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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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shipping
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returns
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quality
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California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I tried their free trail site to build my website but their software didn't work at all. I wasted a week. Now I am trying to cancel the account but WIX customer service does not answer your call. There is only recording to go to WIX wesite. You can't even leave a voice3 mail. This kind of business practice must not be tolerated. I am going to complain to CONSUMER AGENCY. Their website Q&A How to Cancel site only talks about Upgrading your account to Premier account before canceling your account. There is not way to cancel your account once you sign up WIX.COM. Could someone help me how to reach WIX customer service to cancel my account?

Date of experience: July 6, 2017
Georgia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Wix is obviously designed to create websites. That's great and all until you realize that the domain they supply you is bulky and unappealing. The site offers you the option of changing the domain name for $15 (Plus an additional $9 if you're interested in the added security options). My total domain totaled to be $25. But hey, what do you expect from a free website?

I bought my domain and thought, "Sweet! I now have my own website!"

WRONG. That payment simply reserved the domain for me. In order to activate it online, you had to purchase a seperate premium monthly plan which you would expect to come with the domain you purchased!

At this point, I was completely enraged. I attempted to cancel my domain, however, Wix was one step ahead of me. This was the only transaction that could not be refunded.

Would rate 0/10.

Date of experience: July 5, 2017
Australia
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Hate it
June 27, 2017

This is so terrible. It is slow and frustrating you can only do good things unless you have an premium account. Do not get it is very bad.

Date of experience: June 27, 2017
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Quick and Easy
June 28, 2017

I needed a website in a pinch and this got the job done. It's easy to use but the templates could need some work.

Date of experience: June 26, 2017
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Got the job done
June 25, 2017

Took me a while to figure it out but eventually got a decent site up and running. I think the second time around the site will be much easier to edit.

Date of experience: June 23, 2017
New Zealand
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Has an issue with an automated billing on my account. The Wix service team attitude was terrible pushing me back to the terms and conditions of their site rather than attempting to resolve my issue. I had the same issue with Squarespace 3 years ago and their team went out of their way to help. I found the tools worse than Squarespace as well.

Date of experience: June 16, 2017
France
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Used free version, then when totally happy set my site live with paid offer. Look out for the regular 50% off promos.

Date of experience: June 15, 2017
South Carolina
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Scam site
June 14, 2017

I could never get anyone one answer the on the phone I canceled my subscription and they still took money out of my account I had to go to the bank and get it stopped plus change my card... don't use this SITE... I think we should all get together and open a class action lawsuit...

Date of experience: June 14, 2017
New Jersey
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Please tell me why I can't speak with a human with this company? The little "help" guidelines don't "help" at all. Just more of a time suck trying to find a topic that may fit your issue. FRUSTRING. It takes me 45-minutes to type an email address into the template. Each letter I type takes 22-seconds to appear. How is this helpful? Use any other site you're able. This WIX company isn't worth the time suck. I especially will not get the 14-hours of my life back.

Date of experience: June 13, 2017
Nevada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I am so frustrated!
You cannot get in contact with customer support!
I have even been reading prior tickets online & I see that they're just giving the same scripted bullcrap answers and giving people advice of how to get to the contact page when they've already been there and it went nowhere. Just sends you in circles!
HELLO, they are speaking with you (a representative) now, and they want answers, just help them, call them!, do SOMETHING, ANYTHING!

Okay, now for what I'm experiencing:

I have lost many potential clients
When I view the information sent from the online contact form that the customer fills out. There are important details that are left out of EVERY SINGLE ONE! Such as the customers contact information and how many bedrooms the customer has.
This is imperative info. In order for me to send an accurate estimate I have to have this information and you aren't giving it to me and you're making it a difficult pain in the butt to get in contact with you THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

I even submitted a few Estimate requests myself and it left the same details out, so the issue isn't that the customer is not entering it on the form.

I find out when I go to your site that my domain name is not even accurate
My site has been sent over to my old domain
& all this time potential clients that I have a given my website address to (on business cards, flyers etc.) was the wrong one this whole time
Because of your mess up and I'm the one that gets screwed!

I am leaving Wix today and I suggest that no one do business with this horrible incompetent website. They do not want you to contact them that's why they make it absolutely impossible and even when ever you do submit a ticket they're still giving you information about how to go submit a ticket and get in contact with them what kind of sense does this make!? I'm so mad!
Dear Wix,
You People SUCK!

