Setting up the Public Roadmap

The Beamer public roadmap is a tool that enables you to transparently share your product development plans, feature priorities, and progress with customers and prospects. This feature is designed to increase transparency, build trust, and engage users by making the product's direction and upcoming features visible in a clear and organized manner.

Key benefits

• Visibility: You can display your roadmap as a widget on your site or as a standalone page, making it easily accessible to users.

• Customization: Choose which ideas, features, or projects are visible on the public roadmap, organize them by stages (e.g., planned, in progress, released), and customize status names and tags to fit your process.

• Feedback Collection: Users can submit feature requests, upvote ideas, and comment, allowing you to gather and prioritize feedback directly from your audience.

• Engagement: Respond to feature requests and comments, keeping users updated and involved in the development process.

• Access Control: You can share the roadmap with everyone or restrict access to select customers.

• Transparency and Trust: By sharing your roadmap, you demonstrate openness about your product’s future, which helps build customer trust and loyalty.

The public roadmap is particularly valuable for SaaS companies and product teams aiming to involve their users in the development process, prioritize features that matter most to customers, and communicate progress effectively.

Enable the Roadmap

1. Select Beamer Feedback > Settings from the sidebar.

2. Use the toggle switch in the Roadmap section to enable or disable the Roadmap on the widget and standalone page.
   

3. Click Save Settings.

Set default visibility

By default, submitted ideas will be visible as “internal only.” If you want to set the default to public:

1. Select Beamer Feedback > Settings and scroll to the Default Options section.

2. Use the toggle switch to turn Public by default on (or off if switching back to internal only from a previous setting).
   

3. Click Save Settings.

Note

You can manually make individual ideas and comments visible publically or internal only at any time, regardless of how the default is set.

Set the default Idea status

You can set a default status that will appear when an idea is submitted.

1. Select Beamer Feedback > Settings and scroll to the Default Options section.

2. Select a status from the Default Status drop-down.
   

3. Select Save Settings.

Set the default Idea sort order

1. Select Beamer Feedback > Settings and scroll to the Default Options section.

2. Select a sort order from the Default Sorting drop-down.
   
   Choose from the options:
   - Newest
   - Oldest
   - Most voted
   - Least voted
   - Trending

3. Click Save Settings.

Hide, display, or reorder specific statuses

This option allows you to determine which of your statuses will be visible in the Roadmap and Ideas feeds, as well as the order in which they appear.

1. Select Beamer Feedback > Settings and scroll to the Default Options section.

2. To edit visibility: Drag and drop one or more statuses to the Hidden (not visible in the public view) or Currently displayed sections for the Roadmap and the Ideas feeds.
   To edit order: Drag and drop statuses to a different order within the Currently displayed section.
   

3. Click Save Settings.

You can choose to share your Public Roadmap with everyone or with select customers, Learn more here.