Contents:
1. How do I approve and pay a participant?
• Manual approval
• Approve in bulk

How do I approve and pay a participant?

Before you can approve any submission, make sure you have enough funds in your account! Check out our Workspace balance & adding money guide to learn more.

Any submissions awaiting review can be found by clicking on the study in your list of projects. Once on the study, there are three ways you can approve and pay submissions.

If you don't approve any submissions awaiting review by the 21-day mark (GMT), these will all be auto-approved at the median completion time/reward.

For more information on payment deadlines and when we automatically approve submissions, check out Submission approval rules and timeframes.

Manual approval

Check mark

  1. To the right of each submission you will see a tick or check symbol. If you hover over this, it will say ‘Approve and pay’. Simply click this button to approve and pay the submission it is next to

Multi-approval

  1. To the left of each submission, you'll see a checkbox. Select the checkboxes for all submissions you want to approve. You can also use the checkbox at the very top to select all submissions at once.
  2. Once you've selected all the submissions you'd like to approve, click the "Approve selected" button to process the payments. The button shows how many submissions you've selected for approval.

Approve in bulk

You can approve submissions from specific participant IDs by using the bulk approval feature:

  1. To the right of the page, click the ‘Bulk actions’ section
  2. From the drop-down options, click ‘Bulk approve’
  3. On the resulting pop-up, simply enter the IDs of the participants you want to approve separated by a comma, and then click 'Approve'

💡 Good to know:

• See How do I send bonus payments? for details on how to award bonuses to participants

• See How do I resolve underpaying studies? for help if your study has fallen below the expected pay

• We only allow participants to be paid via monetary rewards on Prolific. You cannot offer to pay or reward participants with other forms of payment (e.g., vouchers, gift cards, etc.) that exist outside of the Prolific platform. See Proilfic's payment principles for further details

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