A Response Collector in Zoho Survey is created under the Share or Collect tab. Each collector has its own unique link and settings, including access control (anonymous or authenticated respondents), response limits, closing dates, and custom confirmation messages. You can create multiple collectors for a single survey, each with different settings. For example, one collector might be an email invitation with a one-response-per-email limit, while another is an anonymous web link. Responses from each collector are tagged separately in the analysis view.
Use separate Response Collectors when you are distributing the same survey to distinct audiences and need to compare their responses independently. A product feedback survey sent to existing customers via email and separately promoted on a public website should use two collectors, so you can filter results by audience without adding a screening question. Collectors are also used to set different closing dates for different audience segments or to apply response limits per channel.
Each collector has its own response count, closing conditions, and link. Closing one collector does not close others on the same survey. If you set a response limit on a collector, the survey stops accepting submissions through that specific link once the limit is reached. For email collectors, Zoho Survey can send invitation emails and track open and completion rates per collector. Anonymous collectors do not record the respondent’s email unless they provide it as a survey answer.
Yes. Each Response Collector in Zoho Survey has its own closing date and time setting. Once the date passes, the collector link stops accepting new responses and displays a customisable closed message to anyone who attempts to access it. Other collectors on the same survey remain active until their own closing conditions are met, giving you fine-grained control over each distribution channel independently.
In the Zoho Survey analysis section, you can filter the response dataset by collector using the collector filter. This shows only the responses collected through the selected channel, allowing direct comparison between audiences. You can also export responses by collector to CSV for external analysis. The collector name appears as a column in exported data when multiple collectors are active on the same survey.
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