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Contentstack Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated
Contentstack is a company based in San Francisco that’s built to offer API-first headless CMS. The platform is built to empower marketers and developers to collaborate around content to create customer journeys and deliver dynamic digital experiences across channels, audiences, brands, and regions. It is Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless.
| Capabilities |
API
CLI
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| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPhone, On-Premise Linux |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
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I love that Contentstack is a customizable platform backed by a team of knowledgeable engineers who can help you through any solutions you want.
It's hard to see future architectural problems (API limitations, for example) when you first step into Contentstack. If you don't get the starting architecture right, it could spell scalability problems, so be sure to put a lot of thought into how you scale the platform and confirm that the action plan would work.
As our CMS, Contentstack helps to serve data to our front end via REST or GraphQL calls. Such a flexible platform allows us to implement creative and unique programmatic solutions.
User friendly, flexibility in arranging content specially in case the quantity of content spreads across different themes and types.
None as of now, may be wait and find out later when the time comes to scale up content
Run articles, recency updates, news, latest insights, and product updates and release these content to our users from a single CMS. Easy and efficient.
I find this platform very useful for configuring and maintaining the content of a web application. I've been using it briefly, but I think it's understandable from the beginning. It also allows the content to be separated according to type, which gives an order; this is good when the website has a lot of content.
I have no suggestions for now, I have worked well with the tool.
I'm currently working with a client, whose business is an e-commerce web application, my job is to test the application, from the functional and logical (software development) part to the content that is shown to the users, the content is constantly changing due to special dates, promotions, new articles to read, etc.
An exceptionally customized CMS which is easy to utilize and offers great help. It improves on the advancement of promptly upheld Spark applications. The Contentstack staff was involved concerning our business case. They're efficient and cordial.
There's a precarious expectation to absorb information, likewise, the ongoing UI needs assortment, which makes working on the backend testing some of the time. Issues becoming accustomed to the new point of interaction.
By bringing together our site material inside Contentstack, we've simplified it for new clients to add to our sites. We have smoothed out strategies and integrated an assortment of advances, prominently our in-house framework.
A highly personalized CMS which is simple to use and provides good support. It simplifies the development of readily supported Spark applications. The Contentstack staff was hands-on regarding our business case. They're well-organized and friendly.
There's a steep learning curve, also the current UI lacks variety, which makes functioning on the backend challenging sometimes. Problems getting used to the new interface.
By centralizing our website material inside Contentstack, we've made it simple for new users to contribute to our websites. We have streamlined procedures and incorporated a variety of technologies, notably our in-house system.
Easy to use, scalable, making web publishing and ongoing maintenance very easy!
We ran into a few technical difficulties but was supported by the team and the issues have been resolved
Implementation of web publishing standards across various business on the continent. Due to a solid implementation it is easy and fast to roll out new sites, new pages and maintenance and updates to web pages arent a challenge any more.
Contentstack seems to be pretty straight-forward and nimble to understand in terms of building templates, and is intuitive to get around in (finding content entries, editing, publishing, scheduling, etc). It is great for managing regular eCommerce promotions and putting together storytelling pages about products using atomic content modules I designed.
ContentStack needs more pre-built solutions out of the box that are commonly requested business needs of content mgmt teams--a blog, a preview of content (especially an entire page) within the product without having to publish, pre-configured content modules that can be dragged and dropped in the desired order, an easy way to set custom URLs at the root level...basically if they could mimic more of the experience of a WordPress or Squarespace CMS, it'd get content teams onboard so fast! Otherwise, you have to have a seasoned Product Mngr with a vision for all of these things who has to define it all upfront, then have a tech team spend months of time building it all. Sales team should identify common use case for content marketing nowadays and come up with pre-built examples. I worked for many years in the CMS SaaS industry and we always built a lot of pre-existing models like this to close sales deals.
The biggest struggle is being able to create custom URLs at the root level, example: mydomain.com/hello. We're working on some kind of backend rails solution for this. It seems its been a bit of an extra struggle getting things to work with rails, but I know CS has a rails gem that we haven't explored using yet...we are just doing raw calls as I understand it. My tech team has been saddles with hundreds of requests for other things, so we dont have the time to dedicate to the CMS.
Contentstack helps in changing the content of web sites. It provides instant access to the data and changes it quickly. This speedy working helps in maintaining the data and updating process brings ease for the users. The system is very much simple and efficient. Furthermore it is very feasible to use the tools for data change without any complicated training. It's quickness and efficientvservices make it more effective for all sort of devices. The team of Contentstack is always ready to hear from you.
We can get many tools in Contentstack that help us in making our work easy. But still there is space for more improvement and changes in the features and tools. The dashboard can be made easier.
Contentstack is a CMS provider that provides latest services to the computers and mobile phone devices. These services include all The web development and technology based. It provides latest digital services to the customers. These services are available for computers, laptops, tablets and digital watches.
All the media files can be readily managed through one control panel. You can also review your previous content/asset and also save the last ones. You can also add security through SSO with SAML 2.0 and more.
There are no major disadvantages, but apart from seeing the built in examples it would be better to upload some of the projects on new devices such as smart watches and VR headsets.
The foremost feature is that Contentstack allows the user to upload its data to any environment of testing, developing and production.
Well thought out and designed interface. Makes it very easy to configure content types with many different types of fields and options. Nested and optionally multiple grouping was one of the features that makes Content Stack stand out. Unlike some other options CMS is not blog oriented and easily to understand JSON output can be used and shared across multiple services.
In the past scheduling entries to be published at future dates has been confusing for some of our content creators if edits are made after a post has been scheduled. Need to be careful modifying existing fields in established content types to avoid accidentally losing data. I hear this is an improvement they are working on.
There are many benefits of having a headless CMS that just outputs json and associated assets. Solved our need to serve static content but retain the ability for content creators to make edits without engineering assistance.