Question Types
FC Surveys supports the majority of commonly used survey question types, covering approximately 97% of formats seen in market research.
Supported in FC Surveys:
- Radio button (single-select)
- Radio button grid/matrix
- Checkbox (multi-select)
- Checkbox grid/matrix
- Dropdown menu
- Image selection
- Small textbox (open-end)
- Essay / long-answer textbox
- Rating scale / NPS
- File upload
- Form
- Drag & Drop ranking
- Signature
- Constant Sum
Not currently supported:
- Sliders (Rating scale type works for this)
- Image Heatmap
- Hot Spot
- Semantic Differential
- MaxDiff
- Card Sorting
- Conjoint (FC supports this via Conjoint.ly integration)
🔍 Note: These unsupported types may be required for complex quant studies. Refer requests to Research Services.
Features
The table below summarizes functionality across key survey areas.
| Subject Area | Capability | FC Surveys |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Logic & Design | Completion Logic | ✔ |
| Display Logic | ✔ | |
| Skip Logic | ✔ | |
| Input validation | ✔ | |
| Dynamic text, image, and video variables | ✔ | |
| Piping answers into columns or rows | ✔ | |
| Answer randomization | ✔ | |
| Question randomization | ✔ | |
| Page randomization | Coming Soon | |
| Stimuli assignment & balancing | Coming Soon | |
| Answer anchoring | On Roadmap | |
| Dynamic looping | On Roadmap | |
| Loop & merge | On Roadmap | |
| Pass data to be used in piping & branching | On Roadmap | |
| Survey Programming & UX | Survey Preview | ✔ |
| Public Preview Link | ✔ | |
| Data & Reporting | Standard reporting | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) |
| Live reporting link | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) | |
| Raw data viewer | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) | |
| Crosstabs/stat testing | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) | |
| P2 data for analytics filtering | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) | |
| Compare segments within a survey | ✔ (via Quant Reporting) | |
| Advanced Programming | Quota capabilities | ✔ (Advanced Quotas Coming Soon) |
| Dynamic looping | Coming Soon | |
| Segmentation/Typing Tools | Coming Soon | |
| Generate test data to check surveys | On Roadmap | |
| Customizations | Translation/Localization | Coming Soon |
| Custom Scripting (JavaScript, CSS) | Coming Soon |
Key Benefits of FC Surveys
FC Surveys offers a deeper, integrated workflow within Fuel Cycle:
- AI-driven setup
Automatically convert unstructured Word documents into surveys using FC AI. - Seamless platform access
Built-in access to community members—no redirects or SSO friction. - Embedded workflow
Participants complete surveys within the Fuel Cycle environment. - Real-time data sync
Responses update instantly across communities and dashboards.