Weebly vs Wix (2026): One Is Being Switched Off

Some bouts are settled before the bell. On 20 June 2026 Square announced it was winding Weebly down in 67 countries, and weebly vs wix stopped being a feature comparison that afternoon. For anyone in those markets there is now a calendar where the scorecard used to be, and the last entry on it is 26 December 2026 — the day accounts and everything inside them are permanently deleted.

Read the next sentence carefully, because a lot of coverage has flattened it. Weebly is not shutting down globally. Sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Andorra and nearly all of Western Europe stay live and keep serving visitors. What those markets get instead is maintenance mode, and that turns out to matter nearly as much.

The Three Dates That Decide This

Square's stated reason was "changes in regulation and to simplify our global operations." The consequences arrive in three stages, and only the first has already passed.

The gap between 27 September and 26 December is the salvage window. Your site is dark to the public but your content is still reachable when you sign in. Three months sounds generous until you remember that most people will not notice their site is down for several weeks.

Who Is Affected, And Who Is Spared

The 67 countries span much of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Named examples include Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, Vietnam, Peru, Chile, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. If you are trading in any of those markets, the timeline above is yours.

Everywhere else — the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Andorra, nearly all of Western Europe — nothing switches off. No freeze, no unpublishing, no deletion. Confirm your own market before you either panic or relax, because the two situations call for completely different behaviour.

Maintenance Mode Is Not The Same As Safety

Here is what the spared markets are actually holding. No new features. The mobile app pulled from the app stores. An ecommerce feature set that is substantially what existed when Square bought the company in 2018. Square itself steering new commerce customers to Square Online rather than Weebly. Signups were reported closed ahead of the announcement, though the closure may be phased by region, so check the state of play in your own market before treating that as absolute.

Pricing is frozen too, which is the tell. Free at $0, Personal at $10 a month annually, Professional at $12, Performance at $26. Nobody reprices a product they are winding down. The ~50 themes are clean, functional and unmistakably ten years old. That combination is why Weebly scores 5.0 on design, 3.5 on power, 3.0 on value and 4.0 on support.

Our line is the same on both sides of the border: do not start a new Weebly site in 2026 anywhere. In a spared market you have time, not a future.

The Migration, In The Right Order

Order matters more than speed here. Do these in sequence and nothing is lost; do them backwards and you can strand a domain you have spent years building links to. If you are in an affected country, work back from 27 September rather than from December — the deletion date is the one everyone fixates on, but the unpublishing date is when customers start finding a dead link, and three months of a dark website costs more than the migration ever will.

1. Move the domain before you touch anything else

Domain transfers require an active Weebly account. On 26 December 2026 the account disappears and the transfer route closes with it. Unlock the domain, request the authorisation code and move it to a registrar you control — today, before you have chosen a replacement builder, before you have written a line of new copy. A domain you own can point anywhere. A domain trapped in a deleted account is gone.

2. Pull the content out while the account still opens

Weebly offers a site archive download, and content stays reachable in-account through the salvage window even after the public site goes dark. Take everything: page copy, images at full resolution, blog posts, product listings with descriptions and SKUs, and any form submissions you still need. Save it somewhere that is not a browser tab. There is no clean export from Weebly into another builder, so this archive is raw material, not a migration file.

3. Plan a rebuild, not a restore

No importer exists that will lift a Weebly site into Wix intact. You are retyping and re-laying-out, and the honest silver lining is that you were overdue. A site built on a mid-2010s theme benefits from being rebuilt on a 2026 one. Rebuild the pages that earn something first — homepage, services, contact, your best three blog posts — and let the archive pages follow later.

4. Keep the URLs, or redirect them

Write down every URL that currently ranks or gets linked to before the site is unpublished — Search Console and your analytics both hold the list. Reproduce those paths on the new site where you can, and set 301 redirects for the ones you cannot. Wix supports 301s properly. Skipping this step is how a migration turns into a traffic collapse that gets blamed on the new platform.

5. Reconnect email, DNS and payments last

If your business email runs off the domain, carry the MX records across during the transfer so nothing bounces. Then repoint DNS at the new build once it is genuinely ready, not while it is half-finished. Payments come last: Weebly's native processor was Square, and moving means setting up checkout again from scratch in the new corner.

What The Other Corner Offers

Wix is on this page as the opposing corner rather than as a product we review, so here are the comparison-level facts. Plans run Light at $17 a month annually ($24 monthly), Core at $29 ($36), Business at $39 ($46) and Business Elite at $159 ($172). There is a free plan, though it cannot sell. The library is 900+ templates, the editor is a true free-form canvas with Wix Studio available for responsive work and ADI for AI-generated starting points, and commerce is strong from Core up with no Wix transaction fee on top of your gateway.

Two warnings, because a migration is exactly the wrong moment to be sold something uncritically. Wix exports essentially nothing, so you are leaving one locked platform for another. And Wix locks you to your template once you publish — changing it later means rebuilding. Choose the template as though it were a five-year decision, because it is.

The One Round Weebly Still Wins On Feel

Credit where it is owed. Weebly's section-and-block editor is harder to break than Wix's free-form canvas. Drop a block in, it lands where a block should land, and the mobile view does not come apart. That was the company's historic strength — anybody could use it inside ten minutes — and it is still true on the last day of the product's life.

Wix still takes the ease round 9.0 to 8.5, because ease is more than the canvas: onboarding, the AI starting point, a serious help layer and a mobile app you can actually download all count. But the narrow point stands, and it does not change anything. An editor that is pleasant to use is worth nothing on a platform that unpublishes your site in September.

The Decision

Wix, universally, 8.3 to 4.8. No use case survives "the platform deletes your account in December," and the five axes we judge every bout on were never going to rescue a fighter scoring 3.0 on value and 3.5 on power.

If you are in one of the 67 countries: the domain moves this week, the content comes out next, the rebuild happens before September so you are never dark. If you are in a spared market: migrate anyway, but on your own schedule. Do it in a quiet month, do it properly, and do not let anyone rush you into a decision you will be locked into for years.

Wix is the obvious landing spot for most Weebly refugees, but it is not the only one. Work through the other website builder head-to-heads on the card before you commit, particularly if design credibility or an eventual escape route matters more to you than breadth of features.