Exponent CMS editing system allows website content to be edited on the page as it appears - without back-end administration. The default installation includes a set of modules for managing a typical website. Additional modules are developed by a community of open-source developers and can be installed via a web browser.

It can be installed on a Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows environment, or any platform that supports the Apache web server and the PHP language (version 5.6.x+). Exponent CMS requires a MySQL (5+) or MariaDB database to store content and settings.