Poll Maker

What Poll Maker is

Poll Maker is a polling tool with companion survey and quiz builders, run as a registered business name of My Plaza Pty Ltd, which its About page calls a privately owned Australian company. The About page says it was founded in Sydney in 2003. It is aimed at anyone who needs to ask an audience a question and get a clean count back, from a quick one-question poll to a registration or RSVP form. The pricing page puts the claim plainly: you do not need technical skills, because you build the poll in a point-and-click editor and then share it.

The company's own numbers on its plans page are "Polling 200,000+ People Everyday," "100M Responses Online Since 2003," "99.99% Uptime," and "Spans 19 Countries." These are marketing claims from the company, listed beside a "0.025s Response Realtime Security" figure.

What you build and how

The product covers several shapes of content. A poll is a single question. The home page says that if you want multiple questions, you want a survey, and it points to its Survey Maker; it also links a Quiz Maker. The dashboard names the three tools as Poll Maker, Quiz Maker and Survey Maker. The About page lists the main uses in the company's words:

• Forms. "Registration, RSVP and feedback forms with typed fields, required answers and a thank-you page."
• Scheduling polls. "Find the time that suits everyone without a thread of emails."
• Embedded polls. "Put a live poll inside your own website, blog or newsletter page."

The editor is the point-and-click kind. The company calls it simple and says it requires no coding or tech experience. To add media, you click the image icon beside a question or an answer and an advanced editor opens, where you can upload a picture or search for one through Unsplash or GIPHY. You can tailor the look with custom themes, backgrounds and more in the themes tab.

Control over timing and results sits in the dashboard. You can set start and end dates, view IP and voter information, or fix a typo after the poll is live. In the settings tab there is a "Hide results" option for polls where you do not want voters to see the tally. The plan list names scheduled start and stop, image and media questions, and results filtering.

Publishing works two ways. You can share a link, for instance by pasting it into Facebook, or copy the embed code from the share tab to run the poll on your own site. The company says results from all platforms are integrated, so a poll that runs in several places reports as one.

Fraud protection is a feature the company spends real attention on. It says it uses "a digital signature which tracks voters by many many factors" to create a confidence-in-authenticity score, and a vote that exceeds the threshold is not counted. The unusual part is stated openly: "We do not block people from submitting their votes, this allows people attempting to manipulate a poll to believe their efforts are working." The About page adds that the poll's creator chooses how strict the filter is.

Paid plans add custom code and an API. The pricing page describes custom code and API access on the Team plan as "optional tools for more advanced setups." The Usage Guidelines say that if your plan lets you add custom CSS or JavaScript, the code must not collect information people have not been told about, track them across other sites without required consent, load malware or redirect people to deceptive pages, and that the same applies to anything connected through the API or integrations. The pages name no particular third-party integrations beyond Facebook sharing.

Plans, pricing and trust

The About page says plans are "free to start, with paid plans for branding, exports, integrations and teams." The dashboard shows a prompt when you reach "the limit of our free version," though the free limits are not itemized on the pages.

Paid plans start with a 7-day trial, and the pricing page notes both billing options include it. If you continue to a paid plan, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, requested through the email address on your subscription. Annual prices are shown as a monthly equivalent, but the full annual total is billed once a year after the trial. Select monthly to pay one month at a time. The plans page lists the Team plan as "179 149 billed yearly," two figures with no currency symbol in the text, and describes its features as unlimited polls, unlimited quizzes and surveys a month, scheduled start and stop, image and media questions, fraud detection, 5000MB of storage and results filtering. Check the live pricing page for the exact Team amount before you budget.

Two usage rules matter. First, unlimited polls are included on every plan, and polls created with the editor include unlimited votes. Second, the survey and quiz allowance is separate, shared across your account, and resets on your billing date, including on annual plans. A response is a unique completed vote or submission that passes security and spam checks; partial and auto-submitted responses are not counted. Responses over the limit can be marked as overage and may not be available in reports or integrations.

You can cancel from your dashboard at any time. Paid subscribers get priority support, and the company says it generally responds within 24 hours. Card payments go through Stripe, and the company says it never sees or stores your full card number. It says you own your polls and the votes they collect, that it does not sell personal information, and that your dashboard can delete your account and everything held about you and your respondents.

Who it suits and who it does not

Poll Maker suits someone who wants a poll live in minutes: an event organizer collecting RSVPs, a team picking a meeting time, a blogger embedding a poll in a post, or a group that wants a vote with fraud filtering behind it. The 7-day trial and free start make it easy to try.

The limits are plain in the company's own documents. The Usage Guidelines say Poll Maker is not built or certified to hold medical records or financial account details, and they ask for extra care where children may answer. That rules it out for regulated data collection. The pages describe no workflow automation, no approval routing and no named CRM integrations, so it is a collection tool rather than a process builder. And because the survey and quiz allowance is shared account-wide, a heavy survey user should check the plan limit before relying on it.