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/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.
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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 98 days ago
Squarespace cancelled a $15k transfer, locked their funds and added a 15% 90-day reserve, so they migrated to Shopify.
Reddit · r/WIX · 99 days ago
A takeaway business's Wix menu page is slow and Wix has issues two or three times a month blocking orders.
Reddit · r/WIX · 100 days ago
The Wix outage left their business and paid Meta ads useless, with no explanation of the cause.
Reddit · r/WIX · 101 days ago
Moving a domain off Wix took a 7-day wait and only one email with the transfer code.
Reddit · r/WIX · 101 days ago
Misleading Wix renewal emails led to a double renewal and managers refused help, saying they are a DIY platform.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 101 days ago
Ten-year customer; a glitch stopped Acuity follow-up emails and Squarespace said it could do nothing, so they will switch.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 101 days ago
Frustrated by Squarespace limits for selling video access, now uses it mainly for unlimited video storage on a legacy plan.
Reddit · r/WIX · 104 days ago
During a Wix outage, a store on Wix since 2021 could not take orders on a normally busy Saturday.
Reddit · r/WIX · 104 days ago
In 8 years with Wix this was the first outage, and it hit during their birthday sale with orders pending.
Reddit · r/WIX · 104 days ago
The Wix Events module stayed down after the main fix, and RSVPs failed right after a newsletter went out.
Reddit · r/webflow · 105 days ago
After rebuilding a site on a custom stack, realises how much behind-the-scenes work Webflow handled for a front-end designer.
Reddit · r/webflow · 106 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webflow · 106 days ago
Moved their agency site from Webflow to Cloudflare Pages, saying it is cheaper and scores 90+ on speed.
Reddit · r/webflow · 106 days ago
Marketer values Webflow because non-technical teams can run the site without hosting work or a developer.
Reddit · r/webflow · 106 days ago
Had to buy their own paid workspace plan just to collaborate on a client's existing project.
Reddit · r/webdev · 106 days ago
A blind user finds the Wix back end almost unusable with a screen reader, with unlabeled buttons everywhere.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 106 days ago
Squarespace cancelled their payment processing with no warning or explanation, so they are moving to Shopify.
Reddit · r/webflow · 107 days ago
Migrating off Webflow let them fix markup, structured data and rendering that Webflow restricted.
Reddit · r/webflow · 108 days ago
Loves building in Webflow but says pricing changes ended their managed-hosting income model.
Reddit · r/webflow · 108 days ago
Enterprise plan at their previous company cost $75k a year for a product similar to $30 plans.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 109 days ago
Their Squarespace site shows a security message and chat will not work, so they are leaving as soon as possible.
Reddit · r/WIX · 109 days ago
Was still charged after cancelling before renewal with proof, was unhappy with support, and disputed the charge.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 109 days ago
After 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 110 days ago
Moved to Cloudflare after finding the Squarespace editor miserable, saving about $300 a year.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 110 days ago
Tried a one-page portfolio on Squarespace after leaving a year ago; the editor froze and stuck in a grab cursor, called a known issue.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 110 days ago
Great for getting a site up quickly but too expensive; is migrating three Squarespace sites to Cloudflare Pages.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 111 days ago
Member since 2013; the corrected price after the claimed pricing error saved only about $18, which was the final straw.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 111 days ago
Squarespace renewal went from $136 to a proposed $204, then $165 after the claimed error, still a rise.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 111 days ago
Two Squarespace sites rose $40 and $62 with no new services they need, so they moved both to the lowest tier.
Reddit · r/webflow · 112 days ago
Company spending about $15k a year on Webflow built a tailored alternative in months and sees a dire outlook for staying.
Reddit · r/webflow · 112 days ago
Solo marketer says Webflow is self-serve for them while engineers focus on the product.
Reddit · r/webflow · 112 days ago
Freelancer says Webflow locked users in, was greedy, and is rebuilding all projects on Astro and Sanity.
Reddit · r/webflow · 112 days ago
Auto-migrated from a $29 CMS plan with 200GB to $69 for 100GB bandwidth after the 2026 plan changes.
Reddit · r/WIX · 112 days ago
Four years on a Wix store, the app duplicated all store pages, taking 15 days and 40+ emails to admit the fault.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 112 days ago
A 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 112 days ago
Switched to Core at $276 on Squarespace support advice, then a correction email raised it to $331.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 112 days ago
Left a ten-year Squarespace account after the price rise, migrating to another host in a day for under $60 a year.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 112 days ago
Their 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 112 days ago
A small portfolio site went from about $13 to a proposed $19 and then $16 a month.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 113 days ago
Just switched from Wix to Squarespace and is having a much better experience.
Reddit · r/webflow · 114 days ago
Mastered and loved Webflow but left 1.5 years ago for faster, cleaner code and would not return for agency work.
Reddit · r/webflow · 114 days ago
In Romania, clients shown Webflow almost always choose it, finding about $300 a year trivial for the CMS control.
Reddit · r/webflow · 114 days ago
Lost clients to vibe coding because individuals will not pay Webflow's monthly hosting; wants cheaper single-page pricing.
Reddit · r/webflow · 114 days ago
Three-person Webflow agency says demand has never been higher, with 80 opportunities logged over 18 months.
Reddit · r/webflow · 114 days ago
After technical SEO issues on a custom Astro build, appreciates that Webflow handles SEO requirements out of the box.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 114 days ago
Very happy with Squarespace after trying many other systems; came back because it works and looks great.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 115 days ago
Their legacy Squarespace personal plan rose 50% from $138 to $204, so they are moving to a free Google Site.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 115 days ago
Built their fourth Squarespace site; the two times they needed support it was helpful and the Circle discount helps.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 116 days ago
After ten years on Squarespace, the 7.1 upgrade cost hours of spacing fixes and they gave up, calling the marketing exaggerated.
