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Hivebrite vs. Higher Logic

A Head-to-Head Comparison

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Hivebrite vs. Higher Logic

This comparison comes up a lot and though we can’t answer entirely without bias, we’ll share some valuable information about the features and support you’ll only find with Hivebrite. 

3 Key reasons to choose Hivebrite

Modern and inviting end-user UI

With a modern end user UI, Hivebrite offers an inviting platform that engages members instantly and makes back-office community management seamless.

Unparalleled customization

With an intuitive and no-code admin backend, Hivebrite puts you in full control by offering easy customization, making administration turn-key.

All-in-one platform & mobile application

Experience the seamless convenience of Hivebrite, an all-in-one platform designed to supercharge your community engagement efforts. By harnessing the power of Hivebrite’s comprehensive suite of features, you can rapidly scale your communities, creating a vibrant and interactive ecosystem.

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Trusted by leading organizationsinstitutions

At Hivebrite, we believe in fostering meaningful connections and empowering organizations to thrive through community engagement. We believe that vibrant communities can have a global impact on the world if given the proper tools and foundation. Our platform represents the culmination of this vision, offering an all-in-one solution that provides the utmost control, flexibility, and world-class customer service. When comparing ourselves to competitors, our approach stands out for its comprehensive nature. We’ve meticulously crafted a powerful solution that enables our clients to effortlessly brand, customize, and engage their communities. The combination of modern user design standards with an advanced suite of functionality allows organizations to provide their members with a dedicated networking space where they can share knowledge, experiences, seize targeted opportunities, and maintain vital connections with both the community program and each other.

We believe that any full-service community platform should encompass five core pillars of functionality to effectively serve and engage its user base.

Our platform has been built with the central goal of enhancing our customers’ communities by empowering community managers with the tools and resources needed to cultivate thriving communities. Our functionality is built around these five key underpinning themes that are integral to their success.

Pillar 1: Brand

Reinforce and project your brand and cultural identity

The Hivebrite platform is fully customizable not only from a visual user interface but at the build level. Customize the way your community functions so administrators have full control immediately following implementation. 

Easy-to-use branding features for a distinct web presence

Hivebrite
  • The Hivebrite platform is designed with comprehensive functionality and a modern user interface on the front- and back-end, making interactions seamless for both your community members and your administrators.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic customers note clunky and outdated design which inhibits member engagement and scaling the online community as it evolves and grows.

Branded mobile app

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers customers a fully branded mobile app to provide members a platform to engage members effectively. You can find your branded mobile app on PlayStore and AppStore.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic provides a mobile application; however, the platform is accessible exclusively via Higher Logic’s own Mobile app and not through any branded mobile applications.

Pillar 2: Organize

Structure your member base more effectively and automate process

The success of your community rests on the ability to collect relevant and specific information about your members, in order to provide them with the best user experience in your online community. 

Hivebrite offers advanced data management tools for creating custom collations, setting separate permissions, and assembling workflows at both global and group levels to ensure optimal targeting and content relevance, enabling members to interact naturally.

Management of User Data

Hivebrite
  • Global administrators can customize permissions to manage and control access on the platform according to several criteria. This enables them to target user personas in the platform and customize user experiences.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic offers a list of customizable permissions to admins and users.

Roles and Permissions

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite permits administrators to segment users and add clusters to better organize and tailor community engagement.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic doesn’t easily offer segmentation and clustering for administrators which would aid in targeted campaigns and increase the engagement within the community. This functionality may be available with custom support tickets.

Groups Functionality

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers a versatile approach to setting up and disseminating content among groups, enabling administrators to tailor group configurations to meet the unique requirements of their community, irrespective of its size or intricacy.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic does not allow flexible content distribution across groups.

Pillar 3: Engage

Inspire & motivate your users and drive engagement

Inspire, motivate, and connect with your audience, to drive meaningful engagement and action. Through content and communications features, organizations can promote partnership opportunities, job openings, and collaboration projects, while also utilizing event management tools to plan and execute various events.

Features like news and content sharing, resource libraries, and mentoring capabilities empower organizations to enhance the experience and satisfaction of their customers and partners.

Content and Resources

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers features like Media Center, News, and Events to foster user engagement. Our platform allows for easy location of content and resources through the use of tags and categories, which are managed by administrators.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic also has similar features but lacks engagement in its document libraries which certain users claim is difficult to navigate and access certain files.

Journeys

Hivebrite
  • The Journeys feature allows for the design of structured content paths to guide your members. It is used to facilitate user onboarding and guided content consumption in turn increasing user adoption, activity and retention.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic lacks a Journeys feature, leading to a steep learning curve for onboarding new members due to the lack of a practical training guide or tutorial setting up the platform.

Learning and Collaboration

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite includes the Forums feature within its packages, enabling users to engage and pose questions, or inquire about the community and its objectives. This feature adds significant value to the community aspect by being part of the same offering.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic provides Vanilla for Forums separately from its Thrive package, meaning communities that want to include discussions as a method of engagement would need to purchase Vanilla as well.

