# CatBase Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about CatBase Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Catalog Management products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/88811/CatBase --- # CatBase 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)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) CatBase ## What is CatBase? CatBase rapidly turns your data into a perfectly formatted catalogue, directory, price list - or any kind of data-based publication. Manage and edit data manually, or import from spreadsheets, CSV, text files, XML, or via ODBC, and publish to Word, PDF, InDesign, QuarkXPress, XML, ODBC, csv, delimited text files, and Excel. Print labels. Include pictures and create QR codes and barcodes. Create custom hyperlinks and cross-references. Create Rules to determine what to publish and/or how to style it. Create labels, letters, emails. ## What is CatBase used for? [Directory](https://www.capterra.com/directory-software/)[Publishing and Subscriptions](https://www.capterra.com/publishing-and-subscriptions-software/)[Catalog Management](https://www.capterra.com/catalog-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 23 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive 83% Neutral 13% Negative 4% Starting price £595 Flat Rate, One Time Free trial 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 CatBase?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.catbase.com&name=CatBase) ## 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. ### CatBase 4.0 (23) VS. [4.6 (5,189)](https://www.capterra.com/p/153140/Connecteam/reviews/) Starting Price £595 Flat Rate, One Time Starting Price $29 Flat Rate, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 3.6 (23) Ease Of Use 4.7 (5,189) Value For Money 4.1 (10) Value For Money 4.5 (4,949) Customer Service 4.7 (23) Customer Service 4.6 (4,965) ## CatBase alternatives [4.8 (803)](https://www.capterra.com/p/133173/Brilliant-Directories/reviews/) Starting price $1450.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 99% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (307)](https://www.capterra.com/p/176854/Flipsnack/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 93% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [DCatalog](https://www.capterra.com/p/148417/DCatalog/) [4.9 (40)](https://www.capterra.com/p/148417/DCatalog/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/148417/DCatalog/) [Publitas](https://www.capterra.com/p/207703/Publitas/) [4.6 (58)](https://www.capterra.com/p/207703/Publitas/reviews/) Starting price $31.00 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/207703/Publitas/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/88811/CatBase/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Advertising Management Manage advertising space and its sales within your network or publication API Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Catalog Creation Create catalogs of products and/or services Catalog Management Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price Content Management Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving CRM Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system CatBase 16 features Manage advertising space and its sales within your network or publication Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Create catalogs of products and/or services Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system Alter the layout and content of reports Create labels for products that contain required information such as colors, sizes, dates, etc. Partially or fully automated creation of formatted publications from unformatted data Create, update or delete entries in a directory Configure publication's layout before publishing Manage and support multiple languages Tool used to determine accurate pricing and product eligibility for borrowers Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.5 (10) 4.5 Based on 10 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.1 (10) Free Trial Single-User Licence £595.00 Flat Rate,One Time Multi-User £2,495 Per User, Value for money 4.1 (10) 4.1 Based on 10 reviews ## Integrations [ Microsoft Excel](https://www.capterra.com/p/176574/Excel/)[ Microsoft Word](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/)[ MySQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/11482/MySQL/)[ Adobe InDesign](https://www.capterra.com/p/233314/Adobe-InDesign/)[ QuarkXPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/) 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 4.7 (23) 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 4.7 (23) 4.7 Based on 23 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.0 Based on 23 reviews Filter by rating 5(6) 4(13) 3(3) 2(0) 1(1) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent AW Amanda W. Managing Director Publishing ### "Digital Directory Publishing" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 19, 2019 Pros This is a brilliant and flexible product that allows us to maintain a huge database of business information that is then published digitally creating a search engine of over 18 000 business listings and marketing profiles across 328 industry categories. Cons There is nothing I don't like - the issue is trying to get to grips with its full usefulness and potential! 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. AC Alyson C. Senior Marketing Manager Government Relations ### "Making Catalog Production Easier" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 June 19, 2019 Pros It makes it much easier to produce a document with hundreds of products included. Cons When you make changes to a template, it often causes errors to show up elsewhere. 