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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/ALiferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A

    Squarespace

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASquarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Core
    $36
    per month
    Plus
    $56
    per month
    Advanced
    $139
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Considered Both Products
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Squarespace
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    Features
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Squarespace
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Squarespace
    8.4
    67 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.467 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Squarespace
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Squarespace
    6.6
    58 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.237 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Squarespace
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Squarespace
    7.5
    99 Ratings
    4% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings6.778 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings7.398 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.296 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.386 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings6.580 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Squarespace
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Squarespace
    6.1
    89 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.376 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings6.380 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings5.851 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings5.565 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings5.567 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Squarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Liferay, Inc.
    Liferay Portal is a framework which comes with a fine grained security/permission model, (Web) Content Management, Authentication and Authorization, outbox portlets with different features to manage content or users. So if any business application has below questions then I can recommend not to use Liferay as a platform.
    • Application is big but not content or user driven.
    • Application with few static contents.
    • Application with batch transactions(DB) i.e. insert , update db records in batch.
    • Application with ERP capabilities.
    • Application with Big Data support.
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    Squarespace
    Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Personalization
    • Business to client relationship
    • Customer management is better.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
    • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
    • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Harder to get started
    • Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
    • Development documentation could be better
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive
    • Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating
    • Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Liferay, Inc.
    We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
    Read full review
    Squarespace
    Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Squarespace
    It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Squarespace
    Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Liferay, Inc.
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new pages, adding components to them, or even configuring server or instance related configurations.
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    Squarespace
    Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With WordPress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Its high scalability and flexibility has allowed us to include all essential solutions to meet our business needs while preserving the originality of the brand and helping us to improve the quality of our processes and services within the same friendly and unified environment.
    • This powerful platform has allowed us to keep the efforts of all our units aligned, from sales, marketing, operations, support and customer service, in a solid collaborative environment.
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    Squarespace
    • The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.