Response Limit and Survey Deadline

A survey can stop accepting responses on its own: on a set date and time, after a set number of responses, or whichever comes first. Both limits are in the survey settings.

Setting a survey deadline

1. Open the survey and go to Settings.
2. In the Publication and availability section, turn on Deadline (2).
3. Pick the date and time.
4. Check the Time zone. By default, it's the time zone of your account.
5. Click Publish so the deadline starts working for respondents.
   

Limiting the number of responses

1. In Settings → Publication and availability, turn on Limit on number of responses (3).
2. In Number of responses, enter how many responses you need.
3. In Count, choose what counts as a response (see the table below).
4. Click Publish.

When the survey collects this number of responses, it stops accepting new ones.

New surveys use Completed by default. Surveys created before this option appeared use All entries.

Using a deadline and a response limit together

You can turn on both. The survey closes as soon as either of them is reached. The status at the top of the Publication and availability section (1) shows when the survey closes, for example "Respondents can take the survey until … or until 500 responses are collected".

What respondents see after the survey closes

Anyone who opens the survey link after the deadline or after the limit is reached sees the page "The survey is completed" with the text "We have already received the sufficient number of answers. Thank you for your attention!".

To show your own heading and text from Your message on the private survey page, close the survey manually with Close survey. Read more in How to Close a Published Survey.

Reopening a survey after a limit

When the survey has closed, the pages of the Share section (all except Link) show a banner, for example Response limit reached or The response collection period has ended. To collect responses again:

1. Click To settings in the banner, or open Settings.
2. Move the deadline, raise the number of responses, or turn the limit off.
3. Click Publish.

To open the survey only on certain days and hours, use Scheduled access in the same section. It is described in Timers and Scheduled Access.

Limits

• The number of responses must be greater than the number already counted. If you enter less, the field shows "The survey already has … responses. Specify more than …".
• Deleted and hidden responses don't count toward the limit.
• Changes in Settings are saved automatically, but respondents get them only after you click Publish.