Reddit · r/squarespace · 2 days ago
Found it frustrating that a client's whole Squarespace site could not be reassigned to a new subscription, forcing a manual rebuild, and now leans toward Framer for clients.
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Reddit · r/webflow · 8 days ago
Moved a marketing site off a roughly $12k a year Webflow Enterprise plan to Astro on Cloudflare for about $5 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Agency paid Webflow about $9k a year and replaced it with a self-hosted stack costing about $25 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Rebuilt a Webflow-ready sports team site on Astro, Sanity and Cloudflare to avoid about £34 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Non-developer designer loves Webflow and builds from Figma links via Claude in minutes.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Moving away from Webflow as it is too limiting for ecommerce and nobody in house wants to use it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Agency developer no longer recommends Webflow and is moving budget clients away due to high small-site hosting costs.
Reddit · r/webflow · 11 days ago
Mid-build developer says the Box element change forced a workflow switch and will make this their last Webflow site.
Reddit · r/WIX · 13 days ago
Wix refused to cancel on request and billed a year they would never use after five years as a customer.
Reddit · r/WIX · 13 days ago
Used to find Wix easy and intuitive but now spends hours fixing things that fall apart after a change.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 17 days ago
Two-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.
Reddit · r/webflow · 17 days ago
Archived their portfolio site and cancelled Webflow because it was too expensive.
Reddit · r/WIX · 17 days ago
Says you will never speak to a human at Wix and will face exorbitant cancellation charges.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 20 days ago
Squarespace stopped their domain after a business structure change, halting emails and billing during peak season with one useless reply a day.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 22 days ago
Manufacturing business says managing inventory calculations and bundled units on Shopify is insane for made-to-order products.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Agency owner thinks $29 a month is fair for a powerful CMS, hosting and a platform to manage a whole site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Agency keeps its SMB clients on Webflow and both sides are happy with it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Former enterprise client paid $90k a year for Webflow, with the contract running to 2028 despite exploring Sanity.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Building entirely with AI inside Webflow, finds it the best it has been for go-to-market teams.
Reddit · r/WIX · 22 days ago
Finds Wix infuriating to contact, with only an AI chat bot for help.
Reddit · r/webflow · 25 days ago
Has an ecommerce site on Webflow and wants to migrate to Shopify because Webflow Ecommerce was never improved.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 28 days ago
UK merchant hit with an $18,565 Mastercard BRAM fine passed through by Shopify with no clear explanation of the rule broken.
Reddit · r/webflow · 28 days ago
Six-year Webflow developer is increasingly frustrated with the product's direction after the Box element change.
Reddit · r/webflow · 28 days ago
Front-end developer of 20+ years thinks the Box element cleans up the Add panel and is a big improvement.
Reddit · r/WIX · 30 days ago
Says Wix holds payments for months behind constant verification requests and has been a nightmare over two years.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago
A Shopify and WooCommerce developer had a client paying about $600 a month on Shopify for a plan upgrade plus add-ons.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago
A gift shop moved from WooCommerce to a static site with a small Shopify shop and no longer deals with broken Elementor updates.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 31 days ago
A WordPress developer has a client paying $90 a month for Shopify add-ons that are free in WordPress, on top of transaction fees.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 37 days ago
Paid $92 in 2016 and was quoted $228, so cancelled and moved to WordPress for about $50 a year.
Reddit · r/WIX · 37 days ago
For a services and classes business Wix was the cheapest option, versus almost $200 a month piecing together other apps.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 38 days ago
Had $600 stuck at Squarespace for over six months despite constant arguing.
Reddit · r/WIX · 38 days ago
Found the site expensive and limited, then abandoned it when the renewal cost came through.
Reddit · r/WIX · 38 days ago
Has used Wix for years after finding WordPress too difficult, and says it is easy for simple needs.
Reddit · r/WIX · 38 days ago
Wix Studio was so frustrating that they had to hire a programmer for monthly updates and find Wix expensive for simple needs.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 39 days ago
Squarespace Payments put a $12k balance under review for 12 days with no replies to 8-10 emails and no phone number.
Reddit · r/WIX · 39 days ago
Finds the Wix editor slow and clunky for a small business site with a few pages and lead forms.
Reddit · r/WIX · 39 days ago
Says Wix keeps billing after cancellation and will not let you remove the payment method.
Reddit · r/WIX · 39 days ago
Prefers Squarespace over Wix for more transparent pricing and easy customization.
Reddit · r/WIX · 39 days ago
Finds Wix horrible and clunky for first-time users and says its business practices trap you into paying.
Reddit · r/webflow · 40 days ago
Calls Webflow outrageously expensive in hosting and workspace plans and has migrated most sites to Lovable.