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. CS Charles S. YP book production manager Publishing ### "First time user" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 June 14, 2019 we are in experimental stage - but it looks very positive that we will be producing all our YP and telephone directories from CatBase once we can complete a Proof of Concept with representative. Pros As a first time user it is actually difficult to describe what I like most about this software. But I guess it is the ability to define character styles prior to exporting into In Design, as well as the ability to merge the graphics with the export. I will be able to provide more feedback once i officially roll out this into my entire department - towards the end of August 2019 Cons Initially table setup and export was a nightmare, with a version upgrade this appears to be sorted out. From a Yellow Pages perspective we are having difficulty with setting our "group listing" so perhaps this could be looked into? Reasons for choosing CatBase still in the process of the POC - once/if we move it will be for pagination flexibility and cost 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. GW Gavin W. Marketing Co-ordinator Wholesale ### "Powerful, but tricky" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 June 13, 2019 Our intention is to use CatBase to remove the need for our xTags files to be hard-coded by a developer. Instead, they will provide XML and CatBase will sit as middle-ware. Pros This software is really powerful. Combined with xTags, it really does seem to be the only product on the market that can take data, and give non-programming staff the ability to output huge databases of content in the correct flow for their design. It has great barcode support, style support and ingest/outputs the data nice and quickly. Cons It can be buggy, and the setup/learning curve is very steep. However, the main issue is that the UI is clunky, dated and the naming of options can make it very hard to know what to do next. 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. SF Seth F. Production Lead Newspapers ### "CatBase Review" 1.0 Overall Rating 1.0 1.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 2.0 2.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 0/10 June 12, 2019 Overall this program has been quite a lot of trouble compared to how it is advertised. I would not recommend it for a small team. The customer support is responsive, but either unwilling or unable to fix problems that arise. Whoever implements this at your company will likely have to fix any problem that arises or find a work-around. The learning curve, aside from the basic things that the program can do, is very steep. Pros CatBase does some of what our company needs it to do. We needed CatBase to be able to take user created classified ads, organize them by publishing date and calculate a cost based on line count with a specific font. It is able to do this, but with some hiccups along the way. Cons CatBase has had quite a few hiccups over the past 11 months we've been using it. Entries will change their data without a user prompting it. When we publish data we get garbage (for our purposes) characters such as "&" instead of just an "&." This is not a copy and paste issue because it shows up on entries that are completely hand typed. There is not a print option as in most programs. We had the CatBase team create custom scripts because, even though advertising the product as capable of handling classifieds, it was not equipped to do so. This custom scripting calculated the amount of issues that a classified ad would run and then retrieve a price from a lookup table. The calculation would always end up being over by 1. This is a basic programming mistake. 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 June 13, 2019 Hello, We are very sorry to read this feedback. Please contact us with details of the issues you are encountering, and we will make sure they are fixed promptly. CH Charles H. Owner Sports ### "Wonderful software!!! Produces your catalog in a flash." 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 22, 2017 Saved money and got a catalog produced faster Pros It gets the job done! It is just amazing how it takes all the info we throw at it and just produces a nice professional catalog. Price is fair and customer service is great. Cons Can take a bit of time to set up all the parameters but I have to admit that we did have a lot of custom requests. However the customer service is impeccable and leads you through any problems you may have. 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. JF Jacki F. ### "Great tool for large layout projects" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 0/10 March 20, 2017 Catbase enables us to automate the importing and styling of large quantities of text and images, saving us time and streamlining a process which can otherwise take many hours. It's a great product which is invaluable to our business. 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. SM Sheldon M. ### "Hard to believe" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 0/10 March 17, 2017 Its hard to believe how great this program really is. I highly recommend it for anyone that has struggled with the layout of directories or catalogs. 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. RS Rupert S. ### "Totally transformed our report production" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 17, 2017 Using Catbase has totally transformed production of our annual Who's Where in Auto Retail report, speeding up the process, giving us a more accurate final product and saving us bucket loads of time. Product support is good if we get a glitch and they helped us set up our templates. Highly recommended 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. BP Bebin P. Project Manager/Designer Media Production ### "CatBase Review" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 16, 2017 CatBase is a best application for data publishing. User friendly, easy to access, overall it's a superb tool. I have few suggestions: (if possible) 1. We have using this in daily basis for data entry. If we have a option to choose multiple themes (background color), ie: if we choose rose theme then all project window will be pink color, it's maybe a funny idea. WHY I'm thinking is, data entry operator entering data for whole day. If we had a option for change theme they will be happy and good mind to entering data. 2. If possible, open different projects on time in separate window. (currently we can able to open multiple window for same project) 3. Login window also little bigger and new design would be looks great. Production wise: 4. Overall design output preview in style-sheet area. 5. Any kind of document upload into records, for future reference. like emails (.eml/.msg, .pdf, ...etc) 6. Record change history (last 5/10 saves) in the same window. however, overall it's really great and awesome. thanks! Pros User friendly and modification access. Cons Scripting? we don't know... LOL. No Cons! 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 16, 2017 Thank you Bebin. Regarding your point no. 6: In the latest version, there is an Audit Trail option which keeps track of every change made to the database. See https://www.catbase.com/the-audit-trail-manager.html [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/88811/CatBase/reviews/) ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/proprietary-data-research/) How Capterra verifies reviews Capterra carefully verified over 2.5 million+ reviews to bring you authentic software experiences from real users. 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