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Looking for a different CMS?

A CMS manages your content. Then come the shop, the stock, the inbox, the mailing tool and the SEO tool: all separate, all wired together. Below: what a CMS does and doesn't do for you, plus a fair comparison with Neuramerce for each platform, including the cases where you're better off staying put.

What to look for when comparing a CMS

Six questions that decide whether a platform will still fit in three years. The licence price is deliberately left out, because it's rarely the most expensive part.

Add the plugins to the licence

Hosting, a theme, paid plugins, an SEO tool, a mailing tool and the maintenance together make up the real figure. A free core surrounded by ten subscriptions costs more than a single rate.

Who's on the hook when it breaks

With a CMS you host yourself, updates and security are on you. With a hosted platform, that's on the vendor. Either can work, but know which one you're choosing.

How many integrations does it add

A CMS delivers pages. Selling, stock, customer contact and mailing come from other systems, and every integration in between is a place where data drifts out of sync.

Can you steer findability inside the system

Meta text, internal links, hreflang, rich results and llms.txt for AI bots: does the CMS handle that itself, or does it hang on a plugin someone has to maintain?

Can your whole team work with it

A designer tool produces beautiful pages, but if only the builder can change a line of text, you're queuing for every price update.

Can you get back out

Ask upfront how you'd export your pages, media and URLs. Open source gives you the code; a good platform gives you your content and your redirects.

Per system

Which CMS do you want to compare with Neuramerce?

Every comparison also names where the other system is the better choice.

WordPress

Over 40% of the web, plugin-driven

Wix

Hosted, with its own app market

Squarespace

Hosted and design-focused

Webflow

Designer tool with a CMS

Framer

Design-first, blazing fast

Drupal

Open source, agency-driven

Joomla

Open source, extension-driven

Drupal 11 upgrade

Upgrading from Drupal 10

Joomla 6 upgrade

Upgrading from Joomla 4 or 5

TYPO3

Enterprise, strongly multilingual

HubSpot

CMS bolted onto a CRM

Plus: tomorrow.

What you'll need tomorrow is already in there. No extra subscription, no integration project. New modules arrive as soon as they're ready.

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FAQ

Questions about choosing a CMS.

01What's the difference between a CMS and a platform like Neuramerce?

A CMS manages your content: pages, blog posts, media. Neuramerce manages your content and your selling: shop, stock, customer contact, reviews, email marketing and SEO in the same place, on the same customer data. So you don't need a second system or an integration for it.

02Is Neuramerce a CMS itself?

Among other things, yes. The website builder is a full CMS: blocks, a blog, a media library, custom content types, multilingual content with translated URLs, and version history for blog posts. The difference is what comes around it as standard.

03Which CMS platforms do you compare?

WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, HubSpot and Ghost. Those are the ten we run into most often with companies considering a switch, together accounting for the vast majority of the CMS market.

04Can I bring my existing site with me?

Yes. We import pages, blog posts, media and categories. We keep your URL structure wherever we can, and set redirects for anything that changes, including your meta titles and descriptions.

05Will I lose my Google rankings if I switch CMS?

Not if the migration is done properly. Rankings hang on your URLs, your content and your internal links, and we bring all three across. After that you can see per page in Neuramerce how you score on classic SEO and on findability in AI answers.

06Do I have to move everything at once?

No. You can leave your current CMS running and start with a single module, SEO, reviews or customer contact for example, and move the site itself later.

07Don't see your CMS listed?

Let us know via the contact form. We add comparisons based on what's asked for, and we only compare platforms we've actually researched.

Does your webshop run on a separate platform?

Alongside the CMS comparisons we also put webshop platforms side by side: WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Lightspeed, CCV Shop and Mijnwebwinkel.

Compare webshop software

Not sure which CMS fits you?

Tell us what you're running now and where it's chafing. We'll tell you honestly when you're better off staying put.

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