Reddit · r/WIX · 117 days ago
Wix billed the next subscription 19 days early, so they had the bank cancel the charge and moved their domain.
Reddit · r/WIX · 117 days ago
Wix renewal rose from $100 to $371 a year for one site, so they moved to WordPress on NixiHost with a Namecheap domain.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 117 days ago
An illustrator on Squarespace since 2014 faces $204 a year versus $86 originally for the same basic portfolio site.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 118 days ago
Customer since 2014 totalled every invoice at $1,687 with a 122% rise for unchanged usage and is leaving over the repeated hikes.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 118 days ago
Customer since 2015 tracked bills from $87 to a coming $204 renewal, calls the latest 28% jump unjustifiable and is leaving.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 119 days ago
Canadian customer says the plan cost $172 after tax in 2020 and will be about $389 now, more than double in six years.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 119 days ago
VFX reel site owner saw the renewal jump from $192 to $228 and probably will not renew after repeated increases.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 119 days ago
Moved a five-product store to Shopify, likes its shipping handling but finds it costs far more than Squarespace and may move back.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 119 days ago
Left Squarespace for Shopify; it costs the most but finally lets them lay out collections and products the way they want.
Reddit · r/WIX · 119 days ago
A $400 charge hit for a deleted website, Wix claimed auto-renewal was on, and 35 days later chat support is unhelpful.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 119 days ago
Started on Squarespace but moved to Wix, where their site looks far better, especially on the phone.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
They cancelled after five years because pricing kept creeping up and the pricing tactics were confusing, with cheaper alternatives offering the same or better.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Portfolio site owner saw the renewal go from $120 in 2022 to $192 in 2025 and now $228, and found Squarespace's chatbot support unhelpful.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Remembers paying about $12 a month and now pays about $19, which they say is not worth it.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
User since 2012 went from about $90 a year to a price that no longer makes sense and plans to leave, keeping only the domain.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Cut their annual Squarespace cost by almost half by downgrading after the plan realignment and misses no useful features.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Customer paying $138 a year was told renewal rises to $204 for the same thing and is not accepting it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
Per-site pricing pushed an agency to move most small client sites from Webflow to Framer.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Finds Squarespace hard to use for beginners: limited image and text placement and a poor phone layout for $25 a month.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Paid for a year of Squarespace and bailed after three weeks, citing abysmal customer service.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 120 days ago
Paid two years but Fluid Engine broke their layout and Squarespace refused a refund for an unpublished site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 121 days ago
Left Webflow and got support to prorate a refund on the year they had just paid.
Reddit · r/WIX · 121 days ago
Five years on Wix, the renewal charge came earlier than before and a 3-month goodwill credit expired unexpectedly, leaving them stuck.
Reddit · r/WIX · 121 days ago
Won a refund after pushing support to answer directly about a renewal for a period that had not started.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 121 days ago
After 10 years paying Wix, the mobile layout shifts are a mess and it is no longer user-friendly.
Reddit · r/WIX · 122 days ago
Wix Studio is a memory hog that slows down work within minutes of loading a site.
Reddit · r/WIX · 122 days ago
Wix just charged them $1k at renewal and will not refund it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 122 days ago
Wix AI features barely work and take 15-20 minutes to generate something simple.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 128 days ago
Has run a self-built Squarespace site for about a decade for roughly $200 a year plus $40 for the domain on Namecheap.
Reddit · r/Ghost · 134 days ago
Works great out of the box for standard blogs and newsletters, though deep theme and homepage layout customizations are restrictive compared to self-hosting.
Reddit · r/Ghost · 134 days ago
Offloads CDN caching, server maintenance, and updates so even technical writers can focus entirely on writing and marketing.
Reddit · r/Ghost · 134 days ago
Delivers fast page loads with built-in caching and CDN performance.
Reddit · r/WIX · 134 days ago
Wix has been unloadable for a week of hit-and-miss access while they try to finish their site.
Reddit · r/WIX · 134 days ago
Their bank denied the chargeback and Wix will not reinstate the site, so a $400 renewal bought nothing.
Reddit · r/web_design · 137 days ago
After fixing many weaker builders, says Webflow is the best for non-developers and needs very little coding.
Reddit · r/web_design · 138 days ago
SaaS team wants off Webflow because they depend on a Webflow developer for every small update.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 142 days ago
Paying £28 a month for Squarespace while layout spacing keeps breaking; plans to switch providers.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 143 days ago
A five-minute Squarespace edit turned into two hours of readjusting pages, and the page would not even save.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 143 days ago
Refuses to upgrade from Squarespace 7.0 because their site works perfectly there and 7.1 caused layout mayhem for others.
Reddit · r/webflow · 144 days ago
Says Webflow support lacks empathy from first-hand experience and that they are better off elsewhere.
Reddit · r/WIX · 145 days ago
Moving any element in Wix Harmony resizes and shifts other sections unpredictably, forcing endless fixes.
Reddit · r/webflow · 146 days ago
Has built with both AI tools and Webflow and still prefers Webflow for quality and detail.
Reddit · r/webflow · 146 days ago
Built a portfolio on Webflow and liked it, but found it too much and too costly for a single personal site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 147 days ago
Pays $18 a month for Webflow and customised a paid template so well it does not look templated.
Reddit · r/webflow · 151 days ago
Crashed their Webflow site while using the MCP and it is stuck in a crash loop.
Reddit · r/webflow · 151 days ago
Webflow expert who tried a coded stack still thinks Webflow is best for their clients and prefers its build UX.
Reddit · r/webflow · 152 days ago
Built their company site in Webflow after a $50k rebuild quote and has since built several more, finding it steep to learn.
Reddit · r/webflow · 154 days ago
Seven-year Webflow fan feels pushed out as it targets enterprises and now recommends Squarespace to new clients.
