Community
A complete, open-source CMS foundation for building websites and digital products.
- ApostropheCMS Pro
Advanced control and content tools for growing teams
Build on the complete open-source ApostropheCMS foundation with more precise permissions, AI-assisted content tools, reusable templates, document history, and Warranty Support.
Choose the ApostropheCMS edition that fits your project
Pro
Advanced control, content automation, reusable templates, and support for teams with more complex requirements.
Assembly
Everything in Pro, plus the architecture and dashboard for operating many independent sites.
When does a team need ApostropheCMS Pro?
Community includes the foundation most teams expect from a production-ready CMS: in-context editing, localization, SEO tools, editorial workflow, scheduled publishing, SSO, media management, and more.
Pro is for teams that need more precise governance, faster multilingual and SEO workflows, reusable content structures, additional development tools, and direct support from the team behind ApostropheCMS.
With Pro, you can:
Control access at the document, field, group, and locale level.
Accelerate translation and metadata workflows with AI assistance.
Give editors approved starting points with document and section templates.
Review and restore earlier versions of content.
Add specialized tools for account creation, structured data, and automated testing.
Receive Warranty Support with defined response targets for ApostropheCMS issues.
- Advanced Permissions
Give every team member the right level of access
Advanced Permissions gives administrators more precise control over what people can see and change. Create custom groups and manage permissions by content, document, field, and locale without forcing every editor into the same access model.
- Create custom user groups.
- Set document-level permissions.
- Control access to individual fields.
- Manage permissions by locale.
- Define who can create, edit, publish, or manage content.
- Translation tools
Move multilingual content forward faster
ApostropheCMS includes localization in Community. Pro adds tools that reduce the manual work involved in translating and transferring localized content.
Automatic Translation can generate a translated draft using Google Cloud Translation, DeepL, Azure, or a custom provider. Editors can then review and refine the result before publishing.
For teams working with professional translation services, Import/Export Translation packages translatable content into a structured file that can be translated externally and imported into another locale.
- Generate translated drafts within the localization workflow.
- Keep human review between translation and publication.
- Connect the translation provider that fits your organization.
- Exchange content with external translators through a structured workflow.
- AI-powered SEO Assistant
Improve metadata without leaving the editing workflow
The AI-powered SEO Assistant helps editors create and refine search metadata where the content is managed. It reduces repetitive writing while keeping editors in control of what is saved and published.
- Generate suggested SEO titles and descriptions.
- Work within the existing ApostropheCMS editing experience.
- Review and revise suggestions before publishing.
- Apply a more consistent metadata process across the team.
ApostropheCMS also works with analytics and search-performance platforms, so teams can measure results using the tools they already rely on.
- Reusable templates
Help editors build from approved starting points
Document Template Library and Section Template Library help teams reuse established content structures without repeatedly rebuilding or copying existing content.
Document templates provide starting points for complete pages, articles, products, and other document types. Section templates let editors save and reuse groups of content components within a page.
Together, they help teams:
- Create approved starting points for common content types.
- Reuse complete page and document structures.
- Save and reuse sections made from multiple widgets.
- Reduce repetitive content setup.
- Maintain consistency while allowing editors to customize the result.
- Document Versions
Review and restore earlier content
Document Versions keeps a history of changes to pages and other content. Editors can compare versions and restore an earlier version when content needs to be recovered or reconsidered.
- View the history of a document.
- Compare earlier and current content.
- Restore a previous version.
- Recover from unintended changes with less manual work.
More tools for specialized projects
A Pro license also provides access to official extensions that solve common implementation needs.
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Account creation
Let visitors create accounts through a configurable signup process with email verification and a predefined role and access level.
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Data Set
Turn spreadsheet data into managed content for pricing tables, catalogs, directories, and other data-driven displays.
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Automated testing tools
Use a library of prebuilt Cypress tests to cover common ApostropheCMS interactions and accelerate functional testing.
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Pro starter tools
Begin with ready-to-configure widgets and project patterns that reduce setup work for common ApostropheCMS implementations.
- Included with Pro
Build with support from the team behind ApostropheCMS
Every Pro license includes Warranty Support for ApostropheCMS and official Pro extensions. When a product issue affects your implementation, you have a direct path to the team that builds and maintains the CMS. Custom support agreements are available for teams that need expanded coverage or different service levels.
Priority | Initial response target | Resolution target |
|---|---|---|
Urgent | 2 hours | 4 hours |
High | 12 hours | 48 hours |
Normal | 24 hours | 10 business days |
Low | 36 hours | 1 month |
Response and resolution targets depend on the severity and nature of the issue. Weekends, holidays, and announced company closing days are excluded for requests that are not classified as urgent. Specific terms can be adjusted through a custom customer service agreement.
- Additional support
Need more hands-on assistance?
Additional support packages give teams direct access to ApostropheCMS engineers for implementation and operational needs such as:
- Solutions architecture
- Code and performance reviews
- Module configuration and installation
- Developer and editor training
- Onboarding and transitional support
Consulting requests receive an initial response within 48 hours. Scheduling and completion timelines are agreed upon based on the scope of the request.
Common questions about ApostropheCMS Pro
ApostropheCMS Pro is the paid edition of ApostropheCMS for teams that need more granular permissions, AI-assisted content tools, reusable templates, document history, additional official extensions, and Warranty Support. It builds on the complete open-source Community edition rather than replacing it with a separate CMS.
Community is the free, MIT-licensed edition of ApostropheCMS. It includes in-context editing, content modeling, localization, SSO, editorial workflow, scheduled publishing, SEO tools, media management, REST APIs, and support for both full-stack and headless implementations.
Pro is a good fit when your team needs more precise control over content access, wants to accelerate parts of its translation or SEO workflow, needs reusable document and section templates or extended content history, or wants Warranty Support from the ApostropheCMS team.
No. ApostropheCMS Community includes the core localization capabilities needed to create and manage content across locales. Pro adds Automatic Translation and Import/Export Translation to reduce the manual work involved in multilingual publishing.
SSO is included in the open-source Community edition and therefore available in Pro and Assembly. You do not need to purchase Pro solely to connect ApostropheCMS to an identity provider.
Hosting is separate from the Pro license. You can self-host ApostropheCMS Pro or use ApostropheCMS Managed Hosting, allowing your team to choose the deployment model that fits its infrastructure and operational requirements.
Pro includes Warranty Support for ApostropheCMS and official Pro extensions, with response targets based on issue severity. Additional support packages are available for solutions architecture, audits, training, onboarding, configuration, and other consulting needs.
Pro adds advanced permissions, AI-assisted content tools, reusable templates, document history, official extensions, and Warranty Support to an ApostropheCMS implementation. Assembly includes everything in Pro and adds the architecture and management tools required to operate many independent sites from a shared application.
Yes. You can explore the ApostropheCMS editing experience through the public demo or start a project with the open-source Community edition. Contact the ApostropheCMS team if you want to evaluate Pro capabilities for a specific implementation.