Incentives

Pay research participants anywhere in the world

Instantly pay research participant incentives worldwide up to 2,000 at a time—free, fast, and secure. We handle tracking, budgets, fraud prevention, and support, so you don’t have to.

Flexible payment methods with global support

Let your participants choose from hundreds of payment methods in their country and currency, with dedicated 365/7/24 support from the Ethnio Rewards team. Powered by Tremendous, Tango, and other providers.

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Any language, any country with AI translations + human translators

Automate all your incentive translations with 3 types of AI, or take full control over every field and language using a central editor. You can invite translators to import, export, and edit without granting full account access.

Human translators + AI = 🎉

Combine the speed of AI with the accuracy of human translators for high-quality localization tailored to your participants.

Import/export with XLSX or G Sheets

Easily upload or download translation content using Excel or Google Sheets for faster collaboration and updates.

Edit incentive fields in one place

Centralized editor for all emails, redeem pages, in all languages that you can invite translators to use.

We love that Ethnio lets Duolingo maintain our brand identity when issuing incentives

Anthony Verardi
Research Program Manager, Duolingo

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User and team account access controls that literally rule

Control team account access via SSO and improve collaboration with advanced tools for user roles, permissions, guard rails, panel access, and onboarding.

Role-based permissions

Control all users of your Ethnio account with specific permissions based on their roles and responsibilities.

Maintain tight control & guard rails

Define roles for research ops, PMs, researchers, and everyone on your team to only see the data associated with their own studies.

Personalized training & onboarding

Create custom onboarding flows for new team members with 1:1 training by Ethnio and a designated support rep.

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Donate a portion of rewards to charity 🕊

How is this different from donating to charity?

Split rewards

Your participants can share some of their incentive with charity, if they would like.

Unique to Ethnio

You won’t find this on any other platform, and let us know if you’d like to add a charity.

Totally optional

You don’t have to enable donate portion at all. Full charity donations are separate.

No hidden fees

Ethnio charges 0% fees on incentive payments paid via invoice (ACH or wire), which means your incentives cost nothing above the payments themselves. Credit card payments are subject to bank fees, but that’s not from us.

Top 10 charities paid by Ethnio

From participants selecting charities as their payment method and donate portion amounts where participants choose to split their reward and give some to charity.

Over $150,800 donated in total

World Health Organization

$39,033

International Rescue Comittee

$21,045

Sandy Hook Promise

$16,849

Habitat for Humanity

$12,393

World of Children

$11,669

No Kid Hungry

$11,585

Girls Who Code

$10,985

American Cancer Society

$9,782

CAMFED

$9,717

The Nature Conservancy

$7,825

Free UX Research Incentive Calculator

Pay your humans precisely. Check out Ethnio’s Incentive Calculator for creating compensation guidelines that rule.

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Tracking & reporting

Stay on top of activity with easy tracking and automated reports.

Track every action

Get instant visibility into your incentive spending and participant activity with real-time tracking.

Detailed export & audit logs

Export detailed reports with participant data and audit logs for easy compliance and reporting.

Manage budgets, invoices, & payments

Track budgets, invoices, payment statuses, and troubleshoot issues in one simple dashboard.

Tax limits, external tracking, & permissions

Easily divide up who has access to specific compensation-only studies and manage your research better by only allocating projects to those who need them. Set limits for recipients per year, or restrictions for your own team members.

Limit participant yearly incentives for taxes
Organize large projects
Include restrictive access

Create budgets and use flexible funding options

Pay with a pre-paid invoice balance that never expires. Set Permissions on each pre-funded invoice, and choose which team members can spend money on a given invoice.

Pay via credit card
Pay with an invoice on larger amounts

Prevent fraud with layered automatic detection

Ethnio uses multiple layers of fraud detection to flag suspicious recipients and save you money. Learn more about fraud prevention across the Ethnio platform

IP address tracking

We monitor IP addresses to detect and block multiple registrations from the same source.

Device fingerprinting

This technology helps identify unique devices, preventing multiple sign-ups from the same device.

Network check

Ethnio checks with incentive providers and their customers to see if there's a history of fraud for any given email, IP, or device.

Shared or blocked emails

Any email that has been used as a secondary payment method email in multiple accounts will be flagged as suspicious.

$23,279,029 in research incentives paid across 191 countries

Designed from the ground up for UX research and research operations to pay incentives globally for all types of research

Connect your incentives to the tools and workflows in your current research stack 🔌

Ethnio connects to the tools and data structure your team already uses.

Seamless connectivity

Ethnio integrates effortlessly with top UX research, CRM, and automation tools (e.g., UserTesting, Looker, HubSpot, Salesforce).

Automate incentives & data flow

Sync survey responses, session data, and incentives to tools like Airtable, Slack, and Notion.

Enterprise-grade security

Ethnio integrations maintain strict compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and other data privacy standards.

Security & compliance you can trust

We know how seriously you treat your customer data. That’s why security is built into Ethnio from the ground up—with the certifications to back it up.

GDPR

Robust data encryption and granular access controls to ensure compliance with EU data protection regulations and safeguard the privacy of EU citizens.

HIPAA

Healthcare data is stored and processed in Dovetail’s HIPAA solution and in compliance with HIPAA standards.

CCPA

Protect participants' data with robust tools for data deletion and opt-out requests.

SSO

We support SSO via SAML 2.0 to manage vendor access for all your employees.

Swiss & Canadian data protection policy compliance

Full compliance with CPPA in Canada, FADP in Switzerland, and other international data frameworks.

Ethnio by the numbers

Trusted by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Ethnio has connected with millions of participants across billions of study and intercepts views—all without any outside capital. This independence lets us stay focused on one thing: understanding and supporting your research operations needs.