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Moved a marketing site off a roughly $12k a year Webflow Enterprise plan to Astro on Cloudflare for about $5 a month.
View original sourceAgency paid Webflow about $9k a year and replaced it with a self-hosted stack costing about $25 a month.
View original sourceRebuilt a Webflow-ready sports team site on Astro, Sanity and Cloudflare to avoid about £34 a month.
View original sourceNon-developer designer loves Webflow and builds from Figma links via Claude in minutes.
View original sourceMoving away from Webflow as it is too limiting for ecommerce and nobody in house wants to use it.
View original sourceAgency developer no longer recommends Webflow and is moving budget clients away due to high small-site hosting costs.
View original sourceMid-build developer says the Box element change forced a workflow switch and will make this their last Webflow site.
View original sourceWix refused to cancel on request and billed a year they would never use after five years as a customer.
View original sourceUsed to find Wix easy and intuitive but now spends hours fixing things that fall apart after a change.
View original sourceTwo-person kitchenware store with 90 SKUs has a 6.1 second mobile load and 71% bounce, blamed on script-injecting Shopify apps and a $4,800 agency fix quote.
View original sourceArchived their portfolio site and cancelled Webflow because it was too expensive.
View original sourceSays you will never speak to a human at Wix and will face exorbitant cancellation charges.
View original sourceSquarespace stopped their domain after a business structure change, halting emails and billing during peak season with one useless reply a day.
View original sourceManufacturing business says managing inventory calculations and bundled units on Shopify is insane for made-to-order products.
View original sourceAgency owner thinks $29 a month is fair for a powerful CMS, hosting and a platform to manage a whole site.
View original sourceFinds Wix infuriating to contact, with only an AI chat bot for help.
View original sourceAgency keeps its SMB clients on Webflow and both sides are happy with it.
View original sourceFormer enterprise client paid $90k a year for Webflow, with the contract running to 2028 despite exploring Sanity.
View original sourceBuilding entirely with AI inside Webflow, finds it the best it has been for go-to-market teams.
View original sourceHas an ecommerce site on Webflow and wants to migrate to Shopify because Webflow Ecommerce was never improved.
View original sourceUK merchant hit with an $18,565 Mastercard BRAM fine passed through by Shopify with no clear explanation of the rule broken.
View original sourceSix-year Webflow developer is increasingly frustrated with the product's direction after the Box element change.
View original sourceFront-end developer of 20+ years thinks the Box element cleans up the Add panel and is a big improvement.
View original sourceSays Wix holds payments for months behind constant verification requests and has been a nightmare over two years.
View original sourceA Shopify and WooCommerce developer had a client paying about $600 a month on Shopify for a plan upgrade plus add-ons.
View original sourceA gift shop moved from WooCommerce to a static site with a small Shopify shop and no longer deals with broken Elementor updates.
View original sourceA WordPress developer has a client paying $90 a month for Shopify add-ons that are free in WordPress, on top of transaction fees.
View original sourcePaid $92 in 2016 and was quoted $228, so cancelled and moved to WordPress for about $50 a year.
View original sourceFor a services and classes business Wix was the cheapest option, versus almost $200 a month piecing together other apps.
View original sourceHad $600 stuck at Squarespace for over six months despite constant arguing.
View original sourceSays Wix initial fees triple without notification.
View original sourceFound the site expensive and limited, then abandoned it when the renewal cost came through.
View original sourceHas used Wix for years after finding WordPress too difficult, and says it is easy for simple needs.
View original sourceWix Studio was so frustrating that they had to hire a programmer for monthly updates and find Wix expensive for simple needs.
View original sourceSquarespace Payments put a $12k balance under review for 12 days with no replies to 8-10 emails and no phone number.
View original sourceFinds the Wix editor slow and clunky for a small business site with a few pages and lead forms.
View original sourcePrefers Squarespace over Wix for more transparent pricing and easy customization.
View original sourceSays Wix keeps billing after cancellation and will not let you remove the payment method.
View original sourceFinds Wix horrible and clunky for first-time users and says its business practices trap you into paying.
View original sourceCalls Webflow outrageously expensive in hosting and workspace plans and has migrated most sites to Lovable.
View original sourceWix announced a 150% plan increase so they moved to Porkbun and Cloudflare for much less.
View original sourceRunning three enterprise sites on Webflow, is migrating the big ones off due to rigid pricing and ever-increasing costs.
View original sourceMany years on Squarespace and happy, with lots of functionality and easy page creation.
View original sourceLong-time supporter now considering self-hosting because of extra charges for languages and a 10GB bandwidth limit.
View original sourceA client regularly exceeds Webflow bandwidth because of bot traffic with no business uptick.
View original sourceUses a Shopify site only for enquiries and quotes; it has paid for itself, but at over EUR 300 a year they want a cheaper option for new sites.
View original sourceA small-business owner dropped Squarespace because it cost about $300 a year and rebuilt the site themselves.
View original sourceA Wix user finds it super easy and reliable, and easy to go back and update their site.
View original sourceA business owner moved from WordPress to Squarespace because it is much easier to update and hand off to someone else.
View original sourceA business owner built their own site on Wix, finds it very easy and gets lots of compliments on it.
View original sourceExports sites from the start and now logs into Webflow about once a month only for older projects.
View original sourceThey love Webflow and like its robustness, calling it pretty rock solid.
View original sourceWix has held over $11,000 of their funds for four weeks with account locked and no way to reach a live person.
View original sourceMoved to Astro with Directus but finds client self-management less collaborative than Webflow.
View original sourceWix took a whole year payment they would not refund after a forgotten cancellation.
View original sourceLiked Webflow for three years but exported to Astro on Netlify and finds updates much faster.
View original sourceMoved from Wix to Squarespace to save money, found Wix intuitive with built-in tools and great customer service, and wants to go back.
View original sourceSays Webflow absorbs hosting, deploys and dependency upkeep and is honestly cheap for small local lead-gen sites.
View original sourceWix charged for a site they had agreed to discontinue and PayPal sided with them, leaving a debt sent to collections.
View original sourceLocked out of domains at Squarespace for weeks and asked to agree to Plaid terms to recover access.
View original sourceUsed Webflow five years and still keeps one product on it only because of SEO impact.
View original sourceWix staff are helpful but there is no phone or email, and fixing a domain issue led straight to an upsell.
View original sourceSays Webflow CMS collections punish anything beyond basic use.
View original sourceWithin the 14-day guarantee there was no cancel option, the support rep was rude and hung up, and the refund was refused.
View original sourceTwo Squarespace logins after the Google Domains buyout, an auto-upgraded Workspace costing $500 and nobody willing to help.
View original sourceFound Webflow too costly after a year and now self-hosts for less and faster.
View original sourceBuilt their site via Claude into Webflow with the MCP and sees no reason to leave given how easy landing pages are.
View original sourceNon-technical founder finds Webflow glitchy but says managing it via Codex is super easy.
View original sourceAgency owner increasingly recommends Webflow to clients over their own preferred Astro and Sanity because of simpler handoff.
View original sourceAgency says Webflow is by far its most requested service and it had to hire more Webflow developers.
View original sourceMigrated almost all projects off Webflow because the pricing left no margin on some clients.
View original sourceAfter eight years exported their Webflow sites to Cloudflare R2 to drop subscription, hosting and language add-on costs.
View original sourceWas still billed after closing their Webflow account and had to ask for a refund.
View original sourceAgency says non-technical clients still love Webflow and their pipeline on it keeps growing.
View original sourceMoved from WordPress to Webflow this year and builds sites within a week using their own templates and Claude via the workspace.
View original sourceSquarespace chat shows connecting but nothing happens and over 30 reps have still not changed their email.
View original sourceA client’s couple thousand dollars of donations is stuck pending approval in Squarespace and support takes a day per reply.
View original sourceLong-time Webflow user thinks the platform is done as clients leave.
View original sourceWebflow is the most expensive platform for their remaining sites and they have been moving sites off for six months.
View original sourceWebflow earned them good money over 8 years but they now find the direction disappointing.
