--- 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 - Image Editing - Multi-Language - SEO Management - Search/Filter - Tagging - Text Editing - Third-Party Integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/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. ----- ### "My favourite development platform" — 5.0/5 > **Cy** | *13 January 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to setup and deploy. Powerful and flexible. > > **Cons**: The text editing experience needs improvement and modernising. A simple integrated eCommerce system would be a game changer. > > I love building with October CMS. Predominantly build custom client sites. ----- ### "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 ----- ### "The perfect CMS for custom websites" — 5.0/5 > **Pietro Emiliano** | *11 January 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like the fact that it's very easy to customize, themes are totally customizable, you can use whatever framework you like and connect it with the backend in a very easy way.Even the backend can be customized with your own colors, styles, etc.Another thing that I like a lot is how easy you can create custom plugins, it's not hard to build plugins that do whatever you want, plus, there's a big community focused on QUALITY that shares useful plugins that you can integrate in a few steps, not like other marketplaces that have tons of plugins that do the same thing, and they do it wrong. > > **Cons**: I think that the only "Con" that I can find is that an average user won't be able to use it fluently, it's built for developers and developers adapt it for the average user.But as I said, it's focused on developers, so it's not really something that bothers me as one. > > OctoberCMS has helped me build dozens of websites for clients, websites for hotels, restaurants, agencies, etc.And it has really helped my business to grow, I'm very thankfull for this, and I will continue to support OctoberCMS by paying the licenses and contributing in every way I can.And of course, recommending it to every developer I know\! ----- ### "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 ----- 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