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3 of 5Next: The respondent experience
1

Create your study

In Alchemer, exactly as you normally would, with one difference.
  1. Build your study as usual.
  2. Leave page 1 empty: your questions start on page 2. Page 1 is where the gate goes.

You now have: a normal Alchemer study with an empty first page.

2

Create a verification and paste your Alchemer link

In the VerifyYou dashboard.
  1. Click New verification and name the study.
  2. Under “Where does your survey live?” pick Alchemer. That choice is how we know to create one-time passwords, the credential Alchemer’s own gate understands.
  3. Paste your Alchemer link and click Create verification.

You now have: your study link (the one you share, your Alchemer link stays private) and your one-time password list.

VerifyYou new verification screen
3

Add your passwords to Alchemer

On page 1 of your study.
  1. Click Add New: Action and pick Login/Password.
  2. Choose “Individual (one-time) passwords that deactivate after use.”
  3. Paste your password list, one per line, and save. Keep this action alone on page 1.
Alchemer’s own Login/Password action enforces the gate before your first question shows.

You now have: a study that refuses anyone without a valid, unused password.

Alchemer one-time passwords editor
4

Set the password to fill itself in

In the same Login/Password action.
  1. Open the Display tab.
  2. Set Pre-populate Password to the merge code [url("vypw")] and click Save Action.
  3. Optional, for a fully invisible gate: on page 1’s Logic tab, turn on Automatically Submit Page. This is Alchemer’s own documented recipe for automatically logging a respondent in, and with it a verified respondent goes straight from the check to your questions without ever seeing the login page.

You now have: a gate that opens itself for verified respondents. The password lands in the box on its own, and with auto-submit on, they never even see the page.

Alchemer pre-populate password setting
5

Share your study link

Paste the study link from step 2 into your panel, your sample provider, or your invite email.

You now have: a fielded study where everyone who reaches your study came through the check. That’s the whole setup.

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What happens next

What your respondent seesThe scan, the pass, the block, and the return, on real product screens.The same mechanism, any platformAlchemer today; the pattern fits anywhere.