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Best steps on getting started with Featurebase.

Getting Started

Get familiar with Featurebase and all of the basic concepts. 

How Featurebase helps you

Make Featurebase feel like home by changing the colors, logo, and default theme of your public portal.

Add your branding

Invite your team to help you manage feedback, changelog, and the help center.

Invite your team

This is your one-stop guide to getting started with collecting and organizing feedback with Featurebase.

Collect & manage feedback

This is your one-stop guide to getting started with sharing product updates with Featurebase.

Share product updates

This is your one-stop guide to publishing a Help Center with Featurebase.

Set up the Help Center

This is your one-stop guide to getting started with surveys in Featurebase.

Run surveys

Learn the difference between a public and a private organization in Featurebase and which one is right for you.

Public vs private organization

Learn the best setup for using Featurebase with multiple different products.

Using Featurebase with multiple products

Overview of all integrations in Featurebase and what you can do with them.

Integrate with other tools

Get answers in seconds with our AI search or find them in our detailed articles.

Give us feedback

Latest changes

API docs

Discord community

System status

Set up your Feedback Portal & Roadmaps to collect feedback and show users what you're working on.

Feedback & Roadmaps

Feedback Portal

Feedback Portal is where your users submit feedback, upvote others’ posts, and comment on them.

What's the Feedback Portal?

Share your Feedback Portal with your users to get feedback, show your product updates, and more.

Sharing your Feedback Portal

Learn to customize the texts and buttons on your Feedback Portal.

Editing the Feedback Portal's text

Localize your Public Portal and feedback to be automatically in your customers' native languages

Feedback Portal in multiple languages

Change the default order in which posts on your feedback portal are shown:

Changing the default post-sorting order

Here's how to completely disable the Feedback Portal view from being shown to your users.

Disabling the Feedback Portal

Learn to edit & publish your public product roadmap to show users what you're working on.

Roadmaps

Publish your product roadmap to visualize everything that you are working on.

What are roadmaps? 

Everything on how to set up & customize roadmaps to suit your requirements. 

Creating & editing roadmaps

Make your Roadmap accessible only to authenticated end-users and limit the access of specific roadmaps to select user groups.

Roadmap privacy controls

Different methods of embedding the roadmap to your app, website, and product.

Sharing your roadmap

Here's how to completely disable the public roadmap view from being shown to your users.

Disabling the public roadmap

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Privacy controls

Learn to limit the access of feedback boards to team members, select user groups, etc.

Board privacy controls

Manage internal feedback with private boards that only your Featurebase team members can access.

Internal team boards

Limit certain boards to only specific user groups that you have defined.

Segmented access boards

Default all posts on a board to be seen only by the author & your internal team.

Author-only boards & posts

Default all posts on a board to be seen only by the author's company members & your internal team.

Company-only boards & posts

Disable posting on a board for users, so that only admins can create posts on that board.

Read-only boards

Allow your users to post, upvote, and comment without signing up first.

Anonymous (no log-in) posting, upvoting, and commenting

To prevent users from seeing information about each other, completely hide the leaderboard and users' information from your public portal.

Hiding users' names, pictures, and the leaderboard

In-App Feedback

Overview of all embeddable widgets in Featurebase and what you can do with them.

What are in-app widgets?

Embed a simple feedback widget in your app to start gathering feedback.

Feedback Widget

An embeddable widget that brings the feedback portal, roadmap, changelog, and help center inside your web page or app.

All-In-One Widget

Embed the Feedback Portal directly into your web page or app to allow users to submit feedback, vote on features, and view the changelog.

Embedded Feedback Portal

Feedback Boards

Set up your feedback boards to start categorizing different types of feedback. 

Set up feedback boards

Learn how to customize, edit, and delete your feedback boards.

Edit & delete feedback boards

Create custom fields for the feedback form to collect additional information about users' issues.

Custom fields for the post form

Our AI automatically suggests the right board for new posts using the context of the post title.

AI board suggestions

Organizing & Prioritizing

Merge duplicate posts into a single post to reduce clutter and sum up votes.

Merging duplicate posts

Group together similar posts to better understand what users are looking for in certain areas and easily merge duplicate posts.

AI grouping posts on similar topics 

Ask AI to answer any of your questions based on your feedback and have it summarize search results for you.

