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Discourse Features

What are the features of Discourse?

Community Building

  • Social Network Integration
  • Contacts Sync

Customer Analytics

  • Customer Intelligence
  • Customer Engagement
  • Downloadable Reports

Community Management

  • Qualitative Solutions
  • All-in-one Dashboard

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Community Building

Social Network Integration

Based on 28 Discourse reviews. Provides tools for content distribution across multiple social networks.
84%
(Based on 28 reviews)

Contacts Sync

As reported in 28 Discourse reviews. Uploads contacts directly into the company database and assists with managing contacts.
85%
(Based on 28 reviews)

Email Integration

Seamlessly integrates email with company databases (mail merge).

Not enough data

Social Network Integration

Provides tools for content distribution across multiple social networks.

Not enough data

Qualitative Solutions

Solutions that help drive conversation, such as live chat, topic generation, and idea boards.

Not enough data

Advanced Portal Features

Tools that help enhance community portals, such as reminders, engagement tools, and analytics.

Not enough data

Community Improvement

Gamification

Helps engage users with gamification such as point systems, rewards, engagement meters, etc.

Not enough data

Survey Customization

Allows for unique, brand-specific survey creation and management.

Not enough data

Branching/Skip Logic

Helps create more intelligent surveys based on users actions and answers.

Not enough data

Multilingual Surveys

Allows for creation of surveys in different languages and advanced survey translation.

Not enough data

Customer Analytics

Customer Intelligence

Helps establish target markets, improve the user experience, identify market demands, and stay up-to-date. 31 reviewers of Discourse have provided feedback on this feature.
82%
(Based on 31 reviews)

Customer Engagement

As reported in 33 Discourse reviews. Provides tools focused on building customer trust, achieving brand loyalty, and enhancing customer engagement.
87%
(Based on 33 reviews)

Downloadable Reports

Provides functionality to dowload reports in multiple formats. This feature was mentioned in 28 Discourse reviews.
81%
(Based on 28 reviews)

ROI

Able to track return on investment, which can include increased sales, retention rates, upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and lower service costs.

Not enough data

Community Management

Qualitative Solutions

Based on 30 Discourse reviews. Solutions that help drive conversation, such as live chat, topic generation, and idea boards.
82%
(Based on 30 reviews)

All-in-one Dashboard

As reported in 34 Discourse reviews. Helps create efficientcy by delegating data viewing access and report generation to specific users.
86%
(Based on 34 reviews)

All-in-one Dashboard

Helps create efficientcy by delegating data viewing access and report generation to specific users.

Not enough data

Account Options

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Allows users to sign in using a single sign-on (SSO) login in.

Not enough data

Social Login

Allows users to log in using account information for a socia media account.

Not enough data

Reputation System

Has a built-in reputation system that indicates a given user's previous post history and the validity of their previous posts.

Not enough data

Topic Subscription

Allows users to subscibe to specific topic areas.

Not enough data

Bookmarking

Allows users to bookmark specific questions or answers for reference.

Not enough data

History

Records a user's viewing and posting history.

Not enough data

Q&A Tools

Tags

Allows posts to be tagged by subject area, team, etc.

Not enough data

Commenting System

Provides a more complex commenting system that allow users to comment on both questions and answers.

Not enough data

Notifications

Offers notifications when new posts have been made in a tag a user is subscribed to or when someone has answered their question.

Not enough data

Voting

Allows users to up- or downvote questions and answers.

Not enough data

Integrations

Integrates with other popular software in a business's stack.

Not enough data

Knowledge Integrations

Integrates with other knowledge repositories in the business to help users find answers to their questions

Not enough data

Formatting

Gives users advanced formatting options when posting questions and answers, such as a content editor, media uploads, mentions, and embeddable third-party content

Not enough data

Analytics

Tracks key metrics related to content and members

Not enough data

Knowledge Pages

In-Content Feedback

Allows users to leave feedback within a wiki page or knowledge article.

Not enough data

Comments

Allows users to comment on wiki pages or knowledge articles.

Not enough data

Versioning and Version History

Allows users to see version history and return to previous versions of wiki pages.

Not enough data

Decision Trees

Displays knowledge articles to be arranged in a decision tree.

Not enough data

Duplicate Detection

Detects any creation of already existing knowledge pages and alerts user

Not enough data

Content Editor

Enables users to create rich knowledge pages with a combination of text, charts, images, video and audio

Not enough data

Knowledge Dissemination

Page Analytics

Provides data on wiki page and knowledge article use.

Not enough data

Permissions

Allows administrators to provide permissions and gate pieces of content based on role.

Not enough data

Knowledge Sharing

Offers additional tools that facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Not enough data

Notifications

Notifies users when changes occur.

Not enough data

Advanced Search

Offers AI-based search capabilities

Not enough data

Organization

Allows knowledge pages to be organized into sections and subsections as needed

Not enough data

Other Integrations

Integrated with other tools to faciliate the sharing of information

Not enough data

Knowledge Integrations

Integrates with other knowledge repositories in the business

Not enough data

Community Analytics

Customer Intelligence

Helps establish target markets, improve the user experience, identify market demands, and stay up-to-date.

Not enough data

ROI

Able to track return on investment, which can include increased sales, retention rates, upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and lower service costs.

Not enough data

Downloadable Reports

Provides functionality to dowload reports in multiple formats.

Not enough data

Customer Engagement

Provides tools focused on building customer trust, achieving brand loyalty, and enhancing customer engagement.

Not enough data