# Contensis Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Contensis Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Content Management products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/68368/Contensis --- # Contensis Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Contensis ## What is Contensis? Contensis is the CMS that powers websites for some of the UK's leading organisations. It handles huge sites and publishes global content, naturally. But it is also easy to use, and simple to manage. Built on a scalable architecture, Contensis can deliver content through multiple channels formatted for any device. People love Contensis. It provides them with an elegant user experience and an unrivalled sense of ownership over their content. ## What is Contensis used for? [Content Management](https://www.capterra.com/content-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 21 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive 90% Neutral 10% Negative 0% Starting price $1000 Per Feature, Per Month Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Contensis?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.istable.com&name=Contensis) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Contensis 4.3 (21) VS. [4.7 (118)](https://www.capterra.com/p/205117/Dokmee-ECM/reviews/) Starting Price $1000 Per Feature, Per Month Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.1 (21) Ease Of Use 4.6 (28,352) Value For Money 4.4 (16) Value For Money 4.6 (20,497) Customer Service 4.3 (18) Customer Service 4.6 (18,495) ## Contensis alternatives Highest Rated [Google Drive](https://www.capterra.com/p/161425/Drive/) [4.8 (28,476)](https://www.capterra.com/p/161425/Drive/reviews/) Starting price $7.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 98% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/161425/Drive/) [WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) [4.6 (14,980)](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/reviews/) Starting price $9.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) [Microsoft SharePoint](https://www.capterra.com/p/1167/SharePoint/) [4.4 (5,429)](https://www.capterra.com/p/1167/SharePoint/reviews/) Starting price $5.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 87% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/1167/SharePoint/) [Wix](https://www.capterra.com/p/169007/Wix/) [4.4 (10,661)](https://www.capterra.com/p/169007/Wix/reviews/) Starting price $17.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 88% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/169007/Wix/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/68368/Contensis/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Access Controls/Permissions 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Collaboration Tools 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Content Publishing Options 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Facilitates online authoring and publishing of the content Customizable Templates 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements Document Management 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location Text Editing 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Edit text as needed Contensis 23 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval Manage assets throughout their lifecycle to optimize profit Supports audio files Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Facilitates online authoring and publishing of the content Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location Digital forms that are shared and accessed online Search for specific words or phrases within a document or database Edit, touch up, and convert images for publishing Manage and support multiple languages Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria Optimize and manage the search engine optimization efforts for a website or digital content Allow users to access multiple services after entering their login credentials once Edit text as needed Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions Supports various video file formats Built-in website builder or integration with third-party site Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.0 (21) 4.0 Based on 21 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.4 (16) Basic $1,000 Per Feature,Per Month Value for money 4.4 (16) 4.4 Based on 16 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.3 (18) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.3 (18) 4.3 Based on 18 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.3 Based on 21 reviews Filter by rating 5(8) 4(11) 3(2) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent DM David m. Developer Museums and Institutions ### "A long time working with Contensis" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 June 1, 2022 Contensis has a strong community that is getting stronger by the day. The Contensis slack channel is an awesome support tool because you can communicate directly with Zengenti and with other developers and programmers at other organisations. So if I’m ever stuck someone in a council, university or other organisation can help me, because they might have come across the same thing too. At Zengenti they're very much about listening to their customers and adding feedback to the framework and roadmap. Pros We have been working with Zengenti and using Contensis for 6 years. The product is easy to use and therefore provides a lot of flexibility for designers, developers and marketers. Once someone understands how to do one thing in Contensis they can do everything in Contensis, it’s that straightforward because everything is documented so well. The Zengenti team are also very easy to work with and has been like an extension of our team. As a developer, the API’s in Contensis are better than most I’ve seen. They’re easy to access, are secure and once you've set them up, you can just pull in anything. So from a developer's point of view, if you wanted to create an app, you've got that access to the data straight away, you can transform it into whatever you want and just pump it out to the customer. A favourite feature for myself and the content teams is the ability to create content once and reuse that content across the site multiple times, which was something that we couldn’t do with our previous application and was particularly helpful during COVID. The reusable components across the site have made a massive difference to our teams. We have a lot of confidence in the product and the platform continues to be updated with new features that are requested by the Contensis community, which shapes and influences the roadmap of the product, which is very unusual for most development companies. Cons It's hard to say this as criticism, but as a developer, I needed to keep myself up to date with the latest technologies to make the most of the system. Zengenti always looks for ways to improve their system, whether front-end performance or backend interface. Reasons for choosing Contensis The Contensis platform offered a better user interface. We felt out team could work more efficiently using this system Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JY Jason Y. Developer Internet ### "Good first impressions" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 February 17, 2021 Pros The product is easy to use with lots of features. From a development perspective it has everything that our organisation needs to fulfill our requirements. Cons Placing a composer within a composer might be useful in some cases. