Areca DocsIntroduction
Areca is a CMS for agency-managed websites. Write content, approve it, and go live with an immutable snapshot your website builds from.
Areca is a content management system built for agencies that run websites for their clients. Editors write and review content in the CMS. When it is approved, Go live freezes it into an immutable snapshot, and the website is rebuilt and deployed from that snapshot.
Your website stays a normal project in your own repository. The site SDK connects it to Areca: it pushes the content schema, pulls published content at build time, and renders rich text, SEO tags and draft previews.
How it fits together
A client is an organisation your agency works for. Each client has one or more sites. A site contains collections, which are content types such as Articles or Team members, and each collection contains entries.
Write a draft. Saving a draft never changes the public website.
Mark it as ready. An owner approves a version for the next release.
Go live. Areca creates an immutable content snapshot, starts the website build, deploys it and runs a health check.
The release becomes live once the deployment is healthy. If something goes wrong, you can roll back to an earlier release.
Read How Areca works for the full model.
Find your guide
CMS guide
For editors and agency admins: writing, reviewing, publishing, managing sites and connecting AI apps.
SDK & API
For developers: connect a website, define content, pull snapshots, render previews.
Self-hosting
For operators: install with Docker, configure, deploy, operate and upgrade.
Security
Roles, two-factor authentication, tokens, secrets and rate limits.
New to building a website with Areca? The Guides connect one, step by step.
Your first publish
New to Areca? The quickstart takes you from an empty installation to a live website in five steps.