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Already buy respondents from a panel provider? Connect that provider to a BYOP study from Invite Participants → Bring Your Own Panel. You paste one entry URL into the provider. Respondents arrive with their provider ID, take the interview, and are sent back to the provider with their outcome: complete, screened out, or quota full. You recruit and pay the provider directly; we run the interviews. To have us recruit and bill for participants instead, use our research panel.

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Setting it up

1

Open the panel configuration

On the study dashboard, click Invite Participants → Bring Your Own Panel. Once a configuration is saved, the same item reads View/Edit Panel Configuration.
2

Choose your provider

Pick Prolific, Cint / Lucid, CloudResearch, Terac, or Custom provider. Choosing a named provider fills in its parameter names and placeholders for you.
3

Check the ID mapping

Confirm the Respondent ID parameter and its Provider placeholder, plus the optional session and study ID pairs. See ID parameters.
4

Add your redirect URLs

Paste the return URLs from your provider. Complete and Screen-out are required. See Redirect URLs.
5

Save and copy the entry URL

Click Save configuration, then click Copy provider entry URL and add it to your study on the provider’s side.
Anyone with the entry URL can enter the study. Share it only with your provider.

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ID parameters

The entry URL carries the provider’s identifiers in query parameters, so each interview can be matched back to the respondent. The presets fill these with each provider’s conventions: Check them against your provider’s documentation before saving; you can edit any field.

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Redirect URLs

When a respondent finishes, they’re sent back to the provider at the URL for their outcome. Redirect URLs can include {{respondent_id}}, {{session_id}}, {{external_study_id}}, {{call_id}}, and {{outcome}}, which are filled in for each respondent.
Choosing Terac pre-fills the complete and screen-out redirects with the User Intuition thank-you page. Replace them if your Terac task expects its own return URLs.

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While it’s fielding

The provider appears as its own row at the top of the Invites table, with a status of Fielding, Paused, or Complete and the time of the latest interview. Click View/Edit information on that row to reopen the configuration. You can pause and resume the study as usual. Respondents who arrive while it’s paused are asked to try again later, and can re-enter once you resume. A study connects to one provider at a time. Interviews use credits as usual. See Billing and credits.

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Frequently asked questions

No. Duplicate the study to run a second provider alongside it.
Choose Custom provider and enter your provider’s parameter name, placeholder macro, and return URLs.

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Next steps

Research panel

Have us recruit and pay participants for you

External panels API

Configure, rotate, and disable the integration programmatically