View original sourceWebflow user since 2016 moved three small client sites to Astro for zero hosting cost, going from 16 Webflow clients to 13.
View original sourceWix auto-renewed them into a different, pricier plan, and after a formal complaint offered a one-time prorated refund of $857.
View original sourceUses Squarespace as a simple landing page; easy to use and reasonably priced with zero qualms.
View original sourceA coach finds Wix customer service slowest and worst, and the site routinely breaks, including silent booking failures.
View original sourceRuns brochure and e-commerce sites on both Wix and Squarespace and prefers Squarespace.
View original sourceMarketing head left Webflow after four years: the Designer hung repeatedly on a 370-page site, support was slow and fees confusing.
View original sourceSubscription confirmation emails sent from the shared ghost.io address land in Gmail spam on the starter plan; support has not been very responsive and the fix seems to require a tier at double the price, which feels deceptive.
Cancelled a couple of weeks before the year ended but was charged for the next year with no refund.
View original sourceDoes not like the pricing plans but finds Wix one of the easiest and most adaptable builders.
View original sourceA three-year Wix subscription that cost $306 renewed at $907 despite their attempts to move the site, and they are still owed $587.
View original sourceA Wix site with a decent-sized store, members area and blog is unbearably slow.
View original sourceWix raised their plan price every year, so they cancelled; renewal is charged about 20 days early.
View original sourceWix auto-renewed almost $500 with no notice over 30 days before, overdrawing their card, after transferring the site to a client.
View original sourceWix refused them a refund and they are considering court.
View original sourceThey tried Hostinger AI builder and found it terrible, needing lots of credits for fine tuning.
View original sourceA small business uses Hostinger's builder for e-commerce and bookings at about £160 a year for two sites, but each appointment needs its own checkout.
View original sourceLong-time Squarespace user who finds it the most user friendly versus Weebly and Wix, and is over WordPress.
View original sourceA seasonal decorating business found Framer super easy and got a better-looking site than Squarespace templates with a few prompts.
View original sourceA site builder has struggled to get Squarespace's mobile and desktop designs to do what they want unless sticking to its predesigned blocks.
View original sourceThey worked with WordPress and Webflow professionally and say Webflow became extremely expensive, so they moved to AI-assisted coding.
View original sourceWix auto-renewed their subscription early and the refund can take 45 days, so they rebuilt on WordPress with Porkbun.
View original sourceGot upsold so hard on Wix that they quit before building anything.
View original sourceHas run a site that generates almost $1M on Wix for 5 years with essentially no issues and finds it cost effective.
View original sourceWorks well overall for an online store, but untranslated checkout strings, product variants showing out of stock in initial HTML crawls, and missing Vipps Stripe support hurt Norwegian e-commerce.
View original sourceA root-domain site hosted on AWS Route53 stopped working after the builder apparently dropped A-record support, leaving only CNAME records as an option.
View original sourceThey found the ecommerce JS snippet uses 800mb of their 100gb Webflow bandwidth even though they do not use ecommerce and cannot turn it off.
View original sourceMigrating off Squarespace because mobile speed scores were 16-20 versus 99-100 on WordPress.
View original sourceThey were introduced to Webflow when starting their business and loved learning it. It took a while but taught them web design basics, and they recommend it.
View original sourceCalls Squarespace a trivial expense with 100% uptime that has never broken, with seamless Acuity and Stripe integration.
View original sourceMoved their store from Squarespace to Shopify because the Squarespace store was one dimensional for growing.
View original sourceAgency with 200+ Webflow builds says no client site has ever gone down because of the platform.
View original sourceTwo weeks on Wix Harmony brought freezes, missing features, a vanished site after pasting text and promised callbacks that never came.
View original sourceLong-time Webflow developer's agency is moving to Astro with Claude Code after finding it faster, cheaper and quicker to load.
View original sourceCancelled their Webflow subscription and moved most client sites to VitePress on Cloudflare.
View original sourceA long-time Squarespace designer finds the forced Fluid Engine a disaster: everything is harder and the layout will not stay put.
View original sourceThey describe themselves as a very long-time Webflow user and say sentiment has dropped. They blame price increases, bandwidth limits, enterprise focus and neglect of designers and developers.
View original sourceAfter a decade building client sites on Wix, Harmony's bugs and AI hallucinations push them off the platform.
View original sourceSquarespace Payments held $2,500 of a $12,000 payment, then later reserved a full $12,000 and closed their account without explanation.
View original sourceThree years running a site and store on Squarespace with one issue that was fixed and no problems since.
View original sourceSquarespace cancelled a $15k transfer, locked their funds and added a 15% 90-day reserve, so they migrated to Shopify.
View original sourceA takeaway business's Wix menu page is slow and Wix has issues two or three times a month blocking orders.
View original sourceThe Wix outage left their business and paid Meta ads useless, with no explanation of the cause.
View original sourceMoving a domain off Wix took a 7-day wait and only one email with the transfer code.
View original sourceTen-year customer; a glitch stopped Acuity follow-up emails and Squarespace said it could do nothing, so they will switch.
View original sourceMisleading Wix renewal emails led to a double renewal and managers refused help, saying they are a DIY platform.
View original sourceFrustrated by Squarespace limits for selling video access, now uses it mainly for unlimited video storage on a legacy plan.
View original sourceDuring a Wix outage, a store on Wix since 2021 could not take orders on a normally busy Saturday.
View original sourceIn 8 years with Wix this was the first outage, and it hit during their birthday sale with orders pending.
View original sourceThe Wix Events module stayed down after the main fix, and RSVPs failed right after a newsletter went out.
View original sourceAfter rebuilding a site on a custom stack, realises how much behind-the-scenes work Webflow handled for a front-end designer.
View original sourceThey find Webflow more intuitive and more mature with fewer bugs than Framer, which they found to have laggy animations. They say changes take less time and money than on WordPress.
View original sourceA blind user finds the Wix back end almost unusable with a screen reader, with unlabeled buttons everywhere.
View original sourceSquarespace cancelled their payment processing with no warning or explanation, so they are moving to Shopify.
View original sourceMoved their agency site from Webflow to Cloudflare Pages, saying it is cheaper and scores 90+ on speed.
View original sourceMarketer values Webflow because non-technical teams can run the site without hosting work or a developer.
View original sourceHad to buy their own paid workspace plan just to collaborate on a client's existing project.
View original sourceMigrating off Webflow let them fix markup, structured data and rendering that Webflow restricted.
View original sourceLoves building in Webflow but says pricing changes ended their managed-hosting income model.
View original sourceEnterprise plan at their previous company cost $75k a year for a product similar to $30 plans.
View original sourceTheir Squarespace site shows a security message and chat will not work, so they are leaving as soon as possible.
View original sourceWas still charged after cancelling before renewal with proof, was unhappy with support, and disputed the charge.
View original sourceAfter five years and two static sites on Squarespace, left after a price jump and Google Workspace limits, saving about $440 a year on GitHub and Cloudflare.
View original sourceMoved to Cloudflare after finding the Squarespace editor miserable, saving about $300 a year.
View original sourceTried a one-page portfolio on Squarespace after leaving a year ago; the editor froze and stuck in a grab cursor, called a known issue.
View original sourceGreat for getting a site up quickly but too expensive; is migrating three Squarespace sites to Cloudflare Pages.
View original sourceMember since 2013; the corrected price after the claimed pricing error saved only about $18, which was the final straw.
View original sourceSquarespace renewal went from $136 to a proposed $204, then $165 after the claimed error, still a rise.
View original sourceTwo Squarespace sites rose $40 and $62 with no new services they need, so they moved both to the lowest tier.
View original sourceCompany spending about $15k a year on Webflow built a tailored alternative in months and sees a dire outlook for staying.
View original sourceFour years on a Wix store, the app duplicated all store pages, taking 15 days and 40+ emails to admit the fault.
View original sourceA Circle member said support would not waive the price rise and the correction only cut $348 to $331, so they will migrate all client sites.
View original sourceSolo marketer says Webflow is self-serve for them while engineers focus on the product.
