There’s a good chance your favorite coffee shop or yoga studio takes payments through Clover. The company is a leading point-of-sale solution for small businesses and serves merchants worldwide.
With dozens of intuitive products and partnerships, Clover simplifies the lives of business owners by making back-office management easy. From payroll to performance reviews, it helps local merchants ditch the paperwork and get back to building thriving businesses.
From bakeries to large stadiums, Clover’s users are diverse in both size and industry. Although Clover operates globally, many of its products are country-specific. In order to meet the needs of its global user base, it’s critical that Clover’s website, Help Center and products deliver content for each specific geography and language.
However, Clover’s old CMS couldn’t handle its global complexity. According to Clover’s Content Design Manager Felicia Wu, “People just kept adding plug-ins to the point that the CMS system would go down multiple times a day. And when multiple people were editing the system would go down as well.”
In addition to reliability, there were a number of issues with Clover’s legacy content management system:
It sometimes took weeks to deploy simple changes, and the marketing and help center teams often had to delay their campaigns. Complex workflows also cost Clover thousands of dollars in engineering overhead.
That’s when Clover started to look for a better solution. It needed a platform that could:
Today, Clover uses Contentful as its content platform across properties to:
Contentful’s easy-to-use platform brings stakeholders across teams together. Subject matter experts on both business and technical sides of the house all have a seat at the table. Content owners are empowered to make updates to their various digital sites without relying on engineers. Both the Help Center and marketing teams publish more content in a fraction of the time. It’s not just marketers who love Contentful’s intuitive system; Software Engineer Rachel Church adds, “As an engineer, using Contentful has been a joy. I thoroughly enjoy the API delivery of the content.”
Contentful’s sophisticated governance and user management protect the integrity of the platform. According to Tim Suh, senior product manager at Clover, “We leverage Contentful’s permissions and roles to give the right people the right access to different areas. We don’t have to worry about somebody accidentally breaking something in another area.”
Clover built a best-for-its-business digital experience stack with Contentful’s content platform at its core. Clover’s online content is now easy to manage and update with multiple versions in multiple languages and locations deployed across channels.
The results speak for themselves:
With a single content platform, Clover’s teams are aligned — working more efficiently and effectively together.
Contentful has helped unify the organization. Everybody from legal to marketing to our help writers and product managers are able to interface with Contentful and all of that reduces our time to market as well as our cost of development. — Tim Suh, product manager, Clover.