Reddit · r/webflow · 155 days ago
Long-time Webflow evangelist now has a bad taste from recent changes and uses Sanity with Astro.
Reddit · r/webflow · 155 days ago
Built their company site in Webflow via the MCP connector with Claude from start to finish in 45 days.
Reddit · r/WIX · 155 days ago
Riding out a three-year Wix subscription after they changed what was bought upfront, which they say the fine print allows.
Reddit · r/webflow · 156 days ago
Tried replacing Webflow with Claude on a $200 plan but found the effort and token cost outweighed it for a large CMS site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 156 days ago
Loved Webflow's clean interface and real code in 2020-2023 but thinks it lost its way and needs to fix pricing.
Reddit · r/webflow · 157 days ago
Reports client sites being down for an entire day with no explanation.
Reddit · r/webflow · 157 days ago
Multi-locale work lags and crashes in the Webflow Designer.
Reddit · r/WIX · 157 days ago
Tested Wix online payments and confirmed a 2.9% plus $0.30 charge, cheaper than QuickBooks but not the cheapest.
Reddit · r/WIX · 161 days ago
Setting up a free site for a client, Wix stopped them at every step to upsell and the free-plan path was hard to find.
Reddit · r/webdev · 161 days ago
Built a Wix site with memberships and database relationships that only costs the club the Wix hosting.
Reddit · r/webdev · 163 days ago
Says Wix is the most complicated and hardest to use system they have tried, good only for small contact sites.
Reddit · r/webdev · 163 days ago
Has run a non-profit Wix site they call terrible, with the offered functionality being basic marketplace add-ons.
Reddit · r/webflow · 165 days ago
Six-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.
Reddit · r/webflow · 165 days ago
Used Webflow mainly because its CMS and visual editor let clients make micro changes and maintain sites themselves.
Reddit · r/webdev · 168 days ago
Designer of ten years calls Webflow the worst builder they have used, citing clunky custom code, locked components and difficult animations.
Reddit · r/webdev · 168 days ago
Inherited a Webflow site and found it faster to rebuild in Astro than click through the interface.
Reddit · r/webdev · 168 days ago
Webflow was great pre-AI for fast front-end work with built-in CMS and easy edits, but the team has since ditched it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 168 days ago
Went from WordPress to Webflow and back, finding it fine for yourself but poor for client needs and seat costs.
Reddit · r/webflow · 168 days ago
Current user finds Webflow increasingly unstable and pricier because of features they do not use.
Reddit · r/webflow · 169 days ago
Marketing team praises Webflow's stability and predictability and says it costs less than their old WordPress site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 169 days ago
Long-time Webflow user since 2019 now wants out, citing ignored user-reported issues and flashy features.
Reddit · r/webflow · 170 days ago
Freelancer used Webflow 18 months, quit over frequent Designer glitches and went back to WordPress.
Reddit · r/webflow · 170 days ago
Agency owner still loves the Designer for client sites but feels the product has moved away from small businesses.
Reddit · r/webflow · 171 days ago
Says Webflow quoted $75k for an enterprise plan on a 20-page site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 172 days ago
Moved their agency site off Webflow to Astro after the recent price increase made the $25 monthly fee unattractive.
Reddit · r/webflow · 172 days ago
Finds some things easier in Webflow but not worth its price, and moved all their sites to self-hosting.
Reddit · r/webflow · 172 days ago
Team with 3 Webflow sites spending about $5k a year after six years calls this year's price increase the final straw.
Reddit · r/webdev · 172 days ago
Adding a three-word header took 15 minutes because the Wix editor loaded at dial-up speed.
Reddit · r/webflow · 178 days ago
Likes Webflow's freedom to build anything but agrees with complaints about pricing and bugs.
Reddit · r/webdev · 178 days ago
A client site was blocked for 6 days after a false copyright claim, and neither Wix support nor its offline policy team could help.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 178 days ago
A lapsed Squarespace domain left a Google Workspace plan impossible to manage or cancel, with chatbots on both sides.
Reddit · r/Entrepreneur · 179 days ago
Ecommerce agency says Webflow hit CMS limits within a month and falls apart for real product catalogues.
Reddit · r/webflow · 179 days ago
With about 70 Webflow sites, they see Webflow raising prices as customers leave and are moving away.
Reddit · r/webflow · 180 days ago
Developer finds Webflow clunky and slow and its class inheritance confusing.
Reddit · r/WIX · 180 days ago
A Wix rep solved their business email problem in about 30 minutes on a phone call.
Reddit · r/webflow · 181 days ago
Agency will absorb the price rise across multiple client sites and says it made their outstanding proposals outdated.
Reddit · r/webflow · 181 days ago
Moved from WordPress to Webflow years ago but now cites repeated outages, antiquated tech and the price increase as the final straw.
Reddit · r/webflow · 181 days ago
Is moving all their Webflow sites to Astro and Cloudflare after the price changes.
Reddit · r/webflow · 182 days ago
Freelancer with Webflow since 2018 must tell small-nonprofit clients their site cost is rising 34% and has cancelled personal hosting.
Reddit · r/webflow · 182 days ago
Says Webflow once needed no maintenance, but price changes, DNS changes and outages now cost more effort than WordPress upkeep.
Reddit · r/webflow · 182 days ago
Loves Webflow but says the bandwidth limits and new plans hurt their clients.
Reddit · r/webflow · 182 days ago
Builder of dozens of Webflow sites since 2018 is frustrated that Webflow is turning away from small agencies and raising prices.
Reddit · r/webflow · 183 days ago
Hosts some client sites on Netlify and was surprised by another Webflow price increase.
Reddit · r/webflow · 183 days ago
After eight years, agency is moving all client sites off Webflow over poor support and repeated pricing changes.
Reddit · r/WIX · 183 days ago
Wix Harmony could not embed a YouTube video and is painstakingly slow and clunky for a school site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 184 days ago
Marketing head says the new plans raise their hosting bill by about $800 a year for a static site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 184 days ago
Agency user spent unbilled hours on a manual workaround after a Webflow form app broke from changing endpoints.