View original sourceSwitched to Core at $276 on Squarespace support advice, then a correction email raised it to $331.
View original sourceFreelancer says Webflow locked users in, was greedy, and is rebuilding all projects on Astro and Sanity.
View original sourceLeft a ten-year Squarespace account after the price rise, migrating to another host in a day for under $60 a year.
View original sourceAuto-migrated from a $29 CMS plan with 200GB to $69 for 100GB bandwidth after the 2026 plan changes.
View original sourceTheir legacy Squarespace plan faced a 48% increase with no new features after years of hosting their portfolio there, so they are exploring owning their site.
View original sourceA small portfolio site went from about $13 to a proposed $19 and then $16 a month.
View original sourceJust switched from Wix to Squarespace and is having a much better experience.
View original sourceMastered and loved Webflow but left 1.5 years ago for faster, cleaner code and would not return for agency work.
View original sourceVery happy with Squarespace after trying many other systems; came back because it works and looks great.
View original sourceIn Romania, clients shown Webflow almost always choose it, finding about $300 a year trivial for the CMS control.
View original sourceLost clients to vibe coding because individuals will not pay Webflow's monthly hosting; wants cheaper single-page pricing.
View original sourceThree-person Webflow agency says demand has never been higher, with 80 opportunities logged over 18 months.
View original sourceAfter technical SEO issues on a custom Astro build, appreciates that Webflow handles SEO requirements out of the box.
View original sourceTheir legacy Squarespace personal plan rose 50% from $138 to $204, so they are moving to a free Google Site.
View original sourceBuilt their fourth Squarespace site; the two times they needed support it was helpful and the Circle discount helps.
View original sourceAfter ten years on Squarespace, the 7.1 upgrade cost hours of spacing fixes and they gave up, calling the marketing exaggerated.
View original sourceWix billed the next subscription 19 days early, so they had the bank cancel the charge and moved their domain.
View original sourceAn illustrator on Squarespace since 2014 faces $204 a year versus $86 originally for the same basic portfolio site.
View original sourceWix renewal rose from $100 to $371 a year for one site, so they moved to WordPress on NixiHost with a Namecheap domain.
View original sourceCustomer since 2014 totalled every invoice at $1,687 with a 122% rise for unchanged usage and is leaving over the repeated hikes.
View original sourceCustomer since 2015 tracked bills from $87 to a coming $204 renewal, calls the latest 28% jump unjustifiable and is leaving.
View original sourceCanadian customer says the plan cost $172 after tax in 2020 and will be about $389 now, more than double in six years.
View original sourceMoved a five-product store to Shopify, likes its shipping handling but finds it costs far more than Squarespace and may move back.
View original sourceA $400 charge hit for a deleted website, Wix claimed auto-renewal was on, and 35 days later chat support is unhelpful.
View original sourceVFX reel site owner saw the renewal jump from $192 to $228 and probably will not renew after repeated increases.
View original sourceLeft Squarespace for Shopify; it costs the most but finally lets them lay out collections and products the way they want.
View original sourceStarted on Squarespace but moved to Wix, where their site looks far better, especially on the phone.
View original sourceThey cancelled after five years because pricing kept creeping up and the pricing tactics were confusing, with cheaper alternatives offering the same or better.
View original sourcePortfolio site owner saw the renewal go from $120 in 2022 to $192 in 2025 and now $228, and found Squarespace's chatbot support unhelpful.
View original sourceThey say the jump from $18 to $25 a month was too far, missed the price increase email and paid the new price, and are now exporting and migrating to WordPress.
View original sourceRemembers paying about $12 a month and now pays about $19, which they say is not worth it.
View original sourcePer-site pricing pushed an agency to move most small client sites from Webflow to Framer.
View original sourceUser since 2012 went from about $90 a year to a price that no longer makes sense and plans to leave, keeping only the domain.
View original sourceCut their annual Squarespace cost by almost half by downgrading after the plan realignment and misses no useful features.
View original sourceCustomer paying $138 a year was told renewal rises to $204 for the same thing and is not accepting it.
View original sourceFinds Squarespace hard to use for beginners: limited image and text placement and a poor phone layout for $25 a month.
View original sourcePaid for a year of Squarespace and bailed after three weeks, citing abysmal customer service.
View original sourcePaid two years but Fluid Engine broke their layout and Squarespace refused a refund for an unpublished site.
View original sourceLeft Webflow and got support to prorate a refund on the year they had just paid.
View original sourceFive years on Wix, the renewal charge came earlier than before and a 3-month goodwill credit expired unexpectedly, leaving them stuck.
View original sourceWon a refund after pushing support to answer directly about a renewal for a period that had not started.
View original sourceAfter 10 years paying Wix, the mobile layout shifts are a mess and it is no longer user-friendly.
View original sourceWix Studio is a memory hog that slows down work within minutes of loading a site.
View original sourceWix just charged them $1k at renewal and will not refund it.
View original sourceWix AI features barely work and take 15-20 minutes to generate something simple.
View original sourceHas run a self-built Squarespace site for about a decade for roughly $200 a year plus $40 for the domain on Namecheap.
View original sourceWorks great out of the box for standard blogs and newsletters, though deep theme and homepage layout customizations are restrictive compared to self-hosting.
View original sourceWix has been unloadable for a week of hit-and-miss access while they try to finish their site.
View original sourceOffloads CDN caching, server maintenance, and updates so even technical writers can focus entirely on writing and marketing.
View original sourceTheir bank denied the chargeback and Wix will not reinstate the site, so a $400 renewal bought nothing.
View original sourceDelivers fast page loads with built-in caching and CDN performance.
View original sourceAfter fixing many weaker builders, says Webflow is the best for non-developers and needs very little coding.
View original sourceSaaS team wants off Webflow because they depend on a Webflow developer for every small update.
View original sourcePaying £28 a month for Squarespace while layout spacing keeps breaking; plans to switch providers.
View original sourceA five-minute Squarespace edit turned into two hours of readjusting pages, and the page would not even save.
View original sourceRefuses to upgrade from Squarespace 7.0 because their site works perfectly there and 7.1 caused layout mayhem for others.
View original sourceSays Webflow support lacks empathy from first-hand experience and that they are better off elsewhere.
View original sourceMoving any element in Wix Harmony resizes and shifts other sections unpredictably, forcing endless fixes.
View original sourceHas built with both AI tools and Webflow and still prefers Webflow for quality and detail.
View original sourceBuilt a portfolio on Webflow and liked it, but found it too much and too costly for a single personal site.
View original sourcePays $18 a month for Webflow and customised a paid template so well it does not look templated.
View original sourceCrashed their Webflow site while using the MCP and it is stuck in a crash loop.
View original sourceWebflow expert who tried a coded stack still thinks Webflow is best for their clients and prefers its build UX.
View original sourceBuilt their company site in Webflow after a $50k rebuild quote and has since built several more, finding it steep to learn.
View original sourceSeven-year Webflow fan feels pushed out as it targets enterprises and now recommends Squarespace to new clients.
View original sourceLong-time Webflow evangelist now has a bad taste from recent changes and uses Sanity with Astro.
View original sourceRiding out a three-year Wix subscription after they changed what was bought upfront, which they say the fine print allows.
View original sourceBuilt their company site in Webflow via the MCP connector with Claude from start to finish in 45 days.
View original sourceTried replacing Webflow with Claude on a $200 plan but found the effort and token cost outweighed it for a large CMS site.
View original sourceLoved Webflow's clean interface and real code in 2020-2023 but thinks it lost its way and needs to fix pricing.
View original sourceReports client sites being down for an entire day with no explanation.
View original sourceTested Wix online payments and confirmed a 2.9% plus $0.30 charge, cheaper than QuickBooks but not the cheapest.
View original sourceMulti-locale work lags and crashes in the Webflow Designer.
View original sourceSetting up a free site for a client, Wix stopped them at every step to upsell and the free-plan path was hard to find.
View original sourceBuilt a Wix site with memberships and database relationships that only costs the club the Wix hosting.
View original sourceSays Wix is the most complicated and hardest to use system they have tried, good only for small contact sites.
