I was trying to create a survey where the recipients could anonymously submit their responses. However, on my end I wanted to be able to track who hadn't took the survey so that I could email a follow up. I don't want to see which emails/names have which responses. I'm also sending this survey to a lot of people, around 50 each month for now. I've researched and tested many different ways and I'm at a loss, so any help or tips is appreciated.
I don't mind if the solution is a paid service or not, just as long as I could do this easily. Thank you!
I've tried typeform, which is anonymous and had an article called "how to identify your respondents". It however had a solution where the end result was you could see who responded to what question. SurveyMonkey also has a "Respondent ID" that it attaches to each survey even when it's anonymous, but this wasn't helpful as what I needed was emails. A solution I found for Google forms was generated pre-filled links, but this again shows me who responded to what. It also would have been too cumbersome to do each time I would send this out to 50 or so people. Every other survey service I tried stated that that this was impossible.
It all depends on how you distribute the links to your form. Using Typeform should work fine.
You could pass the respondent's email address via hidden fields. Link would be
https://form.typeform.com/to/[email protected]When the responses comes in, push them to a google sheet, and compare the list to see who has not answered yet.
But this defeats the purpose of anonymity. Instead, you should use unique ids.