Website Toolbox

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Intuitive platform to create your own discussion community

About Website Toolbox

The easiest platform to build your own discussion community. Organize your public or private discussions into searchable topics and categories under your brand with an independent or embedded community forum.

Fully customizable, single sign on, embedded into your website, robust security & privacy controls, built-in instant messenger & chat room, and monetization via fees or ads. You own and control your own data.

Find out more by taking the features tour or starting your free 14-day trial.

In order to create effective community forums, Website Toolbox equips users with the tools to customize their community easily. With predesigned theme templates, Website Toolbox allows users to produce and personalize a community forum quickly and efficiently. Website Toolbox also promotes customizable branding by enabling users to utilize their current logo, domain name, CSS and website layout. Moreover, while Website Toolbox can be embedded into the user’s website, Website Toolbox remains invisible to community visitors.

Website Toolbox provides users with a number of features intended to engage forum visitors such as social sharing functionality, instant messaging and file, photo and video sharing.
To further enhance user interaction, Website Toolbox facilitates @mentions, community polls and automatic notifications. Furthermore, since Website Toolbox employs Unicode (UTF-8), users can manage international communities successfully in any language.

Website Toolbox seeks to improve administrative processes with single sign on, robust security controls and inbuilt emailing. Furthermore, Website Toolbox allows users to moderate community activity directly with post approvals, detailed permissions and assigned community administrators.


Key benefits of Website Toolbox

  • Easily and fully customizable
  • Single sign on support allows seamless integration
  • The forum can be embedded into your website
  • Robust security & privacy controls
  • You own and control your own data
  • Users can add their own advertising or charge subscription fees, helping users to monetize their forum
  • Website Toolbox facilitates login with Facebook, offering users a simple sign in process
  • Website Toolbox provides a built-in chat room and instant messenger service, encouraging forum visitors to engage quickly and easily.
  • Website Toolbox includes an online calendar, enabling users to organize events efficiently
  • Website Toolbox supports social sharing, allowing users to share forum content effectively on social sites.
  • Phone, chat, and email support

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    Website Toolbox Software - Embed videos, inset photos & attach files in forum posts
    Website Toolbox Software - Receive forum notifications
    Website Toolbox Software - Implement polls to gauge community opinion
    Website Toolbox Software - Approve posts, replies & registrations
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    Website Toolbox Software - Utilize instant messenger
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    Website Toolbox Software - Receive forum notifications
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    Website Toolbox Software - Approve posts, replies & registrations

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4.5 /5
    (118)
    Value for Money
    4.5/5
    Features
    4.2/5
    Ease of Use
    4.4/5
    Customer Support
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    Danielle
    Danielle
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    • Industry: E-Learning
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Great forum, easy to use and make a paid membership site.

    Reviewed on 2018/10/23

    Support was super helpful and I had zero snags getting things setup. It's been a breeze honestly.

    Support was super helpful and I had zero snags getting things setup. It's been a breeze honestly.

    Pros

    Super easy to setup, and forum users really dig it.

    Cons

    There isn't anything I don't like, I wish they maybe had more modern templates but it's not too bad.

    Response from Website Toolbox

    Hi Danielle,

    Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad that your forum is earning you some money through the paid subscriptions and that it has been easy to use.

    Please check out our new themes called Classic, Playtime, Material, Angela, and Modern Elegance that we've launched over the last few months. We're also in the final stages of launching several new themes called Minimal, Lights Out, and Compact. We recent launched the newest and most powerful version of our easy theme editor, which gives you even more control over the appearance of your forum.

    LUCAS
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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Clean and easy

    Reviewed on 2019/10/31

    Great!

    Great!

    Pros

    The clean look of this form was crucial. We wanted something that looked native on our site and Website Toolbox's forum is perfect. Being able to use our branded colors and fonts made this seamless.

    Cons

    We had one issue with connecting our Memberspace accounts to the forum, and the Website Toolbox team says they are resolving it. I also wish that it was more clear that you can tag other users in your posts, though we just had to be upfront with how to do that.

