--- title: CommonSpot Reviews meta_title: 'CommonSpot Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CommonSpot works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.3 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-04' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # CommonSpot Reviews **Vendor:** PaperThin, Inc **Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About CommonSpot CommonSpot™ is a secure Web platform that includes a content management system, an application development framework, a suite of marketing solutions, and Web 2.0 and social media features that help organizations create world-class Web experiences that drive high-impact results. ## CommonSpot Reviews ### 1. Still Learning and Still Trying New Things **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** I like how engaged the customer care team is. There's a quick responsive and display of consistent concern over user experience. That makes all the difference, especially if you don't have a colleague you can consult or if you need an answer quickly from someone who knows the system very well. For that alone, I would recommend at least consulting with the Commonspot team if you reconsidering how to manage your online presence and make the best use of your resources. I think the return on investment will likely be very worthwhile. And, it is exciting to try new things. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** As with any new tool, there's a learning curve. It takes time to learn all the features, and being self-employed, there's always a balance between time invested, resource and/or financial management, and the concern about return on investment. But the customer team is very responsive and have made themselves readily available for help. There are lots of benefits to the platform and, and I really recommend that. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** I would advice bringing all your questions to the table and not being afraid to look misinformed or unaware of something. The team is really there for you. I would also do my research across platforms and get a strong understanding of what your needs and goals are. The team is incredibly thorough at answering any and all questions you might have--in short, there is no "dumb question" when learning this system. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The CMS is useful, having one place to manage all the assets saves time. I hated having to search multiple folders and reach out to multiple colleagues in order to find the images and/or copy we needed. It's great to have that process simplified, and it's made me think about how we can synthesize asset management in the future. Perhaps there are some future conversations with the Commonspot Team about that. ### 2. Takes some time to learn, but no limits to flexibilty. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ed N. | Sr. Developer, Acting Web Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** Flexible, scalable and built on ColdFusion. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** Would like more drag and drop and a larger baked in widget library, but there is not limit so I built in all the widgets I could ever need using open source JavaScript libraries etc... **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** Make sure you invest in training for your employees. Those who fear change will disrupt the process and CommonSpot is not for people who aren't willing to put in the time to learn it. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ran multiple external marketing sites as well as an intranet and many custom applications. your imagination is the limit. ### 3. Worked with commonspot during graduate studies **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kora M. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** intuitive navigation, user friendliness. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** cannot recall many things but there were some quirks and display errors. A short tutorial for new starter with no experience could have been helpful too **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** N/A **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helped us to be able to update out graduate site internally and when needed ### 4. It's okay to use if your company uses it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom B. | Freelance Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** The content editor is pretty nice from what I remember and it was extendable using coldfusion so if there was something more in depth you needed you do you could do it. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** The menus and tree selections were very deep and sometimes hard to navigate or remember where things were..Sometimes ajax loaders would timed out but I think it had to due with inner network connections between. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It could generate a large number of pages fairly quickly which was nice when migrating content from an old site into the new one for the CPM. I helped build an Academic Catalog for Kent State it was updatable by year and was nice using Coldfusion. ### 5. Jayke's CommonSpot Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** CommonSpot templates provide functionality without scripting. Integrating YouTube with CommonSpot was an easy process. It also wasn't a challenging CMS to learn. Having been a student at UW-Eau Claire I applied a web content steward who had slim to no technology systems experience. From day one I found that CommonSpot was easy to understand and I knew I had help if needed. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** Eventually the university decided to upgrade to use Drupal/Athena because it offered a better design platform that looked more modern. CommonSpot, although easy to use, did seem out of date. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** CommonSpot is a very useful CMS that will help you build your business on the online platform. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, I am not working with CommonSpot. However, in the past when I did work with CommonSpot I was able to learn so much about content management systems and the importance they have to maintaining a fully operational website. In face at UW-Eau Claire we operated on the old CommonSpot platform before transitioning to the newest CommSpot platform. Both were beneficial to us as they made it easy to keep our website up to date for the time being. Using it for a university, especially a popular higher education institution was great in my experience. The amount of traffic that we had visit our web pages every month and every day was a vast amount. It was important that we had a website that appealed to prospective students and families. For the most part everything was easy to navigate as well. ### 6. CommonSpot is pretty solid CMS system that didn't take long to learn **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emad A. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** -Relatively easy to modify a sub-site with a custom template -Good real-time WYSIWYG page editor that could handle components (paragraphs, images, custom components etc) -Page editor shows the template and styles being used, other CMS don't do this (or don't do this well) -Pages loaded fast **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** -Figuring out menus for certain folders / sub-sites can be a bit tricky **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Problems solved: Creating and updating sub-sites, modifying existing templates to new ones - Benefits: Page shows template and styles in real-time via WYSIWYG editor, something other CMS may not do ### 7. Former user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna W. | School Counselor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** Ease of use. I received a couple hours of training then felt comfortable using the software. