UPDATE: This module is now ready for purchase. I am currently processing all payments through PayPal and sending the code via email until I can finialise the e-commerce setup on my site. If you are interested drop me a PM
Hey guys,
I am nearly ready to release my new Expression Engine polling module + extension but it needs some beta testing.
If your keen just drop me a PM.
To see what your getting yourself in for check out the documentation.
Hope we can be of some assistance in testing your baby out for you. Any idea how much you will be selling this for when it is ready? (Note to Leevi and ExpressionEngine admins. Sorry if we aren’t allowed to post costs in the forums and sorry for asking. I know that you have some laws in America regarding this but I’m not entirely sure what these cover as over here in the UK we are allowed to talk about these kinds of things so Leevi if I am out of order or you are not allowed to say then I apologise for asking)
That said and out of the way, the information on the module looks really nice and comprehensive and I am sure that it will make a great addition to ExpressionEngine.
Hope we can be of some assistance in testing your baby out for you. Any idea how much you will be selling this for when it is ready?
To be honest I’m not sure yet. I have a test poll up in the docs to see what people think they should pay. I’m guessing most people will say $9.95 however that doesn’t truly reflect the value of a good poll to a company.
Polls can be the basis of press releases, marketing and targeting content to users. For that reason they can be very valuable. There also has been a lot of time gone into developing this module.
Looks cool. If you were looking for another project, how about a full on survey module (multiple questions, different types of questions - multiple choice being one) I’d pay quite a bit for that one (every client I get asks for it, none want to pay for me to build it).
EDIT to add - I just saw your question about cost. For my clients I think one questions polls don’t have much appeal - they want to do larger surveys where they can get more detailed information all at one shot. The one client who asked for polls never uses them and instead uses survey monkey for full fledged surveys (everyone seems to use Survey Monkey - blah). Since poll functionality already exists (EEPolls) I’d be hard pressed to pay more than $20 for a poll module, even on that is really slick.
If it offers significant advantages over EEPoll and you provide real support (Timely updates, bug fixes, etc.). You can charge what you feel reasonable and people will pay it. EEPoll is great (I currently use it on a personal site), but when it breaks it has taken anywhere from weeks to months to get it fixed by the author. That is reasonable because he doesn’t charge for it. But I know I would personally pay for a Poll module if I know I can get fixes for in a timely manner when I need them.
2. Survey Module
I can’t tell you how many times I have had clients request this. You build something that allows for a wide variety of question types, that collects the data and exports to a to comma delimited file, etc. Can run multi page surveys. And can run within normal templates. You have a winner on your hands.
I can’t tell you how many times I have had clients request this. You build something that allows for a wide variety of question types, that collects the data and exports to a to comma delimited file, etc. Can run multi page surveys. And can run within normal templates. You have a winner on your hands.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m working on a quote now and one of the things the client needs is a robust survey - and using Survey Monkey isn’t a cool option for that site. My mind was spinning thinking about how I would do the survey and tie those results to the person who took it (freeform?). So, I agree with Jamie on this.
I can’t tell you how many times I have had clients request this. You build something that allows for a wide variety of question types, that collects the data and exports to a to comma delimited file, etc. Can run multi page surveys. And can run within normal templates. You have a winner on your hands.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m working on a quote now and one of the things the client needs is a robust survey - and using Survey Monkey isn’t a cool option for that site. My mind was spinning thinking about how I would do the survey and tie those results to the person who took it (freeform?). So, I agree with Jamie on this.
I had thought of using Freeform to do it last year when I was researching options, but it just seems incredibly unwieldy - you have to add each new field into the main pool of fields (growing and growing and growing), and that just doesn’t make sense. Also that doesn’t handle spitting out the survey on the front end at all - that would still need to be manually done. It would take a lot of hacking to get freeform to do it.
If I had any spare time I’d probably do it (make a module, not hack Freeform) just so I could use it for clients down the road (and probably charge a bit and release it to the community) - I just don’t have any time unfortunately.
the_butcher mentioned in a different thread he was building a module - but that was at the beginning of the year. I think I’ll bump that one since this is OT here… Sorry!
I’ve used Freeform in the past. And you can make it work. Freeform is very flexible.
But by the fact that it isn’t meant for making surveys you generally end up with a one off solution that needs to be rebuilt for each new survey. If the client doesn’t need anything more than a single one time survey it’s no problem otherwise you instantly run into it creating a lot of extra work.
For many clients Survey Monkey and solutions like it are not acceptable because the data is not secure enough for their needs. Corporations, Medical Organizations, NPOs, etc. often have very real privacy and security concerns make it incredibly important that the data stay in their hands and not the hands of another company named after primates.
For surveys, I use limesurvey (formerly phpsurveyor) a lot - it isn’t ee integrated, but it is in php, is open source, is hosted on your own server, and is very flexible, with an active user group.
So I guess a survey module could be used as online training exams too?
I have quoted on a project that includes online training and a multi page exam using EE so I guess a survey module could be used/modified for this purpose?
PS. Leevi, have you considered getting your polling module certified by EllisLab?
I’d pay quite a bit for that one (every client I get asks for it, none want to pay for me to build it).
