Interactive conversion · for researchers
Turn your Google Form into an interactive survey
Researchy turns your Google Form into a survey that shows one question at a time, for ₹499 a study at the launch price ($15 outside India). Your wording stays exactly as it is, and the answers still go straight to your own Google Sheet.
The request form needs a Google sign-in, because it asks you to upload a PDF of your Form. To see a finished example, take Online Shopping Safety in India: A Consumer Study.
Before you start: check your Form
Your Form can be converted only if every point below is true. Each one takes a minute to check in the Form's Settings tab.
- It accepts responses without sign-in. "Restrict to users in your organisation" is off, and "Collect email addresses" is not set to Verified.
- It has no file-upload questions. Google requires a sign-in for these, so they can't be sent from outside Google.
- "Limit to 1 response" is off. It also needs a sign-in.
- It is accepting responses.
- It ends with this required question, worded exactly like this: How did you take this survey?, with the two options Google Form and Interactive Version. The interactive version answers it for each respondent, so you can tell the two kinds of response apart in your sheet.
What the request form asks for
Have these seven items ready. A missing item is the most common reason a conversion is delayed.
| Item | How to get it | Why we need it |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The respondent link | In the Form, click Send, then the link tab, and copy it | The address respondents use today, kept as a fallback |
| 2. A PDF of the Form | In edit mode: ⋮ → Print → Save as PDF | We copy the wording from it, including section headings |
| 3. A pre-filled link | ⋮ → Get pre-filled link. Answer every question, choose Interactive Version in the last one, then Get link → Copy link | It carries the hidden number of each question, so answers land in the right column |
| 4. The number of sections | Each section header says Section X of Y. Send Y | Google keeps only answers on pages it is told were visited |
| 5. Skip rules | Any question set to Go to section based on answer: the question, the answer and the section it goes to | So people see the same questions as in your Form |
| 6. Answer checks | Any response validation (number ranges, email or text formats) and which questions are required | So the interactive version checks answers the same way |
| 7. About you and the study | Your name, role, institution and contact email; the study title, who it is for, about how many minutes it takes, your target number of responses and a closing date | For the welcome page and the Researchy listing |
If your study has an ethics approval number, add it too and we will show it on the welcome page.
Your welcome and thank-you pages
If your Form already has a description or consent text, we use it as it stands, and you need to send nothing more. Otherwise, send the parts below. Anything you leave out gets Researchy's standard wording.
- Welcome text: what the study is about, who is running it, and that taking part is voluntary.
- A contact for questions: usually your email.
- A thank-you message: one or two sentences for the end.
- Up to three short tips or facts for the thank-you page, each a title and one sentence (optional).
- A completion code if you list the study on Researchy, for example RSY-YOURSTUDY-2026. Respondents use it to claim karma.
- The language: English by default. Other languages: tell us before you send the Form.
Every interactive study also shows a share panel on the thank-you page and a small "Powered by Researchy" line. These are part of the service and stay on.
How it works
A conversion takes about a week from your request to going live: one working day for our check, then 3 to 5 working days to build.
- You fill in the request form with the seven items above.
- We check your Form within 1 working day. We tell you it is ready, or exactly what to change.
- We build it in 3 to 5 working days. Payment is taken here once online payment opens; until then we arrange it by email.
- We send you a preview link. Take the survey once with the name TEST. Check that your sheet shows one new row with every answer, and Interactive Version in the last column.
- You approve it, and it goes live at study.researchy.org. If your study is listed on Researchy, it is featured at the top of the site and marked Interactive. Delete the TEST row from your sheet.
One round of changes is included at the preview stage.
What's included and the price
| Launch price | ₹499 a study ($15 outside India). Regular price later: ₹799 |
|---|---|
| Questions | Up to 60. Larger Forms: price by quote |
| Logic | Simple skip rules, as in your Form |
| Changes | One round at the preview stage |
| Ready in | 3 to 5 working days after our check |
| On Researchy | Featured at the top of the site, with the Interactive label, a place in the Interactive filter, and a spot right after Spotlights in the feed |
| Sharing | Share panel (WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Telegram, email, QR code) and a link preview with your study's title |
| Faculty Club | Six conversions a year, for your own studies or your scholars' studies: ₹1,999 a year ($69) for memberships bought by 31 March 2027, then ₹4,999 ($129). Coming soon |
| Scholar Club | Members who join by 31 March 2027 get one conversion free. Coming soon |
How GST applies will be confirmed when online payment opens.
After it goes live
The one rule that matters most: don't edit your Google Form after conversion without telling us first.
- Freeze the Form. Adding, removing or retyping a question can change its hidden number, and answers to it would then be lost. Send changes to us and we update both versions together; the first round of changes is included.
- Wording is copied exactly. We don't edit, shorten or translate your questions or options, so answers from the Google Form and the interactive version can be analysed together.
- Your answers stay yours. Responses go straight from the respondent's browser to your Google Form. Researchy never receives or stores them.
- Telling responses apart. Your sheet's last column, How did you take this survey?, shows Google Form or Interactive Version on each row.
- You own your study. You confirm that the Form is yours and that you have permission to use any published scales in it.
Request a conversion
Fill in the request form. We reply within 1 working day from hello@researchy.org. If the form doesn't work for you, email hello@researchy.org with the subject Interactive conversion request.
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