Survs

Did you know that you can share your Survs’s themes and survey templates?

Here’s how:

• To share a survey template just go to your survey list and choose “Share” from the “More actions” menu. When you share a survey as a template, you are only sharing your survey’s structure and questions with others. Answers will not be shared.
• To share a theme template, click on the “Themes” tab, select the theme you want to share, and click the “Share” link.

When others open your template’s URL they’ll be able to import that template into their account. By importing a template users are effectively copying it into their account. This means that any subsequent changes made to the shared theme or survey template will not be reflected on their copies.

A Christmas present from Survs!

To show you how to import a template, we have designed a special theme for this season called “Asking for Christmas” (click the link to view and import it) :).

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

From now on you can invite unregistered users to your Survs’s accounts!

Survs was built with collaborative work in mind, and inviting your teammates to join your account is just the first step towards working together with them.

Soon we will write about other collaborative features, but for now let’s focus on the account concept.

Picture this: you have an account shared with some of your colleagues at work and, at the same time, you have another account where you create surveys for the parent-teacher association you belong to. With Survs you can have a different account for different projects and still use the same credentials to login.

To allow for some control over who can do what inside an account, you can assign one or more roles to each account member.

There are 6 different roles:

• Viewer (the voyeur, can watch but can’t play)
• Editor (the builder, can create and edit surveys)
• Distributor (the bridge with your respondents, can create and open channels to collect responses)
• Analyzer (the analytics guy, can analyze, share, export and print results)
• Manager (the master helper, can do management tasks)
• Owner (the master of all roles, can do everything)

We think these roles contemplate the majority of usage scenarios, but we are expecting your feedback to let us know if we are on the right track.

Have fun using Survs!

By now, some of you guys are already having fun using Survs and wanting to know more about its future.

Well, we’re happy to share a bit of what’s coming up.

Pricing model

The pricing model will be based on monthly plans that should be between $20 and $60, with special prices for annual subscriptions.

All accounts will be subscribed to a plan, each of them with different features and level of service. We are currently tuning these so that our audience can find a plan that suits them nicely.

However, we can tell you already that the main difference between the various plans will be the number of users allowed in the account and the maximum number of responses per month.

Finally, there will also be a free plan, enough for everyone to try out Survs and conduct small surveys without compromise.

Types of questions

We get asked a lot about the question types currently available.

Survs currently has the types of questions we thought would be essential and serve most of our users’ needs. We will, however, be adding more types based on your feedback. So be sure to tell us what you need!

New design

After lots of feedback from our users (thank you guys!) and some user research, we are working on a new design that we think will significantly improve Survs’s user experience.

You can take a sneak peak below:

Soon all of you will be able to play with it ;-).

Want to try out Survs?

By now we are sending invites almost every day, so what are you waiting for? We are asking for you…