Weebly Review: Strong E-Commerce, But What About the Rest?

Weebly is an old player in the website-building game. It dates back to 2007, just a year after Wix was founded. Many potential users are looking for a Weebly Website Builder review to see if the old wolf can still bite. In short, it can, but not as strongly as it used to back in the day.

Weebly is famous for its robust e-commerce tools, enabling online sales even in the free plan. Moreover, it has a simple-to-use website editor and doesn’t cost a fortune. However, years haven’t been kind to Weebly, so don’t expect miracles. There’s a reason why it’s not as popular now.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We have a comprehensive Weebly test for 2026 on the way.

We’ll unravel everything we liked and everything we didn’t so that you can make an informed decision on whether to buy it. We’ll also make some parallels to its rivals like Wix, Squarespace, etc. This should give you a clear image of how good or bad Weebly truly is.

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How to Get Started With Weebly in 2025

We’ve come to expect that you need very little to start a website, and by extension, signing up for a website builder is hassle-free. Luckily, it is, and to make a new account, you just need to provide an email, password, location, etc. You can also sign up via Facebook or Google.

We chose the latter because it was easier and our account was set up at the drop of a hat.

A recent addition is Weebly’s question about which kind of website you’d like to make. One option is a business website, which means using Square Online. The other option is a personal website, for which you can use Weebly Websites i.e. its editor.

It’s good to mention that Square bought Weebly not long ago, so it’s understandable that its “traces” are all across Weebly. However, one thing missing from it is the AI website builder, which both Squarespace and Wix offer. That’s why this website builder is inferior to them.

For this Weebly review, we selected the personal site and were immediately transferred to the template selection — more about templates later. With the template chosen, we connected our custom domain, although you don’t have to do that right away if you don’t want to.

Just bear in mind that Weebly will yap about that and constantly remind you to connect a custom domain. It’s so annoying when you’re trying to design a website and this pop-up keeps rearing its ugly head.

How Good Are Weebly’s Site Templates?

Okay, so people say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but sometimes, that’s not the case.

Look at Weebly’s template selection and tell us it’s ugly — it’s not! However, there’s something so boring about them, no matter the category you choose. The design is extremely outdated, and while not lacking sleekness, we’d like to see more imagination.

If we compare Weebly to Wix, we’ll see a staggering difference. Wix’s templates look so much better and while some are willy-nilly, most are stunning and professional-looking. Moreover, Wix has 900+ free templates, while Weebly offers 50-ish. More or less.

We don’t mind having even 30 or 40 templates as long as they look nice. But as stated in our assessment of Weebly, we’re not fond of them. Even worse — personalization is poor, as we’ll soon get into. For example, you can’t “paint” the website to reflect your brand’s color.

Instead, you can only choose from two modes — light and dark!

Weebly uses responsive templates, which automatically translates to not being to able the mobile version. We appreciate the convenience but as more experienced users, we’d like the option to be able to edit the mobile view. Also, these templates aren’t the most “responsive”.

Namely, we tested our created websites on phones and tablets and detected weird formatting, which couldn’t be remediated. Unlike Wix — this is a big plus, you can switch the template at any moment without losing data, which is highly convenient.

Website Building & Design

Once the template is in place, you can start building and editing your website. In our Weebly review, we weren’t fond of its templates and their design but when it comes to the editor, things are ever so slightly better.

Like Wix, Squarespace, and other famous website builders, Weebly uses a drag-and-drop editor.

This means you can pick up the item, like an image, for example, and drop it on the website. It’s pretty simple and allows even beginners to craft a good-looking page. However, if we had to compare it to Wix, we’d say Weebly is a bit more constricted and that’s both good and bad.

It’s good if you want to ensure you won’t screw up anything because you can’t mess up the site by dragging and dropping different elements everything. It’s bad if you appreciate design freedom because Weebly is a block-based builder, so you have some boundaries.

From the ease of use perspective, Weebly is one of the best website builders we used.

