MapToSite · Comparisons · Wix & Squarespace
Prices read 11 November 2026 · wix.com/plans · squarespace.com/pricing

Wix & Squarespace vs MapToSite

Wix and Squarespace sell you an editor and a subscription: $17–$39 a month at Wix, $19–$99 at Squarespace on the yearly rate their pricing pages lead with. What most local shops actually needed was one page that answers three questions — the price, the hours, where you are — and a call button. MapToSite builds that page from what you type in about 30 seconds, for $0, and it is honest about the boundary: no store, no blog, no booking engine.

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The three-year bill, on the yearly rate each vendor leads with

Every price below is the number on the vendor's own pricing page, billed yearly and paid in full at purchase, before tax. That is the cheapest honest comparison: monthly billing is higher on both builders, and neither prints the monthly number for every plan.

PlanA month3 yearsWhat the subscription is for
Wix Light$17$612Editor, hosting, custom domain for year one, no payments
Wix Core$29$1,044Payments, basic ecommerce, scheduling · 4% on Pricing Plans sales
Wix Business$39$1,404Standard ecommerce, automated tax · 2% on Pricing Plans sales
Squarespace Basic$19$684Website, domain year one · 2% on goods, 7% on digital
Squarespace Core$29$1,0440% on goods, CSS/JS · 5% on digital content
Squarespace Plus$49$1,764Lower card rates, 1% on digital, commerce tools
MapToSite Card$0$0The page, the hours, the prices, the call button — one credit line in the footer
MapToSite Sign$13.99$503.64Own domain, everything in Board, the page built for you once, priority support

Wix: wix.com/plans, read 11 November 2026 — Free · Light $17 · Core $29 · Business $39 · Business Elite $159 a month on a yearly subscription, “prices do not include applicable taxes”. Squarespace: squarespace.com/pricing read the same day, Basic $19 ($25 monthly), Core $29 ($39), Plus $49 ($65), Advanced $99 ($139), no free plan, 14-day trial. MapToSite: this site's pricing — Card $0, Board $6.99 Board $6.99, Sign $13.99 at launch price (list $20.99). Three years = 36 × the monthly figure; card processing is the processor's own bill on all three and is not counted on any side.

Three-year cost of Wix, Squarespace and MapToSite: Wix Light $612, Wix Core $1,044, Wix Business $1,404, Squarespace Basic $684, Squarespace Core $1,044, Squarespace Plus $1,764, MapToSite Sign $503.64 and MapToSite Card $0.
36 months at each vendor's yearly rate, read 11 November 2026. The time axis is the other half of the bill: a builder is an editor you learn, this is a form you fill.

The other bill: the evening you spend in the editor

Wix and Squarespace are not overcharging for what they give you — a real website with pages, a blog, a store and a domain. The cost that is not on the pricing card is that you build it. A template, an editor, sections to move, fonts to pick, a mobile layout to check, and then every price change forever after.

MapToSite asks for the things you already know and lays them out: your business type decides the sections and the wording, your three prices become a price list, your hours text becomes an “open now” badge, your address gets the directions line you wrote, and a call button is pinned to the screen. The 30 seconds is typing — name, phone, three prices — and publishing adds a few seconds.

Choose Wix or Squarespace if…

you need several pages, a blog, online selling, a booking calendar, email campaigns, or a design you art-direct. They do those well, the subscription buys a platform, and a shop that sells online will earn the $1,044 back.

Choose MapToSite if…

your customers need one thing: the price, the hours, where you are, and a way to call. That is a page, not a platform — $0 to start, and the paid plan is for your own domain and for us to build it for you.

Side by side, on the things a shop actually asks

 Wix / SquarespaceMapToSite
Time to a live pageYou build it in an editor; no vendor publishes a build time30 seconds of typing, then publish
Free optionWix: free plan on a wixsite.com address. Squarespace: no free plan, 14-day trial$0 forever at /s/your-shop, no ads, one credit line
Own domainIncluded on paid plans (Wix: free for the first year)Sign plan, $13.99 a month
What the visitor seesWhatever you build — as many pages as you likeOne page: prices, hours with open-now, address and directions, reviews, pinned call button
Selling onlineStore, cart, tax, shipping — plus Wix 2–4% on Pricing Plans sales, Squarespace 2–7% on some salesNo store and no commission; booking questions arrive as messages
Changing a priceOpen the editor, edit, publishOpen the page with your edit key, change it, same address
3 years, entry planWix $612 · Squarespace $684$0 (Card) or $503.64 (Sign, with domain)

Moving, without throwing the site away

Type the six things

Name, phone, address, hours, three prices, and a photo if you have one. Ten minutes if you have to look up your own prices.

Publish and keep both

You get /s/your-shop. Point the bio link, the Google Business Profile and the counter QR code at it; the old site stays where it is.

