Campaign modes

There are three campaign modes:

• Marketplace
• Suggestion Box
• Classic

For further details on how to configure, see the Admin Guide.

Marketplace mode

Marketplace mode allows users to weight the value of different ideas by casting multiple votes on a given idea. In this mode, each user gets a pool of votes determined by the campaign administrator.

A sample marketplace mode campaign that grants 26 votes per user, has started but hasn’t reached the end date yet

Suggestion Box mode

Often communities want to have a capability to capture ongoing suggestions in an open-ended campaign by having a virtual suggestion box. Suggestion box mode supports this use case nicely.

There is no voting in this mode. In some environments, transparency is enhanced when users can submit anonymously and so this is an optional setting for suggestion box mode.

An example of a campaign with suggestion box mode turned on

Here is an example of a campaign with an anonymous suggestion box enabled. See that the idea submission is anonymous but the commenting is not (highlighted in red):

An example of a campaign with an anonymous suggestion box enabled

Classic mode

In the case where both suggestion box and marketplace mode are disabled, the campaign defaults to classic mode. Classic mode allows the casting of one vote per idea per user.

Classic mode campaigns do not support automatic start and end dates and do not have an anonymous submission option.

Like the other modes, classic mode campaign capabilities are driven by the setting of the other (last four) parameters.