Feature Tour

Consultation Management page

You can monitor and manage all your consultations in one place with the comprehensive admin system. Create new consultations and search, sort, filter and export your existing consultations.

Consultation dashboards

Each consultation has its own dashboard showing topline stats such as the number of respondents. The dashboard also provides instant access to a consultation's editing, publishing, analysis and reporting tools.

Custom logos

You can customise the image that appears in the site header on a per-consultation basis. For any of your consultations, you can replace your organisation's logo with another image, or add one or more partner logos.

Media-rich content

To help illustrate the issues and engage your audience, your consultations can include formatted text, links, images and embedded multimedia such as videos and maps.

Custom audiences, interest groups and geographic areas

Consultations can be associated with specific audiences, interest groups or postcodes to help with searching. You can customise the lists of audiences and interests and upload your own postcode data to customise your user experience.

Time-saving automated workflow

When creating a consultation you enter its start and end dates. When the start date arrives, the system automatically takes care of opening the consultation for public participation. On the end date, the consultation closes and further information (such as preliminary results) can be published automatically.

Consultation Preview

While setting up your consultation you can preview it at any time, to see how it will appear to the end user in its Forthcoming, Open and Closed states.

Featured Consultations

Setting a consultation as featured will give it greater prominence on the consultation hub. You can add an image and a description to the featured consultation.

» Tip: Getting the most from featured consultations.