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Butter CMS Reviews & Product Details

Butter CMS Overview
What is Butter CMS?

Butter CMS is a powerful and user-friendly content management system designed for small and medium businesses with a strong focus on simplicity, allowing users to easily manage their websites without the need for extensive coding or technical skill. Some of its great features include intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, customizable themes, and robust analytics and reporting tools. Butter CMS empowers businesses to take control of their online presence and reach their target audience with ease.

Company Butter CMS LLC
Year founded 2014
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Chicago, IL, United States
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Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Butter CMS Features
API-first Architecture
Analytics/Reporting
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Content Modeling
Content Previews
Content Scheduling
Content Search
Content Tagging & Categorization
Content Versioning
Content Workflows
Custom Content Types
Customizable Content Delivery
Developer-friendly SDKs
GraphQL Support
Headless Ecommerce Integration
Localization
Media Library
Multi-language Support
Multi-site Management
Performance Optimization
Personalization
RESTful API
Rich Text Editor
SEO Management
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Last updated: September 09, 2024
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181 Butter CMS Reviews
4.7 out of 5
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 13, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
DM
Dan M.
Vp
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"Quick to integrate, flexible headless CMS"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Butter CMS provides a range of easy-to-use client libraries and a REST API for developers. The team is very responsive to questions or concerns.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Over the years, we've seen some performance issues with the API when using advanced features. Their support team has been quick to investigate and support in these instances.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

ButterCMS helps us to provide a simple-to-use WYSIWIG for content creators to avoid needing a technical resource to publish new copy or images on our site.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 23, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AS
Andrew S.
Network Administrator
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"Very Simple to Utilize"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Extremely easy to tag all entries with metadata that will make documentation and searching a breeze! I love that we can keep things separated by collections based on our needs!

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

The look of the GUI seems a little bare. The GUI provides everything you need, but the style looks a little outdated. The GUI doesn't affect the use of the tool by any means, though.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a central repository for our resources instead of being separated on different servers with their respective sites is a massive benefit. Production and performance have increased due to this as well.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 04, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AB
Aisara B.
Csm For Apac Region
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"Great product,Easy to use"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

To make our platform more international, we are doing localized translations. As a CS manager, I don't know anything about code, with Butter CMS I just need to enter the program, translate our webpage to Chinese, and preview to see if the translation, fonts, etc., of the web pages are OK. That's it! Super easy and flexible!

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

For me I think everything is fine because I am just working on the translation, I don't need to worry about the tech things. However there we few times when I check the Chinese pages, it showed me in Russian, there might be a bug, I reported it to my team. I think they contacted the support team of Butter CMS. Now I did not encounter any problems. So far so good :)

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Website localization. I need to translate our webpage from English to Chinese. It's very easy to use, and I can always preview the website during my translation process so that I can edit immediately when I realize something goes wrong.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 03, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Mushfiq R. avatar
Mushfiq R.
Growth Manager
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"Great tool for SEO and copy related marketing changes without compromising on FE engineering"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

As a marketer, the thing I like most is the fact that I can quickly make changes to copy and SEO related content really quickly in a completely custom website, cutting out the engineering work that would previously have been needed. IN addition, if we need more customizable components on a site, engineering can quickly addd them as well.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Can't say I am a fan of the internal UX for making changes.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was not able to rpeviouslty make updates to a custom site without getting FE involved. Now I can. This means that we can get marketing changes pushed to production much faster.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 03, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
SR
Simon R.
Product Owner
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"Great way to implement CMS for your site"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

ButterCMS is very intuitive and allows different people across the company to make changes on the live website without having to make any code changes and that's brilliant.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

There could be a way to nest components and to duplicate them, to allow for more flexibility.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Small copy changes would require an engineer spending hours to make the changes, have them approved and deployed. Now with ButterCMS that can happen instantly. ButterCMS is also a modern way to organise our site and test different variants.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 11, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Dmytro U. avatar
Dmytro U.
Senior Software Engineer
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"It's an easy-to-use headless CMS with great DX"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

- Easy to set up a development integration and moreover it's easy to use (our stack is React & TypeScript) - ButterCMS gives us the flexibility to work with our content the way we need (e.g it can be a small section with just some button/input labels or it can be the whole page with lots of different components and SEO metadata) - Simple friendly UI/UX

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

I love the component feature, but it feels like it lacks some kind of centralized place, where you can manage all your components. Also when a user makes some breaking change in the component structure it would be great to have the ability to interactively go through each usage to do patches.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a lot of pages with dynamic content that can be easily updated without developer involvement. It's worth mentioning that the component feature is a real deal!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 28, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
LO
Lisa O.
Head Of Brand And Content
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"Easy to use and great for our content needs"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

- Logical, simple and clean interface makes it really easy to publish content - Working with our devs, we've been able to customise the back end to suit our needs - So much quicker than previous system!