Add the domain when it earns it

Sign at $13.99 a month connects your own domain and includes us building the page once. Cancel from the Polar receipt whenever you like.

Questions this comparison raises

Is MapToSite a Wix alternative?

For one job: a single mobile page for a local shop that answers the price, the hours and where you are. Wix and Squarespace build multi-page websites — with a blog, a store, bookings and email tools — and if you need any of those they are the right tool and this page says so. If what you need is one page a customer can act on, the Wix route is a subscription and an editor you learn; MapToSite is 30 seconds of typing.

How much is Wix in 2026?

Wix's plans page on 11 November 2026 lists Free $0, Light $17, Core $29, Business $39 and Business Elite $159 a month, on a yearly subscription paid in full at purchase, before tax. Wix says other billing periods exist but does not print their prices, so a monthly Wix plan costs more than the number on the card. Over three years Light is $612, Core $1,044 and Business $1,404.

What about Squarespace?

Squarespace's plans on 11 November 2026 are Basic $19 a month on the yearly rate ($25 monthly), Core $29 ($39), Plus $49 ($65) and Advanced $99 ($139); there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Over three years Basic is $684 and Core is $1,044 — the same as Wix Core. Both charge their own fee on top on some sales: 4% (Wix Core) or 2% (Wix Business) on Pricing Plans sales, and 2% (Squarespace Basic) on goods or 7% on digital content.

Is it really 30 seconds?

That is about 30 seconds of typing, not 30 seconds including your thinking. Pick a business type, type your name, phone, hours and three prices — the page is complete at that point; publishing takes a few more seconds. A photo and review quotes add a little time. No builder publishes how long a first site takes, and Wix's own pricing page does not promise a page in a minute: the work is the editor, and the editor is what you pay for.

What does MapToSite cost?

Card is $0 forever — no card, no account, unlimited pages, published instantly, with a small “made with MapToSite” line in the footer. Board is $6.99 a month and is live too. Sign is $13.99 a month at its launch price (list $20.99): your own domain, everything in Board, the page built for you once, and priority support. Over three years Card is $0 and Sign is $503.64.

Does MapToSite take a cut of my sales?

No, because it does not process payments at all. There is no store, no cart and no commission. A customer who wants to book or ask something leaves a message on the page and it lands in your dashboard inbox. If you sell online, that is what Wix's store or Squarespace's commerce is for.

What is different about the free plans?

Wix's free plan hosts your site on a wixsite.com address with Wix ads on it; the custom domain is what the paid plan buys. MapToSite's free page lives at /s/your-shop, has no advertising on it, and carries your prices, hours, address, reviews and call button — the only badge is one small credit line in the footer, which the paid plans remove.

Can I move from Wix to MapToSite, or keep both?

Move what the customer needs, not the whole site: your name, phone, hours and your top prices. Ten minutes of typing, then point the bio link, the Google Business Profile link or the QR code at the new page. If you keep the Wix site for the store or the blog, put the MapToSite page in the Wix menu as the “visit us” page.

Where the numbers come from. Wix plans and prices: wix.com/plans, read 11 November 2026 (Free · Light $17 · Core $29 · Business $39 · Business Elite $159 a month, yearly subscription paid in full, taxes excluded; “additional subscription periods are available” without a printed price). Wix sale fees (4% Core / 2% Business on Pricing Plans) and the first-year-only free domain are from the same page and Wix's plan notes. Squarespace plans and prices: squarespace.com/pricing, read the same day (Basic $19 / $25, Core $29 / $39, Plus $49 / $65, Advanced $99 / $139, yearly / monthly; no free plan; 14-day trial), with sale fees of 2% on goods at Basic and 7% on digital at Basic, falling to 0% at Core and above for goods. MapToSite: this site's pricing section — Card $0, Board $6.99, Sign $13.99 (list $20.99). Three-year totals are 36 × the monthly figure; card processing is excluded on every side because none of these numbers is processing. Wix and Squarespace are trademarks of their respective owners; MapToSite is not affiliated with either.

A page in 30 seconds. Not an evening in an editor.

Type your shop name, your hours and three prices. Free, no card, no account — and your own domain when you want one.

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Already decided? The three plans, on one line
Card is free with no card and no account. Board ($6.99) and Sign ($13.99) add the six-photo gallery, remove every MapToSite line and — on Sign — connect your own domain. Three years of Sign is $503.64: less than the $504 Linktree Pro charges over the same three years, and less than one year of Wix Business ($468) plus what Wix keeps of a sale.
Card — $0 Board — $6.99/mo Sign — $13.99/mo

Monthly, cancel any time — no lock-in. Card details are entered on Polar's checkout page, never on this site. Polar emails a license key; paste it on your dashboard and the plan is applied to your page.

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