NOTE: As of May 8th, 2025, we have changed our pricing. Older plans may be mentioned in the video above. You can view our current pricing and plan information on our pricing page at canny.io/pricing.

Vote priority allows you to indicate how important a post is for a voter. You can see whether a request is critical or just a nice addition.

The specific options available for priority are:

Vote priority can be set from the voter list by a Canny admin:

View in the Canny Ideas beta:

Note: End-users do not have the option to indicate the vote priority. Only Canny admins can set the vote priority.

You can also see vote priority in Canny's internal roadmaps.

Start by going to your Score modal, and click on "Add new" to see the new options for user votes: nice to have, important, and must have:

From there, you'll see a new column with vote counts for each selected priority:

In Canny Ideas, votes are treated as Insights. Insights represent interest in a particular idea from individual users or companies.

When creating a formula in Canny Ideas, you can filter by the quantity of insights. Insight counts capture insights either in their entirety or filtered by vote priority:

On the Users tab in Canny, you'll be able to see which votes have what priority. This is very helpful information to have when talking to an existing customer about renewal or a prospect about an opportunity:

View in Canny Ideas:

Note: Vote priority is available for teams on the Pro (or legacy Growth) and Business plans.