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Vanilla Forums

A platform for creating branded customer communities with support, engagement, and knowledge sharing features

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Vendor
Higher Logic
Also known as
vanilla-forums

What is Vanilla Forums?

Web-based community software that enables businesses to build branded community spaces where customers access documentation, ask questions, and engage. Includes member management, gamification, content moderation, analytics, and integrations with CRM, helpdesk, and other business systems.

Independently observed

What Vanilla Forums does

The capabilities that matter for community platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Capabilities
Gamification badges and leaderboards
✓
Native live video streaming
-
Native paywalls and paid subscriptions
-
Event calendar and rsvp management
-
Member directory and direct messaging dm
-
Custom domain cname and white labeling
-
Custom css and html theme editing
-
Salesforce hubspot CRM contact sync
-
Mobile app ios android deployment
-
SOC2 type ii
-
ISO 27001
-
Pricing model
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (21)

Independently observed
chat
  • Slack→
crm
  • Salesforce⇄
  • Hubspot⇄•
  • Catalyst→
content_moderation
  • Cleanspeak←•
data_warehouse
  • Fivetran→
analytics
  • Google Analytics←
  • Google Tag Manager←
support
  • Zendesk←•
  • Freshdesk
automation
  • Zapier⇄
product_development
  • Github⇄
product_feedback
  • Aha!
customer_success
  • Churnzero•
translation
  • DeepL⇄
  • Google Translate
events
  • Zoom⇄
website
  • WordPress⇄
advocacy
  • SlapFive⇄
rewards
  • BHN Rewards→
  • Federated Search•

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Balanced composite 46 / 100
low · 9%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Integrations390.041.6✓
Capabilities290.051.4✓
Price level00.050.0-
Reliability00.070.0-
Security posture00.070.0-
Pricing transparency00.080.0-

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Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesGamification badges and leaderboardsmediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count21mediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 60%
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