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How to set up an SMTP Gmail account to allow full Google authorization

Check the following settings while setting up a Gmail sender account via SMTP to avoid connectivity issues and allow full Google authorization: Setting 1: Turn Less secure app access On In your Google account settings, turn the Less secure app access On. Note that this setting is not available for accounts with enabled 2-Step Verification: such accounts […]

Customize Survey Button, Instruction, and Help Texts

If you want to customize any of the button, instruction or help texts on your surveys in SurveyMethods, you can do so with SurveyMethods’ Language Packs feature. The built-in language packs allow you to change the language but you can also create custom language packs allowing you to customize the English (or any other language) […]

Show/Hide Survey Title

To hide the survey title in your survey, navigate to the settings menu by clicking the settings icon () on the survey you wish to modify, and then choose “Edit Navigation and Numbering Properties” on the top right side of the settings menu. You can hide the survey title by checking the “Hide Survey Title” […]

Show/Hide Progress Indicator and Choose Style

To hide the progress indicator or change the page numbering style, navigate to the settings menu by clicking the settings icon () on the survey you wish to modify, and then choose “Edit Navigation and Numbering Properties” on the top right side of the settings menu. The first section of the navigation and numbering properties […]

My Surveys Page

The My Surveys Page is the default page shown after you log in to your SurveyMethods account. You can also reach it from within the application by clicking “Surveys” on the main navigation bar or “My Surveys” on the “Surveys” dropdown. By default this page will show surveys contained in your “Default Folder”. You can […]

Send Emails Through Your Own Email Account with SMTP

SurveyMethods enables you to send survey and event-related invitations, notifications, reminders, and newsletters with your own SMTP server instead of SurveyMethods’ mail servers. This may help the deliverability of your emails and can reduce the risk of your emails getting caught by recipients’ spam filters, especially if your email is being sent within your own […]

Distribute Your Survey on Facebook or Twitter

The SurveyMethods launch wizard takes you through the email distribution or web URL launch methods. You can copy the web URL and paste it into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other social media sites, but we also make it easy to share to Facebook or Twitter directly from the application. This feature can be found in […]

Show/Hide Survey Page Numbers

To hide page numbers in your survey, navigate to the settings menu by clicking the settings icon () on the survey you wish to modify, and then choose “Edit Navigation and Numbering Properties” on the top right side of the settings menu. You can hide page numbers by checking the “Hide Survey Page Numbers” setting. […]

Survey Completion Options

With survey completion options, you can choose what respondents will see after they have finished taking your survey. You have two options available: Redirect respondents to a website of your choice. Display a customized message to respondents. To access the survey completion options setting, navigate to the settings menu by clicking the settings icon () […]

Survey Welcome Greeting

SurveyMethods allows you to display a custom welcome greeting when a respondent visits your survey. The same greeting is displayed whether the survey is accessed through the web URL or the survey link in the launch email; however, if you use an advanced email list with custom fields you can choose to insert the custom […]

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