Email Campaigns and Push Notifications through Mobile App

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers customizable email campaigns and push notifications through our branded mobile app. This allows users to stay engaged with the community even if they don’t log in often.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic offers customizable email campaigns but fails to provide push notifications through the mobile app. This results in decreased user engagement.

Pillar 4: Empower

Enable independent networking and sharing

Independent networking and sharing is vital to fostering thriving communities. Through custom groupings, searchable profiles, and frictionless messaging, organizations can facilitate community connections and collaboration. Sub-communities can be created for different customer segments, partner networks, and employee teams, fostering targeted engagement and support. Empower users to facilitate communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, ultimately driving collective success.

Personal user portfolio

Hivebrite
  • The Portfolios feature is a place for users to curate their own media content and articles, creating a collective, searchable library for other users to benefit from. Portfolios empower users to become their own content creators, with an in-built editor for publishing articles to their profile, alongside links to externally hosted content.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic does not offer personal user portfolios.

User Directory

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers a customizable user directory which allows users to search for other users. The user directory card allows users to search for others based on chosen criteria. These fields are fully customizable based on the needs of each unique community
Higher Logic
  • Even though Higher Logic offers a User Directory feature, It lacks directory cards which are visually appealing and would empower users to interact with others based on custom filters and fields.

Opportunities

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite is designed to significantly enhance member value by providing a dedicated space where users can post and discover intricate opportunities for employment or collaboration. Through the Opportunities feature, Hivebrite enables its users to contribute to and benefit from a rich ecosystem of shared possibilities, making the platform a vital tool for networking and professional development.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic offers an opportunities module.

Mentoring

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite’s advanced Mentoring module matches mentees with mentors based on expertise and mentoring style, using custom fields to help mentees understand mentors better before engagement.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic doesn’t offer Mentoring on their platform.

Pillar 5: Monetize

Facilitate revenue generation and demonstrate ROI

Having the capability to facilitate and manage payments for memberships, events, and donations is a powerful asset for your community. Revenue generated within the platform directly offsets your costs, enhances efficiency, and even creates opportunities for sponsorship within groups, platform areas, and specific content.

Ticketed Events

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers a ticketing system on events through stripe. The ticketing interface also allows admins to add special discounts while registering for an event.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic doesn’t offer a ticket event facility

Donation campaigns

Hivebrite
  • The Hivebrite Donations module works as a stand-alone solution or in tandem with your external donations solution. Set up fundraising campaign pages, event specific donation options and report on campaign performance using intuitive dashboards.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic does not offer donation campaigns.

Tiered memberships

Hivebrite
  • The Hivebrite platform allows administrators to set up tiered membership levels and manage payments.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic does not offer tiered memberships.

Hivebrite’s Technical Foundation

At Hivebrite, we pride ourselves on our modern technology stack, which serves as the robust foundation for our platform’s unparalleled capabilities. Intelligent analytics, a modern approach to integrations, a world-class branded mobile app and stringent security and privacy measures provide the technical building blocks that allow communities to thrive and scale with Hivebrite.

Analytics

Unlock community insights designed to measure meaningful metrics that help communicate the impact your community has on organizational objectives.

Hivebrite
  • Community Analytics offers a variety of dashboards tailored to fit your community reporting needs. Intelligent analytics empower admins to measure meaningful metrics like user engagement, content interactions, and monetization performance. Track KPIs, assess community health, and comprehend user interactions without the hassle of creating individual reports.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic also has analytics offering with interactive dashboards to support the needs of the community. Higher Logic doesn’t offer individual user analytics.

Integration

The Hivebrite platform is built on a modern technology stack with a forward-thinking approach to integrations that allows us to connect to any system for full flexibility. We prioritize building features and modules that are vital to the community and plug in with various systems that our clients are already using.

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite offers modern APIs to integrate with your CRM. We offer integration with your existing access directory so users can login with their existing credentials.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic Thrive offers integrations to connect your existing technology to get the most of their platform but Higher Logic depends on AMS (Association Management System) systems as they do offer native integrations to the most common AMS system.

Mobile App

Hivebrite’s exceptional functionality and UX is available right in your member’s pockets with our branded Mobile App. Offer your members more opportunities to naturally engage where they interact most through campaigns and notifications all delivered through your app.

Hivebrite
  • Hivebrite’s fully branded mobile app enhances community engagement by offering an intuitive interface, real-time notifications, and direct messaging for on-the-go connectivity. Users can easily access events, manage their profiles, and participate in polls, all within a secure, multi-language supported environment. The app ensures active community participation, keeping members connected and informed with customizable notifications and privacy settings.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic does not offer a fully-branded mobile app.

Security & Privacy

At Hivebrite, safeguarding your data is a top priority for us. We have implemented stringent security and privacy measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information.

Hivebrite
  • We employ industry-leading AES-256 encryption for data at rest and in transit. This advanced encryption algorithm ensures that your sensitive data remains protected from unauthorized access.
Higher Logic
  • Higher Logic also uses AES-256 encryption for data at rest and in transit. This encryption algorithm guarantees that your confidential information stays secure from unauthorized breaches.

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