--- title: "How to create a recurring poll in Slack" url: "https://simplepoll.rocks/guides/how-to-create-a-recurring-poll-in-slack/" description: "Post the same Slack poll every week, sprint or morning without retyping it. Set up a recurring poll in Simple Poll, then change or stop the schedule." --- # How to create a recurring poll in Slack A recurring poll posts itself on a schedule you set, such as every Monday at 10am. You write it once and Simple Poll reposts it, so your weekly pulse or standup check-in never depends on someone remembering. Recurring polls are a Premium feature. You set the schedule in Simple Poll's poll form, not in the `/poll` text. Write the poll as usual, then add the schedule before you post. ## Steps 1. **Open the poll form** In the channel where the poll should post, type `/poll` and press Enter, or click the **Run shortcut** button (the / symbol at the bottom left of the message box) and pick **Create poll with Simple Poll**. 2. **Write the poll** Fill in the question, the options and any settings, such as **Make responses anonymous**. For more than one question, add questions to make it a survey. 3. **Click Schedule and set the repeat** In the **Scheduling** section near the bottom of the form, click **Schedule**. Set the **Send time**, **Send date** and **Repeat** (Daily, Every weekday, Weekly, Every 2 weeks, Monthly or Annually), for example 10:00 AM weekly on Monday from next week, then click **Save**. 4. **Preview and create** Back in the form you'll see the saved schedule. Click **Preview**, then **Create Poll**. 5. **Check the confirmation** Simple Poll sends you a confirmation message with the schedule's details. Until the first post, its **Edit Poll** button is where you change the poll, its settings or its schedule. ## Example polls Paste any of these into the message box in Slack. ```text /poll "How was your week?" "Great" "Good" "Okay" "Rough" anonymous limit 1 close after 2 days ``` A weekly mood check. Set it to repeat every Friday morning (Premium). *Premium: vote limits, closing automatically.* ```text /poll "Daily check-in" "Two minutes. Skip what does not apply." close after 12 hours --- "What are you working on today?" short text --- "Anything blocking you?" short text optional ``` An async standup. Schedule it to repeat on your standup days (Premium). *Premium: surveys (several questions), closing automatically.* ```text /poll "Which days are you in the office next week?" "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" close after 2 days remind 1 day before closing ``` Office days, reposted every Thursday so you can plan desks and lunch (Premium). *Premium: closing automatically, reminders.* ## Pick a cadence people can keep up with Match the cadence to how fast the answer changes. Mood and workload move week to week, so a weekly pulse works. Engagement and eNPS move slowly, so monthly or quarterly is enough, and asking more often trains people to ignore it. A standup check-in is daily by design, so keep it to one or two questions. Post at a time people are already in Slack and not in back-to-back meetings. Monday mid-morning suits a question about the week ahead; Friday morning suits a look back. ## Make each post close before the next one Add `close after` to a recurring poll so each round finishes before the next one arrives: `close after 2 days` for a weekly poll, `close after 12 hours` for a daily one (Premium). Otherwise you end up with a channel full of open polls and votes spread across weeks. A `remind ... before closing` repost catches the people who missed it. ## Turn an existing poll into a recurring one You don't need to start over. Click the posted poll's **Open** button, then **Poll settings**, and in the **Scheduling** section click **Schedule poll** to add a repeat. ## Change or stop the schedule On a posted recurring poll, click the green **Open** button, then **Poll settings**. Under **Scheduling**, **Edit schedule** changes the timing (only the person who scheduled it can) and **Stop schedule** ends the repeats. Deleting a recurring poll also asks whether to stop its future posts. If it hasn't posted yet, open Simple Poll in your sidebar, go to the **Messages** tab, find the confirmation and click **Edit Poll**. After **Stop schedule** on an unposted poll you can't restart that schedule; create a new poll instead. ## Do something with the trend The value of a recurring poll is the line over time, not any single week. Export each round's results to CSV (Premium, from the poll's **Poll settings**) and keep them in one sheet. When a number moves two weeks running, raise it with the team and say what you'll change. ## FAQ ### Can I make a poll recurring with the /poll text? No. The text can post a poll once, later, with `schedule ...`, but repeating is set up in the poll form with the **Schedule** button, or from a posted poll's **Poll settings**. ### Is a recurring poll free? No, recurring polls are a Premium feature. The one exception: every December, scheduling, repeats included, works on Free too. Start a 14-day trial with `/simplepoll trial`, or see [pricing](https://simplepoll.rocks/pricing/). ### Can a survey recur? Yes. A survey (several questions in one poll) can be scheduled to repeat the same way as a single question. ### Do changes apply to future posts? Yes. Before the first post, use **Edit Poll** in the confirmation message. After that, open a posted round, go to **Poll settings**, click **Edit** and choose **Edit all future polls** (Premium). ## Related - [How to schedule a poll in Slack](https://simplepoll.rocks/guides/how-to-schedule-a-poll-in-slack/): A scheduled poll is written now and posted later, at a time when people will see it: Monday at 9am rather than Friday at 6pm. Simple Poll can schedule a poll from the /poll text or from the poll form. Scheduling is a Premium feature, though it also works on Free for the whole of December. - [How to close a Slack poll automatically](https://simplepoll.rocks/guides/how-to-close-a-slack-poll-automatically/): A poll that never closes never quite decides anything: votes trickle in, the result shifts, and nobody knows when to act. An automatic close fixes the deadline up front. In Simple Poll you add close after and a duration, and the poll closes on its own. Automatic closing is a Premium feature; anyone can close their own poll by hand. - [How to create a survey in Slack](https://simplepoll.rocks/guides/how-to-create-a-survey-in-slack/): A survey in Simple Poll is one Slack message with several questions behind it. People click the survey's Open button, answer in a pop-up without leaving Slack, and you get the results in the same place. Surveys are a Premium feature, with up to 20 questions each. - [Weekly pulse survey for Slack](https://simplepoll.rocks/templates/weekly-pulse-survey/): When an annual engagement survey is too slow to catch problems and you want a light, regular read on how the team is doing. - [Daily standup check-in poll for Slack](https://simplepoll.rocks/templates/daily-standup-check-in/): When your team is spread across time zones or calendars and a live standup costs more than it returns, but you still want a daily read on progress and blockers. - [What is a pulse survey?](https://simplepoll.rocks/glossary/pulse-survey/): A pulse survey is a short survey, usually one to five questions, sent to the same group on a regular schedule so you can see how things change over time. Common topics are workload, morale and engagement. ## Sources - [How to create a recurring or scheduled poll in Slack](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/124-how-to-create-a-recurring-poll-in-slack) - [How can I set up a recurring poll?](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/50-how-can-i-set-up-a-recurring-poll) - [How do I stop or edit a recurring poll?](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/52-how-do-i-stop-a-recurring-poll) - [How can I stop a scheduled or recurring poll that has not been posted yet?](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/113-how-can-i-stop-a-scheduled-or-recurring-poll-that-hasnt-been-posted-yet-from-being-posted) - [How do I export the results of a poll?](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/83-how-do-i-export-the-results-of-a-poll) - [What is a multi question poll?](https://help.simplepoll.rocks/article/129-what-is-a-multi-question-poll) --- Simple Poll is the #1 polls and surveys app for Slack. Add it to Slack: https://simplepoll.rocks/. 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