Reddit · r/webflow · 184 days ago
Freelancer reports a 37% Webflow price rise over a few years and has moved clients off the platform.
Reddit · r/WIX · 185 days ago
Moved from Squarespace to Wix: Harmony was awful but Wix Studio is fine with more freedom than Squarespace.
Reddit · r/WIX · 186 days ago
Wix Harmony is slow with no CMS or dynamic pages and its Aria assistant creates more work.
Reddit · r/WIX · 190 days ago
Found too late that Wix Harmony lacked every feature they needed.
Reddit · r/WIX · 191 days ago
Finds getting website email set up correctly on Wix the hardest part and is considering moving away.
Reddit · r/WIX · 193 days ago
Their Wix three-year plan renewal jumped from under $400 to over $1100; offers kept switching until a callback got $17 a month.
Reddit · r/WIX · 193 days ago
Wix promised a $300 renewal, changed it to $600, then charged $915 without notice and reneged on a refund.
Reddit · r/WIX · 193 days ago
Cancelling the Wix renewal triggered a 30% retention offer, bringing the Business plan to $348 a year.
Reddit · r/WIX · 193 days ago
Wix has been great but they are hitting its limits and moving to Shopify.
Reddit · r/WIX · 194 days ago
Moved a 65-page Wix site to custom code on Cloudflare Workers; Wix maxed at about 80 on mobile speed vs 97 after.
Reddit · r/WIX · 195 days ago
Four years on Wix for a small business with zero issues, no price increases and a professional-looking site.
Reddit · r/WIX · 195 days ago
Moved from Squarespace to Wix Studio and says it has been hell, finding the Squarespace backend far better.
Reddit · r/WIX · 195 days ago
Says Wix randomly charges or double charges, including a year when they chose monthly.
Reddit · r/WIX · 195 days ago
Finds Wix Studio not intuitive, with odd formatting issues and limitations.
Reddit · r/WIX · 196 days ago
Has used Wix for about ten years for a small B2B business with no real issues and steady monthly cost.
Reddit · r/WIX · 198 days ago
Gave up building a design portfolio on Wix repeatedly because it was slow and things never lined up, then moved to a Claude Code workflow.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 199 days ago
Says clients with large Squarespace sites and memberships have no real path to migrate content or subscribers away.
Reddit · r/WIX · 200 days ago
Chatted with Wix minutes after a $921 charge three weeks before renewal and they still refused all refunds.
Reddit · r/WIX · 202 days ago
Finds Wix Harmony very bad, preferring the OG editor that did not need an AI chatbot to find their pages.
Reddit · r/webdev · 206 days ago
Developer of nearly 20 years advises against Webflow where an alternative exists, citing lock-in and regret.
Reddit · r/webdev · 206 days ago
Their team moved off Webflow to Storyblok and Astro but warns not to underestimate what a CMS provides out of the box.
Reddit · r/WIX · 206 days ago
After a chat denial, a callback agent told them to push back and Wix refunded a $673 renewal the next day.
Reddit · r/webflow · 209 days ago
Has moved major parts of their site off Webflow's Designer citing the enterprise push and constant downtime.
Reddit · r/webflow · 209 days ago
Team finds Webflow expensive to manage and limiting for keeping a multilingual site updated.
Reddit · r/WIX · 209 days ago
Wix charged an expired card $667 for a site that had been down for two years and refused to refund it.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 209 days ago
Solo consultant who runs on Squarespace: booking built in, maintenance essentially zero, clean templates, would pick it again.
Reddit · r/web_design · 210 days ago
Experienced developer spent more time figuring out Webflow than building a client site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 210 days ago
Says Webflow lacks decent version control and translation visibility unless you pay for Enterprise.
Reddit · r/webflow · 211 days ago
Their outage lasted two hours but Webflow communicated well, emailing updates every 30 minutes.
Reddit · r/webflow · 212 days ago
Agency says every Webflow outage puts it in an uncomfortable position with clients and that the price should demand better reliability.
Reddit · r/WIX · 212 days ago
A Wix user since 2010 dislikes the AI-heavy Harmony editor and finds Studio leaves clients with messy sites.
Reddit · r/webflow · 213 days ago
Seven-year customer hit a second long downtime this year that frustrated clients with editor access.
Reddit · r/webflow · 213 days ago
After an outage, CMS collections on some of their sites showed no items and editing time was lost.
Reddit · r/WIX · 213 days ago
Wix raised their rate, moved the renewal earlier, refused a refund and claimed emails that never arrived.
Reddit · r/WIX · 217 days ago
Their business site on Wix brings £80-95k a year for about £9 a month; they use Studio with code alongside the builder.
Reddit · r/WIX · 217 days ago
Cancelled Wix Studio after moving from the Editor, calling it the worst decision they made.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 217 days ago
Squarespace transfer-out auth codes never arrived for months until they started an ICANN complaint and posted publicly.
Reddit · r/WIX · 219 days ago
Wix auto-renewed them for three years and refused a refund, leaving only selling or letting it sit.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 219 days ago
Used Wix for years without problems but its closed system blocked the microphone for an embedded AI agent that worked on Squarespace.
Reddit · r/WIX · 220 days ago
Wix has steadily raised their price, with the latest Core plan invoice at $376.71, about $30 a month, before domain and email.
Reddit · r/WIX · 220 days ago
Has issues with Wix and finds humans hard to reach, but chat support follows through once reached.
Reddit · r/WIX · 220 days ago
While migrating to WordPress, Wix's RSS feed exposed only 12 of 44 blog posts, which they see as lock-in.
Reddit · r/webflow · 221 days ago
Used Webflow 2022 to 2025 for a startup site; powerful but slow turnaround for changes led them to Astro with Claude Code.
