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Wix Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company is marred by significant concerns regarding customer service and transparency. While some users appreciate the platform's ease of use and functionality for building websites, many express frustration over unresponsive support, auto-renewal practices, and difficulties in obtaining refunds. Complaints frequently highlight long wait times for assistance, inadequate responses from customer service, and perceived hidden costs associated with subscriptions. This has led to a prevailing sentiment of distrust among customers, who feel that the company prioritizes profit over user satisfaction and support.

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value
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97
returns
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quality
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Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Wix.com charged me one year after I do not even work for the company where I used Wix.
I have received a big yearly charge but DID NOT receive an email of confirmation or invoice, nothing.
Luckily I have noticed the charge.
Also it is hard to contact them. But you can always tell your grief to the chat bot. WARNING!
One charge refunded, one more to go!

Date of experience: February 26, 2021
Kenya
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Suddenly the editor didn't load after renewing my website. There's no direct chat support so I had to go many times through a chart to find the issue I was dealing with. The questionnaire couldn't help me and requested me to send an email + screenshot. When I wanted to send it, it gave an error and requested me to come back later. This cost me 4 hours.

Date of experience: February 25, 2021
Ohio
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Beware
February 23, 2021

I saw a charge on my credit card bill for over $200 from Wix. I hadn't used their service in two years but had apparently signed up for auto renew. They never sent ANY email communication that I was up for renewal or confirmation that I had paid for my renewal. It just appeared on my credit card bill. You cannot call them, so I emailed a very nice request for a refund on a service I don't use and, quite frankly, forgot I had. Because I was a couple of days beyond the window to cancel (like I said, I didn't receive any confirmation that I had paid except my cc bill), they denied my request for refund. This was AFTER I explained to them my family's financial hardship due to my frontline working husband's hospitalization. This company is heartless and incapable of doing the right thing. No doubt they will rely on my husband and his colleagues to do the right thing if they are ever in need of service in the ER. It's just all about the bottom line - not at all about doing the right thing. The $219 we could put toward our medical bills just lines their greedy pockets. Shame on them.

Date of experience: February 23, 2021
Kansas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Wix has Bad Customer Service
February 16, 2021

I have used Wix for several websites that I manage. This past Oct 2020, I started the work on a new website & paid for the premium account for that site ($276). However, for reasons unknown, my customer fell through in being able to continue through with the website. I never got paid by this client; I immediately contact Wix Support in early Nov 2020 & requested a refund of the remaining balance; WIX REFUSED- basically told me they do not do refund of an account.
Eventually, I am going to look to move my other sites off of Wix due to the extremely poor consideration given to me by Wix.

Date of experience: February 16, 2021
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Garbage
February 16, 2021

Product is garbage and customer support is non existent. Web design is so limited that that you will be forced to pay for "professional" help to make up for poorly designed interface. Just try talking to a human when you need help. Help center is a labyrinth. Do not waist your time or money and don't associate yourself with this circus. Would provide proof of purchase but Wix email with invoice contains a dead link. Par for the course.

Date of experience: February 15, 2021
Colorado
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I started my blog/discussion forum (General Commentary) on Wix as an alternative to the thoughtless posts and comments on other social media platforms. Though I had to pay a few bucks and what-not, I was surprised at how easy it was to start up my website. I'm not even an expert at computers and I managed to do all of this. My website is not generating a lot of money, and only one person has read and commented on one of my posts. However, it was still a good user-friendly experience. I would rate Wix 5 out of 5 stars, but I decided on 4 because I'm cautious. Now if I could generate more views, comments, and money, that would merit 5 stars!

Date of experience: January 31, 2021
Colombia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A Website Making Site
January 26, 2021

After building a website with Wix, I found that is a very complete tool for developing websites. You should have some knowledge before using it before using it, but it is not necessary, the website will help you if you have any trouble, but there are also many functions that require some experience. You can also have access to many amazing tools for organizing stuff like links, images, videos, etc. You can also upgrade to more functions by using the Pro mode. But in general, it is a very good option if you want to make your own website.

