Contentful Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice

The setup was really fast and we were able to publish our website on 2 weeks. Also, we are really happy with the interface to add and manage content with a good productivity. Support teams always have a quick response time and accurate answers.

Regarding payment method, we sometime lacked another options because we had problem with our credit card. But the Billing Support team helped us until we found a solutions, so it was ok.

It was faster to implement Contenful CMS than coding our own CMS. This was really important because the delivery time of the project was really short!

The flexibility of the platform is really remarkable. From content modeling to the editor interface, you can build everything to work with your team. Their CLI tools are also really nice.

Some of the 3rd party app integrations are a little clunky but otherwise no complaints.

it is at the center of our media business.

Our team has really enjoyed the flexibility Contentful gives us in managing our content; as a non-profit without in-house developers, it has given us the freedom to keep updating our content creatively without always needing to hire a contractor. We like how easy it is to preview content in draft mode in QA. It's great to be able to add helper text for different sections so that we can quickly onboard new users. Adding content for additional languages is easy.

Sometimes it is too easy for a user to accidentally change something - but that is probably mostly a matter of training users well & how your space is set up. We would also like to have more content types, but it is possible to purchase those.

We are delivering content to a wide variety of partners through a few different tools, and having many different non-technical staff members collaborate on creating and updating that content. One big benefit has been our ability to target content to certain groups and users through Contentful, and to easily add additional languages.

As a Software Engineer, Contentful has been a grace to use on multiple projects with multiple use cases. The API is straight forward and very easy to use and content structuring and linking to create dynamic and static sites is the most optimized between the varied CMSs that I have used, and it comes with a great interface for content editors and creators. I am specifically a fan of their APP integration, which makes it so much easier to develop in certain technologies (e.g. Gatsby) and if you're using other 3rd party services for hosting or other uses.

I have honestly never run into any serious issues while using contentful in the past 3 years. They have libraries and integrations that will fit most of your development needs

I run a non-profit organization called Bureaucrazy with a small team, and due to the nature of the services that our organization provides, we needed a solution to be able to update or content rapidly and on the fly, with a very easy to use interface, that's why we landed on Contentful. We use contentful to structure our data, build up dynamic pages on the site and define conditional content linking. One of the most important benefits that we have realized is using their new APP feature, which allows us to use easier and quicker to develop technologies and run content updates through their webhooks, automated deployments and run updates with a click of a button, which before considering we're a very small team was very time-consuming. Contentful were ass well kind enough to provide our non-profit organization with a free plan to use on our site and on our upcoming Webapp

Contentful makes data modeling extremely easy. It takes minutes to build a database schema to create a new app. I love how I can manage all the content in one place and distribute it to all sorts of systems.

While they offer a generous free plan, the pricing could get expensive pretty fast depending on your usage.

We are creating a content-rich application, Contentful allows us to manage content in one place and distribute to all sorts of different platform. The API calls are really fast and the documentation of each language is very well documented.

What I like most about Contentful is that we were up and running in minutes. We needed an API to go live but didn't have the time or resources to build everything in house. The second thing that I really love is the caching system. We perform a change and it's live immediately, no need to do anything else, and we love that!

For our use, it's missing the possibility to add logic to the fields. We would like to simplify the templates for the editors, so that they focus on the important fields... a little bit of logic would be great for that (if a, then do not display this field, etc).

Contentful has allowed us to go live in minutes with a rock-solid API. It would have taken us months to come up with an alternative (we developed a data collection software, and Contentful powers the surveys).

While building a new software with a lot of unknowns, one of the best decisions a software company can make is to use Contentful to tackle the complexities with highly reliable and flexible content infrastructure. The core product is very simple and efficient, scales from beginning to end. On top, it offers a great marketplace (and ability to build your own apps/extensions) that makes Contentful the winner of its own market. Highly recommended.

UX has some room for improvements, and company seems to be already working hard on adressing it.

We use Contentful for storing and managing highly dynamic data that is subject to change often structurally. Some ofthese data is partially business logic, some of them are layout (yes - we use Contentful as a layout editor as well!) Contentful not only makes it possible, it also provides a neat interface to manage it so we don't have to re-invent the wheel. For us, it's way beyond a CMS actually.

- Quick & friendly customer support - Flexible with few limitations - Simple and straight forward to work with - Possibility to custimize - Anyone can work with it once project is set up

- Minor limits in location API - Requires developer skills to set up project (which is why it comes with the advanced features we like, so not really a minus)

- Complex tagging of different content types to create a sophisticated search engine on site - Linking an external automated content base that updates the CMS content continuously

We tried just about all the headless CMS solutions, and Contentful was the most polished, most fully-featured, and was the easiest for non-technical team members to figure out and use.

GraphQL is the future of APIs, and most small startups use it now, but it is limited to the higher-level plans.

We use Contentful to manage everything from our websites and landing pages, to which sponsors to display on which programs, to configuration options and translations for in-person displays.

Even for those not used to CMS, the UI is simple and intuitive.

Spaces and users need a certain amount of development.

