Introduction

Send polls or surveys to your customers and employees to get their opinions and feedback on something. 

For instance, if you provide an onsite service to your customers, you can send them a survey after the service to take their feedback.

Note: Surveys is a paid add-on. 
 

Installing Surveys

The Surveys module is an extension available in the Extension Store. You must install it to use it.

Follow these steps to install Surveys:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Click the Add-ons button on the bottom-left. You will land on the Extension Store.
4. Search for Surveys.
5. Click Install.
6. Click Yes to confirm the installation.

The Surveys module gets installed. You can find it under Main Menu > Essentials.

Survey Types

After you install the Surveys module, you can start creating surveys right away!

You can create two types of surveys in Vtiger.

• Internal surveys - These surveys are accessible only by your CRM users. 
• External surveys - You can send these surveys to non-CRM users such as your customers, vendors, etc.

Question Types

You can add multiple questions to a survey. Following are the question types that Vtiger supports:

• Text - For short answers
• Radio Button - For multiple-choice questions
• Checkbox - For multi-select questions
• Dropdown - For select a single answer from a list of options
• Text Area - For long-form answers
• Rating - For 1-10 rating
• NPS (Net Promoter Score) - For NPS questions with a rating from 1-10
• Agree/Disagree - For yes/no type of answers

Creating and Publishing an Internal Survey

CRM users must log in to the CRM to take an internal survey.

Follow these steps to create an internal survey:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Click +Add Survey.
6. Enter the Survey Details:
   • Name - Enter the survey name.
   • Survey link - Enter the link to the survey.
   • Type - Choose Internal as the survey type.
   • Expiry date - The survey will become inactive after this date.
   • Assigned To - This is the owner of the survey.
   • CSS file URL - Enter the CSS file URL you want to use to style the survey page. This is optional.
   • Show responses - Enable the checkmark if you want the survey takers to be able to see their answers.
7. Click Advanced Options.
8. Enter the following information:
   • Survey header - Enter the text that must appear on the page header.
   • Survey footer - Enter the text that must appear on the page footer.
   • Survey logo - You can insert a logo of size within 2 MB here. For example, the company logo.
9. Click Go to Questions.
10. Click +Add page details.
    • Add a page title and description. You can add multiple pages to a survey. To add another page, click +Add page shown on the right. 
11. Add different question types by dragging them from the left.
    • For the radio button, checkbox, and dropdown questions, you must also enter the answer options.
    • You can also duplicate questions and add logic to them. Hover over a question to see these options.
12. Click Save & Publish. 
    • You can click Save as Draft to save the survey and edit it later.

When you save and publish a survey, it becomes active and accessible. You can share its link with the respondents. 

Creating and Publishing an External Survey

In addition to the details you enter in an internal survey, you also have the following options in external surveys:

• Enabling captcha
• Taking anonymous responses
• Creating contacts

Follow these steps to create an external survey:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Click +Add Survey.
6. Enter the Survey Details:
   • Name - Enter the survey name.
   • Survey link - Enter the link to the survey.
   • Type - Choose Internal as the survey type.
   • Expiry date - The survey will become inactive after this date.
   • Assigned To - This is the owner of the survey.
   • CSS file URL - Enter the CSS file URL you want to use to style the survey page. This is optional.
   • Show responses - Enable the checkmark if you want the survey takers to be able to see their answers.
7. Click Advanced Options.
8. Enter the following information:
   • Survey header - Enter the text that must appear on the page header.
   • Survey footer - Enter the text that must appear on the page footer.
   • Survey logo - You can insert a logo of size within 2 MB here. For example, the company logo.
   • Captcha - If you enable this, the respondents must submit a captcha before submitting the survey response. This helps in avoiding spam responses and bots.
   • Anonymous - If you enable this, responses will become anonymous. 
   • Create contact - If you enable this, contact records are created in the CRM using the respondents’ details.
9. Click Go to Questions.
10. Click +Add page details.
    • Add a page title and description. You can add multiple pages to a survey. To add another page, click +Add page shown on the right. 
11. Add different question types by dragging them from the left.
    • For the radio button, checkbox, and dropdown questions, you must also enter the answer options.
    • You can also duplicate questions and add logic to them. Hover over a question to see these options.
12. Click Save & Publish. 
    • You can click Save as Draft to save the survey and edit it later.

When you save and publish a survey, it becomes active and accessible. You can share its link with the respondents. 

Adding Logic to Questions

You can use Equal To and Not Equal To logic on every survey question. When a piece of logic holds good for a question, you can show another question or survey page.

Follow steps to add logic to a question:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Open a survey.
6. Click the Edit icon shown on the top-right.
7. Click Go to Questions.
8. Hover over a question and click the Logic icon shown in the top-right corner. The Logic window opens.
9. Click +Add Logic.
10. Enter the logic.
11. Click Save.

Sending Internal Survey Link

After you create an internal survey, a link is generated. CRM users can use the link to take the survey. You can broadcast the survey link as a comment to the CRM users.

Follow these steps to broadcast a survey link:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Open a survey.
6. Click the Send Survey Link button shown on the top.
7. Enter or edit the broadcast message.
8. Click Comment to broadcast the link to the CRM users.

Sending External Survey Link

After you create an external survey, a link is generated. Respondents can use the link to take the survey. You can share survey links via email. 

Follow these steps to send a survey link:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Open a survey.
6. Click the Send Survey Link button shown on the top. The Compose Email window opens.
7. Enter the To address of the recipient. You can send it to only one recipient at a time.
8. Edit the subject, template, etc., if needed.
9. Click Send shown on the bottom-right of the window.

Viewing Survey Responses

You can view a survey’s responses on the survey record. A survey response contains a response summary and individual responses.

Follow these steps to view a survey’s responses:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Open a survey.
   • Click the Summary tab to view the overall response.
   • Click the Respondents tab to see the details of the survey respondents.
     1. Hover over a respondent and click the View responses icon to the right to see their answers.
     2. Click Ok to close the window.

Closing a Survey

When you no longer want people to take a survey, you can close it. When someone tries to open a closed survey, they will see this message - This survey is no longer accepting submissions.

Follow these steps to close a survey:

1. Log in to your CRM account.
2. Click the Main Menu.
3. Go to Essentials.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Open a survey.
6. Click the Close button on the top-right.

To reopen a survey, click the Re-open shown on the survey record.