![]() Wix offers a huge range of payment gateways while Squarespace has a much more limited selection available. The premium plans you need to get in order to be able to set up an online shop are very similar on both platforms while their transaction fees change a bit: Squarespace will charge a 3% transaction fee (unless you sign up for one of their most expensive plans) while Wix doesn’t apply transaction fees unless you use their own payment gateway. In this aspect, both platforms are very much leveled, each one offering some features that the other one doesn’t and vice versa. Squarespace offers a 14-day free trial but after that, if you don’t start paying for a premium plan, you will lose your trial site. This gives you a powerful tool: you can start building your website on their free plan and only start paying for a premium plan once it is completely designed and ready to launch. The main advantage of Wix over Squarespace in this category is the fact that they offer a free plan. Comparing their cheapest plans, Squarespace’s Personal Plan and Wix’s Combo Plan, we can see Squarespace offers better characteristics such as unlimited bandwidth and storage. Having said this, I don’t think Squarespace or Wix can compete with a well-developed WordPress theme in terms of responsiveness.īoth platforms offer several paid plans that start at a very similar price. The advantage here is that you really have control over how your site looks on mobile devices, having the ability to reposition, resize and even hide certain elements at will. On Wix, however, you will always need to adjust the position and size of the elements on the mobile editor after you apply some changes to the main/desktop view. The con of this is that you can’t really tweak how things look on mobile. ![]() Whatever you do to the desktop version of your site on this platform’s editor, the changes will automatically translate into the mobile view. In my opinion, this is the first category in which Squarespace may win the point (more or less). ![]() These would be impossible to translate into the Squarespace editor without coding. If your own photos are not super high quality, you won’t get the same result.Įven though it also falls into the self-promotion category, I think this is the perfect example: I have a collection of Wix templates I designed from scratch and using the basic Wix editor only (no coding involved). Another downside of Squarespace templates (those included in their site at least) is that they look stunning but heavily rely on big, bold photos. This starting point and the fact that the editor has fewer constraints, makes Wix the perfect tool to create a unique-looking website. In general, I think Wix has a much more intuitive interface.īoth platforms offer a pretty large gallery of templates with a very professional look but there’s a difference that is evident from the start: all Squarespace templates look very similar to each other while Wix templates present a much wider variety of styles and layouts. ![]() Changes on Squarespace take more clicks through less intuitive menus compared to those same changes on the Wix editor. However, Wix lets you move elements around completely freely while Squarespace has limitations that are difficult to get around without much tweaking and sometimes editing code. This makes it pretty easy to visualize how your site is looking and what needs to be adjusted. The websites on both Wix and Squarespace are edited on a drag-and-drop interface based on the “What You See Is What You Get” approach. I’ve analyzed these categories from the point of view of a regular user who won’t be editing any code but just using the base editors on both platforms. So, what are the main differences and why you should choose one or the other? Here you have an in-depth dive into their strengths and weakness in some crucial aspects of the website building experience. When it comes to website builders, Wix and Squarespace are definitely the most popular and widely used options right now, and for good reasons too: they are both user friendly, affordable, and capable of great results. ![]()
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