ButterCMS Features

Launch Content Faster

Learn why we're rated easiest-to-use headless CMS by marketers and developers

Content Types

Easily manage all of your content types from one centralized dashboard.  Butter allows you solve CMS faster with our intuitive content modeling and easy to integrate content API.

Pages

Build landing pages for ecommerce promotions, paid ad campaigns, or to drive SEO + organic traffic. Just as easily use them to launch a knowledge base and more. Pages are infinitely flexible. 

Collections

Collections are tables of data that enable even more content scenarios. They can also be combined and referenced by Pages to enabling easy filterability and categorization of your content. Learn more.

Blog Engine

You've got better things to do than building another blog. Just drop-in our pre-built blog engine and get back to more interesting problems.

SEO Built-In

Quickly set up your blog on a subdirectory of your website and use the built-in SEO metadata and description to optimize your SEO.

Powerful Field Types

Enjoy using our dozens of flexible field types like Components, References, and Repeaters to name a few. These building blocks allow you to generate beautiful content UI’s your marketers will love.

Add custom field-level rules and validations

Make the content editing experience even easier by adding helpful rules and guidelines (visual - short text rules)

Split-screen preview

See exactly how your changes will look before they go live using our split-screen and full-screen preview panels. Make changes to your content and instantly see how those changes look below

Schedule promotions and big content releases

Plan when you want your new content to go live and easily schedule promotions and big content releases with your team.

Never lose a change, thanks to revision history

See who changed what and when. Go back in time with one-click rollback.

Power web and mobile experiences

One Content API to power all of your content. Web, mobile, and everywhere your customers are. Build amazing experiences like search, localized websites and more with our easy to use content API.

Components

Compose dynamic landing pages without a developer

Your marketing team's very own component library

Components enable your marketers to compose flexible page layouts. Easily build out your own component library with Hero, Carousels, Cards, Banners, and more. Infinite possibilities.

Drag and drop reordering

Empower marketing to easily reorder entire page layouts with a smooth drag and drop UX.

Customizable SEO + Social Components

Drive organic traffic. Fine tune your SEO and social media meta tags with our customizable components.  Ensure that your content ranks and looks great when shared on social.

Digital Asset Management

Stay on-brand with a centralized media library

Automatic Image Compression

Our DAM automatically compresses your images by default. Reduce image sizes by up to 10x and keep your website ultra-performant and fast loading, without lifting a finger. Supports modern webp format.

Mobile Responsive Images

Upload an image once and generate a wide array of responsive images with our Image API

In-App Image Editing

Transform your images, right within the ButterCMS dashboard with a beautiful, modern interface. Crop, resize, apply filters, and more.

Images, Audio, Video, PDF, and More

Simply drag and drop into your Butter media library and we’ll handle the rest.

Image API

One of the most full featured Image APIs powered by Filestack. Scale, crop, rotate, and transform your media in limitless ways. Learn more

Team Workflows

Stay in sync and keep content flowing with custom roles, workflows and more

Content Approval Workflow

Easily kickoff approval workflows, leave comments, assign owners and due dates. Ensure key stakeholders in marketing / legal / etc approve content.

Workflow Timeline

See exactly where content is at in your workflow with a full historical activity timeline.

User Roles and Permissions

Create roles to define a set custom fine-grained permissions for your team members and contributors.

Locale Permissions for Global teams

Admins can set locale-based permissions for specific local markets, enabling your global team of marketers and translators to safely work side-by-side.

Localization

Go Global

Localize to any number of languages

Create all the locales you need to support your global app.

Amazing translation experience

Easily manage all languages of your content in our easy to use UI.

Permissions

Admins can set locale-based permissions for specific local markets, enabling your global team of marketers and translators to safely work side-by-side.

Enterprise Grade

Centralized multi-channel & multi-site content management

Multi-site and multi-environment

Manage content across your entire enterprise in one central place with fine grain site-level user access.

Single Sign On (SSO)

Log into ButterCMS with your Corporate IDP. Greater security and compliance. Improved usability and lower IT costs.

Build Better with Butter™

Our Brand promise is that you'll have a smooth experience from start to finish. Our industry leading customer support will ensure you're successful.

Migrations

Migration tool for easily migrating content across your sites and environments in Butter.

Secure hosting

Your data is hosted using AWS datacenters which feature ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2/SSAE, PCI Level 1, FISMA Moderate, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance

Write API

Update your e-commerce product listing, marketplace data, collect form data, or build an FAQ database by writing any data your app needs into Butter. Learn more.

Globally Cached Content

Expect the best performance, resiliency and scalability with our globally cached API.

Daily backups

We backup your content automatically every day.

Live chat, email, customer success

ButterCMS is more than just software. We provide industry leading support to ensure your success. Chat, email, call, and rich docs.

Developer Experience

Use your favorite tech stack. Butter melts right in.

Webhooks

Configure webhooks to POST change notifications to your application. View documentation for details on Event types.

API Explorer

Our API explorer shows you how to fetch any content from Butter, what the response looks like and get a real code snippet to try yourself.

One-Click Migrations

Content migrations across your ButterCMS environments have never been so easy. We handle all the complexity for you. Simply create a schema and/or content Migration via the dashboard and we handle the rest.