I've tried MANY headless CMS options, and Payload has been the best so far

I'm able to customize every single aspect of this CMS. Support is amazing

Limited support for alternative databases, although more will be added in the next releases.

Very quick adoption. A couple small snags here and there. Generally very pleased.

It provides the most useful aspects of WordPress out of the box and does away with many of the aspects that holds WordPress back.

While it has been around for a couple of years, it still has plenty of ways to improve. As a result, there is definitely more time necessary to investigate what is possible to do with it. However, the codebase is purposefully left as non-abstracted as possible which makes understanding it that much easier.

Payload's i18n model is incredible for large scale projects, and managing complexity. Additionally the admin panel is highly customisable and can be tailored to any kind of business.

There is no way to generate admin thumbnails for files other than images. Mangling of node.js environment and browser environment pose a bit of an issue, but manageable.

Overall it will be my go-to backend for any kind of software.

Payload CMS was a total gamechanger for my development experience. I have been researching a Headless CMS that is easy to customize and extend for over a year until I stumbled upon Payload. From the get go the documentation was very extensive, getting a hang on it was very easy and now the process of creating a CMS that is fit to the customers need is done in a fracture of the time. Easy WordPress replacement. Also the response times within the Community are very fast if you have questions and the founders are always there for a chat and take recommondations thoughtfully

While extension of the UI is possible, a layout builder with Drag and Drop features (eg. as a Plugin) would be great.

Overall, the cms is great and easy to use for website backends, but also as apis or internal tooling.

Payload is the most user friendly and developer oriented cms I’ve used so far. Its customisability and ease of use while keeping the express app fully accessible works great for us. Also the localisation is a lot better, since it works perfect in combination with generating routes necessary for NextJS dynamic routes.

Honestly, the only thing I’ve heard from our users is that the admin interface looks to basic. I rather see that as a good thing. It’s clean and easy to understand.

Payload CMS makes a clear cut between the developer side and setup of the different fields and entries and the editor experience. It feels extremely nice to share the stack we work with between the frontend and the backend.

Payload is all we can want in terms of balance between developer experience and editor experience. The backend is extremely easily extendable, the administration panel UI is clean and easy to use. We love the tool and we truly believe this is the future of open-source CMSs.

At the moment the CMS is only limited to MongoDB databases but we know the team at Payload is hard working on a Postgres adapter that will ceil the deal for us. It might even not be the case anymore when you read this review.

It helps us develop our sites faster than before. We do not need to code every CRUD page and it helps us to focus more on the custom elements that are necessary for the customers.

We have tried many headless CMS projects, but Payload was the first that was easy to develop, and easy to extend and tailor it to the customers specification. It helps us build our projects faster and easier than other software.

It only supports MongoDB at the moment, which is not always optimal, but they are working on supporting other databases. You need to have basic JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge to get started. It is not a con for us, but it may be for others.

I've been using PaylaodCMS for my website development, and I must say it's been an incredible experience. As an Express.js user, having full control over my application is essential, and Paylaod CMS delivers just that. It strikes the perfect balance between low-code convenience and customization, allowing me to create and manage my web applications.

I've encountered some challenges with Paylaod CMS's loading time during development. To enhance the development speed, I would love to see it replaced with a more modern solution like Vite.js.

I am using it in a federal organization and currently for a project where you can create templates via forms. It helped a lot because the setup was very quick and we could focus on the development and the Editors on the content.

The best thing about Payload is that it is very flexible- So you can use it for any kind of Project. Everything you need comes out of the box but you can also expand it as you like. You can create everything in code and you do not need any kind of GUI to create a Schema. Also everything is in Typescript so it makes the developement process really easy and fast. As a Big Compny you can easily White label it and customize it as you whish.

The only thing is that it is pretty new on the market so you will not find many ressources - but that is not really a prolem because the documentation is really good and their discord server and the community behind it is even better.

PayloadCMS is an impressive content management system that strikes a perfect balance between flexibility and ease of use. Its intuitive interface and robust features make it a top choice for businesses and developers looking to create and manage dynamic websites efficiently.

I would love for it to support frameworks like svelte and astro so that I can use local api and bundle everything. I would love to see features like what gutenberg provides for WordPress, more visual ways to build content.

We needed Headless CMS to replace WordPress. Easy to set up, well customizable, lovely admin panel for the content management team. Smooth migrations. Free to use and easy to self-host. No dependency or restriction on how you should host or maintain it.

Very easy and flexible for most business needs, with no problems as long as I work with it. Extensible, if you luck anything -- take it in your hands and go on. Well documented, with lots of practical examples to kick off. Sure, there is a bright future behind this fantastic technology.

When you push it to the edge, you may find some features lacking at admin, and you need to dig a bit deeper. Besides that, my colleague lacks Postgres support, but that is already in the process of being developed.

Absolutely everything, from the community, to the actual product.

The developer experience which enables anyone who knows javascript to customize both how the admin panel looks and how the backend works is just mind blowing. We've recently went on a journey to find the perfect CMS for our react/next based websites and I can with 100% confidence say that absolutely nothing compares to Payload.

When not using Payload Cloud, hosting Payload can sometimes be pretty confusing, having everything set up perfectly. But once you do it once or twice, it's a piece of cake. Other than that there are no negatives.

PayloadCMS is the perfect addition to the modern ecosystem of Node with full typescript support, serverless hosting, intuitive code practices and an easy to use interface.

