--- description: Review of Concrete CMS Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Concrete CMS | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Web Content Management Systems](/directory/4471/web-content-management/software) > [Concrete CMS](/software/267444/concrete5) # Concrete CMS Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/267444/concrete5 Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/267444/concrete5?page=2) > Concrete CMS is an Open Source Content Management System for teams. Run a secure website your content contributors will love using with Concrete CMS. The user experience is built around in-context editing. It’s as easy to use as a word processor. Users will spend less time training people, and less time having to fix things themselves. As an open source framework the software can build complex applications as features like permissions, workflow, file management, calendar, forms, SEO and so much more are built right in. A marketplace of add-ons \& themes and an active community can help users quickly deliver effective solutions using Concrete CMS. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 54 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 54 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Concrete CMS - **Founded**: 2002 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Concrete CMS is completely open-source. It's free to use as is or if you know a PHP developer, they can make do anything you want. You can use any developer, not just specialized consultants licensed by some big company. Concrete CMS is free. Web hosting is not. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Access Control - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Approval Process Control - Asset Lifecycle Management - Calendar Management - Collaboration Tools - Compliance Management - Configurable Workflow - Content Library - Content Management - Content Publishing Options - Customisable Branding - Customisable Forms - Customisable Templates - Design Management - Digital Asset Management - Document Classification ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Web Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4471/web-content-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Web Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4471/web-content-management/software) - [Enterprise Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/3485/enterprise-content-management-system/software) - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4543/cms/software) - [Website Builder Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4652/website-builder/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Webflow](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/348105/webflow) — 4.5/5 (265 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Concrete5 simply the best ^^" — 5.0/5 > **Olivier** | *3 December 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: maning thing to say the content and page manaegament, the block system flexibility, the page's management, the easy way for the design development, and so on > > **Cons**: perhaps the docs not completely done for new version > > i'mm using ConcreteCms for all website, e-commerce, content management, proffessionnal software, intranet back end. I can do all with it, then i do :) ----- ### "Concrete5 Easy to use" — 5.0/5 > **Liv** | *13 September 2019* | Sports | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It's intuitive - the block system is much easier than Wordpress. This power is in the simplicity - but you can make it as complex as you need with add ons. It's much easier to organize your site with Concrete5, also. > > **Cons**: There may be fewer add ons than Wordpress options? But I can't say for sure. > > It's easy and fast to post, edit, and update. The menus are comprehensive and simple and makes keeping your site running easy. ----- ### "Obsolete" — 2.0/5 > **Kelly** | *16 February 2021* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: When our website was first built in this software we were thrilled. It was truly an upgrade from our former site. We could fairly easily make updates and changes. The website looked good, was mobile responsive (though not without issue) and was able to handle some plug-ins for some of the things we needed our site to be able to do. > > **Cons**: Our site was built on a version that was already on the fast track to becoming obsolete. This was something we did not know, I'm not sure if the vendor we selected to build our site new that it was about to expire. At any rate, we had spent thousands of dollars to get this beautiful site and once it expired in 2019 we had no option but to start again from scratch. Costing our organization a great deal of hard earned donations. > > We were happy at the outset of our Concrete5 journey, but it didn't last long making us feel we were thrown into the ocean wearing concrete shoes as support was no longer available to fix problems on our site. Needless to say we did not have our website rebuilt in Concrete5. None of the vendors with reasonable rates even recommended using this platform for creating a website. ----- ### "Congrete5 CMS Review" — 4.0/5 > **Ikechukwu** | *16 February 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Powerful Backend Flexible CMS App and Date and admin Tools in one Place Integration in ways that is very smart and effective Use AI to provide insight > > **Cons**: Not Very Popular and needs alot of awareness to see the beauty > > Concrete5 has all features on one page, you dont have tol be moving allover looking for a particular feature or tool or function, they are all right there before you on you backend screen ----- ### "Painless CMS" — 4.0/5 > **Tim** | *25 February 2021* | Architecture & Planning | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: C5 allows you to set up either templated site frameworks or makes it fairly easy to adapt a scratch design to enterprise-level CMS. As a developer, I find set up easy and fairly intuitive. As a user and one who coordinates other users, I find it far superior to Wordpress in terms in managing and adding content. And, while no framework is bulletproof from a security standpoint, I've found C5 to be the best at preventing issues, easily backing up and easily restoring a site when stuff does happen. > > **Cons**: There's a bit of a lag between the software's upgrades and PHP updates. Like Wordpress, functionality is managed via plugins created largely by independent developers. As host update PHP versions, there is frequently a disconnection between functionality and available/installed "stuff." In other words, the core C5 app may well be functional with an updated PHP version but the plugins in use will, on occasion, not keep up. That leaves short period of scrambling to either fix it yourself or make due until the fix is made. > > It has made it possible to both create customer sites for clients in the past as well as maintain a highly functioning enterprise website today. The learning curve is manageable and the addons are, typically, well tested and reliable. It is the best development platform I've used to date. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/267444/concrete5?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/267444/concrete5) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data