AI feedback summarization

Enable post moderation to review all new posts and/or comments before they are made public.

Post & comment moderation

Learn how to use filters, and sort through feedback to find exactly what you need!

How to filter & sort feedback

Create Views of your most used filter combinations for convenient repeated use.

Saving filters as views

Prioritize feedback by upvoters' revenue to make more impactful product decisions.

Prioritizing feedback by customer revenue

Find posts made by a specific user or all posts from a single company.

Viewing posts by certain users/companies

Easily prioritize and visualize your ideas using Value/effort framework.

Using prioritization frameworks

Streamline your feedback process by assigning posts to teammates.

Assigning posts to teammates

Use bulk editing to quickly perform actions on multiple posts at once.

Bulk editing posts

Posts

Show your users the current state of a post.

Post statuses

Use tags to organize and sort your feedback.

Post tags

Use public tags to let users set tags for their posts during submission.

Allow users to select post tags

Set an Estimated Time of Arrival for posts to manage expectations.

How to set ETA for posts

Here's everything you can edit about an existing post and how to delete it, if needed.

Editing & deleting existing posts

Change the author of a post to any existing or new user.

Changing the post author

By default, users can see the statuses of posts publicly. However, you can hide all statuses from the public Feedback Portal.

Hiding post statuses from the public view

By default, completed and canceled posts are shown on the public Feedback Portal. You can hide them to keep your feedback boards clean.

Hiding completed & canceled posts from the public Feedback Portal

Hide post & comment creation dates from the public view.

Hiding post & comment creation dates

Pin a post on top of the Feedback Portal to highlight it.

How to pin/highlight posts

We use a reliable system to automatically detect spam on your Feedback Portal.

Automatic spam detection

Learn how to download / export your feedback into a .csv (spreadsheet file)

Exporting your feedback posts

Voting

Upvote posts on behalf of your users to sign them up for updates related to that post.

Vote, comment & create posts on behalf of users

The automated follow-up questions give you additional insights from users that upvote a post.

Follow-up questions

Enable downvoting so users can add negative votes.

Enable downvoting

Hide the vote count from users until they have upvoted the post to remove bias.

Hiding vote count until upvoted

Learn to add and remove upvoters of a post.

Adding and removing voters

You can view all post voters together with their info and export them if needed.

How to view & export upvoters

Communication

Notify all upvoters about the status change of a post.

Sending status update emails for posts

Speed up your feedback replies with powerful macros and AI actions.

AI replies & Macros

Learn how comments & replies work and what function do they serve in Featurebase.

Commenting

Create private comments for internal communication and notes between Featurebase admins.

Creating internal/private comments

Learn to disable commenting on a specific post.

Disabling comments on a post

Disable comment notifications to your Featurebase inbox if the comment is not directed at you.

Disabling notifications for comments not directed at me

Get an overview of how many posts, comments, and votes happen each day/week/month,

Feedback Analytics

Switching from other feedback tools

Complete guide on importing your existing data from Canny to Featurebase.

Migrating from Canny

Complete guide on importing your existing data from Upvoty to Featurebase

Migrating from Upvoty

Complete guide on importing your existing data from Nolt to Featurebase

Migrating from Nolt

Importing your existing data, including feedback, voters, and changelogs from Frill to Featurebase.

Migrating from Frill

Complete guide on importing your existing data from Beamer to Featurebase.

Migrating from Beamer

Complete guide on importing your existing data from UserVoice to Featurebase

Migrating from UserVoice

Complete guide on importing your existing data from Productboard to Featurebase

Migrating from Productboard

Complete guide on importing your existing data from other tools to Featurebase using a .csv file.

Migrating from feedback other tools (Import feedback with a .csv file)

Learn to manage your changelog & the different ways of communicating product releases to your users.

Changelog

Let users know about new changes to your product with a public product changelog.

What are changelogs?

Learn to subscribe users to the Changelog to send the email notifications about new releases.

Subscribing users to changelogs

How to create and schedule new product updates using a public changelog.

Creating changelogs (+ AI writing)

Embed a simple changelog widget or popup in your app to bring the latest changes to your users conveniently.

Changelog widget & popup

Learn to restrict & send changelog releases only to specific customer segments you have created.

Changelog privacy controls

Everything on how to set up & customize your public changelog to suit your needs.