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Contentful

Overview

What is Contentful?

Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework…

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Pricing

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Team

489/month

Cloud

Community

Free

Cloud

Enterprise

Custom

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.contentful.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Contentful 101

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Figma components to Contentful app demo

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Demo – Brew app for Apple Watch

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How Gatsby Supercharges Content Creation With Contentful

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Telus Site Builder Demo

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Next.js & Contentful #1 - Intro, Project Outcome Demo Setup

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7.3
Avg 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.7
Avg 7.7

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Contentful?

Contentful is a content platform used to build digital experiences at scale. It enables teams to unify content in a single hub, structure it for use in any digital channel, and integrates with hundreds of other tools through open APIs and an app framework. Its decoupled architecture and agile workflows are offered to reduce time to market and increase ROI by extending the value of existing investments.

Key features include:

  • RESTful & GraphQL APIs with Global CDNs

  • Dedicated API endpoints for writing, previewing, and delivering content

  • Language and framework agnostic with 8 SDKs

  • Powerful app framework with open-source editors and design system

  • Fully customizable content structure and management UI

  • Scheduled publishing, teams, tasks & comments

  • Localization with fallbacks

Contentful Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Import / export

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: PHP
  • Supported: Python
  • Supported: Java
  • Supported: .NET

Contentful Screenshots

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Contentful Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

Reviewers rate Code quality / cleanliness and Availability / breadth of extensions highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Contentful are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 10)

Content with Contentful

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 21, 2021
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Contentful
1 year of experience
Contentful is being used by the Marketing Department and it addresses the need for a CMS to manage the marketing efforts of our company. We use it for our thought leadership blog and for our direct marketing pages including gated content. In addition, we create a pathway for our users to login to our product.
  • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
  • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
  • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
Cons
  • Licensing. There is no way to step up from free gracefully over time. It is free or pay big $$
  • Internal search is horribly lacking and thus extending site search using their product fails in comparison to other products.
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].

Quick and Easy Content Updates

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 08, 2019
NS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Contentful
1 year of experience
Contentful is the back end to our website, we use it to make changes, improvements, and updates on our content. We have used other website CMS services to edit content, all of which are not as intuitive as Contentful, so we were really glad our website developer provided us with this software for on-going changes. From updating photos to written content, Contently keeps track of everything. For example, should you need to revert any changes, you can just pick and choose which version to return to and publish.
  • Keeps a history of changes made to the content
  • Easy image usage
  • Folder organization
Cons
  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)
When I started working at FSR, marketing was utilizing another CMS which was very hard to navigate, when we switched to Contentful I really liked how intuitive it was compared to other CMS applications. The ease it gives you when it comes to shaping the mages in your online content in a simpler way is great. When making content updates it is very simple finding the portions where the text is placed in order to adjust it. Overall, a huge improvement from other CMS services we've used before.

Contentful to manage all the digital content effectively

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 12, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Contentful
1 year of experience
It helped to create content layer of our digital business. It also helped the marketing globally with the help of localization. It is useful when one wants to create reusable digital content. Simplifies content coordination and distribution across various channels. Provides role-based access management and workflows, and also ensures content is discoverable.
  • Role based access management to the content
  • Assembling and publishing of content
  • Library of shared content models
Cons
  • Integrations with different apps
  • APIs can be more efficient
  • Platform can become more user-friendly
Useful when you have different kinds of content in large set. Quick publishing of multiple content at a time. Not useful when you have a lesser number of content having low update frequency. Not useful when there is no customer involvement on your digital eCommerce site. It is not useful when an organization doesn't want to do the branding of their new launches.

Modern content manager in a changing digital world

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 12, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Contentful
3 years of experience
To work with multiple platforms, Contenful allows me to manage unified content and publish it through my organization's platforms, making it easier for me to have a single point of control and change. Being a web platform, being able to work from anywhere or any device and keeping my website, e-commerce and internal sales platform updated, has been the most beneficial for the organization.
  • A single point of control to update my different trading platforms
  • Being able to build and publish content easily, agilely and quickly
Cons
  • I could improve the documentation for an adaptation to the platform
  • Improve content migration between traditional platforms to Contentful
Good: Great for cross-platform content management
Not good: Migration from traditional platforms to Contentful
Not good: Public Documentation, FAQ

Contentful: Modern Content Infrastructure Built For the Future of Web Development

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 04, 2019
AF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Contentful
1 year of experience
I use Contentful as a headless CMS to build static websites (with GatsbyJS and ReactJS) for small businesses and startups who need a high-quality, modern, low-maintenance solution. I also use it for my company's primary website.
  • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
  • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
  • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
Cons
  • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
  • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
  • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.
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