Reddit · r/webflow · 222 days ago
Designer who sells Webflow is disappointed by charges for client editor seats that used to be free.
Reddit · r/webflow · 222 days ago
Connected Figma and Webflow with Claude via MCP and got about 80% of the CMS collections and entries built.
Reddit · r/WIX · 222 days ago
After three years on Wix, finds functionality weaker, pages slower to load, and the AI not worth the cost.
Reddit · r/WIX · 222 days ago
Likes Wix but sees growing loading-time problems, server errors and CDN crashes, plus predatory pricing and service fees.
Reddit · r/webflow · 223 days ago
Calls Webflow a great platform but moves clients off it because agentic coding does not work with it.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 223 days ago
After heavy investment in Wix, missing basic shop features like checkout edits and sorting products have them moving to Shopify.
Reddit · r/WIX · 224 days ago
The Wix Harmony editor crashes repeatedly and takes down their laptop, and they want the classic editor back.
Reddit · r/webflow · 230 days ago
Marketer moved two sites off Webflow to Codex and finds Webflow slow and complicated even for a simple landing page.
Reddit · r/webflow · 230 days ago
Long-time user builds very complex sites in Webflow and has yet to hit real limitations.
Reddit · r/webflow · 230 days ago
Works with B2B SaaS clients and finds Webflow valuable for several team members to make updates in parallel.
Reddit · r/webflow · 230 days ago
Moved their agency site off Webflow citing billing confusion and cost, and now uses Claude with Sanity.
Reddit · r/WIX · 231 days ago
Wix prices have gone up a lot and AI is pushed into the editor, so they are looking at other options.
Reddit · r/webflow · 232 days ago
Liked Webflow and got proficient, but moved five sites to Cloudflare over cost and slow innovation.
Reddit · r/webdev · 232 days ago
The Wix reservation app counts cancelled guests toward capacity, so the restaurant shows fully booked and loses reservations.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 232 days ago
Turned off their Wix site before renewal but it only cancelled the domain; the big plan renewal still charged almost $500.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 232 days ago
Built a 35-product store on Wix; templates were broken, support was friendly but never fixed anything, and they cancelled within two weeks.
Reddit · r/webflow · 233 days ago
Agency says half of last year's clients cancelled Webflow plans within 12 months over hosting cost.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 233 days ago
Their Wix site glitched, with text moving and updates reverting, and upcharges everywhere; they moved back to WordPress with Divi.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 233 days ago
Picked Wix for a marketing site after finding Squarespace too locked in, with no problems so far.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 233 days ago
Has used Wix for years and loves it; more expensive and less customizable than WordPress, but accessible if you are not a designer.
Reddit · r/webflow · 234 days ago
Web designer chose Webflow for a non-technical client; cost matched their old WordPress hosting and the client is happy.
Reddit · r/webflow · 234 days ago
Moved a portfolio off Webflow to a coded site on Vercel, finding Webflow no longer suits small simple sites.
Reddit · r/webflow · 234 days ago
After six years on Webflow is thinking of moving sites away over ecommerce, GDPR and loyalty to users.
Reddit · r/webflow · 234 days ago
Using Webflow since 2015 and still prefers building by hand in it over prompting AI.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 234 days ago
Built their site themselves on Squarespace with paid photos and says it looks amazing versus a $15k quote.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 234 days ago
Compared WordPress and Squarespace and finds Squarespace user-friendly for a good-looking site.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 234 days ago
Generally happy with Wix but notes it hides most of the code, making pixels and tags harder to add.
Reddit · r/WIX · 235 days ago
A long-time Wix user who loved the balance of features, ease and support now finds the product difficult to use.
Reddit · r/WIX · 235 days ago
Says Wix has gone downhill with astronomical price increases and is going back to WordPress or Squarespace.
Reddit · r/WIX · 235 days ago
A long-time Wix user now churns out quick sites on Squarespace because it works faster without cross-platform oddities.
Reddit · r/WIX · 235 days ago
Wix increased their yearly subscription cost by 40% and offered a monthly plan when queried.
Reddit · r/Hostinger · 237 days ago
No 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 237 days ago
A solopreneur with three Squarespace sites finds it excellent: HubSpot and Mailchimp sync, good mobile and SEO.
Reddit · r/webflow · 239 days ago
Company on the Growth plan finds Webflow pricing complex and objects to $15 a month for a basic editor seat.
Reddit · r/webflow · 239 days ago
Agency with 100+ Webflow sites loved the platform but now builds with Claude Code, finding Webflow's monthly cost hard to justify.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 239 days ago
Just built a site on Squarespace, found it simple to set up and says it looks professional.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 240 days ago
Has used Wix since starting out: not the most dynamic but simple and does what you would expect.
Reddit · r/webflow · 241 days ago
Changing collection fields breaks production API access until you publish, so Webflow has no real staging for collections.
Reddit · r/webflow · 245 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/WIX · 246 days ago
Wix refused a refund on a 3-year domain after 14 days though they advertised 30, and support is AI-driven.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 248 days ago
Mid free trial, found the plan price raised from $29 to $39 a month and is rethinking signing up.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 248 days ago
On Squarespace since 2011; mobile and tablet layouts broke with Fluid Engine and sidebar layouts were removed.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 250 days ago
Switched away from Squarespace after repeated unaddressed bugs, poor service and no customer service.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 251 days ago
Store 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.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 251 days ago
Left Shopify during the first month of a trial because payouts go through Stripe, which they say holds your money.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 251 days ago
Runs a store doing $750K a year and says Shopify's value outweighs platform fees compared with managing WordPress.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 251 days ago
Used Shopify briefly, found the UX clunky and the various fees sneaky, and now uses Lightspeed.
Reddit · r/WIX · 251 days ago
A ten-year Wix customer was auto-renewed for three years at $903 with no cancel option, then the option appeared after the charge.