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 9, 2021 Hi Jason Thank you for taking the time to review Contensis and we're glad it's fulfilling the requirements of your organisation. We've been doing a lot of thinking around our composer and component editors and ways of nesting these to provide more flexibility. Hopefully we'll be able to share something more later in the year. Regards Richard Contensis Product Owner PB Paul B. Software engineer Mechanical or Industrial Engineering ### "Contensis cms migration and evolution" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 13, 2021 Pros The platform is developed and evolving content types to keep up with modern web development, whilst not leaving classic pages totally behind. The customer engagement has also ramped up with lockdown webinars which is a big bonus. There is a general ethos of wanting the customer to be satisfied and for a long term relationship unlike some other vendors Cons The evolution can be a double edged sword for a small team with lots of content, especially after an initial migration into predominantly classic pages when the way forward is content types and entries. There is a fairly steep learning curve to do anything not run of the mill but it is generally possible (api calls in use but undocumented for instance) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 9, 2021 Hi Paul You are right in saying we see the future as Content types and entries, and we hope the new fully documented APIs will aid you in any future development. We've had many teams across a wide range of organisations migrating from their classic architecture from classic webpages and we'd be more than happy to discuss this through our professional services team to get you started and up to speed. Regards Richard Contensis Product Owner TL Tom L. Digital communications officer Hospital & Health Care ### "A brilliant bit of software to manage our website and intranet" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 12, 2021 We are incredibly pleased with Contensis and have recently enrolled in implementing a new intranet, using contensis. This is because of Zengenti's commitment to support us in creating a functioning, accessible and efficient content management system. Pros Contensis is an accessible and well developed content management system that is easy to use. Zengenti are always on hand to help support with issues and truly understand what users want. Cons There doesn't some to be a coherent error detector. Sometimes css files on the same page conflict, and it's a real long and arduous process of elimination to understand the issue. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 9, 2021 Hi Tom Firstly thank you for your feedback and that you're enjoying using Contensis and I'll pass this back to the team. As for your issues detecting errors, I'm sure someone in our Slack community can help your narrow things down to understand where any problem lies in your code, or alternatively raise a ticket with our support team and we'll try and work together to solve any issues you may have. Richard Contensis Product Owner Julian R. IT Developer Public Relations and Communications ### "Content management for medium to large businesses" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 December 10, 2019 Good customer service- although not much in the way of documentation for problems online. Pros Contensis is an ASP.net and C# based content management system- it is somewhat easy to use as it organises things in quite a visual way. Cons Coding in additional functionality can be problematic- the templating system needs an overhaul I think. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SB Steve B. Webmaster Government Administration ### "We took our time procuring a CMS, but made the right decision for us." 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 20, 2019 The template training in Ludlow proved most useful at the start of our association with Zengenti. This gave us the confidence to quickly develop templates and configure the CMS. Without this, I can see how it may appear complex - especially if this is your first experience of a comprehensive CMS. Pros Contensis allows us to fulfil our business goals. For example, by using the Enterprise edition on a cloud hosted platform, we have been able to support our associated businesses and currently have 18 projects (websites) in the CMS. Cloud hosting allows us to concentrate on our responsibilities rather than the working environment of the CMS itself. This also encourages us to regularly upgrade. The intrinsic search worked well straight out of the box and is easily refined to produce good results. Permissions can be assigned at high level or down to individual folders on the template or even a content type. A substantial amount of the CMS functionality can be configured using the Management Console. The quality assurance module is most useful –especially when enabled upon submission; this is really useful and helps us to maintain standards. Content Types and Entries are encouraging us to publish content in new and exciting ways. We have found Zengenti support to be quick and mostly helpful in the first instance. The CMS evolves on a regular basis with new and improved functionality. Cons If you want an element to be hidden from internal search results, you can use a tag in the template – for example: navigation, headers and footers. We haven’t found a similar tag that we can insert around elements we want to hide from the quality assurance module. For example, some links that are slow to load (forms) timeout, these show as broken links. Reasons for choosing Contensis We were impressed with the Zengenti ethos. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. TJ Tara Jane M. Developer Transportation/Trucking/Railroad ### "Great New features" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 November 20, 2019 Pros Drag and drop and the new content types and entries Cons Directory structure can be confusing. Not easy to set up to use with visual studio 2017 Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MN Miles N. Ecommerce Content Manager Education Management ### "Contensis" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 2.0 2.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 2/10 October 18, 2019 Laborious Pros version control is good preview mode also good Cons Not user friendly or intuitive get punished for inputting HTML code pages/assets fail to get updated despite being published can only edit one page at a time error messages aren't always helpful at troubleshooting issues Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SH Steve H. Business associate - Web development Government Administration ### "Contensis in use at a Local Council" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 October 17, 2019 Contensis has been a great solution to meet most of our needs as a local authority as a CMS product. Good company with helpful friendly staff and good customer service. They have regular meetings and user groups to take feedback about the product and notify people of upcoming roadmap changes. Pros Good CMS solution for creating corporate or partnership websites. Allows for internal development of multiple sites building your own designs and templates. Constantly developed solution that is updated and new features added on a regular basis. Cons Too much technical development knowledge required for some of the newer features such as content types. The forms solution needs more development work compared to competitors who offer low code solutions. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 28, 2019 Hi Steve, Thanks for your feedback. We have put together workshop packages for some of our other customers to get them up to speed with building sites using content types and entries. Our consultants can run these either as a regular remote session or condensed into several days of on-site training at our offices. If you're interested, Steve will be able to give you more information. Thanks, Si Horan Chief Product Officer LG Lacey G. Content Designer Civic & Social Organization ### "Intuitive and adaptable CMS" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 17, 2019 Pros Contensis has made it much easier for us to create content tailored for the various services in our large organisation. We have a mixture of transactional and commercial services that need a totally different look and feel and we have been able to build components to suit these different needs. Content types and entries are really useful and have saved us a lot of time for repetitive content such as listing out hundreds of car parks! Cons It would be useful to be able to bulk edit or move content. It would also be good if the approvals process could be improved as we have content editors and approvers in our organisation so this is something we use a lot. Switched from [GOSS Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/116708/GOSS-iCM/) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 24, 2019 Hi Lacey, Thanks for your feedback. I'm glad to hear that content types and entries have made it easier for you to manage large collections of content. Listing hundreds of car parks is the kind of scenario where well-structured content really comes into its own! I'd like to hear more about your experience with the approvals workflow. Could you put any improvements you'd like to see in the suggestions channel in the Contensis Slack workspace? 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