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    Magnolia

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    PartnerStack

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/APartnerStack is a partnerships platform and network built for SaaS, designed to deliver predictable revenue and accelerate growth for software businesses and their partners. The vendor states companies like Apollo, Webflow and Monday.com use PartnerStack to manage and scale their partner programs, automating partner onboarding, training, payments and more to drive their partners' success. They further state that in the past year alone, partners in the PartnerStack Network have generated…N/A
    Pricing
    MagnoliaPartnerStack
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    MagnoliaPartnerStack
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    MagnoliaPartnerStack
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    Magnolia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
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    53 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    MagnoliaPartnerStack
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia and PartnerStack
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    2% below category average
    PartnerStack
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia and PartnerStack
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    PartnerStack
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    API8.561 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.761 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Magnolia and PartnerStack
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    74 Ratings
    2% above category average
    PartnerStack
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.565 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.465 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.972 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.563 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.573 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Magnolia and PartnerStack
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    PartnerStack
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    Content taxonomy7.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.263 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.657 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.951 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MagnoliaPartnerStack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (78 ratings)
    8.5
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (68 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (67 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MagnoliaPartnerStack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Magnolia
    Magnolia is a very capable DXP, that provides client with lots of flexibility in composing its own stack. While the core of the platform is a content management system, the open architecture of Magnolia DXP allows it to connect to any platform, allowing client to extend the capabilities. One scenario would be a centralized content hub - where through a single platform, content authors can choose which channel to distribute what content. For example, long form content for consumers viewing on a laptop, short form content for those using a mobile browser. This allow the client to personalized the experience based on channels. Another scenarios would be leveraging on GenAI - using Magnolia's built-in connector to ChatGPT. If that is not the service that one desire, you can always connect to another AI service such as Google Gemini. With GenAI, connected, content author can use AI as co-pilot to help them scale up their content production.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    creating co-branded gateway pages with your branding to collect leads from channels or referrers without having them leave your current website. managing all element of the referral programme, including authorising new partners, tracking connections, and emailing referrals. integrating with already-existing programmes like GitLab, Salesforce, and MailChimp to provide a smooth user experience. PartnerStack has the essential components needed for any Partner Program and can be integrated with your current infrastructure. With the help of the platform PartnerStack, we can create and oversee your whole relationship strategy. Manage our partners and rewards in one location by using the PartnerStack platform. build specialised partner experiences Use competitions, leaderboards, and gamification to inspire our teammates. give partners customised marketing materials (like swag) and incorporate tracking of their usage with PartnerStack
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    Pros
    Magnolia
    • Speed of development - time to delivery from zero to MVP was excellent
    • Ease of use - the authoring experience is very easy to build and train
    • PAAS/SAAS - the managed service platform removed the traditional overhead of running in-house technologies, meaning we could focus on value add, with less time spent keeping the lights on.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • This is the best tool so far which helps me to manage the business relations, through this software I have got more power to control my various channels.
    • it is my everyday need to manage the tasks that are associated with my partners who own a particular platform like my Omni channels. It is handling everything in appropriate way.
    • Now I feel more confident in analyzing the on-boarding working of my partners and I am not at all worried about the payouts and compliance. This tool has helped me to better engage with them.
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    Cons
    Magnolia
    • The documentation provides samples that are often out of context, and difficult to know where the provided example code should be implemented. More tutorials providing the full project or step-by-step instructions on how to implement subject material would help greatly. Baeldung is a resource I would consider the gold standard in how this is done in other spaces.
    • The use of JCR and Nodes makes object serialization/deserialization painful. Jackson compatibility or similar would be a welcome enhancement to the developer experience. Maybe leveraging code-gen from light modules to build model classes when possible could help accomplish this.
    • Modifying the home layout from light modules is frustrating. It seems that any configuration overrides made merge with the default rather than overwriting, which makes for a difficult combination of guess-and-check while referencing the documentation to see what should be in each row/column when making changes.
    • Including "mark all as read" or "delete all" in the notifications app would be a great quality of life improvement. It seems that by default, users have to individually select messages and operate them.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • They don't provide any html or iframe script which most of the similar websites provide which I can easily add into my website
    • They have very few programs into their network when compared to other similar networks. It would be great if they could add more programs into their network.
    • Wish it had a filter for the marketplace? There are programs which pays per lead where as some pays per sale. And some pays % and some pays $.
    • About a month ago my account was suspended and I contacted them about it and was told that due to some violations of their "Terms of Service", it was suspended. And I tried contacting them but after that email they just ignored my email. No reply after even 5 - 6 emails so I stopped emails also. Few days ago I received mail from them saying my account was mistakenly suspended in a effort to remove fraudulent activity from their network & now I have started working again with them. After I got access to my account again, all of the programs I had joined were removed from my account and now I have to apply to every program once again. It would be great if they could do something from their end and join me to all those programs from their end easily rather then me applying to everyone once again.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Magnolia
    We have invested a lot of time and energy into tailoring a solution that works for the company.
    We think the new features in v6.2 will help us get to the next level
    We also don't have the resources to rebuild a website platform from scratch even if we wanted to
    Incentivized
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    Because it delivers what they promise.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Magnolia
    We've shown it to a number of users both clients and our own team and despite initial apprehensions, they "get it" very quickly. It's intuitive and friendly and quick to perform daily tasks. We once had a client tell us "Using Magnolia makes me smile" which says it all for us.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    Usability is the best part about PartnerStack. It's simply great!
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Magnolia
    I gave [it] 7/10 only because of the loading time of pages. Otherwise, I think it deserves an 8. Normally this is not an issue per [se] but considering the rating matrix and as I have been asked to honestly write about it. Yes, the page loading times could be improved.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Magnolia
    You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Magnolia
    I've used several CMSs like AEM and EpiServer, and comparatively, they all excel at different things. Magnolia is the best to develop for/against. Episerver has the best/most fluid UI in terms of content editing, and the overall admin experience AEM is just all around sucks.
    Incentivized
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    PartnerStack provides a faster interface and seems to be less confusing to use. In turn, this saves us time, especially if we just need to get a quick snapshot of the programs we're a part of and their overall health. Reporting is good for the metrics we need, but I would love more advanced reporting at some point and to see where we send the most traffic from - social, website, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Magnolia
    • Magnolia has brought about positive impacts. For instance, we need not outsource web design and marketing services because thanks to this software, we can handle most work inhouse
    • The software is affordable with no compromises on capabilities and therefore it is gives us value for money.
    • The templates makes the whole process easy
    Incentivized
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • We have had the option to keep up with our snap rates and have brought in a lot of cash by this setup.
    • Accomplices like PartnerStack in view of the straightforwardness with which they can get their installments and the straightforwardness with which they can follow the progress of their references.
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    ScreenShots

    Magnolia Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of the customer experience. This brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.Screenshot of Magnolia Orchestratem where users can manage and track campaignsScreenshot of the WYSIWYG page editor

    PartnerStack Screenshots

    Screenshot of a view of the PartnerStack dashboard; from here, users manage can all partner programs and see their impact.