Idea Banks
An Idea Bank is a collaborative space for collecting, organizing, and prioritizing ideas through community voting. Whether you’re gathering feature requests from customers, brainstorming with your team, or running a public suggestion forum, idea banks help you understand which ideas matter most to your audience.
Key Features
- Proposals: Collect ideas as proposals with titles and descriptions
- Voting: Let participants vote for or against proposals
- Sorting: View proposals by popularity, recency, or activity
- Access Control: Choose who can submit ideas and who can vote
- Status Tracking: Move proposals through a workflow from open to implemented or rejected
When to Use Idea Banks
Idea banks work well for:
- Product roadmap prioritization: Let customers vote on which features to build next
- Internal brainstorming: Collect and rank ideas from your team
- Community feedback: Run a public suggestion forum for your product
- Event planning: Gather and prioritize session topics or activities
- Research prioritization: Let stakeholders vote on research questions
Idea Banks vs Surveys
| Use Case | Idea Bank | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| Collecting open-ended ideas | Yes | Limited |
| Prioritizing existing options | Yes | Yes |
| Gathering quantitative feedback | Limited | Yes |
| Allowing participant submissions | Yes | No |
| Community voting | Yes | No |
Choose Idea Banks when you want participants to contribute and prioritize ideas together. Choose Surveys when you need structured responses to specific questions.
Getting Started
- Create a new idea bank from your dashboard
- Choose an access level that fits your use case
- Add initial proposals or let participants submit their own
- Share the voting link with your audience
- Monitor votes and update proposal statuses as you act on ideas
Learn More
For deeper background on the methodology behind idea banks and how they compare to other approaches, see our Knowledge Base:
- Idea Bank - Theory and best practices for managing an idea bank
- Community Suggestion Forum - Compare idea banks to open suggestion forums
- ICE Score - A prioritization framework for evaluating ideas
In this section
- Access Levels - Control who can submit ideas and vote on proposals
- Proposal Statuses - Track proposals through their lifecycle from idea to outcome
- Sharing with Participants - How to share your idea bank and manage participant access