CAN’s Competitive Edge
CAN’s strengths lie in providing service building components that prioritize the startup experience. Although customization is highly demanded by startups looking to utilize SaaS tools, most providers provide neither the flexibility nor the high customization needed for a startup to build a product and community that is uniquely their own.
CAN Community Building
Platform Design
Compared to other known providers, CAN offers a competitive edge by providing SaaS toolkits that can be customized to meet the unique needs of your business model and platform goals. These tools are divided into specialized sets for entrepreneurs to easily find the features their business requires:
CAN’s specialized CANKits include:
Commerce-Kit — Create an e-commerce shop or marketplace using CAN’s Commerce-Kit, a set of templates and modules that can be integrated into your service to provide monetization and commerce functions like payment gate, multi-currency support, and other merchant services.
Education-Kit — Build an interactive learning platform complete with video conferencing, academic performance management, and forums for online education.
Contents/Media-Kit — Add dynamic content creation and media features to enhance and increase engagement on your platform by using CAN’s Contents/MediaKit full of modules for forum posting, commenting, voting, linking and sharing media content, member management, moderation tools like spam management and even data analysis.
Community Customization
In addition to providing the modules for building viable platforms, CAN provides flexible user interface options to support building communities that are reflective of an entrepreneur’s preferences and a startup’s project goals. Color scheme, navigation, governance, monetization; all can be customized to varying degrees.
Where other service providers only offer a limited amount of templates and customization for building, CAN gives entrepreneurs the space and technical support needed to build a unique community. Where other service providers offer high customization that is too technically challenging and may require a steep learning curve, CAN provides an experience that prioritizes ease-of-use by offering plug and play components.
Collaboration Space
The purpose of collaborative software solutions is to optimize workflow and communication between members. However, when providing an environment conducive to collaboration, most SaaS providers start and stop at communication methods; only feeling the need to offer features such as forums, direct messaging, and chat. CAN steps one foot further by offering those communication methods while also offering the functionality to assign roles and tasks among users. These roles can then be enforceable in the governance or reputation system of your choosing.
By doing so, CAN provides features that can easily be used to build your service into an efficient team collaboration space suited to your business needs.
In designing CAN Kit’s modules and tools, special focus was placed on giving startups a helping-hand in creating commercially successful services backed by strong communities. CAN provides a level of customization and options not easily seen in other SaaS providers which makes it a clear choice for startups looking to build using SaaS without compromising their unique vision.
Become a CAN Ally
CAN (Community Alliance Network) is an alliance of startups and developers collectively developing SaaS tools for communities.
If you are interested in becoming a CAN Ally as a developer partner or mentor, or a startup interested in utilizing our services, please visit communityalliance.network for more information.
We look forward to building with you. CAN is a clear choice for startups that lack development resources whether it be development skills to build a platform or the budget to hire a development team. In designing the available tools, special focus was placed on giving startups the ability to easily integrate their product and business processes with the capability to build a strong community. CAN provides a level of customization not easily seen in other SaaS providers.