View original sourceHas run a non-profit Wix site they call terrible, with the offered functionality being basic marketplace add-ons.
View original sourceSix-year designer found Webflow hosting cost $40 a month for a static site and now designs in Webflow but hosts on AWS for under $2.
View original sourceUsed Webflow mainly because its CMS and visual editor let clients make micro changes and maintain sites themselves.
View original sourceDesigner of ten years calls Webflow the worst builder they have used, citing clunky custom code, locked components and difficult animations.
View original sourceInherited a Webflow site and found it faster to rebuild in Astro than click through the interface.
View original sourceWebflow was great pre-AI for fast front-end work with built-in CMS and easy edits, but the team has since ditched it.
View original sourceWent from WordPress to Webflow and back, finding it fine for yourself but poor for client needs and seat costs.
View original sourceCurrent user finds Webflow increasingly unstable and pricier because of features they do not use.
View original sourceMarketing team praises Webflow's stability and predictability and says it costs less than their old WordPress site.
View original sourceLong-time Webflow user since 2019 now wants out, citing ignored user-reported issues and flashy features.
View original sourceFreelancer used Webflow 18 months, quit over frequent Designer glitches and went back to WordPress.
View original sourceAgency owner still loves the Designer for client sites but feels the product has moved away from small businesses.
View original sourceSays Webflow quoted $75k for an enterprise plan on a 20-page site.
View original sourceMoved their agency site off Webflow to Astro after the recent price increase made the $25 monthly fee unattractive.
View original sourceAdding a three-word header took 15 minutes because the Wix editor loaded at dial-up speed.
View original sourceFinds some things easier in Webflow but not worth its price, and moved all their sites to self-hosting.
View original sourceTeam with 3 Webflow sites spending about $5k a year after six years calls this year's price increase the final straw.
View original sourceLikes Webflow's freedom to build anything but agrees with complaints about pricing and bugs.
View original sourceA client site was blocked for 6 days after a false copyright claim, and neither Wix support nor its offline policy team could help.
View original sourceA lapsed Squarespace domain left a Google Workspace plan impossible to manage or cancel, with chatbots on both sides.
View original sourceEcommerce agency says Webflow hit CMS limits within a month and falls apart for real product catalogues.
View original sourceWith about 70 Webflow sites, they see Webflow raising prices as customers leave and are moving away.
View original sourceDeveloper finds Webflow clunky and slow and its class inheritance confusing.
View original sourceA Wix rep solved their business email problem in about 30 minutes on a phone call.
View original sourceAgency will absorb the price rise across multiple client sites and says it made their outstanding proposals outdated.
View original sourceMoved from WordPress to Webflow years ago but now cites repeated outages, antiquated tech and the price increase as the final straw.
View original sourceIs moving all their Webflow sites to Astro and Cloudflare after the price changes.
View original sourceFreelancer with Webflow since 2018 must tell small-nonprofit clients their site cost is rising 34% and has cancelled personal hosting.
View original sourceSays Webflow once needed no maintenance, but price changes, DNS changes and outages now cost more effort than WordPress upkeep.
View original sourceLoves Webflow but says the bandwidth limits and new plans hurt their clients.
View original sourceBuilder of dozens of Webflow sites since 2018 is frustrated that Webflow is turning away from small agencies and raising prices.
View original sourceHosts some client sites on Netlify and was surprised by another Webflow price increase.
View original sourceWix Harmony could not embed a YouTube video and is painstakingly slow and clunky for a school site.
View original sourceAfter eight years, agency is moving all client sites off Webflow over poor support and repeated pricing changes.
View original sourceMarketing head says the new plans raise their hosting bill by about $800 a year for a static site.
View original sourceAgency user spent unbilled hours on a manual workaround after a Webflow form app broke from changing endpoints.
View original sourceFreelancer reports a 37% Webflow price rise over a few years and has moved clients off the platform.
View original sourceMoved from Squarespace to Wix: Harmony was awful but Wix Studio is fine with more freedom than Squarespace.
View original sourceWix Harmony is slow with no CMS or dynamic pages and its Aria assistant creates more work.
View original sourceFound too late that Wix Harmony lacked every feature they needed.
View original sourceFinds getting website email set up correctly on Wix the hardest part and is considering moving away.
View original sourceTheir Wix three-year plan renewal jumped from under $400 to over $1100; offers kept switching until a callback got $17 a month.
View original sourceWix promised a $300 renewal, changed it to $600, then charged $915 without notice and reneged on a refund.
View original sourceCancelling the Wix renewal triggered a 30% retention offer, bringing the Business plan to $348 a year.
View original sourceWix has been great but they are hitting its limits and moving to Shopify.
View original sourceMoved a 65-page Wix site to custom code on Cloudflare Workers; Wix maxed at about 80 on mobile speed vs 97 after.
View original sourceFour years on Wix for a small business with zero issues, no price increases and a professional-looking site.
View original sourceMoved from Squarespace to Wix Studio and says it has been hell, finding the Squarespace backend far better.
View original sourceSays Wix randomly charges or double charges, including a year when they chose monthly.
View original sourceFinds Wix Studio not intuitive, with odd formatting issues and limitations.
View original sourceHas used Wix for about ten years for a small B2B business with no real issues and steady monthly cost.
View original sourceLoves Wix with no issues and easy changes and maintenance.
View original sourceGave up building a design portfolio on Wix repeatedly because it was slow and things never lined up, then moved to a Claude Code workflow.
View original sourceSays clients with large Squarespace sites and memberships have no real path to migrate content or subscribers away.
View original sourceChatted with Wix minutes after a $921 charge three weeks before renewal and they still refused all refunds.
View original sourceFinds Wix Harmony very bad, preferring the OG editor that did not need an AI chatbot to find their pages.
View original sourceDeveloper of nearly 20 years advises against Webflow where an alternative exists, citing lock-in and regret.
View original sourceAfter a chat denial, a callback agent told them to push back and Wix refunded a $673 renewal the next day.
View original sourceTheir team moved off Webflow to Storyblok and Astro but warns not to underestimate what a CMS provides out of the box.
View original sourceHas moved major parts of their site off Webflow's Designer citing the enterprise push and constant downtime.
View original sourceWix charged an expired card $667 for a site that had been down for two years and refused to refund it.
View original sourceSolo consultant who runs on Squarespace: booking built in, maintenance essentially zero, clean templates, would pick it again.
View original sourceTeam finds Webflow expensive to manage and limiting for keeping a multilingual site updated.
View original sourceExperienced developer spent more time figuring out Webflow than building a client site.
View original sourceSays Webflow lacks decent version control and translation visibility unless you pay for Enterprise.
View original sourceTheir outage lasted two hours but Webflow communicated well, emailing updates every 30 minutes.
View original sourceAgency says every Webflow outage puts it in an uncomfortable position with clients and that the price should demand better reliability.
View original sourceA Wix user since 2010 dislikes the AI-heavy Harmony editor and finds Studio leaves clients with messy sites.
View original sourceSeven-year customer hit a second long downtime this year that frustrated clients with editor access.
View original sourceWix raised their rate, moved the renewal earlier, refused a refund and claimed emails that never arrived.
View original sourceAfter an outage, CMS collections on some of their sites showed no items and editing time was lost.
View original sourceTheir business site on Wix brings £80-95k a year for about £9 a month; they use Studio with code alongside the builder.
View original sourceSquarespace transfer-out auth codes never arrived for months until they started an ICANN complaint and posted publicly.
View original sourceCancelled Wix Studio after moving from the Editor, calling it the worst decision they made.
View original sourceWix auto-renewed them for three years and refused a refund, leaving only selling or letting it sit.
View original sourceUsed Wix for years without problems but its closed system blocked the microphone for an embedded AI agent that worked on Squarespace.
View original sourceWix has steadily raised their price, with the latest Core plan invoice at $376.71, about $30 a month, before domain and email.
View original sourceHas issues with Wix and finds humans hard to reach, but chat support follows through once reached.
View original sourceWhile migrating to WordPress, Wix's RSS feed exposed only 12 of 44 blog posts, which they see as lock-in.
