Can I pay participants more than the standard rate?

When you set up a study, What you’ll pay each person has four choices:

• Standard: our rate, the least you can pay.
• Faster: 1.5 times the standard rate.
• Fastest: twice the standard rate, for busy or hard-to-reach people.
• Your amount: any amount from the standard rate up to GHS 2,000 a person. Above 5 times the standard rate, you tick a box to confirm it.

People see the reward before they apply, and studies that pay more usually fill faster. Faster and Fastest follow your study: if you make a call longer or add steps to a task test, their amounts go up with it.

In a task test, each step pays its share of the reward you choose.

Once the study is live you can raise the reward, never lower it: Raise reward, next to Add funds on the study page. Everyone not paid yet gets the new amount, people already booked or invited included, and we tell them in the app and by email; people already paid keep what they got. You pay the extra for them, less any money the study already holds, plus the service charge. If the study's money already covers it, there's nothing to pay and it starts at once; otherwise it starts when the payment goes through.