Connect community with Gainsight CS, Skilljar, and Product Experience, so what customers ask, learn, and do helps your teams see where they’re getting value. And where they’re getting stuck.
There's more to your community than conversation.
Give customers one place to ask, answer, learn, and share what they know. We make it easy to get it up and running.
The communities you know and love are powered by Gainsight
How it works
Put AI to work in your community.
Build communities that drive retention
See how Gainsight CC is able to customize the community homepage, reach a global audience, and engage community members.
Plug community into the tools you already use.
Connect CC to Gainsight CS, Skilljar, Zendesk, and Jira — so your team acts on community insights without switching tools.
Good community
is good for retention.
FAQs About Customer Community Software
Gainsight Customer Communities software enables businesses to create online spaces where customers connect, exchange ideas, and access resources. It includes knowledge bases, discussion boards, messaging, and event management tools.
Brands gather customer insights, highlight product features, identify accounts needing assistance, and strengthen relationships while determining customer needs and behavior patterns. When reviewing a community software list, look for solutions that offer these comprehensive features.
Gainsight Customer Communities establishes multiple touchpoints throughout the customer journey. Businesses invite participation in discussions with peer and expert responses. Gamification elements like leaderboards and badges incentivize active engagement.
Online community platforms transform passive users into brand advocates who mentor newcomers, contribute content, and represent your business positively—generating greater credibility than conventional marketing.
Help desks provide one-on-one resolutions through tickets, while customer community software creates environments where customers help each other with team guidance. In online customer communities, knowledge sharing happens organically, and answered queries become permanent resources.
Community platform examples show they build inter-customer connections and belonging that help desks can’t provide. A combined approach creates a complete support system.
Measure Customer Communities software success through value realization, revenue impact, and engagement metrics. Track participation rates, content creation, activity levels, and response times.
Gainsight Customer Communities offers tools to track these metrics for accurate ROI calculation. Create dashboards detailing community activities and their effects to determine which are most critical.
Reliable customer community platforms employ robust security with role-based access controls. Gainsight Customer Communities uses encryption for data in transit and at rest, complying with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR standards.
Our online customer community provides administrator controls to address issues and flexible data retention policies matching your company guidelines.
Effective customer communities software should be user-friendly, feature a responsive search, and integrate with support systems and CRMs. The ideal community platform needs spaces for different customer segments, content management tools, and robust security controls.
Gainsight Customer Communities offers all this, plus comprehensive analytics, multilingual support, and scalability to foster valuable connections—making it stand out among the best community software options available.
Yes. Because both products are built and owned by Gainsight, Customer Communities has a uniquely deep, native integration with Skilljar, a dedicated customer education LMS, with no third-party connectors required.
The integration lets community members navigate directly to Skilljar courses, find Academy content in the community search, and filter results between community posts and Skilljar courses. A Unified Login is also available, allowing users to sign in once through Community SSO and move between the Community and Academy without additional login prompts.