--- description: Review of TYPO3 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: TYPO3 | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Content Management Systems](/directory/4543/cms/software) > [TYPO3](/software/316530/typo3) # TYPO3 Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/316530/typo3 Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/316530/typo3?page=2) > TYPO3 is an open-source enterprise content management system (CMS) developed with PHP. It's designed to assist organizations in managing their digital content and constructing websites and applications. Its primary users are financial firms, government agencies, healthcare organizations, universities, and large non-profit organizations. TYPO3 offers a variety of features for content management, website design, and custom functionality development. These features include flexible content modeling, versioning, workflows, access controls, multisite management, multilingual content, SEO optimization, and an extension marketplace. TYPO3 is adaptable with a multitude of extensions available to add additional features such as eCommerce, social media, and digital asset management. > > Verdict: Rated **3.9/5** by 25 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **3.9/5** | 25 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: TYPO3 Association ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature - **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**: Windows (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Germany ## Features - Collaboration Tools - Content Publishing Options - Document Management ## Category - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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You can customize everything in TYPO3 CMS and get help from different developers. Also, there are thousands of extensions available for it, and a great Access Feature when you need to work with several admins and groups it helps you to assign the right access to your team members. > > **Cons**: There are not many templates for this CMS in the market and in most cases you have to implement your own template and design or hiring someone for that. > > Typo3 is a versatile CMS. Often in most CMS's you start well and meet all your needs, but when your collection becomes very large and your facilities and expectations rise and growing, you will find that your CMS no longer meets your needs. This is not the case for Typo 3 and you do not need to change the CMS when your organization's going Big and along with the expansion of your business, it also supports special and professional features. ----- ### "The Best Enterprise-Grade CMS ... As Long As You're a Developer" — 4.0/5 > **Scott** | *7 April 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: In the 17+ years of using this software, I have built my company around it. When I get pinned by a client asking if they can do something custom, I don't even need to think about it - the answer is always YES. It's infinitely more powerful, secure, and customizable than other CMSs, and with an open source base you can do anything you want. It can be simplified for small business customers or opened up for corporate accounts. > > **Cons**: Being a German program, most support - which can be very limited - is in another language. Further, the upgrades are done without any consideration for extension developers. It is expected that developers have to redo their extension as opposed to TYPO3 supporting it. Lately, the changes in upgrades have become so sweeping that thousands of extensions are no longer compatible. It's so bad that my company has had to invest tens of thousands of dollars into R\&D to build our own extensions because we can't expect open source extensions to stay current with the T3 upgrade cycle. I really don't know why it needs to come to such careless upgrades: again, it on;y happened recently and before this (i.e. v.8) TYPO3 was doing everything right. Also, TYPO3 uses a configuration language called TYPOscript that turns off a lot of people because it's a whole new world of proprietary code to learn. However, it saves on a lot. Lastly, frontend editing - probably the biggest feature that makes wix, squarespace, etc. so popular - has taken a back seat since v.8 when it was making huge strides with extensions like Aloha (which, you guessed it, are now obsolete because of the upgrade). > > I found TYPO3 from a website called the CMS Matrix. I was looking for a CMS that had every single feature. TYPO3 was the only option as other CMSs either didn't have the feature or it wasn't even available as an add-on. I'm happy to report that I made the right choice. It's important to note that in North America, TYPO3 doesn't get much attention because documentation and/or promotion is limited, but it has survived the rise and fall of other CMSs like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, and of course WordPress (the blog with a million plugins). You can tell the attention to detail that's been put into TYPO3 by looking at it very structured code. As frustrated as I get with it, it truly is enterprise-grade. ----- ### "Complex to implement and to use" — 2.0/5 > **Pedro** | *28 February 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: It's somewhat stable but basically that's it > > **Cons**: Compared to many other CMS on the market, this one is not simple to implement and the complexity of using it is somewhat big. Also, to create customizations in code it has a steep learning curve, which makes it not ideal for whoever wants to customize it ----- ### "One of the best open-source CMS platforms" — 5.0/5 > **Shivang** | *24 May 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Typo3 is for the people looking for unlimited customizations. The platform can be customized and flexed according to the clients' requirements, and the community is also impressive. There is a lot of free resources and modules available in the community for it. It is secure and fast\! > > **Cons**: There is a reasonable learning curve for the developers as well as the users. Requires technical proficiency to work with. > > I would recommend Typo3 for anyone looking to develop a versatile online website. ----- ### "Flexible but difficult to use" — 4.0/5 > **Aurelie** | *18 May 2022* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: I liked the freedom it gave me to create pages as I wanted, quickly and easily. It is also easy to maintain multi-brands and multi-languages websites. It can be adapted to any kind of business. > > **Cons**: The UX is not attractive and it is difficult to use and explain to non-digital colleagues. They were afraid of using it. Another problem is that the Typo3 community is quite small, so it is more difficult to find help on-line. > > Overall I liked my experience and the freedom I had using it. For my kind of usage it is good but I would not recommend for people who want to run a simple website quickly and easily. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/316530/typo3?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/316530/typo3) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data