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Higher Logic Vanilla Overview

What is Higher Logic Vanilla?

Higher Logic Vanilla is the top-rated enterprise online community solution today. With us, you can build loyalty, grow sales, and improve customer service with our easy to use and quick to get started online community software. Featuring a sleek user experience, deep integration to your existing tools, flexible customization to fit your branding, scalable knowledge bases, out of the box gamification, ideation, Q&A and more. Request a demo today to see how we can make engaging your community a reality. - Match your brand's look and feel for a seamless experience. -Gamification and reputation system: More than just badges, the reputation engine can be used to promote good content, grant member abilities, and help automate moderation. -Made for mobile: Detects the browser agent and applies the most appropriate theme to ensure a great user experience. -Single Sign-on: Higher Logic Vanilla's jsConnect SSO, SAML support and social logins make it easy for users to register. SSO can be configured to be seamless with your existing system. -API: Higher Logic Vanilla has an easy to use RESTful API that you can use to deeply integrate Vanilla with your website. -Permissions: Control fine-grained, role-based permissions that can be assigned on a per-discussion-category basis. Assign multiple roles to individual users. Roles can be set manually, based on registration workflow, via SSO and via the API. -Spam prevention: Powerful tools to keep your community forum free of spam. -Integrations: Zapier, Salesforce, Oracle CX, Hootsuite, Zendesk, Github, WordPress, Mailchimp, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and much more. -Enterprise security and scalability: From the smallest online communities to large deployments of hundreds of product line and language specific communities, we can scale to your business and use cases. Fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA and other regional privacy laws. International data centres across the globe.

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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Persian, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Vanilla Forums allows you to create a customized community that rewards positive participation, automatically curates content and lets members drive moderation.


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Higher Logic is a leading provider of community engagement and marketing automation solutions that help organizations build and nurture relationships with their members and customers. Their platform enables businesses to create online communities, manage member interactions, and leverage data-driven insights to enhance engagement and loyalty. Higher Logic's tools facilitate communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, making it easier for organizations to connect with their audiences and achieve their goals. For more information, visit their website at [higherlogic.com](https://www.higherlogic.com/).


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Oliver l.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great tool as the community platform to connect clients"
The feature of discussions, and Q&As, be so much helpful.
Maureen R.
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Maureen R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"An easy-to-use community platform with just enough bells and whistles that can grow"
The platform was easy to navigate, with good out of the box reporting that integrated with ChurnZero (our customer success platform) out of the box...
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Vidya Raman S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Comprehensive Community Hosting Solution with a Solid Backend"
Vanilla offers a wide range of out-of-the-box configuration options that can be easily set up by non-technical users. It also integrates seamlessly...
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Match your community to your brand's look and feel without any custom coding required
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Match your community to your brand's look and feel without any custom coding required
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Customize your community theme with a simple point and click interface -- no coding required! For more advanced theme customizations, you still have the option to add your own code
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Meghan B.
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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

I enjoy working with Adrian Speyer- CommuniTea hour events help me feel that someone can provide immediate suggestions/support to what is happening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

The platform needs digests. I find that we can't keep users engaged if notifications don't deploy to them outside of the Community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving our users a place to talk to one another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jimerson A.
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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

I like how how it is simple to use but also offers extensive options under the hood for nearly unlimited customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

I think the largest pill to swallow is cost, but you really do get what you pay for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were able to rollout a modern forum that provides ongoing member engagement, building real community! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

Vanilla is a fully-featured forum platform with virtually all the customization options you want in a forum with the ability to customize the Forum look and feel, categories, member settings, moderation options, email settings, multiple forum instances, APIs, badging, and more. And Vanilla offers these options at a reasonable cost. Virtually anything you want to do terms of customization is probably possible with Vanilla. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

While we're happy with Vanilla overall, we have run into three areas where we'd love to see improvement:

- The lack of an email digest option (we'd love it if the system could generate a once a day email listing top and new discussions).

- The moderation options are a little bit buggy (sometimes we'd like to take action behind the scenes which isn't always possible).

- Now that Higher Logic has bought Vanilla, we'd love to see Vanilla integrate with Higher Logic's best in class ability to segment users and create unique experiences for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's enabling us to create an online community for our top members, which we leverage to enable self-support, to get detailed feedback about our service, and to communicate proactively with these members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kanyin  O.
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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

the CS rep who worked with us from design to implementation was spectacular. she was very organized and receptive to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

I wish the Vanilla platform had some more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are creating a closer connection with our customers and we are getting to hear their voice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul D.
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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

Support community for the customers, where every person can connect and find the solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

More help features should be provided for the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Higher Logic Vanilla:

The best portal for Customer Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

To communicate with community members. If anyone has a query they post it and someone provides the best solutions for it. That's the cool feature I like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

The people and the approachability! You always get a response from Vanilla nd they are truly approachable and not a company that moves away from a relationship with their clients once they're settled in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

Vanilla struggled to deliver in a professional and high quality manner in a project that was key for us this year. There was a lack of project ownership, of guidance and of delivery and that hindered our Community goals for 2021. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are trying to build community forums that can host thousands and thousands of players. Vanilla has been communicative and their CSM has always been responsive, even if at times the platform didn't deliver what we expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

What I like best about Vanilla is how simple the UI is to use. It's seamless to set up, monitor, and run a community (which I haven't found the same with other community platforms). Support is wicked fast every time I come across an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

Since Vanilla is newer, there are certain things I'd like to see in the product that just aren't there yet. Totally understandable, that's all I can complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Higher Logic Vanilla:

You won't find a better platform for community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving our customers a platform to collaborate, find answers to their questions, and be rewarded for being a crucial member of our community. Most of our advocates started on our community forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jeremy m.
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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

The platform itself and the options included are more than what we can ask for when compared to other competitors; their support team is incredibly supportive and hands-on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

None that I can think of, to be honest - there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Higher Logic Vanilla:

Vanilla Online Community by Higher Logic is a no-brainer if you're looking for a robust community platform to support your business and customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

P2P support reduced OPEX, and huge returns on ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

My most significant admiration for Vanilla is their constant drive toward improvement and innovation. They don't sit still and are always evolving their offering which has been a breath of fresh air for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

The platform is really intuitive, and you can get up and running quickly with out-of-the-box functionality. When it comes to deeper customisation there is a need for dev resources which is a tad limiting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Higher Logic Vanilla:

Don't hesitate to take the leap with Vanilla for your online community needs. You won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our Vanilla Community allows us to provide a digital self-service support channel that has garnered a user base of 28,000 registered members. We've been able to utilise the community platform to service a range of needs including support, mass communication along with building brand advocacy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Higher Logic Vanilla?

The fast turnaround from Customer Support as well as the proactive communication from our CSM. We also love how our Vanilla Online Community forum has really engaged our customers not only with us - but also between each other with knowledge and experience sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Higher Logic Vanilla?

Sometimes, the WYSIWYG editor is a bit lacking in terms of content control. Additionally, the Admin Dashboard UI can be difficult to navigate and find certain items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Higher Logic Vanilla solving and how is that benefiting you?

We utilize the community forum for an array of things - from non-urgent questions and issues that can be quickly addressed (thus assisting our Support team with our ticket queue), to creating an active community of product users that want to share their knowledge and experience, to receiving creative Feature Request ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.