Date of experience: January 25, 2021
Ukraine
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Scam artists. Anyone with dignity takes care of long term customers. Wix has been charging me 17/month for years without mentioning it's now 12/month. When I went in to change plan they grayed out the option to do it for 1 year cause I'm in the middle of billing cycle and asked me to pay for 24 months. Needless to say, goodbye wix, I should have never trusted scammers. Wish there was 0 star rating

Date of experience: January 21, 2021
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Can't Get Any Worse
January 16, 2021

Hands down the worst hosting on the planet. These idiots will cancel your membership and deactivate your domain without giving you any reason until your submit a support ticket. Do yourself a favor and find another host for your website.

Date of experience: January 15, 2021
Philippines
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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There's a lot of Awesome template that you can use here and also you can costumize your owon website.

Date of experience: January 11, 2021
Hong Kong
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Expense, custom support is poor
December 29, 2020

Custom support is poor. Enquiry on payment can easily take 20 business days (so basically 1 whole month). Poor custom service made it not worth the price tag.

Date of experience: December 29, 2020
Arizona
4 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Terrible Support
December 21, 2020

We received a notice that our payment was not made due to card failure. Yet when we go onto the site it shows that the payment was made and accepted. Tried far too many times to get hold of them as they won't accept phone calls and the online website is useless and over complicated. Have had a site on WIX for years and frankly it's not been that productive for us so will start to look elsewhere as useless support to us and just being pointed in directions that are totally confusing are not useful.

Date of experience: December 21, 2020
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They want to do some checks and verify some things about the sellers and I understand that but they should do it before they take your money for a subscription or at least before you start accepting payments.

At the moment they are holding illegally! Payments for 3 weeks now and an amount of £2700.

Someone is sending you an email requesting all sorts of things and when you provide these to him then he is reffering the case to someone else and from the start again and the worst part is not that, it is that they are asking documents that they shouldn't be asking and that you have to wait 3-4 days before the next reply.

I am calling them and when you are talking on the phone they are are all fine and they will act very helpfull until you hang up, then they forget everything.

Now I completely understand why nobody recommends them!
Too bad we don't read the review in advance!

Date of experience: December 18, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The worst ever!
December 13, 2020

They customer service sucks. They can't do $#*! about nothing. They don't even have a customer review page that just goes to show you they are not to be trusted. They are scammer.

Date of experience: December 13, 2020
Chile
1 review
1 helpful vote
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WIX Partner Problems
December 7, 2020

I started using WIX to try and set up an eCommerce website, nevertheless it proved too complex for me. I then decided to get help from a WIX Partner. I chose Daniel Rosado as he spoke spanish as well, and he seemed professional enough at first. Then he started sending me logo proposals and they were, very amateur to say the least. We went through the process iteration three times, and after 15 days of no progress and logos getting even worse (I had paid him 60%, at the start of the process), I asked him if he had anything to show me regarding the website. He did not, so I asked him to stop working on my project and to return my money, as this was going nowhere. He refused and insisted to continue working, and after two days sends me a link to a pretty much blank template with a logo and name, saying he had been working 15 days on that site and would not return any money. I of course complained to WIX, but they would do nothing, so I basically lost my money, received no site and most importantly, received no support from WIX, when it was them who suggested I use Daniel Rosado (danrricos.com). WIX needs to screen the people they propose, and the also need to take action when the partners they propose don't work out. I am very disappointed, I have been robbed of my money and WIX will do nothing, this person continues to offer his services through WIX.

Date of experience: December 7, 2020
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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We are forever Creative took over 2 of my websites, he was supposed to put an online store on my Benson Parks Pecans. He took the money and ran! I have had bensonparkpecans.com for years! Now Wix will not give it back after we are forever creative locked me out of my domain names. We are forever creative is registered at Wix, and it is no longer accessible! Wix is a scam also, after trying to get my website back from them through their abuse email! What a farce Wix is! I had Benson Park Pecans. Com since 2004!

