Survs

Our email inbox has been flooded with questions about Survs’s pricing. Some of you want to start paying right now – unfortunately this is not possible until we launch the final version. However it’s fantastic to see such enthusiasm for our work :-).

Although we are still working on the price details you deserve to know what we have in mind.

Plans

There will be a free plan with some feature limitations, whereas all paid plans are full featured. The main differences are the number of users allowed in the account and the amount of responses per month:

• The Free plan will allow 1 user and 100 responses per month.

• The Basic plan will cost $19/month, allows 2 users and 2,000 responses per month.

• The Pro plan will cost $39/month, allows 4 users and 4,000 responses per month.

• The Premium plan will cost $119/month, allows 20 users and 24,000 responses per month.


Non-profit and academic institutions will have considerable discounts.

Promotional codes

One last note about the promotional codes mentioned in the “Account” section of the application. Sometimes we give promotional licenses to people and institutions that help us to test Survs. We also distribute licenses on our Twitter page from time to time… These promotional codes can be redeemed in the “Account” section.

Let us know if these prices are in line with what you were expecting :-).

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We’re happy to announce that Survs is opening its doors to everyone!

What exactly does this mean? From now on new users don’t have to wait for an invite to join in, they can start using Survs right away.

Survs is getting tremendous feedback, so we believe it’s time to launch public Beta.

As usual, we’re counting on all of you to spread the good word ;-).

Thanks for all the support!

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Every successful business should, at some point, use its earnings to help society. For us there has never been any doubt that we would also make our contribution, and we would like to do it right from the start.

While Survs is in beta we cannot contribute monetarily. However, we do want to make the public promise to always support organizations committed to help the ones in need.

In the first months after the official launch the only way we can help is by granting free or discounted access to Survs to some of these organizations. In the future, we’ll try to give a part of our profits to organizations with a philanthropic orientation.

So if you are a member of a non-profit organization that fits this profile, get in touch with us and we’ll see how we can help :-)

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All the data that you obtain by deploying your surveys is yours, not ours. With that in mind, we built data exporting features in Survs since day one. This way you can keep a copy of your data or import it to any other software application.

However, it was not enough. You wanted to analyze the data you got from Survs in statistical software packages, like SPSS and others. We’ve listened to your feedback and made some dramatic improvements to Survs data exporting features:

• Individual responses can now be exported in textual or numerical formats. Numerical is just what you need to import and crunch your data using some of the powerful statistical apps on the market. And yes, we support numerical data in Excel or CSV file formats, so you don’t need to worry about getting tied to a specific vendor.
• We’ve tweaked the column headers to make it easier to use your files with other applications. Single row headers that are more third-party-friendly and even automatically generated short labels to be used as variable names, we got it all.
• Also, the channel name is now part of the exported data too.

Keeping our users’ data as open and interoperable as possible is an essential goal for us, and this is a very important step in that direction.

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Since the start of the Survs development one of our main concerns was to reach as many people as possible regardless of location, culture or language. This is an important principle of Internationalization and Accessibility.

• Internationalization is the process of designing a software application that can be adapted to various languages and regions.
• Accessibility guidelines encourage the creation of websites that can reach as many people as possible regardless of ability, location, age or technology.

The first step in this direction was to fully support user-customizable survey languages, which we have since the early days of the beta period.

Furthermore Survs has a template system for survey languages that allows users to create and apply languages sets to any survey.

Today we are happy to announce another advance in this matter: the ability to choose text direction in the survey language. This is very useful if you want the survey written in middle eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic which are written predominantly right-to-left.

You can find this option when editing a survey language:

If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us or post a reply here.

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There are lots of survey tools on the market, so we thought it might be a good idea to talk a little bit about what distinguishes Survs from the rest:

1. First of all, Survs was built in a user-centric fashion, with the goal of providing a great user experience. It has a very powerful set of features, carefully designed so they won’t get in your way. Start with the basics and then slowly discover everything else you can do with Survs in your own time. As you’ll see, we are strong believers in the progressive disclosure concept; there’s a lot of power hidden beneath Survs’s primary screens.
2. Secondly, in contrast to other survey applications who have only met role-based permissions on a later phase (or not at all), Survs was built from the ground up with collaborative work in mind. You’ll notice the difference.
3. Thirdly, it has some original social features like sharing survey and theme templates, and there is a lot more inventive stuff to come. For us, an online survey can be much more than a digital version of a paper one.
4. Fourthly, it will have a very competitive pricing. We absolutely guarantee that you’ll not be disappointed.

If you are already a Survs user you know what we are talking about. If not, why don’t you try it out and see for yourself?

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