I am working on a business search website and then showing a listing page. We played with the idea of letting customers manage their listing page using an external CMS. I'm not sure how often this is done, or if it is even the best practice. Ideally, we want to set up a listing on our website, and then give customers access to external CRM when they can manage their page.
Then we want to embed this custom page on our website, possibly using an iframe (which will be accompanied by its own set of complications). We would like this integration to be as smooth as possible. I personally would prefer it if we could directly embed HTML in our own page and bypass the iframe all together, but I don't know any CMS hosting services that provide an interface for such a thing.
We experimented a bit with Squarespace, and we can get a pretty clean version of the page that works well for iframes.
I am wondering if anyone else looked and integrated the external hosting of the CMS into the site (in this case we use ASP.NET MVC). We would also like to automate the creation of accounts on this external CMS, so when the user registered, we could just point them to the site with some login information.
I have no idea if anyone is offering such a service, but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
We could also serve the service, but the goal is to have an external system that customers can use to manage their pages.
Greetings
James
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