Getting Started with Creating and Publishing Your First Screener
This guide provides a complete, step-by-step walkthrough of building and launching your screener.
Before You Begin: Critical Preparations
To ensure a smooth launch, please complete these two steps in advance:
- Pre-fund Your Recruitment Balance: Your account must have a sufficient balance to cover incentives and credits. Delays in funding will result in delayed payments to your respondents.
- Prepare Your "Opt-in Consent" PDF: You cannot invite participants to a project without first uploading your research terms or consent form. Preparing this document now will prevent delays later.
Building Your Screener: A Step-by-Step Guide
From your main indeemo Dashboard, click Recruitment in the top navigation, then click the New Recruit button. This opens the 4-step builder.
Step 1: Define Your Project Details
This section captures the core information for your study.
- Internal Recruit Name: A private name for your reference (e.g., "UK Banking Study - Gen Z").
- Target Audience: Choose B2C (General Population) or B2B (Industry Professionals).
- Project Topic(s) (B2C only): Select topics to help match with interested respondents.
- Research Methodology: Select In-the-Moment (App Based) Project
- Time Required: State the total time commitment for the respondent (e.g., "60 minutes").
- Incentive: The total amount (in USD) a respondent will earn for full participation.
- Respondent Pitch: This is what applicants will see.
- Recruit Title: A catchy, attention-grabbing headline.
- Recruit Details: A concise, exciting description of your study.
- NDA Link (Optional): Add a link to your Non-Disclosure Agreement if required.
- Researcher Name: The name that will appear on all messages sent to applicants.
Step 2: Set Your Audience Criteria
Here you'll set the demographic and professional filters for applicants.
- Target Number of Respondents: The number of participants you need to recruit.
- Best Practice: The platform automatically sources double your target number to provide a wider pool to choose from.
- Location: Choose the country and optional cities for your recruitment.
- Other Criteria (Optional): Refine your audience by Household Income, Gender, Education, Ethnicity, and Age Range.
Pro Tip: If you need a highly specific demographic (e.g., exactly 25 years old, not an age range), it is best practice to also add this as a qualifying screener question in the next step to ensure accuracy.
Step 3: Add Your Screener Questions
This is where you will add the questions that qualify or disqualify applicants based on their answers.
- Click Add Question.
- Enter your question text.
- Choose a Question Type (e.g., Radio, Checkbox, Text Box).
- Add your answer options.
- For each answer, set its logic to Qualify or Disqualify.
- Check the Required box to make the question mandatory.
Step 4: Review and Publish
The final screen provides a complete overview of your setup. Review all details carefully.
When you are ready, click Publish Recruit. Your screener is now live with a status of 'Recruiting' and is visible to applicants.