Next.js + Payload CMS + PostgreSQL
When a client needs more than a marketing site — accounts, roles, uploads, an editorial workflow, an app that lives at the same URL — Payload runs inside the Next.js app on PostgreSQL. One codebase, one deploy, a fully typed content model, and an admin UI your client's team can use on day one.
- ToolingNext.js · Payload CMS · PostgreSQL
- Best forBranding & design agencies
- Scope & quoteWithin 2 business days
Next.js + Payload + PostgreSQL, run the way agencies need it run.
Websites, stores and apps your clients will put their name on.
Send the brief and a named producer turns it into a written scope: 6 deliverables, each priced, with the assumptions and the tools listed — Next.js, Payload CMS, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vercel. Nothing is built until you have agreed that document, and the price on it is the price you pay.
It is the brief we see most often from branding & design agencies, full-service agencies. Everything ships under your agency's name — the staging link, the commits, the checklist and the handover — and your client never learns we were involved.
- Pillar
- Build — Websites, stores and apps your clients will put their name on.
- Tooling
- Next.js · Payload CMS · PostgreSQL · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Vercel
- Most often for
- Branding & design agencies
- Scope & quote
- Within 2 business days — scope
What you get, written into the scope.
Every item here appears in the scope document with a price against it. Nothing starts until you approve it.
- 01Content model designed as typed Payload collections and globals
- 02Payload admin inside the Next.js app, with roles, access control and uploads
- 03PostgreSQL schema, migrations and seed data
- 04Server-rendered front end with live preview and draft workflows
- 05Auth, forms and integrations built as Payload endpoints and hooks
- 06Hosting setup with backups and a deploy pipeline
You will recognise the moment.
- The brief mixes a marketing site with logged-in functionality
- The client needs granular editor roles and a real content workflow
- You want a code-first CMS that will not become a plugin graveyard
- 01
Send the brief
Reply within 1 business day
- 02
Scope & quote
Within 2 business days
- 03
Production
Timeline fixed in the scope
- 04
QA & review
Published checklist, every build
- 05
Agency delivery
Handover doc with every launch
- Next.js
- Payload CMS
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vercel
Agencies that send this brief most often.
Send the brief — get a fixed price within two business days.
Tell us what the Next.js + Payload + PostgreSQL project needs and when. Client names can wait until the NDA is signed; a named producer replies within one business day.