---
title: "Create a test participant for a researcher"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/researchers/participants/"
tags: ["users"]
---

# Create a test participant for a researcher

`POST /api/v1/researchers/participants/`

### Overview
Creates a test participant with the same details as the researcher and the supplied email. This participant will
bypass any fraud checks and on-boarding steps.

### Enabling the feature
This endpoint is only enabled for select workspaces and will need enabling before the endpoint can be used.

### Participant Limitations
- The participant will be limited to take studies only in the workspaces associated to the researcher and where
the feature is enabled.
- The participant will not be able to cashout any balance earned from completing studies.

### Usage
- The API response contains the participant ID. This can be used in a custom allowlist or participant group to
target the participant on studies. This enables the researcher to test the study set up end-to-end.
- A randomly generated password is assigned to the participant account. We recommend that you request to reset
the password, and use this new password to login to the participant account.

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, required

## Request body

- CreateTestParticipantForResearcher
  - `email` string, email, required — - The email of the test participant. - This cannot be an email that has been registered with Prolific already.

## Response `201`

Created

- CreateTestParticipantForResearcherResponse
  - `participant_id` string, objectId — The ID of the test participant

## Other responses

- `400` — Error

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