Reddit · r/WIX · 251 days ago
Has used Wix for years and the cancel option has always been in the same place.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 252 days ago
Ten years building sites on Squarespace: good for basic clients and SEO done old school, but forms and email often fail to deliver leads.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 252 days ago
Has built on Squarespace for eight years and rarely finds real bugs, aside from Safari quirks.
Reddit · r/WIX · 255 days ago
Finds Wix's new 4% fee on top of a 3.1% payments fee egregious, which was itself raised from about 2.5%.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 258 days ago
Bought a $300 Squarespace template for a new film festival site and is very happy; mostly intuitive and easy to use.
Reddit · r/WIX · 262 days ago
A 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.
Reddit · r/WIX · 262 days ago
Was charged a $1600 renewal on a cancelled account, and since it went through PayPal Wix refused to refund it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 266 days ago
They were spending $200+ a month on Webflow for client sites and are moving them to Vercel for $20-30 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 266 days ago
Says their clients love Webflow more than any other CMS they have used.
Reddit · r/WIX · 267 days ago
New product page URLs generated 5xx errors and months of Wix support, with a 24-hour lag to human support, hurt their store.
Reddit · r/WIX · 267 days ago
Eleven contacts over five months to recover a Wix charge and still told they are almost to the finish line.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 267 days ago
Has used Squarespace since 2012 and says long-standing bugs reported by hundreds of people remain unfixed.
Reddit · r/webflow · 268 days ago
Abandoned Webflow because it got too expensive and could not let AI tools like Claude Code build directly.
Reddit · r/webflow · 268 days ago
Sees Webflow's CMS as a major strength for non-technical marketing teams compared with most other platforms.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 268 days ago
Moved all their clients off Squarespace over the years and a new demo site showed things are even worse.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 268 days ago
Can generally reach someone helpful on Squarespace chat quickly, unlike other tech companies.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 269 days ago
Updating a client site on Squarespace 7.1 turned into hours of buggy editor issues such as thousands of empty mobile rows and lost edits.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 270 days ago
Switched from WordPress and Elementor to Wix for its integration, though Wix can be frustrating like all builders.
Reddit · r/WIX · 273 days ago
Is cancelling 13 Wix sites after the new 4% fee, calling it an insane share to give them.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 273 days ago
Moved from Squarespace to WordPress on a cheap host, paying about $5 a month instead of $30+.
Reddit · r/WIX · 274 days ago
Wix tried to charge $846 at renewal and only an expired card prevented it.
Reddit · r/WIX · 275 days ago
Wix bill for a static website reached €900 versus 240 years ago, so they are moving to WordPress.
Reddit · r/WIX · 275 days ago
Wix renewal fees rose 30% and a $772 charge hit their card after they deleted a site without turning off auto-renewal.
Reddit · r/WIX · 276 days ago
Wix announced a 4% commission on every pricing-plan transaction unless they upgrade beyond the Core plan, even though Stripe processes it.
Reddit · r/WIX · 276 days ago
Wix confirmed by phone that a $100 payment would net $92.5 after its new transaction fee.
Reddit · r/WIX · 276 days ago
Manages 50+ Wix sites alone and says they rarely break or go down, with tech support always available.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 276 days ago
Squarespace took down a physician’s site for an expiring domain despite current billing and never answered emails; a friend fixed it after several days.
Reddit · r/webdev · 277 days ago
Someone who tried both Wix and Hostinger's builder found Wix's editor smoother and easier for making a good-looking site fast.
Reddit · r/webdev · 277 days ago
A freelancer builds client landing pages and sites in Framer and finds it easy to use, with clean sites and good animations.
Reddit · r/WIX · 279 days ago
Wix switched them to a higher plan and doubled the renewal fee without notification, so they left for WordPress.org.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 279 days ago
A mostly happy Squarespace user for many years building client sites who is happy to recommend it.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 280 days ago
Reasonably happy with Squarespace: payments take a few days to process at low volume and the UI is easy to use.
Reddit · r/WIX · 282 days ago
A three-year Wix renewal rose 84% to $864 for a static site and support refused to change the plan or refund.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 282 days ago
Pays Wix $34 a month for their business site, which brings in about $30k a month, far better return than their old Yellow Pages ad.
Reddit · r/webdev · 285 days ago
Moved a 100,000-product client off Shopify to WooCommerce, citing rate limits and gaps like no product count without a special API call.
Reddit · r/webdev · 288 days ago
Agency says migrating blogs into Webflow still means exporting a CSV and is the most painful part of client projects.
Reddit · r/WIX · 290 days ago
Paid $50 for Wix basic then was charged $600 for premium without consent and was denied a refund.
Reddit · r/WIX · 290 days ago
Compared with WordPress and Weebly, finds Wix gives the most creative freedom and works fine for most clients.
Reddit · r/WIX · 291 days ago
Liked Wix at first, then prices doubled so they moved to another host for a fraction of the cost.
Reddit · r/WIX · 291 days ago
Wix suspended all domain email accounts the day their expired card failed and two days after updating it they still had no access.
Reddit · r/WIX · 291 days ago
Was dropped from Wix payments and found mobile does not support HTML embeds, so visitors cannot see their podcast episodes.
Reddit · r/WIX · 292 days ago
Got a $915 renewal refund about five to six weeks after requesting it the same day.
Reddit · r/WIX · 292 days ago
Forgot to cancel a renewal by two days, got no refund window, and found the support agent rude.
Reddit · r/WIX · 292 days ago
Liked Wix until prices rose sharply with nothing offered in return, and says customer service is notoriously bad.
Reddit · r/WIX · 292 days ago
New to Wix and, after some work understanding it, is really loving it, though nervous about cancellation charges.
Reddit · r/WIX · 293 days ago
Charged again for a Premium plan cancelled a year earlier, and an agent said they must cancel every year.
