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We recommend connecting Doozy to your HRIS so you can target groups, managers, and new hires.
Polls are perfect for collecting quick insights, measuring satisfaction, or engaging your team with a single, focused question. A poll is a one-question survey - your team answers it in Slack.

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🚀 Getting Started

  1. Go to doozy.live/app and open Surveys
  2. Create a new poll
  3. Build your question and choose your poll settings
  4. Click Schedule to choose recipients and timing
  5. Send your poll

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1. Build your question

A poll has a single question. Set:
  • Question text - your poll question
  • Question type - see the types below
  • Hint (optional) - extra context shown with the question

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Question types

For Multiple Choice questions you can also:
  • Allow multiple answers - let people select more than one option
  • Allow comments - add an optional free-text field alongside the question
Allow comments can be enabled on any question type to capture extra context.

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2. Poll settings

In the editor, set how responses are handled:

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3. Schedule and send

Click Schedule to open the schedule editor, then set:

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Recipients

Sending in a private channel? Make sure Doozy has been invited first.

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Schedule

  • Send now - post immediately
  • Scheduled - pick a specific date and time
  • Recurring - repeat daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually
Pick a timezone, then save the schedule to send your poll.

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📊 Viewing Results

Open your poll under Surveys and use the Results tab to see response rates, answer distributions, individual responses (if not anonymous), and a CSV export. See Viewing Results for details.

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🚀 Quick Start: Instant Poll in Slack

Need a poll fast? You can fire one off without leaving Slack using a slash command:
Add anonymous at the end if you want responses to be anonymous:
The slash command is a quick shortcut for ad-hoc polls. For scheduled, recurring, or targeted polls, create them in the Doozy dashboard.

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⭐ Best Practices

  1. Ask one specific thing - “What day works for lunch?” beats “What do you think?”
  2. Keep it short - Concise questions get better response rates
  3. Limit choices - 3-7 options for multiple choice; include “Other” if needed
  4. Set a time limit - Deadlines improve response rates
  5. Use anonymous for sensitive topics - People are more honest when anonymous
  6. Poll at the right time - Avoid Monday mornings and Friday afternoons

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🎯 Common Use Cases

  • Team Decisions: Quick votes on meeting times, event dates, or lunch spots
  • Pulse Checks: Gauge team mood or satisfaction
  • Feedback Collection: Get opinions on new ideas or processes
  • Engagement Measurement: Use eNPS polls to track employee engagement

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