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert HTML text blocks | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert page breaks | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Insert pictures and graphics | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Display your logo (all pages, first page only, left, right, centered) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Display section numbers or letters | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Display question numbers or letters | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Set the maximum number of respondents allowed for a project | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Targeted respondents can start a survey, answer some questions, save responses and continue at a later date | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Add skip logic (page branching) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Include an unsubscribe link | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create integrated multilingual projects with unified data sets (Reponses and reports in the same project) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create personalised thank you messages at the end of your surveys | - | x | x | x |
| ● | Create your own stylesheet themes | - | - | x | x |
| ● | Add Show/Hide logic to questions | - | - | x | x |
| Question Types and Options | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Choose from several question types and options (True/False, Yes/No, Single and Multiple Select, Checkbox, Radio Button, Drop-down, Single-line Free Text, Multi-line, Single and Multi-Select Matrix Question Tables, Ranking, Number, Currency, Email, Dates and more) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Open text response question (single line) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Open text response question (multiple line) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Yes or No question | x | x | x | x |
| ● | True or False question | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Select responses from drop-down lists | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Multiple choice single selection | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Multiple choice
multiple selection (set minimum/maximum number of choices) |
x | x | x | x |
| ● | Constant sum questions with or without TOTAL validation and specific value range validation | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Grid question (Matrix table of questions with single response choice per line - radio button) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Grid question (Matrix table of questions with single response choice per line - Combo box) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Grid question (Matrix table of questions with multiple choices per line - checkbox) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Ranking grid | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Email (with validation) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Amount (with validation) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Integer (validation, min, max) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Date (yyyy-mm) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Date (yyyy-mm-dd) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | US Postal code (3 formats supported) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Canadian Postal code (format validation) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Phone number (999-999-9999) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Add a complementary questions to many types of questions | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Assign default response values to question types | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Ability to make response mandatory for most question types | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Add question specific help mouseover | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Add question specific help link to external page | x | x | x | x |
| Logic and Event Driven Features | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Branching (skip page) logic | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send a confirmation mail to participants upon completing survey | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Redirect respondents to a specified web page (url address) upon submitting responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Receive email notifications when respondents submit their responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send responses to participants upon completing survey | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Display current results to respondents upon submitting responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Randomize the presentation of questions | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Randomize the presentation order of responses to questions | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send email alerts and notifications to specified recipients triggered by participant responses | - | x | x | x |
| ● | Show / Hide questions advanced logic module | - | - | x | x |
| Activation, Tracking and Management Options | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Assign individual contacts or groups to projects | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create and send personalized invitation emails to participants in their language | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send e-mail reminders to individuals or all participants who have not submitted responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | View and track status of respondents for activated projects (empty, complete, in progress) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Add new participants to an active project at any time | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Unassign participants from a project in progress at any time | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Re-initialize participant responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Edit participant responses | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Re-open submitted respondent response forms | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Schedule project tasks (activate, send initial invitation, send reminder emails, de-activate) | - | - | x | x |
| Reporting and Analysis of Results | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | View responses and results in real-time | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create summary reports containing totals, averages, number of responses and other statistics | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create individual participant reports all or selected individual respondents | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Securely view responses and results in real-time in your Web browser | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create public and private reports | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Print and save reports to multiples formats | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Export results and full raw response data to Excel for further analysis possibilities (SPSS, SAS) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Creates one unified data set for multilingual projects (no merging required) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Store reports and files for future reference | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Advanced reporting and filtering of respondent data | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create labels for exported questions and responses for easier integration with other analytical tools (SPSS, SAS, …) | - | x | x | x |
| Contact and Group Management | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Create contacts and assign to groups to facilitate the management of participants | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Import multiple contacts at a time from your lists using our advanced import feature | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Import user-defined fields for advanced reporting and filtering of respondent data | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Assign individual participants and groups to projects | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Assign contacts and groups to different divisions | - | - | - | x |
| ● | Synchronise your contact database with SimpleSurvey using our SimpleSync SQL Bridge | - | - | option | option |
| Multilingual Features | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Easily create and support multilingual projects with integrated response data sets. | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Send email and surveys to participants in their language or let them choose | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Create integrated multilingual projects with unified data sets in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Bilingual user interface (English, French) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Respondents can easily switch between languages in response pages | x | x | x | x |
| Enterprise-wide Management Features (available only to users of Enterprise version) | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Powerful administration module structured to support corporate use by designers across multiple divisions, permitting the sharing of information related to contacts, groups, used-defined fields and project templates, based on interdivisional rights. | - | - | - | x |
| ● | Create multiple user accounts within an organization | - | - | - | x |
| ● | Create multiple divisions within an organization | - | - | - | x |
| ● | Assign user accounts to divisions | - | - | - | x |
| ● | Share projects, contacts and groups between division | - | - | - | x |
| Survey Types, Access, Permissions & Security | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Anonymous or Public mode (one shared link to survey or Web form) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Targeted mode (each respondant has their own unique survey link url for advanced tracking possibilities) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Anonymous targeted (same features as Targeted but identity is protected) | - | - | x | x |
| ● | Validation options for anonymous mode (none, cookie, IP address) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Capacity to SAVE or NOT the IP address of the respondent | - | x | x | x |
| ● | Access via a link in a Web page or embed using Iframe | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Secure account access with SSL connection (HTTPS) | - | x | x | x |
| ● | SSL connection (HTTPS) option for respondent page | - | x | x | x |
| ● | Password features (change, forget password) | x | x | x | x |
| ● | Customizable Secure Access Page - Respondents access survey via login screen requiring a project code and PIN code | - | option | option | option |
| ● | Participant Auto-subscribe with CAPTCHA | - | option | option | option |
| Other Options | SOHO | ADVANTAGE I | ADVANTAGE II | ENTERPRISE EDITION |
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| ● | Whitelabeling (use your own domain name, remove references to SimpleSurvey, develop your own style sheet) | - | - | option | option |
| ● | Question response data PRE-LOAD (preload respondent specific answers to be validated by respondent) | - | - | option | option |
| ● | Merge data from multiple survey projects into one project (cost per account) | - | - | option | option |