How it works
Opinionbricks allows any provider to give feedback to any participant after rejecting him/her or after paying him/her
Provider: How can I pay to a participant?
Answer: Opinionbricks is partnered with Stripe to make safe and easy payments possible. So, you can easily use your Credit/Debit card in Opinionbricks to make a payment.
Participant: How do I get paid?
Answer: You can easily create an account with Stripe and connect it with Opinionbricks. In that case, any provider can pay you safely when they approve the quality of your submissions. Below are the steps that you need to take:
- Login to Opinionbricks and choose your role as participant. Then select Stripe and click on “Connect with Stripe”. You then need to create an account with Stripe.
- Enter your email address. You can use any email address but to avoid confusions it is better that your email address in Stripe to be as same as the one used for Opinionbricks account.
- Choose a strong password.
- Enter your mobile phone number.
- Verify your email address and your phone number.
- Save your secret emergency backup code.
- Choose your business address. If you are an individual simply choose your country of residency or the country that your bank account is located. Note that in Step 9, you need to provide your address and Tax-ID based on the country that you choose in this step.
- Choose your type of business. If you are an individual simply select “Individual”.
- Enter your personal info and also Tax-ID info.
- Now you need to explain how you plan to make money using Opinionbricks. If you are an individual and just want to participate in surveys and provide your opinions then you can choose (for example) “Other Personal Services” under “Personal Service” category. Also, you can provide your LinkedIn profile as your website if you don’t have one. Finally, if you are an individual then, in the “Product Description” you can write for example “I will make money through Opinionbricks by providing my opinions and/or some data that belongs to me”.
- Now you need to enter some public info about how the providers in Opinionbricks who have paid you can reach out to you (if needed). An important piece of public info is “Statement Descriptor” which appears as your name on the receipt that providers will receive when they pay you through Stripe. For “Statement Descriptor”, you can use your name or any business name that describes your services in Opinionbricks better. For the “Shortened Descriptor”, you can use a very short description of what services you provide in Opinionbricks such as “Opinion” or “Data”. Finally, note that that the address field is optional and you can skip it (if you want), but you need to provide a phone number.
- Next you can choose to make donations from your revenue in Opinionbricks. You can skip it if you do not want to.
- Review and submit your account info and and go back to your Opinionbricks.
- In Opinionbricks choose Stripe. Click on “Connect with Stripe” if you still see it. Then enter your Stripe login info. Then you will be automatically connected to Stripe and should no longer see “Connect with Stripe” on Opinionbricks. Instead, you should see “Stripe Account Connected” on Opinionbricks.
Provider: Where should I explain the eligibility conditions?
Answer: When creating a project there is a section named "Description". You need to provide sufficient information about your project in that section including the eligibility conditions that you are looking for.
Participant: What can I submit when applying for a project?
Answer: Depending on what the project description is requested to prove your eligibility, you can provide an explanation (in the form of text), an image, and a YouTube video.
Provider: Does a participant have access to the tasks of the project at the time of applying?
Answer: No, tasks will be shown to a participant after approving his/her eligibility.
Provider: What can I submit when creating a task?
Answer: You can provide an explanation (in the form of text), an image, and a YouTube video.
Participant: What can I submit when replying to each task?
Answer: Depending on what the task description is requested, you can provide an explanation (in the form of text), an image, and a YouTube video.
Provider: Do I need to mention about the reward value that I offer when I create a project?
Answer: Yes, you must provide it before publishing a project.
Provider: How much should I pay as a reward to a participant?
Answer: Any desirable value greater than or equal to $0.05 is allowed in Opinionbricks. Evidently, larger values may attract more participants.
Provider: How much are the fees?
Answer: Details are provided in Pricing page. Opinionbricks computes the fees for your automatically when you are creating/editing your project. Just click on the "eye" icon to see the fees.
Provider: Can a rejected applicant apply for the same project again?
Answer: When rejecting a participant you can choose to permanently reject him/her from applying for the same project. If you do not choose this option then he/she is allowed to re-apply.
Participant: How can I re-apply for a project?
Answer: If you are not permanently rejected, you can do it by selecting the project from the list of your rejected applications and then clicking on the re-apply button.
Provider: Can I delete a published project?
Answer: Yes, you can do it by clicking on the green checkmark icon (see below) only if nobody has yet applied for the project. Otherwise, the project info and its corresponding applications/submissions will remain in the database according to our 90-day data retention policy. Your project and all its corresponding data (applicants, submissions, images, texts, etc) will be automatically marked to be permanently deleted 90 days afer creation date of the project. The deleting process will be automatically executed within one month after a project is marked to be deleted depending on the workload of the scheduler.
Participant: Can I delete my application or my submission?
Answer: No, your applications/submissions will remain in the database according to our 90-day data retention policy. Your applications/submissions and all its corresponding data (images, texts, etc) will be automatically marked to be permanently deleted 90 days afer creation date of its corresponding project by the provider. The deleting process will be automatically executed within one month after a project is marked to be deleted depending on the workload of the scheduler.
Provider: Can I make my published project invisible to new applications?
Answer: Yes, if you have already received enough number of applications, you can make your project invisible to new applicants. Just select the green checkmark icon and follow the steps (see below).
Provider: What are the circles in the following image and what are the numbers?
Answer: Those circles are essentially buttons. You can click on each circle to process/view the applications that are in a specific status. The number on the first circle shows the number of applicants that you have not yet checked their eligibility. The number on the line shows the number of participants that you have approved their eligibility but they have not yet conducted the tasks. The number on the second circle shows the number of participants that they have conducted the tasks but you have not yet checked the quality of their submissions. The number on the third circle shows the number of participants that you have completed the payments for them and they are finalized. The number on the last circle shows the applications that you have rejected them.
Provider: Can I make a private project that needs to be done by a specific group of people that I personally know?
Answer: Yes, just set a "password" for your project when creating it. Then reach out to your participants and give them your email address that you used to register in Opinionbricks, your project title, and the password that you chose for your project . Your participants will be able to search your project in the database using your email address and/or your project title and then use the password to be able to apply for the project. Note that other users can also see your project in the database but because they do not have the password they cannot apply for your project.
Provider: What does the CSV file include?
Answer: The CSV file includes the submission data corresponding to each applicant that you finalized (meaning you approved him/her and completed the payment process). The submission of each applicant are responses provided by him/her for the tasks of your project. Each response belongs to one task and includes its corresponding task number, a text description (if provided by the applicant), an image link (if provided by the applicant), a YouTube video link (if provided by the applicant), and the name and email of the applicant.
Important: It is your responsibility to download the images using the links given in the CSV file within 90 days after creation of your project. According to our 90-day data retention policy, your project and all its corresponding data (applicants, submissions, images, texts, etc) will be automatically marked to be permanently deleted 90 days afer creation date of the project. The deleting process will be automatically executed within one month after a project is marked to be deleted depending on the workload of the scheduler.