Reddit · r/WIX · 40 days ago
Wix announced a 150% plan increase so they moved to Porkbun and Cloudflare for much less.
Reddit · r/webflow · 42 days ago
Running three enterprise sites on Webflow, is migrating the big ones off due to rigid pricing and ever-increasing costs.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 42 days ago
Many years on Squarespace and happy, with lots of functionality and easy page creation.
Reddit · r/webflow · 43 days ago
Long-time supporter now considering self-hosting because of extra charges for languages and a 10GB bandwidth limit.
Reddit · r/webflow · 43 days ago
A client regularly exceeds Webflow bandwidth because of bot traffic with no business uptick.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 44 days ago
Uses 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.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 45 days ago
A small-business owner dropped Squarespace because it cost about $300 a year and rebuilt the site themselves.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 45 days ago
A business owner moved from WordPress to Squarespace because it is much easier to update and hand off to someone else.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 45 days ago
A Wix user finds it super easy and reliable, and easy to go back and update their site.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 45 days ago
A business owner built their own site on Wix, finds it very easy and gets lots of compliments on it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 46 days ago
Exports sites from the start and now logs into Webflow about once a month only for older projects.
Reddit · r/webflow · 48 days ago
They love Webflow and like its robustness, calling it pretty rock solid.
Reddit · r/WIX · 48 days ago
Wix has held over $11,000 of their funds for four weeks with account locked and no way to reach a live person.
Reddit · r/webflow · 53 days ago
Moved to Astro with Directus but finds client self-management less collaborative than Webflow.
Reddit · r/WIX · 53 days ago
Wix took a whole year payment they would not refund after a forgotten cancellation.
Reddit · r/webflow · 55 days ago
Liked Webflow for three years but exported to Astro on Netlify and finds updates much faster.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 55 days ago
Moved from Wix to Squarespace to save money, found Wix intuitive with built-in tools and great customer service, and wants to go back.
Reddit · r/webflow · 56 days ago
Says Webflow absorbs hosting, deploys and dependency upkeep and is honestly cheap for small local lead-gen sites.
Reddit · r/WIX · 60 days ago
Wix charged for a site they had agreed to discontinue and PayPal sided with them, leaving a debt sent to collections.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 60 days ago
Locked out of domains at Squarespace for weeks and asked to agree to Plaid terms to recover access.
Reddit · r/webflow · 62 days ago
Used Webflow five years and still keeps one product on it only because of SEO impact.
Reddit · r/WIX · 62 days ago
Wix staff are helpful but there is no phone or email, and fixing a domain issue led straight to an upsell.
Reddit · r/webdev · 63 days ago
Says Webflow CMS collections punish anything beyond basic use.
Reddit · r/webflow · 63 days ago
Found Webflow too costly after a year and now self-hosts for less and faster.
Reddit · r/webflow · 63 days ago
Built their site via Claude into Webflow with the MCP and sees no reason to leave given how easy landing pages are.
Reddit · r/WIX · 63 days ago
Within the 14-day guarantee there was no cancel option, the support rep was rude and hung up, and the refund was refused.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 63 days ago
Two Squarespace logins after the Google Domains buyout, an auto-upgraded Workspace costing $500 and nobody willing to help.
Reddit · r/webflow · 64 days ago
Non-technical founder finds Webflow glitchy but says managing it via Codex is super easy.
Reddit · r/webflow · 64 days ago
Agency owner increasingly recommends Webflow to clients over their own preferred Astro and Sanity because of simpler handoff.
Reddit · r/webflow · 64 days ago
Agency says Webflow is by far its most requested service and it had to hire more Webflow developers.
Reddit · r/webflow · 64 days ago
Migrated almost all projects off Webflow because the pricing left no margin on some clients.
Reddit · r/webflow · 65 days ago
After eight years exported their Webflow sites to Cloudflare R2 to drop subscription, hosting and language add-on costs.
Reddit · r/webflow · 65 days ago
Was still billed after closing their Webflow account and had to ask for a refund.
Reddit · r/webflow · 65 days ago
Agency says non-technical clients still love Webflow and their pipeline on it keeps growing.
Reddit · r/webflow · 65 days ago
Moved from WordPress to Webflow this year and builds sites within a week using their own templates and Claude via the workspace.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 66 days ago
Squarespace chat shows connecting but nothing happens and over 30 reps have still not changed their email.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 70 days ago
A client’s couple thousand dollars of donations is stuck pending approval in Squarespace and support takes a day per reply.
Reddit · r/webflow · 71 days ago
Long-time Webflow user thinks the platform is done as clients leave.
Reddit · r/webflow · 72 days ago
Webflow is the most expensive platform for their remaining sites and they have been moving sites off for six months.
