Jira Product Discovery: Set a voting budget
Set a Jira Product Discovery voting budget by creating a Votes field and configuring the number of votes allowed per user.
Use a space-level field for the session; Vote fields are not supported as global custom fields. Decide what participants are voting for before inviting them to spend their budget.
Step-by-step guide
Define the question and electorate
For example, ask the support team which five customer problems most deserve discovery effort. Decide who should participate and whether the votes express frequency, urgency or preference. These are different signals and should not be combined without explanation.
Create the voting field
As a space admin, open Fields → Create a new field, choose Votes and give it a task-specific name such as Support discovery vote. Configure the votes allowed per user, for example five, before making the field part of the review view.
Expose it in a focused view
Add the field to the shortlist’s view and explain the voting question in About this view. Ask a representative participant to confirm they can vote before the meeting starts. Do not grant broader creator access merely to work around an unexplained participation problem.
Review results with evidence
Ask participants to allocate their budget across the relevant ideas, then discuss high-vote items with their supporting insights. Keep the vote result as a stakeholder signal. A larger vote count does not establish market reach or override a known customer-impact constraint.
Common mistakes
Using the budget without defining the question
A limited number of votes creates a trade-off, but it cannot fix participants answering different prioritization questions.
Sources and verification
Based on product documentation checked on 2026-11-04. This is a documentation-based guide, not a hands-on benchmark. Features and availability can change.