Tired of feeling limited by your CMS? Want to build a website as unique as your idea? Then Payload might be exactly what you’re looking for. Payload is like a blank canvas for developers. It gives you all the tools you need to create a fully customized solution, without forcing you into a predefined structure. Think of it as an adult LEGO set—just for your website.
Kumpan is Payload's First Partner in Sweden
At Kumpan, we are proud to be the first official partner of Payload in Sweden. This means we have a close relationship with the team behind the CMS and gain firsthand knowledge, support, and updates. For you as a client, this means your solution is built on deep technical expertise and best practices—straight from the source.
Why Is Payload a Good Idea?
- Complete Control: With Payload, you have full control over your data and its structure. You decide which fields and relationships are needed, without having to adapt to someone else’s idea of how a website should be built.
- Flexibility: Payload is designed to be flexible. You can easily adapt it to fit your specific needs, whether you’re building a simple blog or a complex e-commerce site.
- Rapid Development: Payload is built with Node.js, making it quick and easy to develop new features.
- Strong Community: Payload has a growing and engaged developer community eager to share their knowledge and help solve problems.
Unmatched Flexibility
- Tailored Solutions: Payload is like a blank canvas where you can create exactly the structures and relationships you need. This is especially valuable for projects requiring a high degree of customization, such as e-commerce platforms with complex product variants or intranets with specific permission levels.
- Openness to New Technologies: Payload is built with Node.js, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it with other popular JavaScript tools and frameworks. This makes it easy to build modern, responsive websites and web applications.
A Developer’s Best Friend
- Developer Experience: Payload is designed with developers in mind. Its intuitive API and clear documentation make it easy to get started and build complex features.
- GraphQL: Payload supports GraphQL out-of-the-box, giving you a powerful and flexible way to fetch data from your backend. This simplifies building fast, responsive frontends.
- Versioning: Payload offers built-in versioning, making it simple to track changes and revert to previous versions if needed.
Let’s say you want to build a website where users can create their own personal profiles with a range of customization options. With a traditional CMS, you’d need to hack and tweak things to make it work.
A Developer’s Best Friend
- Developer Experience: Payload is designed with developers in mind. Its intuitive API and clear documentation make it easy to get started and build complex features.
- GraphQL: Payload supports GraphQL out-of-the-box, giving you a powerful and flexible way to fetch data from your backend. This simplifies building fast, responsive frontends.
- Versioning: Payload offers built-in versioning, making it simple to track changes and revert to previous versions if needed.
Compared to WordPress, Sanity, and Umbraco
- WordPress: While WordPress is an excellent choice for many, it can be limiting for more complex projects. Payload offers a greater degree of flexibility and customization.
- Sanity: Sanity is another popular headless CMS with a visual editor. However, Payload gives you more freedom to customize your data model and is often faster to develop with.
- Umbraco: Umbraco is a more traditional CMS, which can be difficult to adapt for advanced use cases. Payload is more modern and flexible.
Do You Want a New CMS for Your Website or App?
At Kumpan, we are experts at both selecting the most suitable CMS and implementing it for either a new or existing solution.
