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Brandfolder is a powerful brand management and a Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform. With its simple interface and effective features, it has become one of the most trusted DAM solutions in the market. Primarily, Brandfolder provides a centralized storage for all your organization's digital assets and makes organizing and sharing of assets across multiple platforms easier. With its intelligent in-built search capability, image auto-tagging, and visual thumbnailing, Brandfolder effortlessly offers brand coherence. This makes it easier for organizations to engage with their customers and improve their visual branding. All assets can be shared across multiple platforms by using a single link. Thus, it becomes easier to integrate Brandfolder with other platforms.

Brandfolder Experience Extension

Contentstack's Experience Extensions offer a variety of ways to integrate third-party applications, such as Brandfolder, directly into your headless CMS. With the Brandfolder Experience Extension, you can streamline the process of managing and sharing digital assets across multiple platforms.

Using a Contentstack Custom Field, you can integrate Brandfolder with Contentstack directly. You can create content in Contentstack, and Brandfolder will ensure that you are able to view the digital assets within your CMS.

Contentstack and Brandfolder Integration Use Cases

Contentstack's Brandfolder Experience Extension opens up many possibilities. Here are some real-world use cases:

Simplified asset management


By integrating Contentstack with Brandfolder, you can easily upload your digital assets with ease. It also makes it possible to organize and distribute assets. The integration allows the Brandfolder portal to open in the entry of your content type and you can choose and insert the assets within your entry page.

Gain better control over all your marketing resources

Contentstack's integration with Brandfolder allows you to manage the entire content lifecycle of your marketing strategy. Contentstack lets you create and manage content and the Brandfolder Custom Field Extension allows you to insert your digital assets in your entry. The integration provides a single solution to manage all your marketing resources inside your CMS.

Simplify sharing and distribution of digital assets

With Brandfolder's integration with Contentstack, your geographically dispersed teams can easily create, share, and distribute content. This makes it possible to execute large-scale marketing campaigns with cross-functional teams.

Step-By-Step: How to Integrate Brandfolder with Your CMS

To use a Custom Field with Brandfolder, perform the following steps:

  1. Create an Account With Brandfolder


    The first step is to create an account with Brandfolder. They offer several plans from which you can select the one that suits your requirements and get started.

  2. Create a Brandfolder Custom Field

    Create and configure a Brandfolder Custom Field. You can define exactly how the integration works, what Brandfolder account it should integrate with, and what information you want to link to Contentstack. Typically, we recommend that a developer helps perform this step. Refer to our Brandfolder documentation for step-by-step instructions.

  3. Add the Brandfolder Custom Field

    Add a Custom Field to your content type and select Brandfolder as the Extension.

  4. Test Brandfolder Custom Field in Your Entries

    You will then be able to see the Brandfolder Custom Field on a content entry page. Try it by selecting a Brandfolder asset to ensure the setup works correctly.

    To learn more about how to set up the Brandfolder extension, refer to our in-depth guide or contact our support team to review the sample code.

Questions? Ideas?

If you have any questions about the way the Brandfolder Extension works or have ideas about other third-party app extensions, send us an email at catalysts@contentstack.com.