Incentives
Pay research participants anywhere in the world
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.
Flexible payment methods with global support
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.
Explore full catalogAny language, any country with AI translations + human translators
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.
Human translators + AI = 🎉
Combine the speed of AI with the accuracy of human translators for high-quality localization tailored to your participants.
Import/Export with XLSX or G Sheets
Easily upload or download translation content using Excel or Google Sheets for faster collaboration and updates.
Edit incentive fields in one place
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
User and team account access controls that literally rule
Control team account access via SSO and improve collaboration with advanced tools for user roles, permissions, guard rails, panel access, and onboarding.
Role-based permissions
Control all users of your Ethnio account with specific permissions based on their roles and responsibilities.
Maintain tight control & guard rails
Define roles for research ops, PMs, researchers, and everyone on your team to only see the data associated with their own studies.
Personalized training & onboarding
Create custom onboarding flows for new team members with 1:1 training by Ethnio and a designated support rep.
Donate a portion of rewards to charity 🕊
How is this different from donating to charity?
Split rewards
Your participants can share some of their incentive with charity, if they would like.
Unique to Ethnio
You won’t find this on any other platform, and let us know if you’d like to add a charity.
Totally optional
You don’t have to enable donate portion at all. Full charity donations are separate.
No hidden fees
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.
Free UX Research Incentive Calculator
Pay your humans precisely. Check out Ethnio’s Incentive Calculator for creating compensation guidelines that rule.
Try the free calculatorTracking & reporting
Stay on top of activity with easy tracking and automated reports.
Track every action
Get instant visibility into your incentive spending and participant activity with real-time tracking.
Detailed export & audit logs
Export detailed reports with participant data and audit logs for easy compliance and reporting.
Manage budgets, invoices, & payments
Track budgets, invoices, payment statuses, and troubleshoot issues in one simple dashboard.
Tax limits, external tracking, & permissions
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.
- Limit participant yearly incentives for taxes
- Organize large projects
- Include restrictive access
Create budgets and use flexible funding options
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.
- Pay via credit card
- Pay with an invoice on larger amounts
Prevent fraud with layered automatic detection
Ethnio uses multiple layers of fraud detection to flag suspicious recipients and save you money. Learn more about fraud prevention across the Ethnio platform
IP address tracking
We monitor IP addresses to detect and block multiple registrations from the same source.
Device fingerprinting
This technology helps identify unique devices, preventing multiple sign-ups from the same device.
Network check
Ethnio checks with incentive providers and their customers to see if there's a history of fraud for any given email, IP, or device.
Shared or blocked emails
Any email that has been used as a secondary payment method email in multiple accounts will be flagged as suspicious.
$20,161,068 in research incentives paid across 189 countries
Designed from the ground up for UX research and research operations to pay incentives globally for all types of research
Connect your incentives to the tools and workflows in your current research stack 🔌
Ethnio connects to the tools and data structure your team already uses.
Seamless connectivity
Ethnio integrates effortlessly with top UX research, CRM, and automation tools (e.g., UserTesting, Looker, HubSpot, Salesforce).
Automate incentives & data flow
Sync survey responses, session data, and incentives to tools like Airtable, Slack, and Notion.
Enterprise-grade security
Ethnio integrations maintain strict compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and other data privacy standards.
Security & compliance you can trust
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 security
GDPR
Robust data encryption and granular access controls to ensure compliance with EU data protection regulations and safeguard the privacy of EU citizens.
HIPAA
Healthcare data is stored and processed in Dovetail’s HIPAA solution and in compliance with HIPAA standards.
CCPA
Protect participants' data with robust tools for data deletion and opt-out requests.
SSO
We support SSO via SAML 2.0 to manage vendor access for all your employees.
Swiss & Canadian data protection policy compliance
Full compliance with CPPA in Canada, FADP in Switzerland, and other international data frameworks.
Ethnio by the numbers
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.
34B
Ethnio study views
7.5M
Completed participants
$20.2M
Incentives issued
189
Countries served
$0
Venture capital
2016
Year founded
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