Before you start
Save the questionnaire and agree the audience, target sample, provider requirements, and consent wording. Define geographic eligibility through the brief, provider specification, and applicable screening questions.Open the audience settings
Open the builder view menu and select Quotas, panels & links. Select the relevant panel. A new study starts with an editable target of 50 respondents; this initial setup is not an order.
Each panel has its own respondent target and quotas in the builder.
Set the panel target
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Choose the panel
Select a panel tab or Add Panel for a separate audience.
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Enter the target
Set Respondents to the number of completed responses required from that panel. The target is the denominator for progress.
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Configure qualification
Use screening rules to define eligibility and quotas to distribute qualifying completions across the required groups.
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Save the setup
Select a save action from Save changes before reviewing or distributing links.
Choose how the panel is recruited
Recruitment sets who supplies the respondents for the selected panel. The rest of the panel settings follow from that choice.1
Bring your own panel
Keep this option when you or your provider supplies the respondents. Configure at least one provider to obtain an invitation link, and set the outcome redirects that return each respondent to it. See Configure provider links.
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Recruit with DeepField
Choose this option to buy the fieldwork. Enter the Incidence rate — the share of the general population that qualifies for the study — then add one row per country under Countries, each with the language it is fielded in and the number of respondents wanted.
Request a feasibility check and a price
Save the panel, then select Request feasibility & estimate. The estimate reports what the fieldwork costs and how much of the requested sample is reachable in the fielding window:
The recruiting fee is the panel cost plus the DeepField service fee, quoted in euros and billed separately from credits. Changing the incidence rate, a country row, or the questionnaire length marks the estimate outdated — select Refresh estimate to price the audience you now have.
Some audiences are estimated by the DeepField team rather than priced on the spot. The panel then shows that the estimate has been requested, and the price and feasibility appear once the team answers.
Add consent text
The welcome screen includes the built-in informed-consent and data-privacy agreement. Add study- or provider-specific text under Consent forms.1
Add a consent
Select Add consent and choose All providers or a particular provider.
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Write the title and wording
The title becomes a link on the welcome screen. Participants open it to read the complete text.
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Complete every fielded language
Enter each required translation; the source-language text is required.
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Test the welcome screen
Check the expected links and acceptance control in each language before sending traffic.
Review the provider scope, title, text, and required source language for the consent.
Review sample-size estimates
The sample-size area in Quotas, panels & links places the combined target within the bands calculated for the saved questionnaire. It refreshes when this view opens. If the form has no questions, save the questionnaire first. Use the bands alongside the smallest planned reporting group, incidence, budget, and required precision. They do not replace a sample design. See Choose a sample size.Review the price
On Fieldwork, Summary separates the two things a study is billed for. Coding fees, charged in credits:
Recruiting, charged in euros, appears only for panels DeepField recruits. Each panel shows its fee and how much of its sample is reachable, and flags an estimate whose audience has since changed.
The coding price follows the questionnaire, so review it again after saving final screening rules and translations. A price agreed with DeepField for a study, or for a set of studies, replaces the calculated coding price and is shown in its place.
Monitor recruitment
Fieldwork displays completed responses against each panel target and the quota-cell counts. Configure link takes you to the corresponding panel settings in Create. Its live-results area shows completed-answer charts and refreshes regularly. A panel with associated participant sessions cannot be deleted. Live edits must follow the restrictions shown by the application; changing a panel target or provider redirect does not make structural questionnaire edits available.
Open a section in Live results to inspect its completed-answer charts.