View original sourceUsed Webflow 2022 to 2025 for a startup site; powerful but slow turnaround for changes led them to Astro with Claude Code.
View original sourceDesigner who sells Webflow is disappointed by charges for client editor seats that used to be free.
View original sourceAfter three years on Wix, finds functionality weaker, pages slower to load, and the AI not worth the cost.
View original sourceConnected Figma and Webflow with Claude via MCP and got about 80% of the CMS collections and entries built.
View original sourceLikes Wix but sees growing loading-time problems, server errors and CDN crashes, plus predatory pricing and service fees.
View original sourceCalls Webflow a great platform but moves clients off it because agentic coding does not work with it.
View original sourceAfter heavy investment in Wix, missing basic shop features like checkout edits and sorting products have them moving to Shopify.
View original sourceThe Wix Harmony editor crashes repeatedly and takes down their laptop, and they want the classic editor back.
View original sourceMarketer moved two sites off Webflow to Codex and finds Webflow slow and complicated even for a simple landing page.
View original sourceLong-time user builds very complex sites in Webflow and has yet to hit real limitations.
View original sourceWorks with B2B SaaS clients and finds Webflow valuable for several team members to make updates in parallel.
View original sourceMoved their agency site off Webflow citing billing confusion and cost, and now uses Claude with Sanity.
View original sourceWix prices have gone up a lot and AI is pushed into the editor, so they are looking at other options.
View original sourceLiked Webflow and got proficient, but moved five sites to Cloudflare over cost and slow innovation.
View original sourceThe Wix reservation app counts cancelled guests toward capacity, so the restaurant shows fully booked and loses reservations.
View original sourceTurned off their Wix site before renewal but it only cancelled the domain; the big plan renewal still charged almost $500.
View original sourceBuilt a 35-product store on Wix; templates were broken, support was friendly but never fixed anything, and they cancelled within two weeks.
View original sourceAgency says half of last year's clients cancelled Webflow plans within 12 months over hosting cost.
View original sourceTheir Wix site glitched, with text moving and updates reverting, and upcharges everywhere; they moved back to WordPress with Divi.
View original sourcePicked Wix for a marketing site after finding Squarespace too locked in, with no problems so far.
View original sourceHas used Wix for years and loves it; more expensive and less customizable than WordPress, but accessible if you are not a designer.
View original sourceWeb designer chose Webflow for a non-technical client; cost matched their old WordPress hosting and the client is happy.
View original sourceLeft Wix because the builder is glitchy and laggy.
View original sourceBuilt their site themselves on Squarespace with paid photos and says it looks amazing versus a $15k quote.
View original sourceMoved a portfolio off Webflow to a coded site on Vercel, finding Webflow no longer suits small simple sites.
View original sourceGenerally happy with Wix but notes it hides most of the code, making pixels and tags harder to add.
View original sourceCompared WordPress and Squarespace and finds Squarespace user-friendly for a good-looking site.
View original sourceAfter six years on Webflow is thinking of moving sites away over ecommerce, GDPR and loyalty to users.
View original sourceUsing Webflow since 2015 and still prefers building by hand in it over prompting AI.
View original sourceA long-time Wix user who loved the balance of features, ease and support now finds the product difficult to use.
View original sourceA long-time Wix user now churns out quick sites on Squarespace because it works faster without cross-platform oddities.
View original sourceSays Wix has gone downhill with astronomical price increases and is going back to WordPress or Squarespace.
View original sourceWix increased their yearly subscription cost by 40% and offered a monthly plan when queried.
View original sourceNo option to download backup files for a site made on the builder complicates moving to a cheaper plan at renewal, when the price rose to 12.99 pounds a month.
View original sourceA solopreneur with three Squarespace sites finds it excellent: HubSpot and Mailchimp sync, good mobile and SEO.
View original sourceCompany on the Growth plan finds Webflow pricing complex and objects to $15 a month for a basic editor seat.
View original sourceJust built a site on Squarespace, found it simple to set up and says it looks professional.
View original sourceAgency with 100+ Webflow sites loved the platform but now builds with Claude Code, finding Webflow's monthly cost hard to justify.
View original sourceHas used Wix since starting out: not the most dynamic but simple and does what you would expect.
View original sourceChanging collection fields breaks production API access until you publish, so Webflow has no real staging for collections.
View original sourceThey chose Webflow for a B2B SaaS site and report the migration, still in progress, has gone smoothly so far. They planned the sitemap and designs in Relume and Figma.
View original sourceWix refused a refund on a 3-year domain after 14 days though they advertised 30, and support is AI-driven.
View original sourceMid free trial, found the plan price raised from $29 to $39 a month and is rethinking signing up.
View original sourceOn Squarespace since 2011; mobile and tablet layouts broke with Fluid Engine and sidebar layouts were removed.
View original sourceSwitched away from Squarespace after repeated unaddressed bugs, poor service and no customer service.
View original sourceStore owner says Shopify is raising online card fees to 2.9% + $0.30 from a grandfathered 2.6%, a big hit at a $60 average order.
View original sourceA ten-year Wix customer was auto-renewed for three years at $903 with no cancel option, then the option appeared after the charge.
View original sourceLeft Shopify during the first month of a trial because payouts go through Stripe, which they say holds your money.
View original sourceHas used Wix for years and the cancel option has always been in the same place.
View original sourceRuns a store doing $750K a year and says Shopify's value outweighs platform fees compared with managing WordPress.
View original sourceUsed Shopify briefly, found the UX clunky and the various fees sneaky, and now uses Lightspeed.
View original sourceTen years building sites on Squarespace: good for basic clients and SEO done old school, but forms and email often fail to deliver leads.
View original sourceHas built on Squarespace for eight years and rarely finds real bugs, aside from Safari quirks.
View original sourceFinds Wix's new 4% fee on top of a 3.1% payments fee egregious, which was itself raised from about 2.5%.
View original sourceBought a $300 Squarespace template for a new film festival site and is very happy; mostly intuitive and easy to use.
View original sourceA pickleball club struggled for a year to learn Wix and had to pay a pro for anything beyond minor edits before switching to Google Sites.
View original sourceWas charged a $1600 renewal on a cancelled account, and since it went through PayPal Wix refused to refund it.
View original sourceThey were spending $200+ a month on Webflow for client sites and are moving them to Vercel for $20-30 a month.
View original sourceSays their clients love Webflow more than any other CMS they have used.
View original sourceNew product page URLs generated 5xx errors and months of Wix support, with a 24-hour lag to human support, hurt their store.
View original sourceHas used Squarespace since 2012 and says long-standing bugs reported by hundreds of people remain unfixed.
View original sourceEleven contacts over five months to recover a Wix charge and still told they are almost to the finish line.
View original sourceAbandoned Webflow because it got too expensive and could not let AI tools like Claude Code build directly.
View original sourceMoved all their clients off Squarespace over the years and a new demo site showed things are even worse.
View original sourceSees Webflow's CMS as a major strength for non-technical marketing teams compared with most other platforms.
View original sourceCan generally reach someone helpful on Squarespace chat quickly, unlike other tech companies.
View original sourceUpdating a client site on Squarespace 7.1 turned into hours of buggy editor issues such as thousands of empty mobile rows and lost edits.
View original sourceSwitched from WordPress and Elementor to Wix for its integration, though Wix can be frustrating like all builders.
View original sourceIs cancelling 13 Wix sites after the new 4% fee, calling it an insane share to give them.
View original sourceMoved from Squarespace to WordPress on a cheap host, paying about $5 a month instead of $30+.
View original sourceWix tried to charge $846 at renewal and only an expired card prevented it.
View original sourceWix bill for a static website reached €900 versus 240 years ago, so they are moving to WordPress.
View original sourceWix renewal fees rose 30% and a $772 charge hit their card after they deleted a site without turning off auto-renewal.
View original sourceWix announced a 4% commission on every pricing-plan transaction unless they upgrade beyond the Core plan, even though Stripe processes it.