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
Spain
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Thousands of people are complaining about having their money STOLEN from their credit cards. Just check TWITTEr, is full of them. My self I got money stolen as well. JUST DON´T USE WIX!

Date of experience: November 25, 2020
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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WIX is the WORST
November 17, 2020

Terrible experience and a big waste of money and time. WIX nickles and dimes you to death. Lie about the actual cost of premium sites and what come with the premium plans. Constantly raise their fees. Have terrible scheduling and credit card purchase plans. Basically, all you get with WIX is a site that is not functional for actual business. You can't sale your products or services on your site. You can't take orders or send proposals or invoices from your site. Their Ascend business apps are the industries worst. Don't waste you time and money with WIX. Don't hurt your business with WIZ. Shop around or hire someone to build your business site instead.

Date of experience: November 16, 2020
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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WIX IS TERRIBLE!
November 13, 2020

I recently started a small pet care company and made the horrible mistake of using Wix for our website. WORST MISTAKE EVER! We aren't even 3 months in and already we've had a million issues. We hired one of their "trusted partner": 10com to design our site and while initially I was thrilled with their work and even wrote them a glowing review on Google, I quickly realized how wrong I was. They claimed to have also optimized the site for SEO, but after paying an expert to do an SEO audit I realized that not only had they not optimized it, they had done things incorrectly. My business partner and I immediately tried to fix these changes through their editor only to experience hiccup after hiccup. After finally connecting with one of their "experts" (our call was dropped multiple times and then we had a wait time of over an hour) they told us that our site was corrupt. This was because of a software issue on their end. The guy on the phone (Marvin) told us he would call us back with 24 hours with an update and timeline as to when the problem would be fixed. We were told that in the meantime we couldn't make any changes to the site. It has now been over 48 hours and NO call from anyone. I have currently been on hold for almost one hour myself waiting to speak to someone. This is unreal and unacceptable. DO NOT PAY THEM A CENT- THEY ARE AWFUL!

Date of experience: November 13, 2020
Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Yes, I have to say that I too am joining a non-fan base of Wix. And I regret that I've ever touched their services. Creative side wise, it is ok with me. BUT when it comes to any money-involved issue or valid customer assistance... nada! They refused me TWICE with the refund for the mailbox which was "faulty" and they couldn't even lead me to any solution about it---as you might know, they offer a G Suite account. As a result, I've paid for NOTHING. Even Google, when I contacted them, was so nice and pointed out that it was indeed Wix's part to assist me. Their customer service is mostly robot-based (and it took me hours to find a 'Submit a ticket' option with them).
In a word, dear novice, pls think twice. Don't be lured in by the fact that they offer all at once in one package. And Wix services are not cheap at all (and with their poor customer service, they will be sure to give you headache too). At last, just as it is clear from my title here, they are indeed very aggressive/unsupportive regarding any (financial) issues (in my case, the faulty mailbox and refund). And should you encounter any, you are on your own. Think twice!

Date of experience: November 9, 2020

From the business

Build, manage and scale your business online with confidence using Wix. Choose a professionally designed template, use the AI website builder or even your own code to intuitively build a unique site that’s ready for business. With Wix, you get so much more than a website builder platform, whether it’s eCommerce, scheduling, events, blogging or a portfolio—you can run your entire business from one place.

With built-in marketing and SEO tools, you can expand your reach and attract even more customers. And when it comes to analyzing performance, deep dive into advanced reports and analytics to drive informed decision-making for your business’s success. You can use the Wix Owner app to achieve all this and more, no matter where you are. Plus, experience lightning-fast performance, enterprise-grade security and a robust infrastructure to rest assured that your website will stay up and running smoothly.

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