    Response from Website Toolbox

    Thanks for your wonderful review Lucas! It's great to hear that your forum fit perfectly into your website! :)

    Paige
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    • Industry: Biotechnology
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Farmers Agricultural Forum

    Reviewed on 2019/08/06

    It does serve as a resource for new farmers however it’s hard to keep people engaged because the...

    It does serve as a resource for new farmers however it’s hard to keep people engaged because the posts do not automatically feed into other social media. First year I did not have a lot of traffic, this year I’ve had a lot more and the negative feedback I’ve gotten from users is embarrassing. I feel trapped because I can understand their frustrations but I can’t do anything about it.

    Pros

    It was easy enough to setup. I’m not familiar with other products.

    Cons

    Templates are outdated looking, fonts are outdated. Nearly impossible to filter into other social media sites, which is the main thing all of my users are looking for. It’s extremely difficult to organize topics, people post everywhere. People complain it’s hard to follow conversations. I also do not like not being able to customize the url.

    Response from Website Toolbox

    Hi Paige! Thanks for your feedback. I'm glad you found Website Toolbox easy to set up!

    We usually add new themes every few months. Just 2 days ago we added a new theme called Minimal.

    Each theme allows you to choose from over 34 of the most popular fonts provided by Google. You can easily preview and choose a font in the theme customizer.

    I see that your forum already has Facebook integration enabled. Please contact us (reply to this email) to let us us know how you'd like posts to filter into other social media sites. It is possible to have the post posted on Facebook when it is posted on the forum.

    You can create as many categories as you'd like so that people post in those categories. I'd recommend assigning a trusted moderator with limited permissions so that they can move topics into the correct category when it is in the wrong category.

    Users can receive email notifications of topics they're following or have posted in.

    I'll be glad to hear more about how we can improve.

    Andy
    Andy
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    • Industry: Automotive
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Value for Money
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    East to setup and manage

    Reviewed on 2018/10/24

    Using it for a small,club site. Great for meeting up and keeping everyone up to date. Much easier...

    Using it for a small,club site. Great for meeting up and keeping everyone up to date. Much easier than lots of Stick posts in Facebook

    Pros

    Simple to get up and running. Easy to categorise different areas

    Cons

    For a small group with no annual subs, on-going costs

    Response from Website Toolbox

    Thanks for your review Andy. It's great to hear that you've found Website Toolbox to be easy to set up and manage over the last 2 years!

    Jessica
    Jessica
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    • Industry: Design
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Website Toolbox provides a fantastic forum interface that directly integrates with my site.

    Reviewed on 2019/12/09

    This is being used to provide an online forum community for our users.

    This is being used to provide an online forum community for our users.

    Pros

    This product has provided an easy to integrate community forum for me to use for my clients and members online. It provides a private members only area for discussion with profiles and private messaging as well. Really great product!

    Cons

    I think it could use a little more ease of use on the integration side. It was fairly easy to integrate with my website in conjunction with Memberspace, but there are spots in the setup process that could be confusing for some inexperienced users.

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    Website Toolbox offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$39.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Website Toolbox offers 3 pricing tiers. Basic: $29/month for 10K page views per month Standard: $79/month for 100K page views per month Premium: $299/month for 500K+ page views per month

    Website Toolbox has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Website Toolbox supports the following languages:

    Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

    Website Toolbox supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)

    Website Toolbox integrates with the following applications:

    AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Box, Campaign Monitor by Marigold, Drupal, Duda, GetResponse, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, HubSpot CMS Hub, Intercom, Jimdo, Joomla, Kajabi, Kartra, LinkedIn for Business, Magento BI, Mailchimp, Meta for Business, Shopify, Slack, Squarespace, Teachable, Thinkific, Twitter/X, Webflow, Weebly, White Fuse, Wix, WordPress, Zendesk Suite

    Website Toolbox offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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