Payload CMS

Build content-driven applications with Payload CMS. Generates collection configs, custom fields, access control policies, hooks, and API endpoints with full TypeScript type safety and self-hosted deployment.

This skill helps you build with Payload CMS, the TypeScript-native headless CMS. It generates collection schemas, implements field-level access control, creates custom hooks for business logic, sets up authentication, and configures admin panel customizations. Supports MongoDB and PostgreSQL.

When to use

Use when building content management systems, e-commerce backends, multi-tenant platforms, or any application that needs a customizable admin panel with a headless API.

Examples

E-commerce collections

Set up product, category, and order collections

Create Payload CMS collections for an e-commerce site with products, categories, orders, and customers with proper relationships and access control

Multi-tenant setup

Configure Payload for multi-tenant SaaS

Set up Payload CMS with tenant isolation where each organization can only access their own content and media