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Detailed Features

All HTML Form Items Supported

• Text Box (with optional validation)
• Text Area
• Radio Button
• Drop-Down List
• Check Box
• Plain Text/HTML
• Attachments
• Email Address Auto Response Generator
• Images (add gif or jpeg images to your survey)
• Calendar Date Input
• Radio Button Matrix Style Questions
• Text Field Matrix Style Questions
• Text Area Matrix Style Questions
• Radio Button Multiple Scale Questions
• Ranking (order items from 1 to X)
• Weighted Summation (assign point values to items adding to 100)
• Password Field
• Hidden Field (Pass values to your survey via the URL, such as a customer ID)
• Totaling Field (used on order forms to total quantities)
• Apply Percentage (used for tax/handling on order forms)
• Order Form and Totaling Items
• CAPTCHA Image
• Multiple item blocks, including Contact and Credit Card blocks

Security

• Use Secure (SSL) surveys to protect sensitive data
• View Results using SSL technology
• Use encrypted fields to store credit card and social security numbers
• Automatic survey SPAM prevention
• Encrypted URLs and links
• Optionally exclude certain result fields from being sent via e-mail
• Optionally share survey results with others for read and/or update
• Optionally use Secure email
• Close a survey to prevent further submissions
• Duplicate entries are automatically prevented from the same computer
• Optionally restrict users to completing your survey only once
• Require a password to complete your survey
• Optionally let users establish username/password accounts for survey access/update
• Optionally elect not to record IP information of the survey submitter making responses anonymous
• Optionally prevent certain IP addresses or IP ranges from completing your survey

Multiple Page Surveys / Surveys

• Optionally break a survey into multiple pages
• Skip/branching logic is available based on a user's responses
• Pipe answers from previous pages into item text
• Optionally show remaining number of pages for the user to complete
• Add a common header and footer to each page of your survey
• Randomize question answer order to prevent order bias on surveys
• Show a specific Success Page based on a user's responses
• Funnel a user's answers to a question into the answer choices of a followup question

Customizable Look and Feel Options

• Look & Feel is used by all public pages
• Customizable URL - www.bigsurveys.com/YourCompany/YourSurvey
• Customize return address after survey completion - or redirect to a web page
• Customizable Message / Button Text (Great for non-English surveys. Bien pour les formes non-Anglaises. Grande para las formas no-Inglesas.)
• Backgrounds can be easily added to surveys
• With knowledge of HTML, you can add further customizations by adding HTML code to your survey
• Color Chooser to specify text color, font, link, and background color
• Custom Page Title, via access to tag
• No restrictions on use of HTML codes in survey items
• Optional icon for response required
• Questions can be positioned above, to the left, or to the right of the answer field
• Optionally, an "other" choice can be defined for radio button and check box question types

API

• Access your results in a well-defined XML format
• Allows for your own custom applications to interface with your survey results

Platform and Browser Independent Surveys

• Surveys produced are completely HTML compliant for maximum compatibility with all Internet browsers. Anyone, anywhere can use your survey at any time. Printer-friendly versions of your surveys and results are also available.
• Surveys use the UTF-8 character set to support all common languages in the world

Easy to use intuitive survey builder interface

• Compatible with all modern browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc.)
• Drag and Drop interface
• Minimal navigation
• Fast response
• Immediate update of survey as it is created

Result Features

• Survey results are stored in a database on our web server accessible only by you or, if you elect, those who complete your survey.
• Results optionally emailed immediately to you as they are received or manually sent by you as desired.
• Optionally schedule start and end dates for your survey.
• Optionally designate a maximum number of responses to be stored for a given survey.
• Results are downloadable in CSV (comma-separated), XLS (Excel) or XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format that can be imported into other applications such as spreadsheets or databases
• Survey attachments can be downloaded in a single ZIP archived file
• Results can be uploaded into your BigSurveys database
• Statistical Calculations and graphs are provided for results
• Basic inventory management
• View results in summary or expanded detail formats or view each result individually
• RSS/Atom Feeds are available for survey results
• Results can be securely viewed for maximum data protection
• Update Results
• Sort Results
• Delete Results Individually or all at once
• Optionally share results with others
• Define custom Results Views to determine which data fields will be visible in any output format
• Optionally password protect results you are sharing
• Optionally prevent a user from filling out a survey more than once
• Result Time Stamp (date and time survey submitted)
• Result Host (who submitted survey - host address)
• Third-party update - optionally allow others to update survey results
• Secure Login and secure results viewing
• Search Results
• Create saved Results Filters for advanced and often used searches
• Enhanced Date and Host information for Pro users
• 24 x 7 access

Email Features

• Send results in Simple HTML, Full HTML, Table, Text, or Secure Link formats
• Email results to one or more email addresses when a survey is completed or choose results to email
• Optionally route the result email to different email addresses based on users' answers
• Optionally receive a daily summary via email on each of your surveys
• Mass email respondents of your survey
• Send an auto-response to those completing your survey, data from survey can be included in response
• Email a copy of the survey to the person completing the survey

PayPal Integration

• Process payment of your order surveys through the PayPal billing service
• View the result submission and order of each customer in a single location
• Create PayPal subscriptions/recurring payments
• Use custom PayPal parameters
• Optionally receive an email each time an order's status changes

Publication Options

• Add a link to your BigSurveys survey from your web page
• Include your BigSurveys URL in an email to customers
• Copy the BigSurveys HTML to a file on your server
• Create a Pop-up window with your survey in it
• Embed the survey and Results in your web page
• Set default survey item values
• Pass hidden values into the survey via the survey URL
• Use a "printer friendly" version of your survey for printing