To make it more difficult for unknown users to participate more than once in your polls, you can now user our new »Account required« functionality.

The whole thing works like this: In order for a user to participate in your poll or survey, he must first create a PollUnit account. The user has to enter his email address, then we send him an confirmation email. After the user has confirmed he can cast his vote.

In order to participate several times, the user would have to create several accounts with different email addresses.

In order to limit each user to exactly one participation and thus protect your votes and surveys against multiple participation, you can also use the option »Invitation required«. For this, however, you need to know your participants and their e-mail addresses. PollUnit can then send unique invitations that allows a user to vote once.

We are currently discussing further possibilities how we can unambiguously identify unknown users and prevent multiple participation. Join the conversation in our Support Forum!

Besides usecases for your Halloween plans we have news for all Halloween fans and Halloween party organizers.

With a new spider effect and a creepy theme you can now create your bring lists and date polls for free in a horror design.

Usecase: scary decoration and party music
You'll create the right atmosphere with a good decoration - pumpkins, witches, bats, spiders and spider webs as much as possible! Maybe you can even organize a smoke machine.
For the perfect music you can create your own playlist of Halloween classics like Michael Jackson's »Thriller« or »Ghostbusters« by Ray Parker, Jr. Or you just put in a scary soundtrack like »Nightmare Before Christmas«.

Usecase: Halloween food and horror cocktails
On Halloween, of course, the sweets should not be missing. So go to the next supermarket and get gummy worms, eyes and co. Find some Halloween recipes and prepare creepy snacks and cocktails. Think of enough dishes for your guests.

Usecase: Photo Competition
Who can't wait to show off a creative, fun and well-made costume? With a Halloween Costume Photo Contest, you can celebrate the spookiest time of year together with friends, family or the whole office - whether it's lockdown or home office.

No matter if it's a bring list, decoration utensils or the right music: PollUnit helps you to prioritize these ideas and to distribute tasks according to personal preferences.

So nothing stands in the way of a successful Halloween party!

Thanks to Johannes Plenio for his great photo which we use in our theme!

With our voting tool you can now also create flexible star ratings. For example, surveys with 0-5 stars or 0-10 stars are possible.

So you are completely free to choose how granular your participants can rate options. In addition, we will now show you the total and the average of all awarded stars in our participant list. This also works with our Online Dot Voting.

Here you can find more information about our star rating. Or try it right away and click on "Create PollUnit" and create your first free feedback entry.

There are news for our users who carry out live votings and polls in the office with only one or a few computers. With our new feature »Change participants« several participants can now cast their votes on one computer without an account.

You can enter your name and vote as usual. By clicking on »New participant« your identity on the browser will be deleted and the next participant will be able to vote.

If a participant without an account clicks on »New participant«, he can no longer change votes. Participants with PollUnit account can still edit their votes by logging in again.

Did you know? With PollUnit you can create polls about time periods.

Your polls will also take into account the local time zone of your participants. This makes it easy to arrange appointments across national borders.

You can also create surveys over a period of time - between two hours, whether on the same day or over several days.

Try it now: Our beginner tutorial will help you get started.