Get familiar with Featurebase and all of the basic concepts.
Written By Markus Palm
Last updated 23 days ago
Welcome to Featurebase! 👋
This guide will cover all the basics to ensure you get the most out of Featurebase.
P.S. Join our Discord community to discuss features, get support, catch the latest updates, or simply take a moment to relax over a virtual cup of coffee. ☕
What Featurebase helps you do
1. Collect feedback
Firstly, Featurebase helps you collect and organize all feedback in one place. This can be done with our Feedback Portal, in-app widgets, and surveys.
You can give your customers a voice by collecting their ideas, votes, and engaging in detailed discussions. You can also measure additional user insights like NPS, CSAT, and much more that regular feedback doesn’t show you.
2. Manage & prioritize feedback
Then, you can manage and prioritize this feedback to identify larger trends from the noise, using filters, customer revenue, and prioritization frameworks.
This way, you can find & focus on the most impactful ideas first and avoid building unnecessary features.
But it’s not only about you. Featurebase empowers your customers and makes them feel heard. They’ll always be updated about the status of their feature requests and new product updates.
3. Communicate product updates
Once you’ve implemented their ideas, Featurebase helps you communicate product updates to your users through changelogs, automated emails, and in-app widgets.
You can also have a public roadmap to provide a quick overview of the work that’s been completed and what's ahead.
All of this ensures your users are always up-to-date with the latest updates and helps increase new feature adoption.
4. Provide self-serve support
Lastly, you can create a knowledge base to offer powerful self-serve help to your users, using both a dedicated Help Center page and an in-app widget.
But our Help Center is unlike any other.
It’s seamlessly integrated with your feedback portal, roadmap, and changelog. For example, we suggest relevant articles to users during post-creation. You can also mention help articles while answering feedback, in changelog releases, and more.
Main features
Feedback Portal
Feedback Portal is the center core of Featurebase. It’s where your users can submit feedback, upvote others’ posts, and comment on them. Everything, including the theme, colors, and text, is completely customizable.
The Feedback Portal consists of different feedback boards that you've set up. These can be 💡 Feature Requests, 🐛 Bug Reports, and 🔗 Integrations, for example.
When users submit feedback, our AI automatically assigns it to the right board. This way, everything is neatly organized in one place, ready for you to prioritize.
Depending on whether you have a
, your Feedback Portal will be public to everyone or private for only your team to see.Roadmaps
A roadmap is an effective tool for visualizing and communicating your product's progress externally or internally. It completely mirrors the Feedback Portal but provides a better overview of the work that’s been completed and what's ahead.
If you use an issue management tool like Linear or Jira, our integrations can automatically sync your issues and their statuses with the public roadmap. This is a great way to effortlessly show & notify users about the status of their requests.
You can also embed a roadmap into your app or website using different available methods.
Changelogs
Changelog is a useful tool that lets you publish product updates for your users to see in one place. This keeps everyone updated, shows that you are continuously improving, and increases new feature adoption.
You can subscribe users to the changelog to send them email notifications about the latest releases. To take full advantage of changelogs, bring these updates inside your app, where your users are.
Help Center
Provide your users with an intuitive self-service Help Center to reduce customer support efforts, duplicate feature requests, and more.
Featurebase’s Help Center is seamlessly integrated with your feedback portal, roadmap, and changelog. For example, we suggest relevant articles to users during post-creation. You can also mention help articles while answering feedback, in changelog releases, and more.
You can also bring it inside your app with embeddable widgets and much more!
Surveys
Surveys are useful for measuring different aspects that regular customer feedback doesn't show you. Some of our favorite things that you can do with surveys are:
Measure customer satisfaction with NPS, CSAT, etc
Run surveys for different customer segments
Collect extra feedback for more context on specific features
Subscribe interested users to Featurebase posts
And much more.
For example, the Featurebase Idea Poll is perfect for prioritizing different feature ideas from your feedback board.
Users Module
The user's module lets you get an overview of everyone interacting on your feedback board.
When users come to your board and perform an action such as upvoting a post or commenting, they are automatically added to the users’ list. You can then view what posts each user has made, what they have upvoted, etc...
You can also create different user segments based on various rules and then use them to filter through feedback, create targeted changelogs, and more.
Widgets
In-app widgets are one of the best ways to collect feedback, communicate updates, and provide self-serve help inside your app to reduce friction.
All-In-One Widget: Feature-packed widget that supports all featurebase modules, including feedback portal, roadmap, changelog, and help center. (on the screenshot)
Feedback Widget: Lightweight widget focused on collecting feedback & bug reports inside your app, has a built-in screenshot engine.
Changelog Widget & Popup: Both widgets let you conveniently bring the latest updates to your app for a frictionless user experience.
So…
We're super happy to see you using Featurebase.
We put our heart and soul into making this the best possible feedback tool and hope you find it as useful as we do! 💙
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