Canny

Our Canny board is not just our product roadmap, it's our guiding compass.

Comments: Before using Canny, we manually collected and organized customer feedback in a spreadsheet which was time-consuming and laborious. Canny completely changed the game for us. It has automated the process of feedback collection which saved us a great deal of time and effort. Our Canny board is not just our product roadmap, but it's our company's guiding compass. As a small team, prioritizing what features to build is very important to us. And Canny shows us the direction that we should be sailing towards.

Pros:

We love Canny's clean and intuitive interface which makes it easy for our users to navigate and submit feedback. Canny's changelog feature is very useful in showing our product's progress clearly. With Canny, product building is no longer just a one-sided internal practice. It's become a collective effort that involves both the product maker as well as the users. By making our product map public, it allows us to engage and interact with our users transparently. It shows that we care about what our users want. And that helps build customer loyalty. I also love the team behind Canny. They are always very responsive. Canny's founders are incredibly dedicated in building a product that makes tangible, positive impact for businesses.

Cons:

Nothing that I can think of for now. I look forward to seeing more great features shipped by the Canny team!

Canny is really the best by far (beats email and chat support)

Comments: Gives us a scalable way of having direct relationships with our customers.

Pros:

With email or chat support, you’ll likely have the same conversation many times (in some cases, hundreds of times), which doesn’t help your users (your finite resources could be spent on work that actually benefits them). What Canny does is subtle but profound. With a public forum allows people to create & upvote posts, and updates users on progress on each post, we can now have just one conversation with everyone affected by an issue, instead of 100+ conversations on the same topic. Customers can also potentially help each other out (great for a small team). And it gives transparency on how we work and how quickly we solve issues for the community.

Cons:

There are a few features it would be nice to add, which are already on Canny’s feature request list (Canny uses Canny, which is great). So I’m confident that over time, it’ll become even better than it already is (and it’s already quite great!).

Alternatives Considered: UserVoice and Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Switching to Canny: Canny is more modern, easier to use, and just a better overall experience, built for exactly what we want it for.

Out-of-the-box custom forum

Comments: Overall we've had a very positive experience with Canny. This is our first experience with a customer-facing forum. It provides our customers with an option they previously didn't have for voicing their opinions, and allows us to aggregate and evaluate that feedback in meaningful, quantifiable ways.

Pros:

We selected Canny because we wanted some sort of customer-facing forum for gathering and assessing customer feedback about new features. Canny was easy to set up, and allows us to easily track which posts are new, trending or have the most votes. It provides us with an avenue for gathering customer feedback that we previously didn't have.

Cons:

I love the ability to categorize feedback, and I appreciate that the categories are visible to the public. I wish it were easier to add a new category on the fly, while reviewing feedback. As is, I have to review each time how to get to the settings where I can add or edit categories.

Beware - they refuse to listen to top-voted feedback

Comments: I would look elsewhere immediately - Canny seems like a club that pretends to take "open feedback" but they delete feedback they don't agree with, and refuse to listen to their own open, voting system.

Pros:

UI seems nice, shame about the rest (see the cons section)

Cons:

The company bills itself as feedback software, and to dog-food their software, they take on feedback on a public forum which is on their website. One of the top-voted features on their public roadmap is to remove their intrusive "Powered by" branding. In our comms with their people - they flat out refused to remove their branding - despite the number of votes for people wanting that, and despite the fact that we said we would pay much more.

Don't let customer feedback fall on deaf ears!

Comments: Easy to learn and quick to setup. This has made a positive such an impact to our business and with our customers!

Pros:

Canny gives our customers a place to feel heard, listened to, and gain visibility into our feature and product roadmap which was not possible before Canny. We set the platform up in just a single day and onboarding was a breeze. Within the first week we had over 60+ posts from our customers! With Canny, we can now provide visibility in upcoming features. It gives our customers a place to leave valuable feedback, upvote on others posts, and comment on existing requests. With Canny, our customers feel as though they have a voice and can influence our product decisions.

Cons:

We imported feature requests we've been collecting from an excel sheet which was AWESOME, however I wish my face/name wasn't on those requests. Aside from that, I LOVE everything about Canny.