Websitero vs Wix
Wix is easy to start and expensive to stay on. You build it yourself, you pay every month for as long as the site exists, and the one thing you never get is the site itself — there is no export that produces a working website, so the day you want to move is the day you start again from nothing. Here is what that costs you, point for point.
- 7-day money-back guarantee
- Code you own
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Point for point
Every claim here is something Wix publishes or that you can check in an afternoon. Nothing on this page is an opinion about them.
You do. The design, the writing, the layout and every future change come out of your evenings — the editor being easy does not make it your job any less.
We do. You send a document about your business and your photos, a developer hand-codes it, and you look at a finished site.
Wix's own closed rendering system, generated by the editor. You cannot open it, and there is no source code to hand a developer.
Standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a repository you own. Any web developer on earth can open it and work on it.
Not with the site. Wix publishes no export that produces a working website, so leaving means rebuilding from scratch — the longer you stay, the more expensive that gets.
Whenever you want. It is a folder of files on hosting you control. Move it, redesign it, or hand it to somebody else and nothing needs our permission.
A subscription per site, per month, with no end date. Miss the renewal and the site comes down — years of payments and you own nothing at the end of it.
One build fee, once. Nothing further to pay, hosting is free, and the site is yours permanently.
The plan is the floor, not the price. Booking, reviews, proper forms and most of what a business actually needs are paid apps billed on top of it, every month.
Included in the build. What your business needs is coded into the site, not rented back to you a feature at a time.
Editor-generated pages ship a lot of script whether a page uses it or not. Poor mobile scores are the standard complaint, and mobile speed is what Google ranks on.
Hand-written pages that load nothing they do not use. Fast on a bad phone connection, which is where your customers actually are.
You get SEO fields to fill in yourself. The Google listing that decides whether you appear in the map results is a separate job nobody does for you.
Handled on All-in and Pro — your listing set up properly, and the pages written for your town and your trade.
A general support queue for a platform with millions of sites. Nobody there has seen yours.
24/7 chat with the developers who built your site, who can just make the change.
Switching from Wix
Your content comes across; the site itself cannot, and that is a Wix limitation rather than ours. Wix publishes no export that produces a working website, so a move off it is a rebuild wherever you go — which is exactly why it is worth doing sooner rather than after another two years of subscription. We take your existing content as the starting document: send the text, the photos and the page structure you already have, and the new site is built from it rather than from a blank page.
Only this month. Wix is a subscription per site that runs for as long as the site exists, so the total never stops growing and there is nothing at the end of it. Our build is one payment, hosting is free, and there is nothing further to pay — most owners are ahead inside the second year, and unlike Wix they own the result outright.
Nothing, because there is nothing to stop paying. The build is a single payment and the site is standard code on hosting you control — it keeps running whether or not you ever hear from us again. That is the opposite of a builder subscription, where stopping payment takes the site down with it.
No, and that is the everyday difference: on Wix you are the builder, the designer and the copywriter. With us you send a document about your business and review a finished site. If you would genuinely rather build it yourself, we sell starter kits and docs for that — a separate product, not an upsell path.
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Two ways to get there: send us a doc about your business and your photos and we'll hand-code it for you, or start from a complete kit and build it yourself.
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