Step-by-Step
If you are using a panel company to distribute your survey, they will want you to set up your survey to track respondents. It can seem kind of complicated, but if you follow these steps, you will be a panel integration expert!
The panel company will attach information to the end of this link when distributing the survey so that they can track respondents.
Your panel company should send you three links to insert in your survey.
If you don’t have the links, contact the panel company. These links will be used to redirect respondents when they complete the survey.
- Copy your links to Word or another text editor.

- Look at the end of the links. You will see one or more of the following, followed by dummy text:
&r= &s= &ftouch= &id= &pl= &gid=

These are identifying fields added to the end of the links, and we want to have them recorded in Qualtrics as Embedded Data. Note that you might see a field not included in the list above. - Go into the Edit Survey section of your survey.
- Click the Piped Text tab.

- In the Piped Text tab, point to Embedded Data.
- Enter the field name from the end of your links. So if you saw &r=, type in r. If you saw &ftouch=, type in ftouch. Click Insert. A code will be inserted in the text box.

- Cut the code from the text box and go back to your links in the text editor.

- Paste the code that you generated (it will look something like this: ${e://Field/r}) after the field that looks like this: &r= . For example
- Before: https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix3/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=12345
- After: https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix3/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=${e://Field/r}
- Repeat steps 3-8 for each field that you need to append to your link. A link with two fields at the end might look something like this:
- Modify the other two links so that they end with the same information as the first link. Your final links might look something like this:
- Screen-out Link:
https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix1/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=${e://Field/r} &s=${e://Field/s} - Over Quota Link:
https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix2/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=${e://Field/r} &s=${e://Field/s} - Complete Response Link: https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix3/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=${e://Field/r} &s=${e://Field/s}
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https://survey.panelcompany.com/wix1/p85018.aspx?stat=1&r=${e://Field/r} &s=${e://Field/s}
The panel company will have specified which redirect link is for Screen-outs, which is for Quotas and Completes. If you don’t have any screening criteria in your survey, you won’t need the Screen-out link. If you don’t have any Quotas in your survey, you won’t need the Quotas link.
To insert a completes Link
- Click Survey Flow.
- At the bottom of your flow, click Add a New Element Here.
- Click End of Survey .
- Click Customize and then click Redirect to a URL.
- Paste in the Completes link and click OK.
To insert a screen-out link (if your survey contains screening questions)
- Click Survey Flow.
- On the question block where you added your screening questions, click Add Below.
- Select to add a Branch, and then Add a Condition.
- Add your screening logic to the branch and click OK.
For more information on working with branch logic, refer to our Branch Logic page.
- Add an End of Survey element under your screen-out branch.
- Click Customize, and then select Redirect to a URL.
- Paste in the screen-out link and click OK.
To insert a quotas link (if your survey contains quotas):
- From the Edit Survey tab, click Advanced Options on the gray toolbar, and then click Quotas.
- Click Add a Quota, and set up any quotas you want to include in your survey. For more information on setting up quotas, refer to the Quotas tutorial.
- Leave the quota action as End Current Survey and leave the box for Do the above action only if… is selected.
- Click Customize.
- Select Redirect to a URL, and paste in the Over Quota link.
- Click OK, and then close your quota.
You are now finished setting up Panel Company Integration.



