The Mediatopia CMS
A content management system that runs your whole website
One content management system for your pages, your shop, your bookings, your courses, your vacancies, your members, your enquiries, your reviews and your invoices. It runs every kind of website, and you only have the parts you need.
Your own copy of a working website and its CMS, ready in seconds. Nothing to fill in.
Some of the 3,000+ websites we’ve built
What is a content management system?
A content management system, or CMS, is the part of a website your visitors never see. It’s where you sign in and change what’s on the front: the words, the pictures, the prices, the opening times. Without one, every change means emailing your web designer and waiting. With one, you make the change yourself, and it’s on your website straight away.
The content management systems most people have heard of were built to publish pages. Everything else a business needs from its website, a shop, bookings, a members area, a place for enquiries to land, is added on with plugins from different companies, each with its own login, its own updates and its own way of doing things. That’s where websites become slow, fragile and expensive to look after.
What is the Mediatopia content management system?
The Mediatopia CMS is one system that runs the whole of a business’s website, and the business side behind it. Pages, news, case studies, a shop that sells to the public and to the trade, bookings with deposits, courses, jobs, a members area, every enquiry, your reviews, your marketing and your invoices: all in one login, built by one team, working together. A customer who books with you can buy from you; a review request goes to the person whose job you just finished; an order on account raises its own invoice.
It runs every kind of website, and a business only has the parts it needs. A brochure website has its pages and its content. A shop adds selling. A garage adds bookings. A training company adds courses. Anything a business doesn’t have yet is still on its menu with a padlock, so it can see what’s there when it’s ready to grow.
We built it to run our own business first, and every website we make now runs on it. It isn’t WordPress and it isn’t a template builder: it’s our own system, so there are no plugins to update and nothing from anyone else to break.
Every website we build runs on it, from a brochure website to an ecommerce website, on our pay monthly websites or as bespoke CMS development for a business with its own way of working. If you are weighing it up against WordPress, read open source or proprietary CMS.
Try the Mediatopia CMS now. No form, no email, no waiting
Most companies selling a content management system ask you to fill in a form and wait for a sales call. We’d rather you just used it. Press the button and you’re in your own copy of our demo website and its CMS in a few seconds, with nothing to fill in.
- 01Press Try it nowIn a few seconds you’re signed in to your own copy of our demo website, Cadence Cycles: a bike shop with a workshop, a riding school, a members’ club and a blog.
- 02Change anythingEdit a page, change a price, add a product, block out a day in the diary.
- 03Open your demo websiteSee your change on the website. Your copy is yours alone for 10 minutes, then it’s cleared away.
What does the Mediatopia CMS look like?
These are the real screens, from a copy of our demo website’s CMS. Pick one.
Everything it does
What can our content management system do?
Seven areas, one login. Each has a page of its own with everything it does; here’s what each one is for.
Website and content
Edit your website on the page itself
Changing your website should be as easy as changing a document. Open a page, press Edit on the page, and click the words or the picture you want to change. What you see while you edit is exactly what your visitors will see. Save keeps it as a draft, Put live puts it on your website, and a library of finished section designs, already in your website’s colours and fonts, means a new part of a page is a click away.
Everything else you publish has its own place: news and articles with their own addresses and scheduled dates, notices that go up and come down by themselves, case studies with before-and-after sliders, testimonials with your replies, a page for every member of your team, events people sign up to, questions and answers Google can read, and a library for every picture, video, document and download. Add one, and it appears on the right page of your website in your own design.
- Edit on the page, with drafts and Put live
- Blog, notices, case studies, testimonials, team and events
- Media library, galleries, videos, documents and downloads
- Menus, locations, tags, staff logins and an audit trail
Online shop
Sell to the public, to the trade, or without holding stock
The shop is part of the same system, not a bolt-on. Every product has its own page with its photographs and a price for each size or colour. Customers fill a basket, pay by card on a secure page, and the money goes into your own Stripe account. Every order lands in the CMS tied to its customer, who can make an account, sign in with a code instead of a password, and order again in two clicks.
If you sell to businesses, trade customers apply on your website, and once approved they see their own prices, quantity breaks and a credit account that pays on invoice. And if you’d rather not hold stock at all, add products from AliExpress and paid orders go straight to the supplier, with the tracking number coming back to your customer.
- Products with sizes, colours, stock and categories
- Coupons and offers like buy two, get one free
- Wholesale and trade accounts with credit
- Dropshipping, delivery by weight or area, collection and VAT
Bookings and courses
Let customers book you, at times that are really free
List your services with their prices, how long each one takes, the extras and who can do them. Set your working hours and block out holidays. Your website only ever offers times that are genuinely free, every booking lands in your diary, and you can take a deposit or approve each booking yourself before it’s confirmed.
Courses and classes work the same way: your courses and their timetable on your website, places booked online, and every session showing how many places are taken. Bookings, courses and events all sit in one calendar, which can feed straight into the calendar on your phone.
