Purple DS vs. SmartPublisher Comparison Chart

What sets Advantage apart as a superior subscription & product order management system is total flexibility. The flexibility allows you to efficiently run your business the way you want to. And with the rapid expansion of consumer preference for access to content through subscription and membership models—whether you’re a publisher, membership organization or product distributor—you need a market-responsive order-to-cash solution. Ecommerce is increasingly a critical revenue source for publishers and membership associations. But tying eCommerce into complete customer and related financial information is critical. Since Cider is built on the same system logic as Advantage, you immediately realize the power of 1,000s of features.

iPaper is a digital catalog platform that lets you convert your printed leaflets and catalogs into fully interactive digital shopping experiences. Capture shoppers' attention with product images and videos. Drive traffic and sales with in-catalog shopping over email, WhatsApp or directly integrated with your ecommerce webshop. The iPaper platform is built to fit your business and we offer advanced features to fully automate your setup. Getting started with iPaper is much more than just creating a catalog that looks good. It is built to help retailers create an automated interactive marketing channel that will drive traffic and inspire shoppers to buy.

Paligo is built for organizations that manage large volumes of complex technical content - and need it to scale. Designed for structured documentation at high volume, Paligo helps teams turn documentation into a strategic asset through intelligent reuse, governance, and automation. At the core of Paligo is a cloud-native component content management system (CCMS) that lets teams author once and reuse content everywhere. This approach reduces duplication, accelerates updates, lowers translation costs, and ensures consistency across products, formats, and markets. The result is faster publishing, fewer errors, and documentation teams that can focus on impact rather than maintenance. Paligo combines powerful structured authoring with an intuitive SaaS interface, making it accessible to both experienced technical writers and broader content teams. From authoring and review to translation and multichannel publishing, Paligo supports the full documentation lifecycle.

Transform your content into engaging eLearning experiences with Coursebox, the #1 AI-powered eLearning authoring tool. Our platform automates the course creation process, allowing you to design a structured course in seconds. Simply make edits, add any missing elements, and your course is ready to go. Whether you want to publish privately, share publicly, sell your course, or export it to your LMS, Coursebox has you covered. With a focus on mobile-first learning, Coursebox ensures your learners are more engaged and motivated through interactive and visual content, including videos, quizzes, and more. Take advantage of our branded learning management system with native mobile apps, offering you the flexibility to use custom hosting and a custom domain. Coursebox is the ultimate solution for organizations and individuals looking to rapidly scale their training and assessment programs.

Submittable powers you with tools to launch, manage, measure, and grow your social impact programs, locally and globally. From employee giving, volunteering, and corporate social responsibility programs to grants, awards and scholarships, we partner with you so you can start making a difference, fast. The start-to-finish platform makes your workflow smarter and more efficient, leading to better decisions and bigger impact. Easily report on success, and learn for the future—Submittable is flexible and powerful enough to grow alongside your programs. Submittable has the tools you need for your social impact programs, from community investment to employee engagement. Submittable has powered over 145,000 social impact programs, receiving nearly 25 million applications. Teams save an average of 3.4 hours per week per admin and 2.6 hours per week per reviewer, and over half of Submittable customers launch in 14 days or less—no wonder 95% of customers report they are happy.

Click2Mail transforms conventional mail with its online and on-demand, SaaS print-to-mail service. With Click2Mail, users have access to tools that make creating and mailing postcards, brochures, letters, and other print materials fast and easy. Using Click2Mail's free to use Mailing Online Publisher, individuals and organizations can compose, address, and send mailpieces anywhere on the planet without leaving their chair.

Papirfly is a SaaS leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) and on-brand, template-based content creation. Our suite of solutions empowers global brands to organize, showcase, create, and integrate digital assets across every channel—from video and social to print. Serving over 1 million users across more than 1,500 of the world’s most recognized brands, including Mercedes-Benz, Mondelez, and Goldman Sachs, Papirfly helps organizations achieve brand consistency and creative efficiency at scale. Following the 2021 merger of Papirfly and Brandmaster, the Papirfly Group has expanded to include Papirfly, Keepeek, Brandpad, and Adgistics—uniting decades of innovation under one vision: enabling every team to bring their brand to life, everywhere.

EasySend is a no‑code platform for building and automating digital journeys. Forget static forms—turn customer onboarding, applications, quotes, service requests and other processes into personalized, end‑to‑end workflows that work across every channel. You can launch powerful digital experiences without writing code, connect them to your CRM, ERP and other apps to manage customers at scale, and optimize them with built‑in e‑signatures, integrations and analytics. Trusted by enterprises worldwide, EasySend meets stringent security standards—including SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA—and accelerates digital transformation from fast onboarding to enterprise‑grade solutions.

Powerful headless CMS features to manage your content across the entire organization. Contentstack is the first headless CMS to address the needs of business users and developers and improves content management for both old and new digital channels. No training required thanks to an intuitive interface optimized for no-code and low-code business users. Your content and graphics are delivered and presented in the best way possible for each mobile form factor. Benefit from the scale, efficiency and performance of the cloud alongside the continuous improvements of our SaaS platform. Improve your site and app reliability with a resilient cloud CMS, premium SLAs, world-class DevOps services and 24x7 support. Scale with a decoupled architecture, eliminate database bottlenecks and automatically adjust your cloud infrastructure to match demand.

MeridianLink® Opening simplifies and accelerates digital account opening with a streamlined platform built for speed, security, and scalability. It supports a full suite of deposit products—checking, savings, CDs, and IRAs—while delivering a consistent, omnichannel experience across all channels. Through seamless integration with core and digital banking systems, as well as hundreds of trusted third-party providers, it automates data entry, ID verification, credit checks, and fraud protection. Flexible workflows and intelligent decisioning help institutions increase conversions, reduce abandonment, and cross-sell more effectively—all while supporting compliance and a frictionless consumer experience. Our integrated digital platform supports the entire consumer financial journey while connecting with hundreds of trusted vendor partner solutions. Visit our website to learn more.