Silverstripe

Silverstripe is an open-source, PHP-based content management system and web framework (BSD-licensed, distributed via silverstripe.org) built and maintained by Silverstripe Ltd, a Wellington, New Zealand company founded in 2000 as Totally Digital by Sam Minnée, Tim Copeland and Sigurd Magnusson. The commercial arm (silverstripe.com) monetises through digital agency work — design, build and support — plus Silverstripe Cloud managed hosting and Silverstripe Search, with an ecosystem of several hundred freelance and agency implementation partners worldwide. It is strongest in NZ public sector and enterprise web, and is not a hospitality-specific vendor: it sells no loyalty, guest CRM, stored-value or booking product.

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Listed properties: 2
Rooms covered: 406
Countries: 1
Founded: 2000

About Silverstripe

Silverstripe is an open-source PHP content management system originating in New Zealand, positioned between the simplicity of WordPress and the enterprise weight of TYPO3. It appears in this index at properties whose site was built by an agency with Silverstripe in-house — its presence in a stack says more about who built the website than about a deliberate platform decision by the hotel.

Key capabilities

Open source
Structured content model
Agency-built deployments

What Silverstripe does

One section per category this provider serves. Each links to the category it competes in and lists the properties running it in that specific role.

Marketing, CRM & Direct Booking

Hotel Website & CMS

The content system behind the hotel website. Diagnostic value is high: a flat-file CMS has no database, so there is physically nowhere for a guest record to live.

Running it here: Manz Privacy Hotels Switzerland Sunstar Hotels

Who it is for

Segment: Chain & enterprise
Department: Sales & marketingIT & technology
Persona: Marketing manager
Use case: Increase direct bookings

Hotels running Silverstripe

Hotel	Location	Role there	Rooms
Manz Privacy Hotels Switzerland	Zurich, Switzerland	CMS	406
Sunstar Hotels	Liestal, Switzerland	CMS	—

At a glance

Category: Hotel Website & CMS
Headquarters: Wellington, New Zealand
Founded: 2000
Employees: ~80 staff across Oceania, Europe and North America (2025 reports); third-party profiles list a 51–200 band
Pricing model: Free / partner-funded

Target segments

independentboutique

Alternatives

Vendors serving the same categories as Silverstripe.

Contentful
API-first headless content management system used to power websites and apps from structured content.
Grav CMS
Open-source flat-file PHP CMS. Stores all content as Markdown files on disk — there is no database behind it at all. Popular with small agencies for fast, cheap, low-maintenance brochure sites.
TYPO3
Open-source enterprise content management system, widely used in German-speaking Europe.
WordPress
The most widely deployed open-source content management system, typically extended with plugins for SEO, caching, translation and consent.
Kreativagentur Pixelrausch
Austrian creative agency at Unterer Spelsweg 14, 6533 Fiss, named in the Impressum of both dasgerstl.com and dasgerstlfamily.com as 'Konzeption, Grafik & Programmierung'. Builds hotel websites on TYPO3.
Trendstudio GmbH
South Tyrolean web agency at Andreas-Hofer-Straße 5, 39100 Bozen (VAT IT03011630211). Builds and hosts hotel websites on a shared in-house Grav CMS template, plus SEO, Google Ads, social and newsletter marketing. Named in the footer and Impressum of kastellatz.it as 'Projekt & Programmierung'.

Running several of these systems at once?

Blue connects an existing hotel stack into one guest profile and one loyalty balance across every property — without replacing the PMS.

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