Questions, answered.
Everything you need to know about running polls, quizzes, and Q&A with QR Polls. Missing something? Ask us directly.
Getting started
Do voters need to download an app?
No. Voters scan the QR code (or tap a short link) and vote directly in their mobile browser. Zero downloads, zero accounts, zero friction.
Do I need an account to create a poll?
No. Make a poll or a Q&A board without signing up; this browser stays its owner, and you can save it to your email in one step so you never lose it. Live quizzes need a free account because scores are tied to a host. Sign in later and your browser’s polls move into your account.
How long does it take to run my first poll?
Under a minute from signup to QR code on screen. The templates page has starting-point formats for icebreakers, retros, feedback, and trivia.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, for good. You can make a poll without an account. A free poll takes up to 100 responses and shows a small QR Polls mark; paid plans from $5/mo lift both. Every limit is on the pricing page; there are no hidden caps.
Features & voting
How fast do results appear?
Result views refresh every few seconds while a poll or game is live. Honest answer: it’s periodic refresh, not instant push — fast enough for a live room, and we’re working on making it faster.
What question types are supported?
Five poll types — multiple choice, yes/no, rating 1–5, open text (shown as a live word cloud), and ranked choice — plus audience Q&A with upvotes and live quiz games with timed questions, points, streaks, and a leaderboard.
Can I prevent people from voting more than once?
Yes. By default each phone gets one vote, using a random ID stored in a cookie on the voter’s device, so a whole room on the same Wi-Fi can still vote. You can switch a poll to one vote per signed-in account, or turn duplicate prevention off.
Can I moderate open-text responses?
Yes. Slurs, spam links and swearing are kept off the word cloud automatically, and on the poll’s share page you can hide any answer from the screen with one tap. On Q&A boards you can switch on “Approve first”: new questions wait in a private tray until you approve them, and you can hide any question at any time.
Can I run a live quiz with scoring?
Yes — timed questions, point weighting, streak bonuses, and a live leaderboard. Poll results export to CSV today; per-player game score export is on the roadmap.
Can I remove the QR Polls branding?
Yes. On any paid plan the QR Polls mark comes off your voting pages and results. Custom logos and colors are not built yet.
Pricing, billing & plans
Can I switch plans or cancel at any time?
Any time, from your dashboard. Or email [email protected] and a human will change or cancel your plan the same day.
Do you offer discounts for education or non-profits?
We don’t have an automated verification program yet, but we want teachers and non-profits using this — email [email protected] and we’ll work something out.
What’s your refund policy?
If you’re unhappy within 14 days of a charge, email us and we’ll refund it in full. We’re too small to want an unhappy customer’s money.
Do you offer an annual discount?
Yes — yearly billing saves roughly two months on Creator, Pro, and Team.
Security, privacy & compliance
Who owns the data I collect?
You do. Export poll results as CSV or delete a poll — and its responses — at any time from your dashboard.
Are you GDPR or FERPA certified?
Honest answer: we’re early-stage and hold no certifications, and we can’t sign DPAs yet. What we do instead is collect as little as possible: voters need no account, and voter IPs are stored only as one-way hashes. Details on the /security page.
Do you support SSO?
Creators can sign in with Google or GitHub. SAML SSO for organizations is not available yet.
Where is my data stored?
On managed Postgres in a single region. Regional data-residency options don’t exist yet. Every sub-processor is listed on the /security page.
Are responses encrypted?
Traffic is TLS-encrypted in transit, and our managed database provider encrypts data at rest.
Integrations & technical
Does QR Polls work in Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet?
Yes — it’s all browser-based. Drop the voting link in chat or screen-share the live results page. No meeting-app install required.
Can I show QR Polls in PowerPoint or Google Slides?
Yes. Download the QR code as an image, put it on a slide, and switch to the live results tab when you want to show the bars. A Google Slides add-on that inserts the poll slide for you is in Google’s review. The guides walk through both decks step by step.
Do you have an API?
Not yet. A public REST API and webhooks are on the roadmap. Today you can export results as CSV, and put live results on any web page with the embed code on a poll’s share page.
What’s your uptime?
We don’t publish an SLA or a status page yet — we’re too young for either number to mean anything. When we have real uptime history, it will be public.
What happens if the venue Wi-Fi fails mid-poll?
If a vote fails to send, the voter just taps again once connectivity returns. Client-side vote queueing is on the roadmap but not built.