Payload is a developer-friendly headless CMS created for React and TypeScript. Payload CMS is an application framework with a fully functional admin and content editing experience. This makes the software very flexible and easy to extend. Payload also provides a robust admin and content editing user interface to make configuration and content editing easy. The admin UI is white labeled and React extensible which allows users to fully customize the interface.

Product Highlights

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Admin UI

Payload's React admin panel is fully functional, but simple enough to extend and customize. Extend the admin UI with your own custom React components to create views, modify views, build your own field types, and more. Modifying the admin design to match your brand standards is relatively easy.
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Access Control

Payload's access control is very flexible and gives you precise control. You can associate users with particular content items and modify their permissions for those items. Additionally, you can set field-level access control. Payload also allows you to design a pattern for access control based on roles that enables different levels of editing permissions for your content.
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Nested Editing

When editing a Payload document, every relationship field includes an "add" icon that allows you to create related content while editing the current document. This feature speeds up content creation by eliminating the need to create content for relationships in a specific order. This feature also works for multiple levels of relationships.

CMS Software Features

  • Content Workflows
  • Custom Content Types
  • Headless Architecture
  • Media Library
  • Multilingual

Available Plans

Free

$0

Self-hosted, open-source option.

Payload Cloud Standard

$35/Month

Power small to medium-sized production projects for a low monthly fee.

Payload Cloud Pro

$199/Month

High-availability and dedicated infrastructure. For larger projects with bigger needs.

Enterprise

For large-scale, critical content infrastructure. Support, SSO and more.

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Open Source

MIT License

CMS Software Features

  • Content Workflows
  • Custom Content Types
  • Headless Architecture
  • Media Library
  • Multilingual