View original sourceSquarespace took down a physician’s site for an expiring domain despite current billing and never answered emails; a friend fixed it after several days.
View original sourceWix confirmed by phone that a $100 payment would net $92.5 after its new transaction fee.
View original sourceManages 50+ Wix sites alone and says they rarely break or go down, with tech support always available.
View original sourceSomeone who tried both Wix and Hostinger's builder found Wix's editor smoother and easier for making a good-looking site fast.
View original sourceA freelancer builds client landing pages and sites in Framer and finds it easy to use, with clean sites and good animations.
View original sourceWix switched them to a higher plan and doubled the renewal fee without notification, so they left for WordPress.org.
View original sourceA mostly happy Squarespace user for many years building client sites who is happy to recommend it.
View original sourceReasonably happy with Squarespace: payments take a few days to process at low volume and the UI is easy to use.
View original sourceA three-year Wix renewal rose 84% to $864 for a static site and support refused to change the plan or refund.
View original sourcePays Wix $34 a month for their business site, which brings in about $30k a month, far better return than their old Yellow Pages ad.
View original sourceMoved a 100,000-product client off Shopify to WooCommerce, citing rate limits and gaps like no product count without a special API call.
View original sourceAgency says migrating blogs into Webflow still means exporting a CSV and is the most painful part of client projects.
View original sourcePaid $50 for Wix basic then was charged $600 for premium without consent and was denied a refund.
View original sourceCompared with WordPress and Weebly, finds Wix gives the most creative freedom and works fine for most clients.
View original sourceLiked Wix at first, then prices doubled so they moved to another host for a fraction of the cost.
View original sourceWix suspended all domain email accounts the day their expired card failed and two days after updating it they still had no access.
View original sourceWas dropped from Wix payments and found mobile does not support HTML embeds, so visitors cannot see their podcast episodes.
View original sourceGot a $915 renewal refund about five to six weeks after requesting it the same day.
View original sourceForgot to cancel a renewal by two days, got no refund window, and found the support agent rude.
View original sourceLiked Wix until prices rose sharply with nothing offered in return, and says customer service is notoriously bad.
View original sourceNew to Wix and, after some work understanding it, is really loving it, though nervous about cancellation charges.
View original sourceCharged again for a Premium plan cancelled a year earlier, and an agent said they must cancel every year.
View original sourceHas $1.5k withheld by Wix for two weeks, making it complicated to receive funds.
View original sourceLikes the editing ease on Wix but pages are so slow they can make a coffee before one opens.
View original sourceA UI/UX designer found a client's Wix site inflexible, sluggish and a pain to work with.
View original sourceUses Wix for a client: plenty of templates and nice built-in analytics and Search Console integration but less design flexibility.
View original sourceA site built with Wix Vibe looks great but the backend is held together because forms and payments barely work with Vibe.
View original sourceManufacturer selling direct expects over $1M in sales on Shopify's $29 plan, has very few issues and says it beats WordPress/WooCommerce by miles.
View original sourceCalls Wix Studio the best editor with great phone support and no billing issues, but notes slow page loads especially on mobile.
View original sourceHas run their gym website on Wix for five years and says it works a treat.
View original sourceFound Wix Studio offered finer control than Squarespace or Framer, which had alignment issues, and prefers Studio over the old buggy editor.
View original sourceGot a renewal charged but after a week of firm back-and-forth Wix refunded it as a one-time exception.
View original sourceHappy that Wix lets people book meetings, receive proposals and shop without a developer.
View original sourceFinds Webflow unnecessarily expensive, as they must pay extra even to be invited to work on a client's project.
View original sourceFinds Wix Studio far worse than Editor X, with non-existent customer support and constantly rising prices.
View original sourceSays Webflow doubled prices, removed features and broke many websites with a DNS change, so they are leaving.
View original sourceA Wix customer since 2017 says the platform, management, customer service and marketplace have nosedived in the past year.
View original sourceDeveloper found Webflow annoying and is glad never to touch it again.
View original sourceWix collections, dynamic pages and Velo code have been tremendous for their website.
View original sourceLong-time Wix user finds it great for simple sites but dislikes growing restrictions on forms and basic features.
View original sourceHappy running a non-profit site on Wix Business Core with events, blogs, stores and forms, though it is not cheap.
View original sourceMoved from Google Sites and Workspace to Squarespace at about £200 a year and says it is much, much better.
View original sourceA non-profit was hit with a huge surprise renewal increase and Wix refused a refund when they tried to cancel.
View original sourcePays $348 a year for Wix Business Core and finds it sustainable even though prices go up.
View original sourceChanging a Wix booking length means deleting and remaking the booking and also deleting the invoice, unlike easier alternatives.
View original sourceHas run their business on Wix for five years with zero problems.
View original sourceSwitched from custom-coded WordPress to Wix and loves selling digital products and a course with everything built in.
View original sourceWix Payments dropped them on Christmas morning with no explanation after five years and cancelled all customer subscriptions.
View original sourceIs in good shape with Wix and gets a fine price by watching for offers longer than one year.
View original sourceAfter closing out an account of 10 years, auto-renew still charged $470 for two years and Wix refused a refund.
View original sourceWix raised their annual cost from $325 to $450.
View original sourceIt took four months and six or more support staff to get payments approved, and product edits disappeared.
View original sourceSays Wix constantly pushes upgrades from the adequate $40 plan to a $160 plan.
View original sourceUses only the free options when starting out on Wix and has never paid for anything.
View original sourceA client expecting a €240 Wix renewal was quoted €540, then offered a €100 plan after cancelling.
View original sourceMoved from Wix to Webflow and has never been happier.
View original sourceLoves designing in Webflow for the freedom and no hosting worries, though one client struggled to edit it.
View original sourceA multi-year Wix user was charged for a Core renewal despite turning off auto-renewal and moving their domain, and the refund took up to 45 business days.
View original sourceA Wix Premium renewal jumped to £600+ for a two-year cycle for a simple leads site.
View original sourceWix auto-renewal keeps getting turned back on and costs have tripled since joining three years ago.
View original sourceWix once deleted every blog draft with no recourse and the site kept developing quirks like disappearing buttons.
View original sourceA professional designer built their own site on Squarespace so it can be handed to someone less skilled in coding.
View original sourceUses Wix for their business site; not perfect but really easy for business information.
View original sourcePaid $78 for a $5 domain on Wix and found cancellation almost impossible since each segment must be cancelled separately.
View original sourceWix store and social integrations failed, support went silent for four months, and a refund came only after citing consumer law.
View original sourceCancelled a yearly Wix subscription a week early without trouble and was refunded in five business days earlier.
View original sourceWix charged 6000 INR at auto-renewal after they cancelled five times, and support said there is no refund policy.
View original sourceCancelled a Wix store app during its trial yet is still charged about £40 a month and refused a refund.
View original sourceWix AI randomly changed their page layout and still deducted their daily AI usage credit after hours spent undoing it.
View original sourceOn the Wix Business/Premium plan, support is helpful and patient and resolves most issues during the chat.
View original sourceWon back a $468 auto-renewal after seven weeks via their bank by switching plans rather than cancelling.
View original sourceThey moved a simple few-page site from Wix to Carrd to save money, but found even the simplest tasks slow and frustrating.
View original sourceFrustrated that basic CMS features need community scripts despite Webflow's price and past CMS price increase.
View original sourceFinds Webflow's CMS limited, for example no CMS slider, compared with binding data freely in WeWeb.
View original sourceThey migrated a 10k product catalog site from WordPress to Webflow. The learning curve was steep at first, but the marketing team worked solo after about a month, and they needed Weglot for multilingual at about 200 dollars a month.
Could not let clients reorder a team member collection in Webflow and moved to Payload CMS.
View original sourceLost a roughly 5,000 CHF WordPress-to-Webflow project because the legacy Editor gave the client's team too little control.
View original sourceHad to upgrade Squarespace twice to the $35 tier for store and tax features, and the first payout was under half of sales.
View original sourcePays $276 a year for Squarespace and finds it a fair charge including payment processing.
