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Hello,

This is an email regarding an upcoming change to the RelevantID feature used for detecting duplicate survey respondents.

What is the change?

Qualtrics® will be migrating to a new system for detecting fraudulent survey respondents, deprecating the current third-party integration with . This change will happen June 15, 2025.

You may need to adjust some of your existing workflows due to this change.

• The existing RelevantID embedded data fields (Q_RelevantIDDuplicate, Q_RelevantIDDuplicateScore      RelevantID, Q_RelevantIDFraudScore, Q_RelevantIDLastStartDate) will start using default values instead of calling the third-party to compute a score. Any branch logic dependent on a non-zero score will no longer take effect.
• Survey Options will now include two toggles for detecting duplicate respondents: 
• One will configure browser cookie detection used by “” feature, which will continue to function as before, allowing survey creators to determine the behavior when the survey is first loaded by a respondent who has that cookie. 
• A new “Detect duplicate respondents” toggle will be added to configure the behavior for likely duplicates, as detected by running a proprietary algorithm when the survey ends. This toggle can be further customized with the option to either flag the response with embedded data or screen it out. Surveys that previously enabled “RelevantID” will automatically enable this toggle and be configured to flag responses that are likely duplicates
• A new embedded data field called  Q_DuplicateRespondent will be added to responses after they are submitted, with a “true” value to flag responses detected as a likely duplicate under this new system. This embedded data field will not be available for branching logic within the survey in order to improve the accuracy of detecting duplicate respondents. This embedded data field is only added if you decide duplicate responses should be kept, not screened out.

 

What action do I need to take?

If you have any configurations in Qualtrics based on the existing RelevantID embedded data fields (Q_RelevantIDDuplicate, Q_RelevantIDDuplicateScore, Q_RelevantIDFraudScore, Q_RelevantIDLastStartDate), we recommend replacing these by June 15, 2025. Configurations could include branch logic, workflows, data filters, and reports filters.

• The new system is already available and flagging responses using “Q_DuplicateRespondent”.
• Filters depending on the existing fields will still be functional for old responses, but newly recorded responses will not be included in such filters. Consider updating any filters used to detect duplicate responses with the old “Q_RelevantIDDuplicate” flag  to also check for the new “Q_DuplicateRespondent” flag to detect duplicate responses detected by both the previous and the new implementation.
• Please note that the “Fraud Detection” score is being deprecated and will not be recorded for new responses.

What if I have questions?

If you have a question about RelevantID, please visit the support page. It’s also always worth checking the to see if any other users have the same question. If you’d rather speak to a specialist, our Support Team is always ready to assist. To contact them, please .

 

Thank you,

Qualtrics