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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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Contentful has become an essential tool for many businesses, addressing a variety of needs across different departments. Marketing teams …
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Popular Features

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  • API (9)
    8.7
    87%
  • Admin section (9)
    8.7
    87%
  • Publishing workflow (10)
    8.5
    85%
  • Role-based user permissions (9)
    8.0
    80%
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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.

8
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8.1
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8.3
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 highest, with a score of 9.

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

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Contentful has become an essential tool for many businesses, addressing a variety of needs across different departments. Marketing teams find it valuable for managing their efforts, from thought leadership blogs to direct marketing pages with gated content. With Contentful's headless CMS capabilities, users can easily build static websites using modern technologies like GatsbyJS and ReactJS, making it an ideal solution for small businesses and startups seeking a low-maintenance approach.

The platform's usefulness extends beyond marketing alone, as it serves as the primary content management system for companies in various industries. Different teams, such as product, marketing, and customer success, rely on Contentful to manage documentation, marketing materials, and internal data. This allows them to coordinate external messaging effectively without depending on developers for deployment. What sets Contentful apart is its user-friendly interface that empowers non-technical employees to access, modify, and update content with ease. Its intuitive design facilitates seamless updates of photos and written content while providing the ability to revert changes when necessary.

Contentful also plays a significant role in app development by loading content into iOS and Android apps. Its support for internationalized content and versioning capabilities further enhance the user experience for apps with a substantial user base. Additionally, the platform simplifies the process of compiling and accessing specific images for businesses that would otherwise require multiple platforms or rely on email communications.

Businesses with multi-user environments benefit greatly from Contentful's features. It creates a content layer for digital operations, aids in global marketing efforts through localization support, and streamlines content coordination and distribution across channels. Moreover, Contentful proves invaluable in organizing learning modules, help articles, and videos company-wide. It contributes significantly to new hire orientation programs and facilitates knowledge advancement within the organization.

The efficiency gains provided by Contentful are apparent to users who appreciate its impact on web page development and content storage. By reducing development backlog and enabling quick design and coding of web pages, the platform significantly improves productivity. Furthermore, Contentful's ability to manage content across multiple platforms in a unified manner simplifies website management, e-commerce operations, and internal sales platform updates.

In summary, Contentful revolutionizes various aspects of content management for businesses. From marketing efforts and static website development to app content loading and knowledge sharing within organizations, it offers versatile solutions that cater to the diverse needs of different teams. Its user-friendly interface empowers non-technical users while its robust features streamline workflows and enhance efficiency.

Users frequently recommend Contentful for its user-friendly interface and ability to manage content without HTML knowledge, making it a valuable tool for individuals who lack development skills but still want to create attractive landing pages with content. Additionally, users highly recommend Contentful for regular content editing, particularly for digital marketing purposes. It is advised to familiarize oneself with the technology to ensure a smooth transition. Contentful is also recommended for companies in need of an effective and versatile CMS service. Users advise reaching out to the customer service team for any questions or concerns.

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • A single point of control to update my different trading platforms
  • Being able to build and publish content easily, agilely and quickly
  • I could improve the documentation for an adaptation to the platform
  • Improve content migration between traditional platforms to Contentful
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Solid infrastructure - minimal system hiccups
  • seamlessly able to add, edit, and remove content
  • user interface is extremely friendly to use
  • Merging content type is rather a tricky issue
  • Contentful studio is robust but at times, to a fault
  • Had previous issues with scheduling content
Jennifer Garcia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
  • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
  • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
  • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Nathaly Sierra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keeps a history of changes made to the content
  • Easy image usage
  • Folder organization
  • 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)
Andrew Folts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
  • 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.
Darian Rawson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Version Control is outstanding
  • Uploading media
  • Adding and removing fields to content types
  • Linked content types
  • Verification and control of input entries
  • It would be nice to have some documentation for entry level coders
  • Built in preview mechanisms for more than just entry fields
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