View original sourceLaunched a real Squarespace site and took a test payment in under five hours; found Shopify and WooCommerce harder.
View original sourceA Circle member who finds Squarespace styles inconsistent and support a loop of bot, hold and shift-ending agents.
View original sourceCalls Wix highly unstable with outages and failed downloads and slow support callbacks that cost their startup.
View original sourceThey used Framer since its prototyping days and found it deceptive: no site export, a steep learning curve for advanced layouts, layouts that break on small devices, and pricing higher than Webflow, especially for collaboration.
Reports that uploading an image under 4 MB breaks the Webflow system.
View original sourceSays the Designer slows to a crawl on complex CMS sites and relies on external tools for forms and sliders.
View original sourceThree years selling prints and services on Squarespace; easy to navigate, linked to email and payments, reasonably priced.
View original sourceE-commerce owner who calls Squarespace awful and worsening since 7.1, lacking basic commerce features.
View original sourceLinked Squarespace to Stripe for payments with no problems.
View original sourceDeveloper found Webflow frustrating on a client project, spending more time on its logic than coding from scratch.
View original sourceRuns an online shop on Squarespace processing about $4,000 a month with no issue in 18 months.
View original sourcePrefers Webflow's builder and reusable components over WordPress but finds the interface overwhelming.
View original sourceTwo Squarespace sites that were easy with no issues, using only the site shell and blog.
View original sourceFront-end coder likes Webflow for being Figma-like and flexible, though navigation and interactions are confusing.
View original sourceSupport is fine for simple questions, but issues on internal policies run through AI then call center then email with no real Wix staff.
View original sourceAfter three years, getting a human at Squarespace took four chatbot attempts, but the eventual reply was quick and gave a refund.
View original sourceBuilds nice-looking websites easily, but the built-in cookie banner lacks compliant reject and granular preference options required by EU law.
View original sourceFive years on Wix without a bad support experience: they call back quickly and help.
View original sourceSpent over two hours across two phone calls with Wix support while locked out of the site that runs their business.
View original sourceSays Wix support has been pleasant and efficient each time via the AI assistant and callback.
View original sourceHas filed dozens of bug reports on Wix Studio: sites must be rebuilt across breakpoints and menus break.
View original sourceWix obtained the new card number and charged for an unpublished site, then refused to waive it.
View original sourceDealing with over 100 domains at Squarespace with zero support and no bulk tools to leave.
View original sourceFound the editor confusing: it asked for a new domain and created a second site, which felt cluttered and hard to edit.
View original sourceCases escalate daily because Wix Studio fails to deliver promised functions, like showing payment failed when it succeeded.
View original sourceAfter paying Squarespace for a domain their account vanished and nobody responds to emails.
View original sourceFive years on Wix, prices rise regularly and technical issues are frustrating enough that they are considering a move.
View original sourceTheir sites registered at GoDaddy and hosted on Squarespace took five minutes to set up.
View original sourceYears on Squarespace with a single problem that support fixed by email.
View original sourceSquarespace support waits are unacceptable for a business; the bot and snarky emails made them prefer phone-supported vendors.
View original sourceCannot log in to cancel their account and cannot reach Squarespace support.
View original sourceDislikes the Squarespace domain system, slow transfer confirmation and support that does not know domain transfers.
View original sourceSquarespace and Google Workspace each pointed to the other when they tried to cancel a domain renewal, with no human support and a renewal charge.
View original sourceWix Payments held $6,500 for over a month and then imposed a 31% reserve with no explanation or priority support on a Premium plan.
View original sourceHaving worked on both, they say Wix suits small sites but becomes slow, laggy and buggy as you grow.
View original sourceWix works for a basic site, but they hit form restrictions, multi-currency payment issues and mobile responsiveness problems.
View original sourceUses Squarespace for an art portfolio after Wix and WordPress and finds the learning curve very low.
View original sourceWix raised a $264 hosting fee to $624 and kept charging after three cancellations while support said nothing could be done.
View original sourceAfter almost a decade, a Wix renewal tripled from the upper 200s to the upper 600s USD with only a vague email.
View original sourceAfter 13 years on Wix, Studio elements shifted after publishing and automations failed, costing them their biggest client.
View original sourceA charitable trust lost its remaining funds to a Wix auto-renewal they thought they had disabled and could not close the account.
View original sourceTheir non-profit found Squarespace much easier for volunteers to learn than other member site builders.
View original sourceWix support looped through agents, called them rude, and took a week to fix several downed sites with no compensation.
View original sourceRegrets choosing Squarespace for selling courses because they cannot switch easily to anything else.
View original sourceWarns that Google Workspace email bought via Wix leaves you in an endless loop with no one managing the subscription.
View original sourceHated the Google Domains move to Squarespace and paid to transfer all their domains elsewhere.
View original sourceWas charged about $400 for a Wix auto-renewal with no notification emails and filed a dispute.
View original sourceHas made several Squarespace sites and only needed code for one; easy to hand to a client to run.
View original sourceLoves Wix's invoicing, which lets clients pay by email with one click.
View original sourceComing from Wix with little time, found Squarespace a godsend for making a good-looking site.
View original sourceSet up an e-commerce store on Wix for under £200 a year with discounts and finds it great value, with helpful SEO and email tools.
View original sourceSays the Wix editor is slow as dirt no matter which PC you use.
View original sourceAfter years on Wix, cites lack of control, price hikes and poor mobile page-speed that hurts SEO.
View original sourceWix charged $850 at an unnoticed renewal at a higher rate and refused even a prorated refund until their bank won the dispute.
View original sourceEven an experienced user finds Wix awful beyond desktop layouts and sees the editor gradually slow down.
View original sourceThe Wix editor keeps shifting a testimonial strip on mobile whenever the page is edited, forcing repeated fixes.
View original sourceFinds the Webflow UI slow, buggy and uncustomisable.
View original sourceAfter six years managing a site, Wix moved them from Premium to Core and raised the price by 78% with no benefit.
View original sourceAcknowledges Webflow's improvements but says basic needs like nesting and single-item publishing remain lacking.
View original sourceCannot reach any humans at Wix to cancel and is still being charged for a site they cannot use.
View original sourceCalls Wix the worst hosting company they have dealt with in over 20 years in the industry.
View original sourceSpent three to four times as long on a client's Wix site as a WordPress build would have taken, costing the client a lot.
View original sourceDowngrading plans immediately charged their card with no way to change billing, and support said they could not change it.
View original sourceGot extreme sticker shock at the Wix renewal price for an art website and let it expire.
View original sourceHas used Wix for an artist portfolio for years and consistently gets great feedback.
View original sourceWix has a steep learning curve for beginners but becomes friendlier with regular use, valuing its mailing, contacts and analytics integration.
View original sourceLoves Webflow but says its limit of two nested collection lists of ten items makes robust blog pages impossible.
View original sourceWebflow user since 2016 loved it early on but says it now ignores customers and is testing other platforms.
View original sourceAgency is migrating older sites off Webflow, citing downtime and cost.
View original sourceBusiness owner running both Shopify and WooCommerce says Shopify is quick to set up and handles the basics well, with paid apps worthwhile as you grow.
View original sourceSays Webflow ignores customers, raised prices without improving, and takes years to add basics.
View original sourceTheir Squarespace site went down and two long chats did not fix it; the support fix switched them to nameservers and disconnected Google Workspace.
View original sourceSays Webflow's billing model feels off and the platform has been unstable, but you can still deliver good products.
View original sourceDesigner gave up on Webflow ecommerce over outages, seat limits and CMS item limits counting every variant.
View original sourceWeb design agency has moved clients to alternatives, saying Webflow's early years were great but not anymore.
View original sourceAgency user loves Webflow overall but hit outages and could not route two forms to different emails natively.
View original sourceLong-time user finds Webflow's ecosystem restrictive and expensive though the designer is first class.
View original sourceFinds client management in Webflow a breeze, with clients logging into the editor and loving how easy it is.
View original sourceAgency is dropping Webflow after the outage: unreliable platform, no refunds or credits, slow dashboard and a constantly changing product.
