Rounds and publishing

A campaign that sends again and again — a monthly pulse, a quarterly survey — can keep rounds: each send is a numbered round, and you decide when its results come out. Hold them until the round closes, so nobody reads a half-finished picture, or until you publish them, after you have looked at the answers with your team.

Choose when results come out

1. Open the campaign and go to its Schedule tab.
2. Under Cadence, choose Results:
   • Rounds, results as answers arrive — nothing is held; each round is numbered so you can compare it with the one before.
   • Rounds, results when each round closes — held until the round closes, then published by itself.
   • Rounds, results when an admin publishes them — held until an admin publishes the round.
   • No rounds — as before.
3. Save the campaign. A change applies from the next round; a round keeps the choice it opened with.

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Cadence

When each send’s results are out.

Results

Each send is a numbered round. Until its results are out, no figure, chart, comment or report shows it — for anyone.

No roundsRounds, results as answers arriveRounds, results when each round closesRounds, results when an admin publishes them

How rounds open and close

• A send opens a round. A one-off campaign has one round; a recurring campaign opens a new round with each scheduled send.
• The next send closes it. A round also closes when the campaign ends, or when an admin chooses Close round.
• An invitation works while its round is open. Once a round closes, its invitations take no more answers: whoever opens one is told the round has ended, with a link to their own invitation to the round open now if they have one. Answers given before the close stay in their round, and a published round's results never change.

Publish a round

1. Open the campaign and choose its Insights tab.
2. Under Rounds, find the round marked Waiting to publish and choose Publish.
3. Confirm. Its results reach every figure, chart, comment and report at once. Publishing cannot be taken back.

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Rounds

• Round 4Open2 Nov 2026 · 61 of 148 answered—Close round
• Round 3Waiting to publish5 Oct 2026 – 2 Nov 2026 · 132 of 148 answered · results out once published—Publish
• Round 2Published7 Sept 2026 – 5 Oct 2026 · 128 of 146 answered7.4+0.3 vs round 1

Choosing Close round on an open round closes it; under Rounds, results when an admin publishes them it then waits for Publish.

Who is told

• Admins when a round closes, with how many answered — and, when it waits, that it is theirs to publish.
• Managers when it is published. Each reads the results of their own reporting line on the campaign's page, held to the privacy floor as everywhere.

Both arrive in the app and by email, and the campaign's owner hears too.

What waits while a round is held

While a round's results are held, its answers are in no score, chart, heatmap, comment, report or Ask Polzy reading — for anyone, admins included. The campaign's page still shows how many people were invited and how many answered, so you can follow the round as it runs.

Round against round

Each round under Rounds shows its score once its results are out, with the change against the round before whose results are out. A held round is never anybody's "before".

Reports, webhooks and the API

• Reports. A report's Rounds section lists each campaign's latest round published in its period, against the round before.
• Webhooks. campaign.round_closed and campaign.round_published tell your systems, with the round's number, dates and who answered.
• The API. Every response carries round, the round of its campaign it answered.

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