Reddit · r/webflow · 72 days ago
Webflow earned them good money over 8 years but they now find the direction disappointing.
Reddit · r/webflow · 74 days ago
Webflow user since 2016 moved three small client sites to Astro for zero hosting cost, going from 16 Webflow clients to 13.
Reddit · r/WIX · 75 days ago
Wix auto-renewed them into a different, pricier plan, and after a formal complaint offered a one-time prorated refund of $857.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 77 days ago
Uses Squarespace as a simple landing page; easy to use and reasonably priced with zero qualms.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 77 days ago
Runs brochure and e-commerce sites on both Wix and Squarespace and prefers Squarespace.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 77 days ago
A coach finds Wix customer service slowest and worst, and the site routinely breaks, including silent booking failures.
Reddit · r/webflow · 78 days ago
Marketing head left Webflow after four years: the Designer hung repeatedly on a 370-page site, support was slow and fees confusing.
Reddit · r/Ghost · 79 days ago
Subscription 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.
Reddit · r/WIX · 79 days ago
Cancelled a couple of weeks before the year ended but was charged for the next year with no refund.
Reddit · r/WIX · 79 days ago
Does not like the pricing plans but finds Wix one of the easiest and most adaptable builders.
Reddit · r/WIX · 80 days ago
A three-year Wix subscription that cost $306 renewed at $907 despite their attempts to move the site, and they are still owed $587.
Reddit · r/webdev · 80 days ago
A Wix site with a decent-sized store, members area and blog is unbearably slow.
Reddit · r/WIX · 81 days ago
Wix raised their plan price every year, so they cancelled; renewal is charged about 20 days early.
Reddit · r/WIX · 81 days ago
Wix auto-renewed almost $500 with no notice over 30 days before, overdrawing their card, after transferring the site to a client.
Reddit · r/webdev · 83 days ago
They tried Hostinger AI builder and found it terrible, needing lots of credits for fine tuning.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 83 days ago
A 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 84 days ago
Long-time Squarespace user who finds it the most user friendly versus Weebly and Wix, and is over WordPress.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 84 days ago
A seasonal decorating business found Framer super easy and got a better-looking site than Squarespace templates with a few prompts.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 84 days ago
A site builder has struggled to get Squarespace's mobile and desktop designs to do what they want unless sticking to its predesigned blocks.
Reddit · r/webflow · 85 days ago
They worked with WordPress and Webflow professionally and say Webflow became extremely expensive, so they moved to AI-assisted coding.
Reddit · r/WIX · 85 days ago
Wix auto-renewed their subscription early and the refund can take 45 days, so they rebuilt on WordPress with Porkbun.
Reddit · r/WIX · 85 days ago
Got upsold so hard on Wix that they quit before building anything.
Reddit · r/WIX · 86 days ago
Has run a site that generates almost $1M on Wix for 5 years with essentially no issues and finds it cost effective.
Reddit · r/Hostinger · 88 days ago
Works 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.
Reddit · r/website · 90 days ago
A root-domain site hosted on AWS Route53 stopped working after the builder apparently dropped A-record support, leaving only CNAME records as an option.
Reddit · r/webflow · 90 days ago
They found the ecommerce JS snippet uses 800mb of their 100gb Webflow bandwidth even though they do not use ecommerce and cannot turn it off.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 90 days ago
Migrating off Squarespace because mobile speed scores were 16-20 versus 99-100 on WordPress.
Reddit · r/webflow · 91 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 91 days ago
Calls Squarespace a trivial expense with 100% uptime that has never broken, with seamless Acuity and Stripe integration.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 91 days ago
Moved their store from Squarespace to Shopify because the Squarespace store was one dimensional for growing.
Reddit · r/webflow · 93 days ago
Agency with 200+ Webflow builds says no client site has ever gone down because of the platform.
Reddit · r/webflow · 93 days ago
Long-time Webflow developer's agency is moving to Astro with Claude Code after finding it faster, cheaper and quicker to load.
Reddit · r/webflow · 93 days ago
Cancelled their Webflow subscription and moved most client sites to VitePress on Cloudflare.
Reddit · r/WIX · 93 days ago
Two weeks on Wix Harmony brought freezes, missing features, a vanished site after pasting text and promised callbacks that never came.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 94 days ago
A long-time Squarespace designer finds the forced Fluid Engine a disaster: everything is harder and the layout will not stay put.
Reddit · r/webflow · 97 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/WIX · 98 days ago
After a decade building client sites on Wix, Harmony's bugs and AI hallucinations push them off the platform.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 98 days ago
Squarespace Payments held $2,500 of a $12,000 payment, then later reserved a full $12,000 and closed their account without explanation.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 98 days ago
Three years running a site and store on Squarespace with one issue that was fixed and no problems since.