See Staging vs Production for the differences between the two.
Getting staging credentials
Staging API credentials (x-api-key and x-api-secret) are issued by the Respondent Partner team — they are not self-serve. Follow the Quickstart to book an intro call; the Partner team will then provision a staging Researcher account and API credentials for your organization. See the API FAQ for additional context.
An example call to the API would look like:
Testing
We will provide credentials to you to log in as a Researcher in Staging. To test end to end in the staging environment you will need to add a test credit card and create staging participants using the API endpoint described below.Card information
Participant creation
POST /v1/profiles You can now create participants in staging environment via our API for easy testing using the profiles POST endpoint. Below is an example payload to create a participant profile.- Participant email and work email will be auto verified
- All other mandatory profile info is set as random data
- You can use this link to sign in as the participants you create to view projects from the participant point of view, and update profile fields to test multiple personas.
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A participant created with Create test participant only sees your organization’s projects on their dashboard, and those go through the normal targeting check. The project’s invite link (Invite on the project page in the Respondent platform) skips that check, but the response is still only qualified if the participant passes the screener and matches the project’s age, gender, ethnicity, education and location settings. To invite one who doesn’t, qualify them first with Qualify participant.