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

- May seem simplistic if you're used to something like Wordpress, but stick with it!

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's managing our on-site content, from our static pages to blog content. Easy to load information, organise it and quick to publish, which is great in a fast-paced content environment!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 03, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Susan S.
Beauty Copywriter
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"Excellent software for copywriters"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

A great CMS platform - easy to navigate and great for freelancers and remote staff. Everything lives in one place for all involved to see. Just drop in draft to get immediate results on how to maximize copy for SEO and targeted audience.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

No complaints. No bells and whistles - if that is something you are looking for. Straight forward.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

How to maximize SEO, highlight subject matters and draw in more readers, audience.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 30, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
LT
Lucas T.
Founder
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"A simple yet flexible platform - highly recommend!"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

We primarily use butter for marketing purposes, using it for content growth. The best thing about Butter is that it's easy to stand up (transition speed was key for us). Furthermore, we like how the foundational elements of pages can be changed over time seamlessly. This was reassuring, knowing that we could make fast decisions early on and iterate as our content/marketing strategy shifted.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

To fully leverage Butter you need to be or have front-end developer support. This is not a platform for "non-technical" folks looking for a WYSIWYG platform out of the box. Once you get it set up, adding content is super simple, but it takes an initial setup period.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Butter solved our content scaling and design flexibility needs.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 01, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Martin .
Cto & Partner
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"Combination of great API/doc and support we were able to very fast implement our own blog"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Perfect documentation and simple powerful API

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Search API for blog post is not implemented in JAVA library. Please implement Create/Delete function on screens for managing categories/tags (blog posts).

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our own blog - value based content for our customers. Benefit for us was clear: we do not need to develop our own database and full management. Blog API provide not only simple "save" of title/description -> but also SEO tags, categories and tags. ButterCMS own CDN for images is also benefit (we do not need to implement our own storage for images in posts).

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Mar 31, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
IC
Ivie C.
Founder
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"Simple and easy to use/implement plus amazing customer support"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

The flexibility and the fact that ButterCMS worked with any tech stack plus the documentation/support made it very easy to implement. Our original content server was heavily customized and it was difficult to make updates since no one knew PHP. With ButterCMS, the engineers had a much easy time integrating it into our site. When and if they encountered issues or had questions the super responsive and helpful customer support was always there to help resolve the issues. Also, as a PM working with a remote team of engineers on different time zones, it made my job easier being able to update content on the site directly without requiring a lot of dev work.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Nothing major but the one thing that comes to mind is the text editor. It was a bit difficult to customize blog articles with things like bullets, assign header tags etc without messing up the format. Also I would have liked an integration with photo providers :)

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The content on our site was outdated and we needed a way to post blog articles to help users make decisions. By implementing ButterCMS, we were able to improve our SEO rankings which in turn boosted our acquisition and engagement so all in all it was a very good idea.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 29, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Jeffrey M. avatar
Jeffrey M.
Co Founder
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"Easy for both your content and tech teams."
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

We've used ButterCMS since day 1 at Bottlecode. We were able to implement our basic content strategy in half a day using ButterCMS and our content team loves the product. I can only recall one day with some intermittent downtime due to their upstream CDN and the team was responsive. Their technical support is top-notch, too.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

I'd love more flexibility around creating my own "components" to add to page types as well as validation rules and hooking into our own data, but that's teetering close to custom CMS territory.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use ButterCMS to power our "Skincare 101" education portal at Bottlecode as well as highly-customized landing pages we use to test creative strategies.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 22, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
DB
Dillon B.
Front End Developer
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"Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Butter made it extremely easy to add a CMS backend to my website. The implementation is as simple as building your content structure on the admin panel, and then using your API key to pull in all the content via HTTP requests (or it's just as easy, if not easier to use Butter's libraries) The ability to use references that link to other content types is extremely powerful, and can even let you move some logic from your app to the CMS. For example, I had to define a mapping of US States to Regions (Midwest, Northeast, etc). Instead of doing this in the application itself, I defined a State content type on Butter, added all 50 states, and then defined a Region content type that was composed of a list of States. Someday we may have to define a "Pacific Northwest" region or break the original ones down to smaller ones, and that change will be seamless thanks to Butter's flexible content types and linking. This type of reference ability allows for less business logic in the application which I love. The customer service is also stellar and they were quick to concisely answer all of my questions about certain features and which feature would suit my individual use case the best way.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