View original sourceAgency user says Webflow Ecommerce has been badly neglected and builds stores in Shopify instead.
View original sourceExperiences lag and an unresponsive dashboard most of the time when editing in the Wix builder.
View original sourceFound designing for mobile and desktop on Wix a nightmare, got a refund and moved on.
View original sourceSquarespace could not process a Workspace payment and was useless; Google fixed it within 30 minutes after moving billing direct.
View original sourceSquarespace support fixed a store product glitch within a day, but customization ran out quickly and sorting needs a plugin.
View original sourceThe Wix editor glitches constantly, add-ons cost hundreds, and autosave failed, losing an hour of work.
View original sourceA startup got locked out of its Squarespace-sold Google Workspace admin account, with Squarespace and Google each blaming the other.
View original sourceA roughly $400 three-year Wix promo plan renewed at a much higher price, so they cancelled.
View original sourceKeeps only the website at Squarespace and everything else elsewhere (Porkbun, Google, TidyCal, Stripe) to avoid its lock-in.
View original sourceUses Wix for small-business clients, finding the dashboard gives lots of included benefit and a nicer site than Squarespace.
View original sourceLeft GoDaddy and loves Wix, getting easy live-chat help during setup even as a non-paying user.
View original sourceWix was buggy and slow, and Google would not index most of their blog pages because of the speed.
View original sourceAs a web developer they tried Squarespace and disliked its interfaces and found the fees far too high.
View original sourceSpent a week on a Wix site where the editor kept changing things like logo cropping, plus constant premium upsells.
View original sourceSquarespace forces buyers of courses and member areas to register before seeing checkout; they quit and paid for a replacement.
View original sourceA services business that is moving off Squarespace because it cannot print invoices to PDF or hold orders for admin approval.
View original sourceStuck on an old Core plan, upgrading mid-term to Studio would cost about $500 for a two-year minimum.
View original sourceMarketer built their company site in Webflow and is happy with its quality results and SEO capabilities.
View original sourceNon-professional found Wix junk and Framer disliked, and praises Webflow and its funny, effective tutorial videos.
View original sourceLoves designing their own site in Webflow, with some annoying problems but far more flexibility than rivals.
View original sourceBasic site cost almost $500 on Wix and then they were told the site was compromised and would be removed unless they paid more.
View original sourceA small-business owner used Wix for their site and found it amazing.
View original sourceHeld 260 domains at Google Domains; Squarespace locked them and auto-billed about a couple of thousand dollars of renewals they did not want.
View original sourceWarns to run from Squarespace for zero customer support and inexperienced workers.
View original sourceLong-time user since 2017 loves the platform but says it is now too expensive for less stability.
View original sourceComfortable with Webflow but struggled to connect an exported frontend to Payload CMS.
View original sourceUses Squarespace with Stripe and loves it: simple, no per-sale platform fee, though weak for stores with many SKUs.
View original sourceMoved ecommerce and most projects to WordPress, keeping Webflow for landing pages and simple sites.
View original sourceWanted to leave after Webflow's last round of price increases rather than after an outage.
View original sourceA WordPress-first developer enjoys Wix Studio for sites after leaving Webflow, citing memberships, events, e-commerce and a lean CRM.
View original sourceCalled an inherited Webflow site the most painful SaaS in years, slow with changes not saving and a two-hour publish.
View original sourceSwitched to Shopify after three years of Webflow after an out-of-this-world bandwidth price quote for a user-heavy site.
View original sourceTwo weeks recreating an Editor site in Wix Studio was soul sucking and far harder.
View original sourceThey used Webflow for four years and are leaving it, citing data and CMS limitations such as no repeater field. They now work in Next.js.
View original sourceThey have done more and more Webflow projects over the last couple of years and enjoy it. They like the interface and the peace of mind about hosting and uptime.
View original sourceWas upgraded to a plan 10x as expensive without permission, charged for it and got no support.
View original sourceThey are a Webflow developer who lists limits such as no native filtering, restricted CMS lists, no repeater fields, and many bugs in recent months. They are considering a move to Bricks on WordPress.
View original sourceBuilt a client site on Wix that was no worse than Elementor sites, kept simple with custom CSS, and the client was happy.
View original sourceThey used Framer for one-pagers and their portfolio but found it too limited for API integrations, content and plugins. They felt the plan prices were too high for more advanced sites and want to switch.
View original sourceAfter using Wix since 2019 they moved to Shopify when Wix hit limits and cancelled automatic invoice generation without notice.
View original sourceWix keeps charging auto-renewals even though they turned them off and has offered no recourse.
View original sourceFound Wix overpriced with the worst support, locked out for a week while a gallery broke their live homepage.
View original sourceBuilt two sites from Wix templates with their own customization and found it user-friendly, if somewhat expensive.
View original sourceThey complain of pricing as they grow, buggy dev tools, single editor at a time and poor change history even on enterprise Webflow.
View original sourceRuns two ecommerce stores on Squarespace doing under $400k a year that work perfectly for their needs.
View original sourceHas run a site for five months on the Headline theme and likes it, but accessibility checks flag contrast errors on the name, date and comments items below each post.
View original sourceSquarespace up-charges and price rises plus hard-to-reach support made cancelling a obstacle course; they moved to Bluehost and WordPress.
View original sourceUsing Squarespace since 2017; pays about $100 CAD a month, fees have doubled, SEO is a struggle and upcharging for integrated services is growing.
View original sourceAfter 12 years of building sites, says Squarespace has never had a site go down and ranks well with built-in SEO.
View original sourceWix forces custom widgets into an iframe that cannot expand with content, making it the worst platform for adding code.
View original sourceStill has trouble with a domain once attached to Wix, finding phone reps know less each time and give inconsistent answers.
View original sourceAfter two years found Wix customer service terrible and prices up sharply in the last 12 months, so they cancelled.
View original sourceFinds Squarespace poor value for support since there is no phone rep, and will look elsewhere after their year.
View original sourceBuilt a six-page site on Wix basic in three days with its AI chatbot and support callbacks, after years of paying a WordPress developer.
View original sourceHas liked Wix but the download links for their digital products expire after 30 days, forcing them to resend links.
View original sourceTen-year designer enjoys Webflow's visual tool but criticises half-finished variables, nested CMS delays and features gated behind paid plans.
View original sourceThey built a site in Framer and rate it highly for speed and UI quality. They find the lock-in heavy and say it is hard to leave the platform.
View original sourceThey are a long-time web developer who found Wix fantastic for themselves and their clients, with no client pushing back on price changes, but call Wix customer service terrible.
View original sourceThey used to make and sell Wix sites, quickly hit its limits and found load times poor; they now code sites and avoid Wix fees of about $17 a month per client.
View original sourceThey found Wix full of bugs and say its prices double or triple every other year, forcing plan changes and making client cost quotes awkward.
View original sourceThey built two ecommerce sites on Webflow and say they are still working. They call the ecommerce side not perfect.
View original sourceTheir first Webflow site took almost a year and they find the platform annoying with many issues, though the result is their best looking, lightweight and smooth site.
View original sourceThey used Carrd for a single product and got about 10 orders, and liked not having to chat with buyers constantly. They later noted it only supports a single product page.
View original sourceSquarespace media uploads glitched and crashed their page after most of a new site was built, and the support bot never answered.
View original sourceSwitched from Shopify to Squarespace for a lower monthly cost and more flexibility, but processing fees are higher.
View original sourceA small nonprofit builder found Wix Studio simpler than WordPress.
View original sourceFound a client's Wix site a hassle with items shifting and limited templates and prefers Shopify or WordPress.
View original sourceWix Studio's editor canvas does not match real desktops and assets get flung offscreen despite correct breakpoints.
View original sourceFavours Webflow for making the developer experience visual and finds its CMS easy for clients' occasional updates.
View original sourceSays a Wix Studio template published unchanged looks broken on mobile, tablet or desktop in some way.
View original sourceEngineer says designers do amazing things in Webflow, its code is decent and values map one-to-one to CSS.
View original sourceHas delivered many client sites on Wix, including one in under a day from a template, and loves it.
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