Reddit · r/WIX · 293 days ago
Has $1.5k withheld by Wix for two weeks, making it complicated to receive funds.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 295 days ago
Likes the editing ease on Wix but pages are so slow they can make a coffee before one opens.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 295 days ago
A UI/UX designer found a client's Wix site inflexible, sluggish and a pain to work with.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 295 days ago
Uses Wix for a client: plenty of templates and nice built-in analytics and Search Console integration but less design flexibility.
Reddit · r/WIX · 297 days ago
A site built with Wix Vibe looks great but the backend is held together because forms and payments barely work with Vibe.
Reddit · r/Entrepreneur · 300 days ago
Manufacturer selling direct expects over $1M in sales on Shopify's $29 plan, has very few issues and says it beats WordPress/WooCommerce by miles.
Reddit · r/WIX · 300 days ago
Calls Wix Studio the best editor with great phone support and no billing issues, but notes slow page loads especially on mobile.
Reddit · r/WIX · 300 days ago
Has run their gym website on Wix for five years and says it works a treat.
Reddit · r/WIX · 301 days ago
Found Wix Studio offered finer control than Squarespace or Framer, which had alignment issues, and prefers Studio over the old buggy editor.
Reddit · r/WIX · 301 days ago
Got a renewal charged but after a week of firm back-and-forth Wix refunded it as a one-time exception.
Reddit · r/WIX · 301 days ago
Happy that Wix lets people book meetings, receive proposals and shop without a developer.
Reddit · r/webdev · 302 days ago
Finds Webflow unnecessarily expensive, as they must pay extra even to be invited to work on a client's project.
Reddit · r/webdev · 302 days ago
Says Webflow doubled prices, removed features and broke many websites with a DNS change, so they are leaving.
Reddit · r/webdev · 302 days ago
Developer found Webflow annoying and is glad never to touch it again.
Reddit · r/WIX · 302 days ago
Finds Wix Studio far worse than Editor X, with non-existent customer support and constantly rising prices.
Reddit · r/WIX · 302 days ago
A Wix customer since 2017 says the platform, management, customer service and marketplace have nosedived in the past year.
Reddit · r/WIX · 302 days ago
Wix collections, dynamic pages and Velo code have been tremendous for their website.
Reddit · r/WIX · 303 days ago
Long-time Wix user finds it great for simple sites but dislikes growing restrictions on forms and basic features.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Happy running a non-profit site on Wix Business Core with events, blogs, stores and forms, though it is not cheap.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
A non-profit was hit with a huge surprise renewal increase and Wix refused a refund when they tried to cancel.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Pays $348 a year for Wix Business Core and finds it sustainable even though prices go up.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Changing a Wix booking length means deleting and remaking the booking and also deleting the invoice, unlike easier alternatives.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Has run their business on Wix for five years with zero problems.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Switched from custom-coded WordPress to Wix and loves selling digital products and a course with everything built in.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Wix Payments dropped them on Christmas morning with no explanation after five years and cancelled all customer subscriptions.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Is in good shape with Wix and gets a fine price by watching for offers longer than one year.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
After closing out an account of 10 years, auto-renew still charged $470 for two years and Wix refused a refund.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
It took four months and six or more support staff to get payments approved, and product edits disappeared.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Says Wix constantly pushes upgrades from the adequate $40 plan to a $160 plan.
Reddit · r/WIX · 305 days ago
Uses only the free options when starting out on Wix and has never paid for anything.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 305 days ago
Moved from Google Sites and Workspace to Squarespace at about £200 a year and says it is much, much better.
Reddit · r/WIX · 309 days ago
A client expecting a €240 Wix renewal was quoted €540, then offered a €100 plan after cancelling.
Reddit · r/web_design · 310 days ago
Loves designing in Webflow for the freedom and no hosting worries, though one client struggled to edit it.
Reddit · r/WIX · 310 days ago
A 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.
Reddit · r/WIX · 310 days ago
A Wix Premium renewal jumped to £600+ for a two-year cycle for a simple leads site.
Reddit · r/WIX · 310 days ago
Wix auto-renewal keeps getting turned back on and costs have tripled since joining three years ago.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 313 days ago
Wix once deleted every blog draft with no recourse and the site kept developing quirks like disappearing buttons.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 313 days ago
Uses Wix for their business site; not perfect but really easy for business information.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 313 days ago
A professional designer built their own site on Squarespace so it can be handed to someone less skilled in coding.
Reddit · r/WIX · 321 days ago
Paid $78 for a $5 domain on Wix and found cancellation almost impossible since each segment must be cancelled separately.
Reddit · r/WIX · 322 days ago
Wix store and social integrations failed, support went silent for four months, and a refund came only after citing consumer law.
Reddit · r/WIX · 324 days ago
Cancelled a yearly Wix subscription a week early without trouble and was refunded in five business days earlier.
Reddit · r/WIX · 324 days ago
Wix charged 6000 INR at auto-renewal after they cancelled five times, and support said there is no refund policy.
Reddit · r/WIX · 324 days ago
Cancelled a Wix store app during its trial yet is still charged about £40 a month and refused a refund.
Reddit · r/WIX · 324 days ago
Wix AI randomly changed their page layout and still deducted their daily AI usage credit after hours spent undoing it.
Reddit · r/WIX · 332 days ago
On the Wix Business/Premium plan, support is helpful and patient and resolves most issues during the chat.
Reddit · r/WIX · 333 days ago
Won back a $468 auto-renewal after seven weeks via their bank by switching plans rather than cancelling.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 338 days ago
They moved a simple few-page site from Wix to Carrd to save money, but found even the simplest tasks slow and frustrating.
Reddit · r/webflow · 339 days ago
Frustrated that basic CMS features need community scripts despite Webflow's price and past CMS price increase.
