Yunite: Get paid for taking surveys

Stuck in an airport without a book? Waiting for jury service to begin? Yunite invites you to use idle time to answer questions on your phone for a few bucks an hour.

What is Yunite?

There are many organizations and products that go by the name Yunite, including a tool used by Fortnite players, a banking app for couples, and several non-profit organizations. But, here we’re talking about a survey app — Yunite by Potloc.

Yunite by Potloc is a market research company that offers consumers small payments for answering survey questions.

How it works

Like most survey sites, Yunite has a fairly simple sign up process. You provide some basic information to register. After that, you get to see available surveys, when they have them. If a survey that seems to match your profile crops up, the site also emails you.

Each survey has a stated rate of pay that you get if you successfully complete it.

Yunite review

Hundreds of blogs recommend signing up for survey sites as a fast and easy way to make money. And, it is certainly easy to make money with surveys, through Yunite as well as many other survey sites.

However, the amount of money you can make with surveys is pretty minuscule. A typical survey with Yunite will pay $1 and it could require eight to 20 minutes of your time. That works out to an hourly rate of $3 to $8 per hour. The site also refers you to other survey sites, which often pay 10 to 50 cents for 20 minutes. Not exactly a get-rich-quick formula.

And before you can get paid for a survey, you’ll probably need to take a screening survey. The screening survey is likely to require less time — two or three minutes — but is not paid. And, more often than not, the screening survey will disqualify you from taking the paid survey.

Pay

When you do get a paid survey, Yunite credits your account with the promised amount. Once you reach a cash-out threshold — $5 in the U.S. — you can request payment through Tremendous, a rewards company.

Yunite payments are typically remitted via a Virtual Visa card or PayPal.

Requirements

The only formal requirement to be a “community member” at Yunite is to be over the age of 18.

But it appears that your chance of getting a survey here is far better if you have children under the age of 18 living at home.

Indeed, most sites like this one will ask additional screening questions to improve your chance of getting a survey. At other sites, these screening questions could ask about your demographics, your television watching habits, or your hobbies.

At Yunite there’s just one “improve my profile” question: How many minor children do you have living at home? Remarkably, it will not allow you to answer “0.”

Overall

While Yunite appears to pay a little better than many survey sites when you do get a paying survey, it also has precious few surveys to offer. And, when you are invited to take a survey, you’ve got a good chance of being disqualified before ever getting paid.

The site also has some glitches — not registering answers to questions, for instance. But the more important glitch is one that can put you in a feedback loop when you’re trying to get paid.

This makes Yunite one of the worst survey sites we’ve reviewed at SideHusl.com. And many survey sites are pretty bad, so that’s saying something.

Recommendations

We think there are far better options.

For generic surveys on everything from politics to preferences, we recommend signing up with Prolific, Opinion Inn or Qmee.

If you have some business experience, you may be able to qualify for high-paying survey and mini-consulting opportunities with Respondent, Maven, UserInterviews and Rare Patient Voice. (RPV specializes in surveys and focus groups involving medical conditions.)

Kristof is the editor of SideHusl.com, an independent website that reviews moneymaking opportunities in the gig economy.