Powerful, Extendable, User-Friendly
February 18, 2021
Powerful, Extendable, User-Friendly
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Concrete5
Concrete5 is great for everything from simple websites to custom, complex, applications. The peer-reviewed marketplace offers out-of-the-box solutions that save plenty of time and cost less than developing on your own with many add-ons available for free. Community support is fantastic with user forums and projects, including an e-Commerce solution that is robust and inexpensive to run with no monthly fees (seriously, the best e-Commerce package you're going to find). Sites can be deployed quickly with minimal costs and end-users can be trained often in minutes instead of hours or days. The platform is secure and allows fine-tooth permissions control. Internationalization is handled too for those that need to display their sites in multiple languages. Self-hosted and Concrete5 hosted options are available and maintenance is usually easily managed at the user-level.
- User-Friendly
- Extendable
- Secure
- Learning Curve for Development
- Can be complex
- Shifted from a just-surviving startup to a thriving web development agency based on Concrete5
- Allows us to offer low-cost, high-quality.
- Year over year costs to maintain Concrete5 are very low.
WordPress at the time was riddled with security breaches in the news and while Concrete5 was smaller (and therefore a smaller attack vector), after eleven years of use, Concrete5 has only had one published incident with an add-on that resolved within hours and with excellent communication. You can talk to the CEO and the CTO (or the rest of the team). They are very engaged and you're working with a small company of people who care, not a call-center with people just waiting to go home.
Do you think Concrete CMS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Concrete CMS's feature set?
Yes
Did Concrete CMS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Concrete CMS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Concrete CMS again?
Yes