Panel points

When paying Private Panels participants, you have the option to pay using “panel points,” which participants can accumulate and then redeem when they choose. When redeeming panel points, participants can choose from Tremendous’s catalog of available rewards.

Enable panel points in an organization

To use panel points as an incentive for your studies, you must first enable it at the organization level.

To enable panel points in an organization:

1. In Private Panels, open the Settings tab.
   
   
2. Under Panelist experience, set the Show panel points toggle to ON. Additional fields are displayed.
   
   
3. (Optional) Select a Tremendous campaign to use when issuing points for a study. For more information on adding Tremendous campaigns, see Tremendous integration.
4. Under Points equal to $1, set how many points you want to equal one dollar when redeemed by participants.
5. Under Minimum points to redeem, set how many points participants must accumulate before they can be redeemed.
   
   

Now, panel points are enabled for your organization and can be set as the incentive type for your Private Panels studies.

Set incentive type to points

To pay participants using points, you must first set your study’s incentive type to points.

To set a study’s incentive type to points:

1. Navigate to the study where you want to issue incentives using points.
2. Click Study settings.
   
   
3. Under Incentive, select Points.

4. Enter the number of points participants will receive for participating in the study.

   Note: When issuing incentives, you can issue a different number of points than what is set as the study’s incentive. If you need to issue a partial reward, for example, you can do that regardless of what is set in this field.

   

Now, the study’s incentive is set to points, and participants will see this advertised as the incentive they’ll receive for participating.

Pay with points

When you’re ready to issue incentives, you can do so following the standard Private Panels payment process. For more information, see Pay incentives in Private Panels.

View points for a panelist

You can view the total number of points awarded to a given panelist across all studies they’ve participated in.

To view issued points by panelist:

1. In Private Panels, open the Panels tab.
   
   
2. Find and select the participant you want to view. The participant’s details are displayed.
3. Under Points, you can see the total points awarded as well as any recent issuances.
   
   

What do participants see?

When participants log in to their panelist account, they’ll see their available points on their profile page:

Here, they can click Redeem points to redeem their points through Tremendous.

Note: Private Panels was previously managed outside of Dscout, so you may see a different logo and URL in some places. If you have any questions, contact support@dscout.com.