--- description: Review of October CMS Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: October CMS | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Content Management Systems](/directory/4543/cms/software) > [October CMS](/software/240736/october) # October CMS Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/240736/october Page: 1 / 6\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/240736/october?page=2) > October CMS is a content management system built using PHP and the Laravel framework, designed to make it fast and easy to develop modern applications that scale. October CMS's intuitive interface makes it simple for non-developers to manage their own sites, while its extensible architecture allows developers to build customized features quickly and easily. The October CMS Marketplace offers a curated collection of themes and plugins created by the community of October developers. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 108 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 108 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: October CMS ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$29.00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **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, Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada and 120 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Audio File Management - Calendar Management - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Content Library - Content Publishing Options - Customisable Branding - Customisable Templates - Document Management - Drag & Drop - Electronic Forms - Forms Management - Image Editing - Multi-Language - SEO Management - Search/Filter - Social Media Integration - Tagging ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/software) ## Related Categories - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/software) - [Web Content Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4471/web-content-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Rapid development is one of the key-features why we chose October CMS. > > **Cons**: Most of the features we found missing are being worked on. October CMS has listened to our feature requests and have put them on their road-map. > > We're using October CMS for (developing) websites, web applications, customer platforms, PWA's and backend management for API's. ----- ### "Engineered for simplicity" — 5.0/5 > **Azahari** | *21 November 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: October CMS is unlike any other content management platform. It is simple and easy to be use out of the box, and the plugin features that is offered out of the box can be extended to practically anything. We have use it for a simple single page website, to an enterprise software that manages stocks and inventory with nearly 1 million record transactions per months. Documentation are awesome and the API is pretty much self-explanatory, > > **Cons**: The community developing publicly available plugins and themes for October CMS is currently not as active as other CMS. > > October CMS is an amazing CMS that can be used to manage any type of contents, be it contents for a website or a backend system managing non-public facing contents for an enterprise. Event management, registration, inventory tracking, medical records management and clients' portfolio management are some of the projects we have had fun with developing with October CMS ----- ### "Good for some purposes" — 3.0/5 > **MIchal** | *1 November 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: ease of use by end user, tailor, simplicity > > **Cons**: documentation - not so many tutorials on tailor or how to make own plugins ----- ### "Best CMS I've seen in the last decade" — 5.0/5 > **Alexandre** | *10 November 2022* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Most of the things are intuitive. No need to install 50+ plugins to have base features. Theming is awesome, and you save lot of time compared to a standard laravel application. In fact, it allow us to do tailor made websites for the price of a template based wordpress website (ok, just a little more expensive). > > **Cons**: Some elements are a bit less well designed or missing. The most missing feature to me is a page builder that would allow customer to edit their landing page content in a visual way. Or the file management widget that is confising between fileupload and media manager. > > I'm an experienced web developper, more than 15 years of experience. Worked with Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla... October CMS is the best experience I could see since I do that Job. ----- ### "Laravel-based CMS made easy" — 5.0/5 > **Renick** | *9 November 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love the underlaying Laravel foundation, and the easy-to-adjust backend forms. It just works. Well. I never had bigger trouble with updates (minding updating trouble with WordPress, Typo3, Magento....) which saves lots of time and money. > > **Cons**: It still misses some features typical cms have. Like version control, a out-of-the-box blog boilerplate, migrations of content. But in theory, everything can be custom created by ourself. > > We work since the beginning of OctoberCMS with it. We came from WordPress and Grave (Database-driven, and flat-file). And OctoberCMS is the best of both world. Quite fast, but also has all database strengths. It provides us a RAD environment to create web-based software for all our needs. ----- Page: 1 / 6\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/240736/october?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/240736/october) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data