Wix review

A drag-and-drop website builder with a built-in booking calendar, so a trade owner can get a simple site online without hiring a developer and let customers request or book a job straight from the page.

What it costsas of August 2026

Free: $0/moWix branding and a wix.com address
Light: $17/moRoughly $24 monthly; cannot take online payments
Core: $29/moPaid yearly; roughly $36 month to month
Business: $39/moPaid yearly; roughly $46 month to month
Business Elite: $159/moPaid yearly; roughly $172 month to month

Advertised paid prices need a year up front, and yearly plans include a free domain for the first year. Every paid plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee, and Wix does not add its own cut on top of the card processing fee.

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What Wix does

Pricing & terms

Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.

Free plan, then Light $17/mo, Core $29, Business $39, Elite $159 paid yearly

How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.

Flat monthly price per site, no per user fee; domain and apps billed on top

Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?

Free plan carries Wix ads and a wix.com address; paid plans, 14 days back

ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.

Advertised prices need a year up front; month to month costs several more

Fit & support

Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.

Drag and drop, no code, but you cannot swap templates later without rebuilding

SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.

24/7 callback and chat; only the $159 Business Elite plan gets priority

What it does

Templates you can run yourselfYou should not need a developer to change your hours.

Hundreds of free templates on every plan, edited by dragging things around

Booking built inThe point of the site is turning a visitor into a booked job.

Wix Bookings adds a service list, calendar and reminders on a paid plan

Takes paymentsDeposits and payments online, not just a contact form.

The $17 Light plan cannot take payments, so Core at $29 is the real floor

SEO basicsSo people searching your trade in your town can actually find you.

Edit page titles and descriptions; the sitemap is built and filed for you

Domain & hostingWhat is bundled versus billed on top.

Hosting and SSL included; yearly plans get a free domain for year one only

Alternatives to Wix

Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.

GoDaddy Website Builder

A point-and-click site builder from the company most trades already bought their domain from, so the website, the domain and a matching email address all sit on one bill, with appointment booking on the middle plan and up.Free plan, then Basic $9.99/mo, Premium $14.99, Commerce $20.99 paid yearly

Squarespace

A hosted website builder with polished templates and built-in hosting, so a trade owner can get a professional-looking company site online without a developer, and take appointments through Acuity Scheduling, which Squarespace owns but bills as its own subscription.Basic $19/mo paid yearly, $25 month to month; no free plan, only a trial

FieldPulse

A growing mid-tier field-service platform pitched as a step up from starter apps without enterprise cost.About $99/mo for 1-3 users, up to ~$399/mo at 10+ users

GorillaDesk

Field-service software popular with pest-control and lawn-care operators.From about $49/mo (Basic), priced per route

Housecall Pro

Field-service management for home-service trades, strong on dispatching, service agreements, and customer marketing.$59/mo (Basic, billed annually)

Jobber

Simple, well-liked field-service software for solo operators and small crews.$29/mo (Core, 1 user, billed annually)

ServiceM8

Low-cost, iOS-first field-service app aimed at sole traders and very small crews.From ~$29/mo (Starter, 50 jobs/mo); free plan up to 30 jobs

WordPress

The free open source software most web designers build on, which gives a trade owner a site they fully own and can extend with plugins for booking, quotes and reviews, as long as somebody keeps it hosted, updated and backed up.Software is free, but a real site runs about $5 to $30/mo once hosting renews

How we research this

Pricing comes from Wix's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.