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** There wasn't much I disliked but I did use a decent amount of trial and error. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** If you have someone on staff or a team to help train others or be knowledgeable in the product I think that would be the most helpful. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits were that it was time efficient and easy to use for what I needed it for. ### 8. Learned quickly on this user-friendly software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** I appreciate how user friendly the software is. Making routine edits is easy and I can easily step back in and not spend a ton of time trying to figure out all the features. The administrators were able to make a clean theme for users, and users did not have to worry about messing things up! **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** Some of the more advanced features differ greatly from the competitors. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** Make sure to review all available options and hone in on key needs for your website, then compare to what is available here. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to create and maintain a modern website. ### 9. Great CMS for Academia ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ralph R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** I used CommonSpot for work on the www.ccny.cuny.edu web site. It was very easy to integrate with existing coldfusion applications. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** Some problems with scaling when website was being hit very hard. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** take a closer look a possible future scaling issues. Evaluate future integrations with other software. Great Security, Role, Permissions management. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** RAD - Rapid application Development ### 10. 4 years in marketing including strategic planning, management and client relations **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** I like that it’s easy to edit content and make updates. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** Hard to navigate, especially for large businesses with multiple tiers. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** The flexibility isn’t really there, but it’s a great platform for multiple users who may need to edit content in a streamlined format. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I previously used commonspot for our departments website at a university. Consistent branding and multiple log ins for collaboration were great. ### 11. Easy to Manage website **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2020 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** - Easy of UI -UI components - Templates that can be easily customized **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** - no downside - for me making mobile website portable was one challenge **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was a content manager for my school Website ### 12. Complicated **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** It does work. The content/text editor is not too complicated, at least. And sites can look great if you know what you’re doing and don’t have too many authors working on the same pages. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** The content management piece is a nightmare on our site. It’s a huge website and there are hundreds of authors, with little consistency in organization. It’s almost impossible to find things (documents, photos, etc.). And within the content/text editor, if something at some point is messed up, such as font or formatting, it’s practically impossible to fix it. Might as well trash the page and start over. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** Make a plan for organizing content (tags, naming conventions, etc.) prior to implementation, use it and thoroughly train authors to use it while rolling it out, then STICK TO IT. Make sure it’s part of on-board training for potential authors. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used CommonSpot to manage our website for many years, but are in the process of migrating (one subsite at a time) to Drupal. So right now the only benefit or business problem it’s helping to solve is providing continuity of service to our customers while we migrate the site. Currently half the website is on Drupal and the other half is still using CommonSpot. ### 13. Too Little, Too Late for this CMS **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** The one thing I liked about CommonSpot was the ability to review specific history of edits: who, when, what. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** It was extremely difficult to create responsive pages, and its tabling tools were buried deep in complex menus. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** Don't bother. Get Drupal or use Adobe Dreamweaver. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it as our CMS to manage our web site. Very few benefits. ### 14. Not the Best **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany J. | Computing Support Technician LTE, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2016 **What do you like best about CommonSpot?** As much as I would like to say things I like best, there's not a lot of things that I actually like about CommonSpot. If you like things where you can add boxes and update the information without any coding, this is the product for you. (But be warned, you don't have a lot of freedom.) I think the dashboard is the best part, but even then, it's really hard to learn if you are used to easy sites like WordPress, Wix or Weebly. **What do you dislike about CommonSpot?** It creates crap code. Even if you want to throw in your own nice and clean HTML it adds weird characters and doesn't display it the way you want it to. This site is super controlled by the people who integrated it into our business. It calls itself responsive, but isn't mobile friendly. It's really hard to work with, REALLY hard. It's not ADA compliant or SEO friendly. **Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:** If you want to keep this, be in every single meeting when they release something new, or you will be behind the learning curve. **What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used CommonSpot for our webpages, and after fighting to get rid of it, we are finally moving elsewhere. CommonSpot was only good to display webpages and nothing else benefit us from working with it. ## CommonSpot Discussions - [What is CommonSpot used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-commonspot-used-for) - [View CommonSpot pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/commonspot/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-26+20%3A10%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=57782a92-e479-471d-98e5-99bb5e91045b&secure%5Btoken%5D=413565fc98007f23bbe86623e0532f9b66509b2180584d8497c5bcb545f447ff&format=llm_user) ## CommonSpot Features **Content** - Content Authoring - Rich Text Editor - Versioning - Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps - Approval Process - Content Scheduling - Asset Management - Internal Search - Content Repository **Design** - Breadth of Pre-Built Templates - Mobile - Branding/Themes - Customization **Platform** - User Community - SEO - Flexible Navigation Structures - User, Role, and Access Management - Enterprise Scalability - Internationalization - Dashboards and Reports - API / Integrations **Agentic AI - Web Content Management** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction ## Top CommonSpot Alternatives - [WordPress.org](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9,376 reviews) - [Adobe Experience Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-experience-manager/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (650 reviews) - [Webflow](https://www.g2.com/products/webflow/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (979 reviews)