Product Add-On
Communications
Encourage participation with Smart Campaigns and branded community emails.
HIGHER LOGIC THRIVE COMMUNITY
Leading Online Community Software for Associations
Trusted by 1,700+ associations. Designed to help members connect, find answers, and keep coming back.
Revolutionize the Member Experience With One Easy-to-Use Platform
Drive member acquisition
Grow your audience through automated campaigns, targeted messaging, and organic insight into what prospective members are looking for in a community.
Boost member engagement
Give your members a place to experience the value of membership to connect, learn or grow.
Increase member retention
Member engagement scores help you understand who’s at risk and how to mitigate that to make renewal decisions a no-brainer.
DISCUSSIONS & Q&A
Turn Questions Into Conversations
Inspire engaging conversations and build member connections with easy-to-use, searchable community forums.
- Enable member engagement through community discussion forums with multiple notification options.
- Easily create, manage, and moderate member discussions in line with community guidelines.
- Gain insight into trending topics and common member questions through analytics.
Higher Logic Thrive Community has an engaging home page format that really invites our members to stay longer in the community and to interact more with their peers. With Higher Logic Thrive, non-logged-in users see a community home page that showcases valuable member benefits.
LIBRARIES, EVENTS, & GAMIFICATION
Help Members Find Their Next Step
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Libraries
Libraries
Share association resources and educational content with community users, including documents, images, videos, and other file types.
- Create libraries for member resources and enable member-to-member sharing.
- Monitor trending topics and learn what is being viewed and/or downloaded.
- Use tags, categories, and filters to help members find the most relevant content for their needs.
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Event Manager
Event Manager
Manage your events and provide users with an integrated calendar to view, add, edit, and find relevant events within their community.
- Accept registration payments through integration with several external payment processors.
- Manage event communications end-to-end with pre-built email templates.
- Promote events within your association’s online community to drive registration.
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Gamification
Gamification
Encourage community participation with online rewards like ribbons, badges, and a community leaderboard.
- Take advantage of this out-of-the-box, automated, and fun way to reward members and drive engagement.
- Allow members to see everything they’ve earned right on their profile card.
AI ASSISTANT
Give Members Answers They Can Check
Help members find answers in your association’s approved knowledge, with citations that lead back to the source. When they need more help, members can easily continue the conversation directly within the community.
Explore AI AssistantAI is only as valuable as the knowledge behind it.
By building on the trusted content in our community, Higher Logic helps us make industry knowledge easier for members to access and gives us confidence in the experience we’re providing.
Build Your Community With Confidence
Resource
Community Manager Toolkit
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Resource
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Community
Your members, connected
Discussions, Q&A, libraries, and events bring your members together and keep them coming back.
Uncover deeper insights
Track activity trends, discussion topics, and searches in the community for deeper insights into what your members need.
Scale as you grow
Grow your community offerings through third-party integrations for additional functionalities like learning, mentoring, and component management.
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Marketing
Engage each individual easily
Tailor every email or automated campaign with dynamic content, segmentation, and personalization. Integrations with your AMS and online community make adding lists a breeze.
Simplicity is built in
Save time with pre-built email templates and automated campaigns based on nearly two decades of association experience.
Refine your programs with data
Gain insight from engagement scoring, reporting, and web tracking so you can refine your association’s offerings and demonstrate your community’s ROI.
No hidden costs
We want to see you succeed, so we’ll never charge you extra for adding new community contacts!
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Community + Marketing Platform
The complete member engagement solution
Access all the features of online community software and marketing automation in one integrated experience.
Designed with you in mind
Higher Logic Thrive Platform was made for associations, built on years of experience, research, and feedback, with solutions to your challenges built right in.
Streamlined, usable member data
Bring the full member experience together, whether you’re prospecting, managing renewals, or growing non-dues revenue.
Get started quick
Pre-built communities and email campaigns, tailored to your needs, get you up and running in no time at all.
Make Room for More Member Value
Explore Community Add-Ons That Grow With Your Association
Product Add-On
Component Management
Support chapters and sub-communities with tools for their distinct needs.
Product Add-On
Mentoring and Volunteering
Help members share expertise, find mentors, and get involved.
Product Add-On
Mobile App
Keep your community within reach wherever members go.
Product Add-On
LMS
Bring learning opportunities closer to your member community.
Product Add-On
Submissions and Review
Manage association submissions and reviews with tools powered by OpenWater.
Product Add-On
Video
Collect and share member and staff videos across community and email.
Product Add-On
Credentialing
Simplify certification workflows, from applications through renewals.
Product Add-On
Jobs
Connect members with career opportunities through a community job board.
Design Service
Higher Logic Thrive Design
Create a cohesive community experience with expert design and ongoing support.
Expert Services
Higher Logic Thrive Services
Get strategic guidance and hands-on help for your community.
FAQs About Our Online Community Software for Associations
Higher Logic Thrive is our all-in-one community software for associations. Whether you choose the Community, Marketing, or Community + Marketing Platform, all features are designed to meet the needs of associations like yours. Higher Logic Vanilla, on the other hand, is built for B2B and B2C companies looking to engage their customers.
Dedicated community platforms like Higher Logic Thrive provide more specialized features designed to engage members with a unified online experience. Our platform integrates with the most common AMSs, so you can leverage these features and seamlessly sync member data.
In many cases, yes. Higher Logic’s AI Assistant pulls from your community discussions and resource library materials to quickly connect members with the information they need. If the AI Assistant cannot generate an acceptable answer, it will automatically create a post to “ask the humans” and source the answer from other community members.
The AI Assistant respects your existing security groups within Higher Logic Thrive. If a user doesn’t have permission to see a post, the AI will not use that post to generate an answer for them.
Ready to Bring Your Members Together?
See how an active community can help your association keep members engaged long after they join.