It's easy to use and super clean to enjoy so much. LOVE how our different parties will receive updates and review their different sections. Nevertheless, it is not possible to chat on the forum with direct support or assistance. Spaces and client interfaces were also available in different packages-this would help us increase the size.

Contentful is simple to use and comprehend, even for beginners in this sort platforms. What I like most about this platform is that it allows me to edit every type of content, coming in different formats, so our website is always renewed and grabbing attention. As a user of WordPress, I can tell Contentful is safer and more reliable than WordPress, so I definitely don't regret switching platforms at all.

To be frank, I have never come across any serious problem with Contentful. There are some minor complications when you start integrating it with Gatsby and when you start to model content, but there's nothing else to say.

Contentful is used in my organization across several departments, but it is specifically used in the Marketing Department to build web pages and content libraries that will be later used for Marketing purposes. We decided to implemented and keep Contentful because it provides many functions to maintain our information secured in our servers as a backup. I work as a developer too, and the usage of Gatsby as a static generator has been really helpful and has guided us a lot.

The ability to easily add new content models and create interdependencies between them, the GraphQL endpoint is a HUGE plus, the content creation interfaces are pretty intuitive and easy for beginners to use. Friendly support staff, and overall just gets the job done and gets it done well.

I would like the ability to preview linked media in the list view, as well as bulk uploading/editing. I'm finding that scripting is needed for some features that I'd expect to be available in the list view.

Contentful is helping the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus digitize and tag our 40-year media archive, opening our history and our story up to chorus members and the public at large. We'll be able to store, view, and enrich our history using advanced tagging, cross-referencing, and community input.

Contentful sites gracefully in the space between developers and content creators. As a solo dev, I've been able to give a team of 10 writers and 2 editors the ability to run with content and control it in a way with out static site builder that looks great and out-performs competitors on SEO.

It's getting better, but migrating content to new models is a bit tough. However as a solo designer/dev for Upsolve, it's also a matter of being constrained by time with other business needs.

Programmatically handling content is critical if we want to make more compelling web experiences and serve better SEO information to search engine crawlers. We're already dominating competitors with rich snippets.

A lot to love about Contentful. Very easy to use for the end user, slick and simple user interface and support for GraphQL. Awesom support and super-fast CDN. Easy to extend via Plugins and a very clean API.

Contentful has a notion of "Links" which can be many objects or one. However, would be great if we can model the reverse relationship without doubling the work (i.e. specify the children AND parent of each object).

Consolidating various CMS platform under one 'Content Platform', the benefits are speed, agility and one source of truth.

We were looking for secure and fast backend for our mobile app and web page. Contentful is content oriented solution with very intuitive interface. There is no need to contact support, but when needed, solved problem instantly. API and its documentation are easy to use.

Nothing found to dislike so far. I hope this will not change in future.

We are using Contentful for managing content in our mobile app and web page. The biggest benefit is time saving during managing content. Implementing multi localisation with Contentful went smoothly.

It is so simple to use. The content delivery API is so easy to use and very full featured. The UI extensions are great.

It is not as extensible as other options like ContentStack. It doesnt have a full featured Rich Text field yet.

A CMS for our ecommerce website.

Contentful is GREAT at modeling content. It's awesome to be able to model your content to represent your actual content and deliver it via simple SDK's and leave the rendering of that content to your web application, mobile app, etc... It also makes re-using content really simple.

I'd like to see more built-in field types. The new rich text editor is pretty good, but is missing things that are required for it to be truly useful in a web app setting. Also, with lots of content, the content editor can be a little overwhelming. You can save custom views which is basically just a single content type filter. Would be great to be able to create views that combine several related types of content, filter by a property, etc...

Right now we're utilizing Contentful for our non-profit's web site. The big benefits have been independence from developers and ease of content entry. It's also extremely fast!

User Interface: The UI is a breeze to use; it took 10 minutes to really navigate the platform. Training: It was easy for me as the project lead to train our staff, interns and our volunteer who is a mature adult (>50 years old). Localization: Adding additional languages is also very easy!

I haven't come across any dislikes yet, to be very honest!

This is the first platform we've used to organize content for our mobile app; before Contentful we had an ancient custom portal which was clunky and frankly, outdated. The benefits are endless!

Getting started was very quick. We don’t have to worry about security updates, fixing issues that cause downtime, or managing the global network that serves the CDA. We don’t have to worry about developing/supporting the core features of the CMS UI, and a lot of what we need exists in Contentful as standard fields or UI patterns. Over the lifespan of our project, we have constantly noticed improvements in functionality and admin/editing UI. The continuous development of Contentful is evident with daily use. The CMA is also quite nice, offering clear verification steps during migrations that make for good record keeping.

