The vote is the easy part, here's what happens next
"The most overlooked feature of a team voting app is what it does after the vote closes. The result needs to go somewhere your team can find it."
The post-vote workflow is where most team voting apps fail quietly. When the vote closes, who gets notified? Does the result appear automatically, or do you need to go back and check? Where is the outcome stored? Can new team members, someone who joins six months from now, find the historical decisions that shaped the team's current direction? Can you explain why a decision was made, not just what was decided?
This is the decision archive problem that most voting apps ignore entirely. A Slack poll produces a message thread. The result is visible to whoever was in the channel at the time, scrollable until it disappears in history, and inaccessible to anyone who wasn't there. A Google Forms survey produces a spreadsheet. The result is in the data, once you calculate it manually, and stored wherever you decide to put it. Neither tool produces an organized record of what the team decided and why.
A vote that produces a number is useful for the meeting it's in. A vote that produces a permanent record, with options, context, participation count, vote breakdown, and declared outcome, is institutional memory. Teams that make decisions in a documented, searchable archive spend less time relitigating past choices and more time acting on them. When someone asks "why did we choose vendor X over vendor Y?" the answer is three clicks away, not a request for someone who was in the meeting to reconstruct it from memory. That capability is the difference between a voting app and a decision tool.