Guides and help
Clear help with every Poll Maker setting, question ideas you can run today, and plain-English guides to reading your results.
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New to Poll Maker? Start here
A poll takes about a minute. The full guide walks through each step, and covers the polls built into WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook and Teams too.
Write the question
Type what you want to ask and the answers people can pick from.
Save it and copy the link
Your poll gets its own link, and an embed code if it belongs on a website.
Watch the votes arrive
Results update live as people answer, and one link shares them.
Find the setting you need
Short, exact answers from the Poll Maker manual, grouped by the job you are doing.
Share and embed
Control voting
Build the question
Settings marked Starter or Professional come with those plans, and every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Compare plans
Question ideas for every group
Ready-written questions with answer options, grouped by where you will ask them.
At work questions
Feedback questions
Make sense of your results
Three guides to the questions every poll raises: how far to trust it, who did not answer, and what kind of numbers you collected.
- How accurate are polls?Real error figures from 45 countries and three US elections, and how to read any poll.14 min read
- Nonresponse biasWhy the people who skip your poll can change the answer, and how to check yours.20 min read
- Nominal, ordinal, interval and ratioThe four levels of measurement, with a 52-variable lookup table and a quick quiz.11 min read
Forms and scheduling
For sign-ups, RSVPs and finding a time that suits everyone, start from one of these.
Need a person?
Email support comes with every paid plan, for anything at all. On a free account, write to us about cancellations, refunds or enterprise plans. We reply Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm AEST.
Who writes these guides
Michael Hodge, research and methodologyOur rebuilt question sets and research guides are written and reviewed by Michael Hodge, BSc Psychology (University of Wollongong).
Page updated 24 September 2026