Some developer-facing tools/docs are lacking, but that has improved over time. Still, it can be difficult to find the docs you need unless you know the terminology you’re searching for (e.g. UI Extension SDK). Building more relational queries in a single request (i.e. using GraphQL) would be very nice, but that function only comes at very high price tiers. Multilingual data entry UI really needs improvement. For a site that supports many languages the UI becomes unmanageable with duplicated fields everywhere. Although Contentful is often marketed as a “backend-free” solution, any amount of customization to the existing CMS patterns involves some backend work, either within the consumer app or with the CMA doing migrations and so forth.

We built a content publishing system. We have rapidly evolved a legacy system of PDF downloads to a modern, mobile-friendly CMS.

i like that contentful is very user friendly

i dislike that sometime the pages take a while to load

streamlining processes and optimizing workflow

Honestamente, esto ha hecho que administrar mi contenido sea mucho más fácil. Solo soy lo suficientemente inteligente como para usar este software, si soy sincero. Con algunas búsquedas en Internet, y algunos gráficos de alta calidad. mi sitio web se ve mucho más nítido y puedo ofrecer una mejor experiencia al cliente.

Siento que es difícil para mí y para mi cofundador mantenerme comunicado sobre lo que estamos cambiando y sobre cómo controlar nuestras variaciones.

Se requiere menos tiempo para administrar, actualizar y construir nuestro sitio web. Me lleva mucho menos tiempo administrar el sitio y cargar / tratar el contenido y mucho más con nuestros clientes y nuestro producto.

I love how it can integrate with my already existing programs. I have also found the customer service to be incredible, always providing solid answers to all my questions

On occasion I have difficulty working my mobile app version. I think that may be more user based error, but I am still figuring out how to use it most effectively.

Because I can use it in my already exiting platforms, I have been solving my business problems more effectively and efficiently. The learning curve is very quick, making this an amazing product to just start working with right away. I have a photography business and am looking to create spaces for that.

Contentful deals number of valuable functions and also it's extremely wise and also easy to make use of. The truth you could produce your very own information framework as well as information partnerships is so valuable as well as allows full versatility within jobs. They supply a relatively practical cost-free usage limitation and also you could slowly broaden even more with tiny month-to-month charges.

Picture uploading could be uncomfortable as well as needs it to be done individually by hand. Web page might be better. It is far better for brand-new tasks compared to for tradition ones.There might be another action in rates for little tasks like the one I typically handle.

Handling internet site information, internet material and also keeping record declare releasing online. Allows me to make use of the item throughout numerous systems.

Managing website details and web product request launching online. A quick shipment and simple storage of material that can be handled by Marketing. It's an excellent tool for introducing customized landing pages and microsites for projects

Perhaps for big occasions depending upon the payment strategy that you have, you might be entrusted brief demands per second or per hour that restrict the material sneak peek API, however naturally this can be repaired by taking a strategy that constantly consists of more than you anticipate from the base.

I likewise I like its mechanics to pay as it broadens. The ease it provides you when it comes to forming the image of your online material in an easier method.

I enjoy the ease of use for the product.

It takes several steps to login. There could be a quicker way.

It is a great product and has helped me with Web Content Management.

I really love ease of use! No learning curve at at all.

There is genuinely nothing I can say I dislike about Contentful.

With Contentful I am able to effortlessly ship all of my content that has been a help when sending huge data everyday.

I'm the head of a German student-run nonprofit initiative. We use Contentful in conjunction with Gatsby and Netlify to host our website. Contentful's generous pro bono plan allows us to have individual author accounts for each of our individual chapters located in university towns all over Germany.

It should be easier to copy content models from one space to another.

We use Contentful to maintain https://studenten-bilden-schueler.de.

The flexibility of configuration, one can say there is real freedom of shape around your data. O also like their pay-as-you-expand mechanics. They give a pretty reasonable free usage limit and you can gradually expand beyond that with small monthly fees. If not for that - we'd probably won't buy the typical tiers. In the sense that we manage sites content and application content there. If it was not for the flexible pricing for sure, we might end up writing custom code and database for the storage. But here the value/price is balanced.

Search and slicing the significant number of content pieces is pretty nasty, but they are continually tackling and improving that stuff.

We manage three websites data and some parts of our application content there. We were able to provide Marketing team with the easy interface to maintain and build the site. At the same time, we were able to keep design consistency because they can add only the content.

it is the first time I am ursing a headless CMS. I found Contentful to be really intuitive and user friendly, even for beginners. The guide that is provided is really helpful and I liked the fact that you can find everything on the same page. The team was also available for my questions and ready to help. thank you!

when uploading images, the quality from the original picture can be reduced

the website was transfered from an organization to ours, the fact that Contentful is intuitive, even for beginners, was really useful in implementing the required changes rapidly.

What I like most about Contentful is that it's easy to navigate. They have a tutorial for you as soon as you join, and after you get the hang of it, it's like second nature. It's really helped my team make a cohesive website. I use Contentful every day for my job and it's one of the best software I've used for content management.

There isn't anything in particular that I would say I dislike about it. The only thing I could think of is that it seems intimidating at first, but once you know your way around you'll have no issues.

It's solving the way that we have to categorize things for our website. It puts everything into consideration when you're designing your website. It makes it so easy to have a cohesive website.