Send research incentives to anyone, anywhere

User Interviews makes it easy to compensate participants for paid research and paid surveys. When you choose automatic incentive distribution, your participants will receive redemption emails with a link to all their reward options after they complete research with you. Learn more about how incentives work in User Interviews.

The short answer is that you can pay incentives to just about anyone with User Interviews! The longer answer is that we support over 200+ countries and can automate sending incentives to your own users with Research Hub, or to participants you’ve recruited from our panel with Recruit.

Offering fair incentives will help you get a good response rate and encourage high quality participation. However, selecting an amount to offer can be tricky, as you need to account for different factors such as audience type, study length, and task complexity. Try our handy incentive calculator to get a data-backed incentive recommendation for every type of paid research study.

With User Interviews, you can offer participants a wide range of incentives including prepaid cards, gift cards to hundreds of retailers, and even charitable donations. The options participants have access to vary by country, and over 200 countries are supported. Learn more about incentive and currency options available.

Paying participants for their time and the valuable insights they offer is simply good (and standard) practice in the world of research. Offering incentives that are suitable for the audience and research task you’re recruiting for can actually help to reduce bias, attract the right audience, create trust, and enforce equity. Learn more about why incentives in research are non-negotiable and how to do fair UX research on a budget.

If your participants are U.S. residents and their yearly study payments total $600 or more, the IRS requires them to report those earnings on their tax returns. User Interviews helps with this process by securely requesting their information via a W-9 and filing 1099 forms with the IRS. For participants located outside the U.S. or participants who redeem incentives in currencies other than USD, we will request a W-8BEN form to verify that they’re ineligible to receive a 1099. Learn more about tax implications of participating in paid research studies.

Participants can browse our list of paid research studies to find and apply for paid surveys, online studies, and in-person research. They can filter by study formats, types, and popular professions to find studies that are relevant to them, and we’ll email paid studies that are a great match for their profile. Learn more about participating in research and taking surveys for money with User Interviews.