- Services with prices, extras and staff
- Free times only, deposits and approval
- Courses, timetables and enrolments
- One calendar, on your phone too
Jobs and recruitment
Hire through your own website
Every vacancy gets its own page on your website with the pay, the hours, where the job is based and the closing date, and people apply there and then with their CV. Applications land in one place, where you read everything they sent, add your own notes and star ratings, and email them back.
When nothing is open, your careers page can still invite people to send their CV, so the right person never goes elsewhere just because the timing was wrong.
- A page for every vacancy
- Applications with CVs, notes and ratings
- Your own questions on the application
- Speculative applications when nothing is open
Customers and email
Keep every customer and every enquiry in one place
Every form on your website sends you every answer the customer gave, with their photos attached, and spam dressed up as an enquiry is spotted and labelled. A chat assistant can answer visitors’ questions day and night, and every conversation is kept word for word.
Members get their own area on your website, signing in with a link sent to their email, where they see their orders, bookings, invoices, course places and the documents you’ve shared with them. Newsletters are built from ready-made blocks and sent to the people who signed up on your website.
- Every enquiry, with its photos
- A chat assistant, day and night
- A members area with no passwords
- Newsletters to your subscribers
Marketing
Get found, get reviewed, never miss a call
Review requests go to your customers in your own words, from your own email address, with your Google link already in them, and every review comes back into one list where you reply and choose which go on your website. SEO Coach scores every page of your website in plain English and tells you what to change to climb Google.
A post can be written for you every day and sent to Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, and an AI receptionist can answer your phone, take the caller’s details and turn every call into a lead.
- Google review requests and replies
- SEO Coach, in plain English
- A social media post every day
- An AI receptionist on your phone
Business tools
Run the business side from the same login
Every enquiry, from your website, your phone and the businesses you’ve approached, lands in one list of leads, with the ones that need you today at the top. Invoices are made from the work already recorded, as proper VAT invoices somebody can actually pay, and your Stripe payments show who’s paying, who has stopped, and exactly what was in each payout.
One price list keeps everyone quoting the same numbers. Your email can live in the CMS too, with your signature and your calendar. A finder can look up businesses that could become your customers, by trade and town, and help you write to them. And every AI answer, search and call is costed as it happens, so you always know what the system costs to run.
- Leads from every direction, in one list
- Invoices and Stripe payments
- One price list, and your email inbox
- Finding new customers, and running costs
Who is our content management system for?
The same system runs every kind of website, and you only have the parts your business uses. Pick yours to see which parts matter most.
Wholesalers and trade counters
Trade applications, trade prices and credit accounts.
Garages, workshops and salons
Services with prices, online booking and deposits.
Industrial and engineering firms
Case studies, documents, accreditations and trade accounts.
Builders and tradespeople
Case studies with before-and-after sliders, and enquiries that arrive with photos.
Why choose our content management system?
- One system, not a pile of pluginsEverything is built by us to work together, so there are no plugins from different companies to update, and nothing breaks when one of them changes.
- Designed for you, not a templateYour website is designed around your business. The CMS sits behind your design; it doesn’t decide what your website looks like.
- Over 3,000 websites behind itThe Mediatopia CMS is what we’ve learned from building more than 3,000 websites.
- We run our own business on itIt isn’t something we resell. We built it, we use it every day, and we improve it every week.
- Served from LondonYour website and its CMS are served from London, close to your customers.
- People, when you want themWhen you’d rather we made a change for you, you ask us, the same as you always would.
How do I get a website on the Mediatopia CMS?
Every website we build comes with it. This is what happens from the first conversation to the day you change your own prices.
- 01Tell us about your businessWhat you do, who your customers are, and what your website needs to do for them.
- 02We design your websiteAround your business and your brand. You see the home page before anything else is built.
- 03We build it on the CMSEvery page built and your words, pictures, products and services put in, so it arrives full.
- 04We show you roundHow to change a page, add a product, see a booking and answer an enquiry.
- 05You run it, we’re still hereYou keep it up to date yourself, and we make changes for you whenever you’d rather.
Questions about our content management system
Is the free trial really free, with no sign-up?
Yes. Press Try it now and you’re in your own copy of our demo website for 10 minutes. Nothing to fill in. If you’d like another go, we ask for your name and email, and you get 30 minutes.
Can anyone else see what I do in the trial?
No. Your copy is yours alone, and it’s cleared away when your time is up.
Do I need to know any code?
No. You change your website by clicking on it and typing. Everything else is a form in plain English.
Is it WordPress?
No. It’s our own system, built by us, so there are no plugins to update and nothing for anyone else to break.
Can it take card payments?
Yes, through your own Stripe account, so the money goes straight to you.
Can my staff have their own logins?
Yes, and the audit trail shows who changed what.
Can you move my existing website onto it?
Yes. We rebuild it in your design and keep the web addresses Google already knows.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, your website and the CMS both work on a phone, and there’s an app version for your website too.
How much does it cost?
Every website we build comes with it. See our pay monthly websites for prices.
Book a guided demo of the Mediatopia CMS
Tell us a little about your business and what you would like to see, and we will be in touch to arrange a time to show you round the CMS.
Try it for yourself
Your own copy of a working website and its content management system, ready in seconds. No form, no sales call.