Instantly pay research participant incentives worldwide up to 2,000 at a time—free, fast, and secure. We handle tracking, budgets, fraud prevention, and support, so you don’t have to.
Let your participants choose from hundreds of payment methods in their country and currency, with dedicated 365/7/24 support from the Ethnio Rewards team. Powered by Tremendous, Tango, and other providers.
Automate all your incentive translations with 3 types of AI, or take full control over every field and language using a central editor. You can invite translators to import, export, and edit without granting full account access.
Combine the speed of AI with the accuracy of human translators for high-quality localization tailored to your participants.
Easily upload or download translation content using Excel or Google Sheets for faster collaboration and updates.
Centralized editor for all emails, redeem pages, in all languages that you can invite translators to use.
We love that Ethnio lets Duolingo maintain our brand identity when issuing incentives
Anthony Verardi
Research Program Manager, Duolingo
Control team account access via SSO and improve collaboration with advanced tools for user roles, permissions, guard rails, panel access, and onboarding.
Control all users of your Ethnio account with specific permissions based on their roles and responsibilities.
Define roles for research ops, PMs, researchers, and everyone on your team to only see the data associated with their own studies.
Create custom onboarding flows for new team members with 1:1 training by Ethnio and a designated support rep.
How is this different from donating to charity?
Your participants can share some of their incentive with charity, if they would like.
You won’t find this on any other platform, and let us know if you’d like to add a charity.
You don’t have to enable donate portion at all. Full charity donations are separate.
Ethnio charges 0% fees on incentive payments paid via invoice (ACH or wire), which means your incentives cost nothing above the payments themselves. Credit card payments are subject to bank fees, but that’s not from us.
Pay your humans precisely. Check out Ethnio’s Incentive Calculator for creating compensation guidelines that rule.
Try the free calculatorStay on top of activity with easy tracking and automated reports.
Get instant visibility into your incentive spending and participant activity with real-time tracking.
Export detailed reports with participant data and audit logs for easy compliance and reporting.
Track budgets, invoices, payment statuses, and troubleshoot issues in one simple dashboard.
Easily divide up who has access to specific compensation-only studies and manage your research better by only allocating projects to those who need them. Set limits for recipients per year, or restrictions for your own team members.
Pay with a pre-paid invoice balance that never expires. Set Permissions on each pre-funded invoice, and choose which team members can spend money on a given invoice.
Ethnio uses multiple layers of fraud detection to flag suspicious recipients and save you money. Learn more about fraud prevention across the Ethnio platform
We monitor IP addresses to detect and block multiple registrations from the same source.
This technology helps identify unique devices, preventing multiple sign-ups from the same device.
Ethnio checks with incentive providers and their customers to see if there's a history of fraud for any given email, IP, or device.
Any email that has been used as a secondary payment method email in multiple accounts will be flagged as suspicious.
Designed from the ground up for UX research and research operations to pay incentives globally for all types of research
Ethnio connects to the tools and data structure your team already uses.
Ethnio integrates effortlessly with top UX research, CRM, and automation tools (e.g., UserTesting, Looker, HubSpot, Salesforce).
Sync survey responses, session data, and incentives to tools like Airtable, Slack, and Notion.
Ethnio integrations maintain strict compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and other data privacy standards.
We know participant data is your most valuable asset. That’s why safeguarding it has been central to our mission from day one. Our platform integrates top-tier security features, all backed by industry-leading certifications.
Read more about securityRobust data encryption and granular access controls to ensure compliance with EU data protection regulations and safeguard the privacy of EU citizens.
Healthcare data is stored and processed in Dovetail’s HIPAA solution and in compliance with HIPAA standards.
Protect participants' data with robust tools for data deletion and opt-out requests.
We support SSO via SAML 2.0 to manage vendor access for all your employees.
Full compliance with CPPA in Canada, FADP in Switzerland, and other international data frameworks.
Trusted by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Ethnio has connected with millions of participants across billions of study and intercepts views—all without any outside capital. This independence lets us stay focused on one thing: understanding and supporting your research operations needs.
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