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Contentstack

Overview

What is Contentstack?

Contentstack headquartered in San Francisco offers an API-first headless CMS. From desktops to smart phones, from kiosks to smart watches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and…

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Recent Reviews

Great Easy to use CMS

8 out of 10
October 30, 2023
Incentivized
Our website platform is powered by Contentstack, which we find to be very useful. With Contentstack, creating page templates is easy and …
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Love Contentstack!

9 out of 10
October 30, 2023
Incentivized
Contentstack is the backbone of our customer facing portals and our back end configuration tools. The product set addresses a critical …
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Admin section (12)
    7.8
    78%
  • Publishing workflow (10)
    7.7
    77%
  • Role-based user permissions (11)
    7.7
    77%
  • Content taxonomy (10)
    7.5
    75%

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Pricing

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What is Contentstack?

Contentstack headquartered in San Francisco offers an API-first headless CMS. From desktops to smart phones, from kiosks to smart watches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.contentstack.com/pricing/?u…

Offerings

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

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What is Wix?

Wix is a free, hosted website builder, designed to be user-friendly and customizable without requiring coding from the user. It is well-known for its eCommerce solution, which allows users to build an online store.

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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.

7.7
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.

8.2
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Contentstack?

Contentstack is an automated composable digital experience platform, powered by a headless CMS. Contentstack empowers marketers and developers to deliver composable digital experiences, and boasts users at companies such as ASICS, Chase, Express, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Mattel, McDonald’s, Mitsubishi, Riot Games, and Shell. The vendor states its Care Without Compromise™ program, drives a strong customer satisfaction rating. Contentstack is also a founding member of the MACH Alliance, advocating for best-of-breed composable technology that is Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless.


Contentstack Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • 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: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

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

Security Features

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

CMS programming language or framework Features

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

Contentstack Videos

Engaging customers whenever and wherever they are with Contentstack
How ASICS leverages the flexibility that Contentstack offers to address the needs of its global consumer and business-customer base. Integration with existing technology, flexibility for business users, and configurability are just some of the reasons why ASICS chose Contentstack over several other solutions.
Hear from Edvardas Paskevicius, Content Team Lead at Icelandair, about how Contentstack has empowered their content team to operate more proactively, deliver experiences faster and reduce developer dependency.

Contentstack Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

Contentstack headquartered in San Francisco offers an API-first headless CMS. From desktops to smart phones, from kiosks to smart watches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and channel.

Contentful, Sanity, and Storyblok are common alternatives for Contentstack.

Reviewers rate API highest, with a score of 8.2.

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

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Alex Tanck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Contentstack to run all composable media for our site - it's our main CMS and works in partnership with our headless UI solution. All content and editable messaging are run through Contenstack to show up on our site. A key component of our business is updated messaging to keep up with seasonal and market trends. We needed a solution that allows for quick, ad hoc, but still controlled content updates that we could get a large amount of the team to use. It's been incredibly helpful for us to make sure our site is always changing and up-to-date.
  • Extremely flexible to our needs, meets all use cases.
  • Easy to use, UI is very intuitive.
  • Easy for the whole team to manage content.
  • Support is helpful and responsive.
  • Mobile responsiveness, it's hard to edit content on the go.
  • More customization of display options, specifically for columns available to filter view entries.
We've used Contentstack to great effect as our headless CMS. We have it connected to our custom UI, and it allows us to update content basically in real-time, with updates reflecting on the site within seconds. It's incredibly effective at allowing us to democratize content generation - we have team members from product, e-commerce, and marketing teams all simultaneously managing different types of content without conflict or issues. It's so flexible that we've never run into a use case that we can't build for.
Web Content Creation (4)
75%
7.5
Admin section
70%
7.0
Page templates
50%
5.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
80%
8.0
Publishing workflow
100%
10.0
Web Content Management (5)
90%
9.0
Content taxonomy
70%
7.0
SEO support
100%
10.0
Bulk management
80%
8.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
100%
10.0
Community / comment management
100%
10.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
50%
5.0
API
100%
10.0
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security (1)
80%
8.0
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • Time saved deploying content.
  • Allow more members of our team to manage content, getting to market faster.
  • Remove technical dependencies any time we want to make a change to the site.
They have an in-app chat with their support team, who is always quick to respond and provide helpful answers. I've never walked away from an interaction without my issue being solved quickly and easily. They're also very communicative over email and are sure to follow up after any changes are made to ensure we're seeing the desired result. They are always very professional and easy to work with.
We've used the Contenstack Marketplace to integrate with other existing tools in our tech stack and help find new tools to use. For example, we use Cloudinary to manage our image assets, and their integration helps us seamlessly pull images housed there into our content. Additionally, when looking for new tools to help solve certain problems, I always start by doing a quick search on the Marketplace. Knowing a tool easily integrates with Contentstack is a great plus, and they have an impressive roster of tools they work with.
Tina Lykke Kristensen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Contentstack to create and localize landingpages for our webshops. We also use it to handle SEO texts and content elements on our commerce pages like PDP, Basket & Check-Out. Other than that, we use it to power our blog. We use scheduled publishing a lot to be able to plan our work, and we make content components that can handle structured content in order to automate graphical elements on the sites.
  • Flexible & Modular Content Models.
  • Scheduled Publishing.
  • Automation Hub.
  • 3rd Party Connectors.
  • Very low rate limits on bulk-publishing entries & assets (10 entries in 10 locales limit).
  • Error messages that aren't meaningful to users,
  • Limits on number of asset folders.
  • No content types supporting building a website navigation.
Contentstack is great at serving content to JAMstack frontends. Contentstack could improve the usability of the content editors, as well as the commercial model surrounding users. As content can be all of landing pages, SEO texts, assets, campaign pages, legal texts, and more, a lot of users need to access Contentstack just a little bit - but Contentstack charges per user rather than per concurrent user - which becomes quite expensive.
Web Content Creation (4)
95%
9.5
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
100%
10.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
100%
10.0
Publishing workflow
100%
10.0
Web Content Management (5)
62%
6.2
Content taxonomy
100%
10.0
SEO support
100%
10.0
Bulk management
40%
4.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
50%
5.0
Community / comment management
20%
2.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
80%
8.0
API
60%
6.0
Internationalization / multi-language
100%
10.0
Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-based user permissions
100%
10.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • Users can create beautiful content without the help of developers.
  • Structured Content improves the SEO ranking of our sites.
  • Seamless translation flow with the XTM connector.
Support is mostly quick to answer on the chat, which takes care of the smaller issues. For the bigger issues that require more insights & maybe bug fixing, it can be a while between the updates, which leaves you not knowing exactly when to expect a solution. I have only been in contact with the technical support organization. In general, the access to support through the system itself is really convenient.
I think the apps on the Contentstack marketplace vary a lot in maturity. It mostly takes adjustments before they are usable. But my experience is that Contentstack is eager to engage in further development of the marketplace apps if the customer is willing to put in the effort of scoping & testing.
Featurewise, there's not a lot that separates these CMSs, and it's hard to assess in a SW selection phase exactly how the products stack up against each other. Ultimately, the choice of Contentstack came down to the dialogue with the sales rep.
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