{"id":1005,"date":"2012-12-20T06:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T06:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:07:04","slug":"quota-management-creative-solutions-for-smart-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/quota-management-creative-solutions-for-smart-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Quota Management: Creative Solutions for Smart Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you conduct online surveys, it won\u2019t take long before you find yourself needing Quota Management. There are many manifestations of the need for Quota Management from basic to advanced. The advanced form, without being complicated or complex, can let you do amazing things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1007 alignleft\" title=\"Quota Management\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Quota1-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Quota1-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Quota1-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>1.\u00a0<strong>The Most Basic Quota Management<\/strong> lets you expire your survey as soon as \u201cthe quota is met.\u201d By quota, I mean the number of desire responses to the survey.If you set your quota at 500 responses, the 501<sup>st<\/sup> person attempting to take the survey by clicking on a link sees a message that says \u201cSorry, this survey is no longer active, thank you for your interest.\u201d The need to instantly and automatically expire your survey is urgent particularly if you\u2019re paying per response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>The Slightly Advanced Quota Management <\/strong>allows you to expire a survey if the quota for one of the answer options is met. You know, if you wanted 250 men and 250 women to take a survey, and say 250 men have already taken the survey, how do you keep the 251<sup>st<\/sup> man from taking it? The survey still launches and when the 251<sup>st<\/sup> male respondent answers the gender question and clicks NEXT, he sees a message that says \u201cThank you for your interest, but we have reached the maximum number of respondents of this type.\u201d Of course, you\u2019ll say something more subtle, but you get the point. The idea is to not\u00a0over sample\u00a0any one type of respondent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>The Truly Advanced Quota Management <\/strong>is a powerful way to manage event registrations when individual events have quotas. You assign the maximum number of times each answer option can be selected. As soon as the limit is reached, the answer option can be grayed out or completely disappears. By graying out, you can let people see what other options were earlier available which are now filled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Whether your need is simple or advanced, you will enjoy using <a title=\"Sogolytics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sogolytics<\/a>. By giving you full flexibility we know we are helping your company do things more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you conduct online surveys, it won\u2019t take long before you find yourself needing Quota Management. There are many manifestations of the need for Quota Management from basic to advanced. The advanced form, without being complicated or complex, can let you do amazing things. 1.\u00a0The Most Basic Quota Management lets you expire your survey as soon as \u201cthe quota is met.\u201d By quota, I mean the number of desire responses to the survey.If you set your quota at 500 responses, the 501st person attempting to take the survey by clicking on a link sees a message that says \u201cSorry, this survey is no longer active, thank you for your interest.\u201d The need to instantly and automatically expire your survey is urgent particularly if you\u2019re paying per response. 2.\u00a0The Slightly Advanced Quota Management allows you to expire a survey if the quota for one of the answer options is met. You know, if you wanted 250 men and 250 women to take a survey, and say 250 men have already taken the survey, how do you keep the 251st man from taking it? The survey still launches and when the 251st male respondent answers the gender question and clicks NEXT, he sees a message that says \u201cThank you for your interest, but we have reached the maximum number of respondents of this type.\u201d Of course, you\u2019ll say something more subtle, but you get the point. The idea is to not\u00a0over sample\u00a0any one type of respondent. 3.\u00a0The Truly Advanced Quota Management is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quota Management: Creative Solutions for Smart Organizations - Sogolytics Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you conduct online surveys, it won\u2019t take long before you find yourself needing Quota Management. 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