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Configuring your Distribution Portal

Our online Distribution Portal allows to sell your assessments as valuable digital products, to a maximized audience. As a consultant, coach or agency, you want to deliver quality advice to as many customers as possible and Distribution Portal allows you to plug into e-commerce websites through the magic of our developers’ API.

You'll need this:
  • One of these Pointerpro plans:

 Professional          Enterprise          ReportR           DistributR 


 
DEFINITION
 
The DistributR plan is a subscription package that includes the entire suite of Pointerpro products: Questionnaire Builder, Report Builder, Dashboard Builder and Distribution Portal. Access the full feature list of the DistributR plan here.

The Distribution Portal is a feature included in the DistributR plan. It allows for seamless assessment and report distribution by utilizing three different access levels: the admin zone, the customer zone, and the contact zone.
 
On this help guide page:

1. Custom account activation emails (user invitations)

2. Questionnaire settings

   2.1 Questionnaire description

   2.2 Invitation variables

   2.3 Invitation template

3. Portal settings

   3.1 Team Descriptions

 

4. Pre-configure campaigns (optional)



1. Custom account activation emails (user invitations)

We offer the possibility to create custom activation emails to send a personalized activation email to new users.

On the My Teams page, click on the View User Invitations button.

dp user invitations

Then click Add Invitation to configure new template. All your user invitation templates will be also visible in the list below.

dp add user invitation

Add the name of the invitation for your personal reference, the email subject, and the email body. Make sure you use the variables (by clicking on the {x} button) to insert the activation link. Click on the Create Invitation button when you're ready to save the invitation. 

dp create invitation

You can select which invitation mail to send when creating a new user account in My Team.

dp select invitation email

2. Questionnaire settings

2.1 Questionnaire description

As an administrator, you can add an extra questionnaire description. This could help your Distribution Portal users to understand what your questionnaire is about or what report they can expect at the end.

To modify it, open your questionnaire, and add a description at the top of the Questions tab.

dp questionnaire description

NOTE

Questionnaire description has a 300 characters limit.

This description will be visible to Customers on the Questionnaires and Results tabs in the Customer Zone and to Contacts in the Contact Zone of the Distribution Portal.

dp questionnaire description in customer zone

2.2 Invitation variables

Under the Share of your questionnaire, you can configure which Invitation variables (links) are allowed to be used for that questionnaire. We recommend you only enable the ones that are relevant to each specific questionnaire. Highlighted variables will always be shown on top. 

NOTE

We strongly recommend the use of the Clickable link with unique ID.

dp invitation variables

2.3 Invitation template

Under the Share tab, you can set an Invitation template for the this specific questionnaire. When this setting is configured, this template will be loaded when creating a new invitation or campaign for this questionnaire. Doing so reduces the work for your users and the risk of mistakes. Users can still adjust the email subject and body before scheduling the invitation or campaign.  

NOTE

This template is not loaded when sending a single invitation for multiple questionnaires.

Add the Subject and the Message. Make sure you use the variables (by clicking on the {x} button) to personalize your email and insert the questionnaire link.

dp invitation template

Don't forget to click Save changes once you are done! 

3. Portal settings

Pointerpro Distribution Portal has many modules that can be customized according to your own brand. Let's check them in detail!

Open Distribution tab and then select Portal settings.

dp portal settings

3.1 Team Descriptions

dp team descriptions

Add your own descriptions to customize the content visible in the Distribution Portal.

Short description is visible immediately on the main page (Campaigns tab) when Customer logs into the Distribution portal.

dp short description

Long Description opens when Customer clicks on the short description in the Distribution Portal.

Click Return button to go back to the main screen.

dp long description

NOTE

Short description has a 255 characters limit and long description has 5000 characters limit


 

4. Pre-configure campaigns (Optional)

As an administrator, you have the flexibility to determine whether their customers can independently create their assessment distribution campaigns within the Customer Zone or are required to use pre-configured campaigns created by the administrators.

In the Distribution tab, you can have an overview of the campaigns.

Clicking into these campaigns, you can adjust the configuration. Your customers can select these campaigns in the Customer Zone so they don't have to create the campaigns from scratch. In this way, you can ensure the consistency and structure of the campaigns sent out by your customers.

 

 

What is next?

  • When you've collected your results and you want to download them, there are different download options available. You can either download a bulk of survey results or choose to download files relating to individual responses. Read our guide Download your results to learn how you can do it.
  • Require Contact is a feature that allows you to control who can access your survey and makes the questionnaire only accessible to contacts. If validation fails, the participant is not able to fill in the survey but a configurable message will be displayed instead.
  • Do not forget to monitor your results with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google Analytics is currently the most widely used web analytics service on the Internet.

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