Reddit · r/webflow · 339 days ago
Finds Webflow's CMS limited, for example no CMS slider, compared with binding data freely in WeWeb.
Reddit · r/webflow · 350 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webflow · 351 days ago
Could not let clients reorder a team member collection in Webflow and moved to Payload CMS.
Reddit · r/webflow · 352 days ago
Lost a roughly 5,000 CHF WordPress-to-Webflow project because the legacy Editor gave the client's team too little control.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 353 days ago
Had to upgrade Squarespace twice to the $35 tier for store and tax features, and the first payout was under half of sales.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 353 days ago
Pays $276 a year for Squarespace and finds it a fair charge including payment processing.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 353 days ago
Launched a real Squarespace site and took a test payment in under five hours; found Shopify and WooCommerce harder.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 360 days ago
A Circle member who finds Squarespace styles inconsistent and support a loop of bot, hold and shift-ending agents.
Reddit · r/WIX · 361 days ago
Calls Wix highly unstable with outages and failed downloads and slow support callbacks that cost their startup.
Reddit · r/webflow · 362 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/web_design · 363 days ago
Reports that uploading an image under 4 MB breaks the Webflow system.
Reddit · r/web_design · 368 days ago
Says the Designer slows to a crawl on complex CMS sites and relies on external tools for forms and sliders.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 368 days ago
Three years selling prints and services on Squarespace; easy to navigate, linked to email and payments, reasonably priced.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 368 days ago
E-commerce owner who calls Squarespace awful and worsening since 7.1, lacking basic commerce features.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 368 days ago
Linked Squarespace to Stripe for payments with no problems.
Reddit · r/web_design · 369 days ago
Developer found Webflow frustrating on a client project, spending more time on its logic than coding from scratch.
Reddit · r/web_design · 369 days ago
Prefers Webflow's builder and reusable components over WordPress but finds the interface overwhelming.
Reddit · r/web_design · 369 days ago
Front-end coder likes Webflow for being Figma-like and flexible, though navigation and interactions are confusing.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 369 days ago
Runs an online shop on Squarespace processing about $4,000 a month with no issue in 18 months.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 369 days ago
Two Squarespace sites that were easy with no issues, using only the site shell and blog.
Reddit · r/WIX · 372 days ago
Support is fine for simple questions, but issues on internal policies run through AI then call center then email with no real Wix staff.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 372 days ago
After three years, getting a human at Squarespace took four chatbot attempts, but the eventual reply was quick and gave a refund.
Reddit · r/Hostinger · 376 days ago
Builds nice-looking websites easily, but the built-in cookie banner lacks compliant reject and granular preference options required by EU law.
Reddit · r/WIX · 382 days ago
Five years on Wix without a bad support experience: they call back quickly and help.
Reddit · r/WIX · 383 days ago
Spent over two hours across two phone calls with Wix support while locked out of the site that runs their business.
Reddit · r/WIX · 383 days ago
Says Wix support has been pleasant and efficient each time via the AI assistant and callback.
Reddit · r/WIX · 385 days ago
Has filed dozens of bug reports on Wix Studio: sites must be rebuilt across breakpoints and menus break.
Reddit · r/WIX · 393 days ago
Wix obtained the new card number and charged for an unpublished site, then refused to waive it.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 393 days ago
Dealing with over 100 domains at Squarespace with zero support and no bulk tools to leave.
YouTube · on OneHourProfessor · 394 days ago
Found the editor confusing: it asked for a new domain and created a second site, which felt cluttered and hard to edit.
Reddit · r/WIX · 395 days ago
Cases escalate daily because Wix Studio fails to deliver promised functions, like showing payment failed when it succeeded.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 395 days ago
After paying Squarespace for a domain their account vanished and nobody responds to emails.
Reddit · r/WIX · 397 days ago
Five years on Wix, prices rise regularly and technical issues are frustrating enough that they are considering a move.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 397 days ago
Their sites registered at GoDaddy and hosted on Squarespace took five minutes to set up.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 398 days ago
Years on Squarespace with a single problem that support fixed by email.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 398 days ago
Squarespace support waits are unacceptable for a business; the bot and snarky emails made them prefer phone-supported vendors.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 399 days ago
Cannot log in to cancel their account and cannot reach Squarespace support.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 399 days ago
Dislikes the Squarespace domain system, slow transfer confirmation and support that does not know domain transfers.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 402 days ago
Squarespace and Google Workspace each pointed to the other when they tried to cancel a domain renewal, with no human support and a renewal charge.
Reddit · r/WIX · 403 days ago
Wix Payments held $6,500 for over a month and then imposed a 31% reserve with no explanation or priority support on a Premium plan.
Reddit · r/WIX · 405 days ago
Having worked on both, they say Wix suits small sites but becomes slow, laggy and buggy as you grow.
Reddit · r/WIX · 405 days ago
Wix works for a basic site, but they hit form restrictions, multi-currency payment issues and mobile responsiveness problems.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 407 days ago
Uses Squarespace for an art portfolio after Wix and WordPress and finds the learning curve very low.
Reddit · r/WIX · 408 days ago
Wix raised a $264 hosting fee to $624 and kept charging after three cancellations while support said nothing could be done.
Reddit · r/WIX · 408 days ago
After almost a decade, a Wix renewal tripled from the upper 200s to the upper 600s USD with only a vague email.
Reddit · r/WIX · 408 days ago
After 13 years on Wix, Studio elements shifted after publishing and automations failed, costing them their biggest client.
Reddit · r/WIX · 409 days ago
A charitable trust lost its remaining funds to a Wix auto-renewal they thought they had disabled and could not close the account.
Reddit · r/WIX · 409 days ago
Wix support looped through agents, called them rude, and took a week to fix several downed sites with no compensation.
Reddit · r/WIX · 409 days ago
Warns that Google Workspace email bought via Wix leaves you in an endless loop with no one managing the subscription.