CommonSpot vs. Contentful

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CommonSpot
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
CommonSpot is a Web platform that includes a content management system, an application development framework, marketing solutions, and social media features from PaperThin, Inc, a privately held, MA-based company. PaperThin's customers span multiple industries, including: government, healthcare, higher education, and association/non-profit sectors.N/A
Contentful
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
$300
per month
Pricing
CommonSpotContentful
Editions & Modules
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Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CommonSpotContentful
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CommonSpotContentful
Features
CommonSpotContentful
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
CommonSpot
7.0
Ratings
14% below category average
Contentful
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
CommonSpot
6.3
Ratings
20% below category average
Contentful
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Code quality / cleanliness6.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Admin section6.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Page templates7.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Library of website themes7.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Publishing workflow7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Form generator4.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
CommonSpot
7.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy7.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
SEO support7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Bulk management8.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Community / comment management9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CommonSpot
-
Ratings
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
API00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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Usability
8.0
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User Testimonials
CommonSpotContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
I do actually think CommonSpot is pretty well suited when the organization that you work for requires very specific parameters on site design. It was very clear what could be used and what could not in the design of individual department pages. The other thing I think CommonSpot is best suited for is website content management done by people with little or no website content management experience. It's very intuitive and easy to use and thus, easy to train people on.
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Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.
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Pros
  • I think CommonSpot's greatest strength is its ease of use. It's relatively intuitive in it's usage, so it therefore makes it easy to train new people to use it.
  • Within my usage of it, our options were limited, which again added to it's ease of use.
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  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
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Cons
  • Commonspot needs to improve on its authoring feature. It is impossible to author on more than one page at a time . (One must always click on "View work on all changes") before switching between pages otherwise, the changes will not be saved.
  • CommonSpot does not support sharing the definition of any custom element or any template layouts. Therefore, one must recreate these in each site.
  • In Commonspot, a user who has to manage content in multiple sites will have to log in to each site to see and act on any actions.
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  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)
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Usability
I had no previous background in content management, and found it very easy to use. If I could figure it out, I am pretty certain that just about anyone else could as well.
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Alternatives Considered
Commonspot works in tandem with Zendesk very well to accomplish tasks an an efficient manner.
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Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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Return on Investment
  • Better customer service
  • Improved accountability as it regards tracking the tasks assigned to which employee
  • Improved accountability led to increased employee efficiency
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  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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