As soon as you submit your survey, PickFu invites respondents from our panel to start answering. Responses begin arriving within minutes, and most surveys complete within a few hours.

Your survey goes out to PickFu's panel — an online network of paid respondents who answer surveys on a first-come, first-served basis. Every panelist has signed a non-disclosure agreement and is bound by our quality controls.

If you added audience targeting (age, gender, demographic traits, behavioral traits, etc.), only panelists matching your criteria are invited to respond.

Respondents see only your question and the options you're testing — not your results, other respondents' answers, or any identifying information about you. They vote on the options and write a short explanation of their choice.

Responses show up on your results page in real time as they come in. You can watch the votes accumulate, read written comments as they arrive, and rate them Helpful or Not helpful while the survey is still in progress.

The more specific your audience targeting, the longer your survey may take to complete. A broad audience often completes within an hour or two; a narrow demographic target can take several hours or up to a day.

Once polling is complete, your results page refreshes with the final tallies and you'll get an email notification. From there, you can:

Usually within a minute or two. The first response often arrives almost immediately after you publish.

Yes. You can stop a survey before it reaches its full sample size from the results page. You're charged only for the responses already collected.

No. Once a survey is published, the question, options, and audience targeting are locked. If you need to change something, stop the survey and create a new one.