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Looking for a multi-tenants CMS

Vadorequest on March 29, 2020

I'm looking for a CMS/BackOffice/Admin site to help me manage my multiple B2B customers. Our needs are: Providing a backoffice to our customers,...

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Vadorequest • Mar 30 '20

I've discovered directus.io/ which is really, really great. I was really impressed by this OSS product, its quality is a great example of what OSS can build.

It also has a managed Cloud version with a fair price, no vendor lock-in and provide access to all features regardless of the plan.

I'm currently studying it in-depth to see if it fits my needs. It's multi-tenants friendly but I still have some concerns.

Alternatively, I'm looking at frappe.io which provides similar features. It provides a multi-tenants-first approach.

Both tools were recommended by an experimented developer of Django JET:
github.com/geex-arts/django-jet/is...

mmmaxxxe • Dec 4 '22

Directus is not multi tenant at all., and in my opinion it is even unusable. Every bugfix introduces more bugs and/or bug regressions. It is a good idea but it simply doesn't work if you want to deploy some serious applications. The app is even worst, and i'm not in the free/community edition.

Marco Autiero • Mar 29 '23

Hey, I'm Product Manager at Strapi and I would be interested to know more about your needs.
Why do you think Directus is not multi-tenant at all?

If you're interested we can also have a private conversation, my email is marco.autiero@strapi.io

Eulier Gonzalez • May 20 '20

This is something i'm looking aswell. Going to ask for directus and frappe support team. If i know some others tools/platforms, i'll let you know!. Thanks for this!

Vadorequest • May 20 '20

Strapi is another possibility. But anyway, it's tough to choose, and it requires quite a lot of time investment to decide which tool suits your needs the best, while keeping in mind they'll eventually evolve.

Liu Yu Zhou • Apr 6 '21

Strapi doesn't support multi-tenants, I asked to Strapi workspace admin and he replied me it will be available in 2022 or 2023. Wordpress is the best alternative!

J-P Keisala • Jul 11 '20

Seems like this post is a bit old but I bump here as I was also looking Strapi but found out it is lacking currently multitenancy. Though, seems like it is on Unders Consideration in their roadmap. portal.productboard.com/strapi/1-p...
Did you find good multi-tenant CMS?

Admir Mehanovic • Oct 18 '23

Check out Penzle CMS, which supports all of those features. penzle.com/

Tenant-specific back offices: Penzle supports "Projects" which can act similarly to tenant-specific environments.
Automatic backoffice generation from data structure: Penzle's back office is generated based on the content models you create, but it’s not automatically generated directly from a database schema.
Automatic API generation from data structure It automatically provides APIs based on your content models, and it does support GraphQL.
Advanced permissions and roles: Penzle does have robust roles and permissions features, allowing you to control access at different levels. Permissions can be controlled at the entry level.
Flexible UI components/views: Creating custom workflows, views, and components is as flexible as you need.
Theming capabilities per tenant Not supported.