I like everything about Butter, but it is a little bit leaner than some other comparable solutions. It more than makes up for this with its cheaper price tag & comparable features to other headless externally hosted CMSs but there are some features I would like to see in the future. For example, there is not a way that I know of to validate input in to the CMS (other than marking a field as required), so your "content inputters" must be diligent.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Butter to add a CMS backend to our existing website. It's been incredibly simple and easy to add the service and pull the CMS data in to our site via their API. We've been able to move almost all of our copy out of the application and in to the CMS, reducing engineering overhead for copy related tasks. We've even been able to move some business logic (which I detailed above) in to the CMS.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 06, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
DV
David V.
Lead Front End Developer
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"Just like butter, but better."
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Simple to config, easy to use. The doc is very clear and the api very fast. I think this is the most easy api I had to use for the past three years and I'm going to tell everyone to use it when they want to create a simple blog application even a complex one. The filter you can use on every call is just sugar in the mouth. Just perfect for me.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

The only thing I can ask is to provide filters to retrieve tags (like page_size) and maybe a feature who can tell you the most views articles. - Support next format of img like .webp with jpg fallback (ex).

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can create a blog using a simple API without coding any back-end stuff.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 29, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
WG
Wenzhe G.
Founder
Share
"Great alternative for moving off wordpress"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Maintain control over look and feel, nav functionality. Let content writers focus just on producing content. Easy documentation. Responsive support.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Could be more pages included in basic plan.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Get rid of separate, wordpress hosted site. Incorporate content marketing directly on main property and not reinvent the wheel.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 22, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
BA
Bruce A.
Founder
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"Solid blog platform"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

This makes adding our blog platform to https://www.printavo.com/blog very easy. It's been a nightmare before we discovered ButterCMS getting the routes setup we the way we want.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

The editor could be a bit better but it's improving.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Butter allows us to have the URL routes for the best SEO potential possible

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 12, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
JA
Jason A.
Manager
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"A Great Blog Engine for a Rails App"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Butter was extremely easy to set up and integrate into my existing rails app. Once I installed the gem and got it configured (a 10 minute process), the blog just appeared at mysite.com/blog. Once I started using it, I was also happy to see that it was intuitive and easy to write and publish/unpublish posts as needed.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

The interface for writing the posts in-browser has some room for improvement, but since I started using Butter ~6 months ago I have already seen improvements on this front. I occasionally find that the format-bar pops up at inopportune moments and gets in the way. The ability to position and move images is limited.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I needed to add a blog to my rails app and did not require something nearly as robust as a full wordpress blog. Butter made it easy (and affordable) to set it up and maintain it with minimal effort, allowing me to focus on developing my own app and writing blog posts.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 12, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
GB
Greg B.
Founder
Share
"Easy and smooth - I guess that's why they call it Butter"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

It's easy for my developer to set up, and easy for me to have all of the control I need with formatting, SEO, content, etc. I'm able to keep the look and feel of our site, all without having to deal with Wordpress or subdomains which kill SEO.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

I'd like to have a UI for the blog template page for common changes I want to propagate across all blog pages.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're providing content for those looking to travel to Cuba, particularly Americans who are looking for information and perhaps someone to plan their trip. We've realized having control over the content empowers us to tweak SEO in order to be found, and update content easily and cheaply.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JC
Juan Pablo C.
Founder
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"Great CMS Platform for any level!"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Very easy to get started and alows you to scale as your business grows.

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

Would like to see more integrations for ecommerce and other usecases.

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows me to manage content without worrying about logic.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 10, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
LC
Lucie C.
Founder
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"Smooth experience"
What do you like best about Butter CMS?

Butter is easy to learn, even if the organizational logic can be revised to streamline the experience

What do you dislike about Butter CMS?

The not very welcoming design which makes the experience very monotonous

What problems is Butter CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Butter allows you to modify lots of parameters and detail the posting of our trips online as much as possible