Date of experience: June 12, 2017
Florida
1 review
18 helpful votes
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I am a website builder and have many clients that I have built on Wix.com.
They Cannot Be reached so i can move domain names to them
I Will be contacting My Attorney so me and my clients can move forward with a law suit they are liable for not delivering what they say they will deliver

Date of experience: May 26, 2017
Spain
1 review
10 helpful votes
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A complete scam
May 25, 2017

You set up a "free website" and then get your bulky domain name. Can't complain at all; it was free! Then you see the conveniently placed button to "purchase a new domain name" directly from the site. You click on the link as you would, of course, be much happier with the name that you entered as your id in the first place, and you are linked directly to the page to purchase your desired domain name. You go through all the steps and purchase the domain name and then click back on the "link your domain name" button on the wix website. You are told for the first time that you have to "upgrade" your plan in order to link your own domain name, meaning at least 8+ per month to do so. So your "free website" is no longer free. You've been SCAMMED out of 33,75 for the domain name which you now have no use for. You write the customer service (as if they don't know of the scam) and after two days they give you the canned response about user plans and domain names. You try to call (it's Thursday) but they are closed until the following Tuesday. I guess it's not a crime if you can get away with it! BEWARE!

Date of experience: May 25, 2017
Louisiana
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I joined Wix about a year ago and they had good, responsive live customer support. That was then. Now they have ZERO live customer support and you can't get a call through and get a live person on the phone any more. BEWARE. If you use Wix, you better not need help because your help won't come on simple issues for days on end and that's only if you happen to be available when they call you back days later. Something has changed at this company and they no longer help people except through emails. I recommend you DO NOT USE WIX if you are hosting or designing business related websites. Go use other similar services. Wix has gone down hill fast in terms of customer service. It will take you just as long to get solutions for your problems as it does to design your website. It's ridiculous. Wix used to be good, but they are no longer reliable to me and clearly to many customers who have this same problem.

Date of experience: May 18, 2017
Ohio
1 review
12 helpful votes
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I have had five wix sites over the past five years. Today, they made a horrific error in regard to my billing and it cost me a ton. There is no one to call. I just sit here sending countless emails requesting a callback. I am officially done with this company!

Date of experience: May 17, 2017
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Don't use WIX
May 15, 2017

Thought I would buy a website to put my FTM2017 on for my extended family to use, wrong. Wix was eager to allow me to buy my domain name and then they tell me in many more windows of more expense, that no refunds if you are unhappy. Not happy Jan. Classic get you in and then hit you for more expense(monthly yearly), goodness knows what the service is like, I can only guess.

Date of experience: May 14, 2017
Georgia
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Well I am stuck in the hole of wix. I am on a budget and stop the payment and was told I was stuck with what I have. Never again.

Date of experience: May 12, 2017
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Wix is the most frustrating company I have ever had to deal with. When you need help fast forget it with this company, they make it impossible to get assistance.

Several times I received no call backs, and another time it took them 4 days to respond. The phone number online is a circle leading back to the support page. It should be called lack the lack of support page.

There was a credit card issue and their answer to that was just to cancel my site without any communication.

Their site creation is incredibly limiting stay away from WIX!

Date of experience: May 8, 2017
Italy
6 reviews
10 helpful votes
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"You got what you pay for" platform. Wix hosting has a lot of limitations when we talk about performance, features and SEO. The web site is hard to get ranked on search engines. Italian users may have a look at this article https://goo.gl/kk6icS (The page can also be translated, just in case).

Date of experience: May 6, 2017
Colorado
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I supported a couple of clients who both had started constructing a site on their own and got stuck. The widgets only get you so far, no problem - cleaned it up for them my bigger issue is portability of their code. It's all proprietary - want to get locked in and either stay with Wix forever or re-do your site? The Wix is for you? Hate writing pure HTML/CSS and love bloated code? Come on down! Oh, and customer service on a paid plan? Does a day or two later work for you? Do you hate reaching a CSR right away to get your issue resolved? Wix is for you.

Still feeling lucky? Google Wix and autobill...

Sadly, on the surface - the concept of Wix is good but it is poorly executed. Even with the horrible billing aside, bad customer service overlooked and the bloated code - the lack of portability of your pages should be a red flag.

Date of experience: April 20, 2017
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Expect slow support!
April 20, 2017

My experience with Wix is that it is indeed quite easy to use HOWEVER be prepared for lengthy waiting periods to get answers from tech support if you have trouble. I am so disappointed with their service over the past 12 months (been with them for 5 years) that I will be moving to Shopify.

Date of experience: April 20, 2017

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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