Reaching readers on social media should not require your newsroom to repeat the same publishing work across multiple platforms. Surf CMS integrates with Facebook to help publications share stories more efficiently and keep their social channels active.
When a story is published, selected articles can also be sent to your publication’s Facebook Page. The post can include the story headline, summary, featured image, and a direct link back to the article on your website, helping drive social media audiences to your publication’s own content.
Publishers remain in control of what is shared. Articles can be marked individually for Facebook publishing, allowing editors to promote breaking news, important community updates, sports coverage, features, and other selected stories without…
Modern digital publishing requires flexible payment options, and Surf CMS integrates with Stripe to help publishers securely process online transactions with ease.
Stripe enables newspapers to accept major credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and other supported payment methods through a fast, secure, and mobile-friendly checkout experience. Whether you’re selling digital subscriptions, accepting membership payments, collecting donations, processing classified advertisements, or offering event registrations, Stripe provides a powerful payment platform designed for today’s online businesses.
Surf CMS works with Stripe to support a wide range of payment workflows while helping protect sensitive payment information through industry-standard security practices. Publishers can offer…
Offering readers a trusted and familiar payment option can help increase online conversions. Surf CMS integrates with PayPal, allowing publishers to securely accept payments for subscriptions, memberships, classifieds, event registrations, donations, and other online services.
PayPal provides a fast and convenient checkout experience, giving readers the flexibility to pay using their PayPal account or supported payment methods. Transactions are processed through PayPal’s secure payment infrastructure, helping protect both your publication and your customers.
Surf CMS can incorporate PayPal into a variety of website workflows, making it easy to collect payments while streamlining the user experience. Whether you’re selling digital subscriptions, accepting community donations, processing…
Every newspaper operates differently, and no two organizations rely on exactly the same combination of software. That’s why Surf CMS is built with integration in mind, making it easy to connect your website with the business systems that keep your publication running.
In addition to supporting many popular third-party services, Surf CMS can integrate with external applications through APIs, data feeds, webhooks, and other modern integration methods. Whether you need to exchange subscriber information, synchronize advertising data, connect payment services, automate editorial workflows, or share content with another platform, our flexible architecture is designed to make those connections possible.
Our integration capabilities allow publishers to extend the power of Surf CMS while…
Managing website tracking and marketing tags shouldn’t require editing your website’s code. Surf CMS supports Google Tag Manager, giving publishers a flexible way to manage analytics, advertising, and marketing integrations from a single platform.
Google Tag Manager allows publishers to deploy and manage tracking tags without modifying website templates each time a new service is added. Whether you’re implementing Google Analytics, conversion tracking, remarketing pixels, advertising platforms, or other third-party services, Tag Manager simplifies the process.
By centralizing tag management, publishers can launch marketing campaigns faster, measure advertising performance more accurately, and reduce the need for ongoing development work. This flexibility is especially valuable for…
Understanding how readers find your publication is just as important as understanding what they read. Surf CMS integrates with Google Search Console, giving publishers valuable insights into how their website performs in Google Search.
Google Search Console allows you to monitor search visibility, identify indexing issues, review search queries, track click-through rates, and see which articles and pages are attracting visitors from search engines. These insights help publishers improve their content strategy while ensuring important stories are easily discovered by readers.
Surf CMS is designed with search engine optimization in mind, and Google Search Console complements those features by helping you verify that your content is being properly indexed. Publishers can monitor crawl…
Helping readers discover your content begins with helping search engines find it. Surf CMS includes XML sitemap support, making it easy for Google, Bing, and other search engines to efficiently crawl and index your website.
An XML sitemap acts as a roadmap for your publication, automatically listing important pages and articles so search engines can quickly identify new content, updated stories, and changes across your website. This is especially valuable for newspapers that publish fresh content throughout the day.
Surf CMS automatically updates your sitemap as new stories, sections, categories, and other content are published. There is no need to manually rebuild or submit a new sitemap every time your newsroom posts breaking news or updates an existing article.
Publishers can…
RSS feeds remain one of the most reliable and flexible ways to distribute news content across the web, and Surf CMS includes comprehensive RSS support built directly into the platform.
Every publication can provide RSS feeds for its latest stories, individual sections, categories, authors, or other custom content. Readers can subscribe using their preferred RSS reader, while third-party applications and partner organizations can automatically receive your latest headlines as they are published.
RSS feeds also power many behind-the-scenes workflows. They can be used to populate mobile apps, distribute content to news aggregators, feed newsletter platforms, connect with social media automation tools, syndicate stories to partner websites, and integrate with countless third-party services…
Understanding your audience is essential to growing a successful digital publication. Surf CMS makes it easy to integrate with Google Analytics, giving publishers valuable insights into how readers discover, engage with, and interact with their website.
With Google Analytics connected to your site, you can monitor pageviews, visitor trends, traffic sources, popular content, audience demographics, device usage, referral websites, and much more. These insights help editors make informed content decisions while giving publishers the data they need to demonstrate value to advertisers.
Surf CMS supports modern Google Analytics integration, allowing your tracking code to be managed without modifying your site’s templates. Whether you’re measuring the success of a breaking news story,…
Switching to a new website or CMS doesn’t mean you have to replace your circulation system. Surf New Media is designed to work alongside CircPro, allowing publishers to continue managing subscriptions in the system they already know while providing readers with seamless access to your website.
Our CircPro integration synchronizes subscriber information with your website, helping ensure that digital access reflects your current subscription records. Active subscribers can automatically receive the appropriate level of access, while subscription changes are reflected on your website without requiring staff to manually update user accounts.
By connecting your website with CircPro, your circulation team can continue using their established workflows while your readers enjoy a modern, secure…