Super intuitive to get started with, built on top of common Node packages such as Express, it was very easy to get started with and do advanced integrations with the platform.It's open source and has full typescript support. It also has an easy to use admin interface.

There are a few features still missing out of the box at this moment, such as content moderation and real time collaboration however you could build these out on your own.

Payload is everything I was looking for in a CMS for the last couple years. It is such a pleasure to use a tool developed with so much care in user and developer experience. This platform strikes an unprecedented balance between having essential features out of the box and not being bloated with unecessary code. On top of all that, it is open source and both the team behind it and the community around it are totally wholesome.

Some features like batch upload for media and a WYSIWYG editor are still in production (also, the roadmap is well documented and transparent). Some other small stuff can be missing too, because there isn't a huge ecosystem of plugins yet. But every help that I needed from the community was answered (by both team members and other community users)

Payload provides a very fast, lightweight CMS solution that I can self-host for free and customize as desired. It works well with modern web frameworks like NextJS as well, which makes it a good headless CMS option or people using that framework.

It is developer-friendly, being code-first and written entirely in TypeScript. It is easy to self-host and deploy. The documentation is excellent and allows developers to add customizations and develop their own plugins. Unlike many other CMS's, Payload is relatively unopinionated. And their developer team is very responsive to issues raised on their GitHub page.

There isn't much that I dislike about it. Because it is unopinionated, it is also a bit skeletal, so you do have to do a bit of work to get something you want up and running.

We love it. We've migrated from previous CMSes and didn't take long. We can build custom functionality without messing or risk ruining the CMS.

Coming from Strapi and Wordpress, they're decent CMSes. But Payload is a breeze to work with and it's surprisingly stable considering how young it is. It's minutes, not hours to set up a CMS and deploy it.

It's still young, so the plugin and 3rd party services hasn't matured yet. But it's not that hard to write your own plugins for Payload

Payload CMS helps us have a common structure between all of the sites that we manage and allows us to customize it for clients.

Payload has the perfect balance between user customizability and developer experience. The advantage of a CMS is it does a lot of things for you but most CMS do that by compromising the Dx by locking out certain features. Payload doesn't do this and allows you to change every aspect of the site while keeping your users happy.

I think the biggest disadvantage to PayloadCMS is its young age. There are not as may enterprise-grade features built-in and there is a lack of third-party plugins compared to something like strapi or contentfulReview collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent. I use PayloadCMS for personal and work projects. It has become my go-to and it's hard to look back.

PayloadCMS has become an essential tool for both my personal and work projects. Building out a dynamic website that a client can update themselves is a painless task with PayloadCMS, and I plan to continue building awesome projects with it.

Honestly, it's hard to think of anything I dislike about PayloadCMS. For the sake of this review, I think the only downside of PayloadCMS is that it is still new and evolving its ecosystem. I expect amazing things to come from the project and team.

Payload enables you to build complex data structures, promote content reuse and serves as an extensible foundation for any web project. Strong type support including type generation for your data types makes integrating it a breeze.

The biggest strength is also one of its weaknesses: a toolset to build anything you want, on top of a solid foundation: strongly typed, endlessly extensible, great managed cloud hosting (although still in beta) and not to forget a vibrant community on discord.With the high velocity in development one can one imagine where the product will be a year from now.

The admin ui is very basic form scratch. Plan some time to add features or just adapt it in a way so content editors don't get lost. It's highly customizable, but it takes a bit of effort.

It's well thought out, limitations that I find in other headless CMSs, I haven't run into with Payload. It doesn't tie you down as much with things like cloud hosting. Most importantly, it's actually affordable! There's so many options out there for headless CMSs right now, I've tested a ton of them and found this one fills the role the best.

It's still a young product so there's not as much community support behind it yet. The documentation is lacking in some areas. I've run into a few bugs while working with it, but again, it is a young product and I can see the team is working very hard to build it!

My experience with Payload has been excellent overall. From set up to deploying the final product was amazing.

It is easy to set up and much better at customizing the interface and use its output. Previous CMSs that I used always had some trade-off whether that be using an old technology that I had to learn or spend a lot of time translating the output into something usable. Payload CMS didn't have those problems.

I had some minor technical issues that were getting quite annoying. The support team worked with me to resolve them, though.

It has been a pleasant experience to use Payload as my backend option. Only one place to configure my DB, API, and CMS in a simple way. It's awesome to have a backend so fast and easy.

Developer friendly. It's very useful and beneficial that we can customize and extend almost anything. We can define rules for each collection or field and create our own endpoints. The admin panel is easy to use and nice-looking.

I'm waiting for that Postgres adapter so we can have a relational database alternative. I believe Payload would be almost perfect if we could also customize the admin panel with Svelte components instead of React components.

Lightweight, robust, feature rich, extremely extensible. IMO the best modern CMS.

Doesn't have enough traction in the community at the moment, and still missing some features that I'd love to see.

Payload is fast and intuitive to extend and adapt. I've tried other options like Strapi, Payload does the same job with much better developer experience. The best thing about payload is that it is pleasant and fun to work with.

Payload is a younger project compared to some competitors. Besides the obvious, some features that exist in other established products may not yet be implemented into payload.

- very easy to set up and get started- great user access and grant management with third-party SSO integration- easily define similar document structures with the ability to completely customize the visual presentation

While using MongoDB No-SQL database as the document database, it's sometimes tempting when changing data types of already defined fields. But besides that, I haven't experienced any pains when using Payload so far!