If you are comparing Wix against something, you are not really shopping for software. You want a website that makes your business look real and gets the phone to ring. Wix is one way to get there. It is a genuinely capable editor, and then it hands you the hard part.
What Wix is good at
We are not going to tell you their product is bad, because it is not. The editor lets you put anything anywhere, which no other builder really does. The app market is the biggest in the category. There is a real free plan you can try without a card, their AI will rough out a whole site from a few questions, and at $17 a month the entry price is the lowest of the serious builders. Plenty of businesses run perfectly good sites on it.
The problem is not the software. It is everything the subscription does not cover. Nobody writes your services page. Nobody decides which photos go where. Nobody changes your prices in March when they go up, or fixes the winter hours, or adds the service you started offering in June. That is all yours, forever, and it is the part that actually takes time.
The common ending is not a bad website. It is four pages built on a Sunday, stalled at the services copy, and still half finished six weeks later while the subscription keeps running. The site never goes live and the money went out anyway.
The freedom to put anything anywhere cuts both ways, too. An editor with no rails is wonderful if you have taste and time, and it is how a page ends up looking homemade if you have neither.
How to move off Wix
Worth knowing before you start: a site built in the Wix editor does not transfer to another platform. That is true of Squarespace, of us, and of every builder. Moving always means rebuilding. What actually travels with you is your domain and your content.
- Your domain comes with you. If it is registered in your name you point it wherever you like. If Wix registered it, you can transfer it out. Either way it stays yours.
- Send us your current site. Just the link. We read it, keep what is working, and rewrite what is not.
- We rebuild it, then you compare. You see the new one live next to the old one before anything switches over.
- Cancel after, not before. Keep the Wix subscription running until the new site is live and the domain has moved. There is no gap and no day where your customers land on nothing.
- Mind the renewal date. Because Wix bills a year at a time, the cheapest moment to move is just before renewal rather than just after.
Who this is not for
If you enjoy building websites and you will genuinely keep yours current, use Wix. At $17 a month it is cheaper than us and you will have a good time.
If you sell products online at any volume, use Wix or Shopify. If you want something genuinely custom, a distinctive design nobody else has, an unusual booking flow, a members area, hire a designer. That is real work and it is worth real money.
We are the right answer for a local service business that needs a good website which stays true, and does not want to run a project to get one.
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