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Smart notifications let you send email notifications to you or others based on conditions you set. For example, you can set up a smart notification to send you an email each time someone answers a survey question with a specific answer. Only survey owners can manage smart notifications and their conditions, but they can share those notifications with others.

TIP! You can find your Smart Notifications from the last 30 days in the Notification Center.

A smart notification is sent when a survey response meets a set of conditions, called a trigger. Conditions can be based on specific survey answers, or custom variables. Each trigger can have multiple conditions, which must all be met for a smart notification to send. Smart notifications won't send for disqualified responses.

Smart notifications are survey-specific. If you have multiple surveys you want to receive notifications for, you need to create smart notifications for each one. You can set up to 10 smart notifications per survey. Only the survey owner can set up smart notifications on their survey.

To create a smart notification:

  1. Go to the Collect Responses section of your survey.
  2. Click Manage Notifications.
  3. Click the Create button next to Smart notifications.
  4. Choose your trigger criteria. These are the conditions that need to be met for a notification to send.
  5. (Optional) Click +Condition to add another condition to the same trigger. By default, this links your conditions with AND logic. If you want to use OR logic instead, click the AND button to change it. It's not possible to use AND/OR logic together in the same trigger.
  6. Click Add Recipients to share the notification with others. When you share smart notifications with someone, they’ll get an email to let them know.
  7. If you want to receive the notification, check the Include me as a recipient box.
  8. (Optional) Customize the subject line and message of your email so recipients know why they're getting the notification.
  9. Click Save.
  • Add Recipients to an Existing Notification

TIP! To get an email after every response without setting conditions, turn on instant notifications.

When you create a smart notification, you can choose to send emails to yourself or share them with others. Anyone you select will get an email each time a survey response is submitted that matches the trigger conditions you set up.

The email has a link to view the individual response, which people can see without logging in to a SurveyMonkey account. The link stays active for 90 days after the notification is sent.

TIP! If you turned on notifications but you're not getting emails, try these troubleshooting tips. You'll still see them as messages in the Notification Center.

To stop sharing a smart notification with someone:

  1. Go to the Collect Responses section of your survey.
  2. Click Manage Notifications.
  3. Click the name of the smart notification you want to remove someone from.
  4. Click Recipients.
  5. Click the delete icon next to the people you want to remove.
  6. Click Done.

To stop receiving smart notifications, reach out to the survey owner and they can take you off the list. To find out who the survey owner is, look for the name listed in the smart notification email. When you opt out of smart notifications, you’ll no longer receive these messages in the Notification Center.

If you want to stop sending a certain smart notification, you can turn it off temporarily or permanently delete it.

  • Turning Off a Smart Notification
  • Deleting a Smart Notification