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The Best White Label Community Software

Exploring the best white label software for building an online community

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1. PeerBoard

PeerBoard is plug and play software that allows you to build a branded and feature-rich community forum on your website, without requiring coding.

With PeerBoard, you can create a subreddit-like space right on your own website, so your community doesn’t have to leave your site to connect.

Instead of the traditional forum layout, which can be tough to navigate, PeerBoard offers a single categorized news feed that operates like a Facebook feed (but is much easier to navigate than a chaotic Facebook group).

  • PeerBoard’s WordPress forum plugin — Embed PeerBoard as a fully customizable page in your WordPress configuration in under 20 minutes. While it takes longer to fine tune all the group and category settings, the initial setup is a breeze. If you have experience connecting software to your website via WordPress plugin, you will easily be able to set up your own site.
  • A complete white label solution — Use your custom theme color, add a logo, customize categories and topics for a fully branded experience (official brand elements, such as hex color, icon, logo, and other digital assets).
  • Visibility and access controls — Global and group-level controls for content visibility and access rights:
  • Real time threads — Facilitate valuable in-depth conversations with multi-level real-time discussions:
  • Email integrations — Allow members to receive periodic updates with forum highlights, recent posts, or other high level forum details, at a glance.
  • Free Pricing Tier — Unlike most of the online community platforms reviewed in this list, PeerBoard offers a free pricing tier, which allows users to test the platform before committing to an expensive monthly subscription.

2. PlushForums

PlushForums is a cloud-based forum platform that offers a ton of features all designed to make conversations more vibrant, engaging and productive. In a world where most information is disseminated and channeled through social media, PlushForums gives businesses and individuals an effective avenue where they can organize and hold coherent and real-time discussions in ways no social media network can.

Whether you and your staff are conceptualizing ideas and strategies or collaborating on a product, PlushForums gives you that environment where anyone and every one is connected, updated, and informed. Users get a user-friendly solution that integrates elements of private messaging, blog, and more into one comprehensive package. Customization options are also offered so branding your interface is a breeze.

3. Ning

First launched in October of 2005, Ning is currently the largest SaaS platform that aims to help business- or brand-minded users develop a website that operates as a social network with community management features and social media integration. The platform also offers e-commerce solutions so users can make money from their communities.

Ning helps users get started with creating their social networks by leading them through a series of easy steps that include naming their social network, selecting a color scheme, allowing for unique profile questions and even including their own ads if they want them. Ning sites are built to be extremely fast and come with advanced features plus in-depth analytics.

4. Vanilla Forums

Vanilla Forums is a top-rated enterprise online community solution platform. Vanilla forums allows users to build loyalty, grow sales, and improve customer service with their easy to use and quick to get started online community software. Some of the features include: 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, and questions and answers.

5. Mighty Networks

Mighty Networks serves creators and entrepreneurs by bringing together their community, online courses, sales pages, and more, all under their brand, across the web, and native iOS and Android apps.

Connect community members with an activity feed, sub-groups, member categories, chat messages, and more.

Create articles with a rich CMS, embed images, videos, and sound files, and post questions and polls, all of which support comments and like button. This is indeed a user-friendly platform to improve community engagement.

6.Higher Logic

Higher Logic is one of the most well known community engagement platforms for associations. While they don’t only serve associations and do also support corporations, a significant amount of their focus is dedicated to associations. This means that many of their features are directly designed with the unique needs of associations in mind.

7. Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot is a complete membership management system, designed to fit your organizations needs. Easily manage your contacts, process payments, send out emails, register event attendees, create a website and more. With a self serve design and a user friendly interface, you have the freedom to customize every aspect of your membership management system. If you need help at any step of the way, their support team and community of experts are ready to help guide you and share their best practices.

8. vBulletin

vBulletin forum software is one of the best bulletin board applications you can use on your website. vBulletin is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database. It is a paid application and offers regular security updates. vBulletin can be downloaded from vBulletin official web page.

9. inSided

inSided is a customer success community platform built to help SaaS companies improve customer success and retention. A unique combination of online community and robust self-service knowledge base, the platform measurably increases engagement, while giving Customer Success teams more time for high-value contributions to the business.

10. Tribe

Tribe is a platform suitable for both creators and brand-led communities. The communities powered by Tribe work beautifully on both web and mobile browsers. You can even convert them into apps (PWA).

With Tribe Platform you can fully customize your community to reflect your branding. You can even convert components like activity feed, groups, posts, etc. into widgets and easily embed them inside your site as well as the product.

The design is inspired by popular social media sites. That means you create your version of Facebook, Quora, LinkedIn. This community tool is also highly secure and enables you to build communities with 100% GDPR compliance.

Your members can also join your community easily using the Social Login system that supports Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn, Google, and Twitter.

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