Contentful vs. Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
Score 7.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
TerminalFour Site Manager is the principal product from the global software company of the same name, a content management system available for local-hosting or cloud-based, primarily targeted at educational institutions, government and international bodies, but also retail and financial services organizations.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional$15,000 organisation per year
Additional DetailsGenerally the initial cost is between $15,000 to $100,000 with ongoing support and hosting subsequent years.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Security
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Contentful
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions7.30 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
5.0
Ratings
41% below category average
API8.30 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.70 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.30 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Admin section8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Page templates7.60 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Library of website themes7.50 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.70 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Form generator7.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
6.7
Ratings
9% below category average
Content taxonomy8.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
SEO support7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Bulk management7.70 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.50 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Community / comment management9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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8.0
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User Testimonials
ContentfulTerminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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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It is very good for users because it is simple to use and easy to understand. Although it is nice if users have a background in web design and HTML, it is not necessary in order to make basic updates to a web page
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Pros
  • 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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  • Ease of use
  • Nice interface
  • Web-based site manager
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Cons
  • 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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  • It can be a bit buggy with media library management.
  • The html editor can act pretty wonky sometimes with the html it translates things into.
  • The navigation builder tool is pretty confusing.
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Alternatives Considered
Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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WordPress is obviously a fantastic product. TerminalFour was more appropriate for our needs as determined by a team before my arrival. I think WordPress is better and cheaper but going with TerminalFour offered the opportunity to work with a smaller company to whom we mattered
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Increased employee efficiency.
  • Happier internal customers because changes are much easier than they used to be and we can often empower them to make their own changes to their websites.
  • For our application owner it's become a huge project that consumes all of his time. Not ideal but it's working for now. Knowledge sharing the more intricate pieces can be really difficult.
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Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Direct Edit with AnalyticsScreenshot of Login ScreenScreenshot of Media LibraryScreenshot of Form BuilderScreenshot of Form Results ReportScreenshot of Direct Edit