You can edit boxes of text by clicking on them and typing new text, picking a different font, using a different text color, etc. You can even add new buttons and edit them to personalize your website a bit more. Unfortunately, personalization is as basic as it gets.

You can and you WILL create a functional and good-looking website with Weebly. However, don’t expect uniqueness. A more experienced website designer will likely figure out your website is made with Weebly.

If you’re into more unique and responsive designs, choose Wix or Webflow instead.

Weebly E-Commerce Features Review

Weebly shifted its focus to e-commerce in the past few years and in our Weebly test for 2026, we were surprised at how good it was. In fact, we’d venture to say this is one of its strongest, most dominant aspects, where it beats even more expensive competitors.

Can You Sell for Free With Weebly?

First of all, Weebly allows you to sell products online for free. Compare this to Wix whose Core plan is $29/mo and Squarespace’s Business plan at $23/mo and you’ll see that Weebly is much more generous.

A huge advantage is that Weebly lets you sell unlimited items for free, with a handful of tools, such as:

• Item options and badges
• Shopping cart
• Quick shop
• Inventory management
• Automatic tax calculator
• Coupons and Square gift cards
• In-store pickups, and more…

If you, however, decide to go “premium”, Weebly will add a shipping calculator and shipping labels in both Personal and Professional plans. The Performance plan, whose price will be discussed later, adds PayPal payments, item reviews, abandoned cart emails, and e-commerce insights.

How to Sell Online With Weebly?

If you’re looking to build your online store, Weebly is a good option to begin with. You can make a store within your website by clicking on Pages and then selecting a Product Page option from the left-hand side menu.

From here, find the Items menu, select Create New Item, and add a product or as many products as you want. You’ll be able to add a title, description, price, item type, product image, and so on. Shipping is also customizable to suit international online selling.

You can opt for an in-store pick-up or use popular couriers to deliver the package to your customer’s doorstep. A huge plus for Weebly is the ability to not only select from physical and digital goods but also different types of items. For example, it can be an event, a food item, a donation, or something else.

Weebly lists inventory management as its feature but in reality, it’s not realized all that well.

We think Wix has more advanced inventory management because Weebly primarily relies on its Item List. It’s good enough but not great. You can see item stocks and be informed when you run out of certain items but there aren’t other features that make it stand out.

On the brighter side, Weebly includes an automatic tax calculator, which is handy for the customer who wants to know the exact price of the bought item. Plus, you can utilize Square gift cards and coupons to promote special deals, discounts, bundles, and other goodies.

Payment Vendors

Having tested many e-commerce website builders, we can spot a good one from a mile away. Weebly is a decent option but only for medium-sized online stores — we’ll soon explain why. In our review of Weebly, we praised its e-commerce features but the bad news is the fees.

Whichever payment vendor you go for, you will have to pay a (small) fee.

Worse yet, Weebly doesn’t make it easy to manage your payment vendors, as the setting is buried in Settings, in the Checkout menu. Imagine our shock when we noticed just three options:

• Stripe (Credit/debit cards, Google Pay & Apple Pay)
• Square (Also accepts credit/debit cards)
• PayPal (available only in the Performance plan)

Technically, you have more than three options because Stripe also accepts some digital wallets but still, the selection is very poor. Moreover, PayPal is only in the Performance plan, which costs the most, so if you decide to save some money, you’re left with Stripe and Square.

Transaction Fees

We haven’t mentioned their fees yet, so let’s do that:

• Stripe – 2.9% + 0.30¢ per transaction
• Square – 2.9% + 0.30¢ per transaction
• PayPal – 3.49% + 0.49¢ per transaction

You’d expect an in-house vendor like Stripe to have “milder” fees but that’s not the case. Weebly’s fee model is strange. You see, if you have a small online store, each sale will “eat” a portion of your profit because of, you’ll agree, higher fees. But then, if you’re selling a lot, you’ll pay a proportionally larger fee.

This puts Weebly in sort of a “flimsy” position where it’s not the best option for either side of the spectrum. We’d say that Squarespace is a bit better because its Commerce Basic and Plus plans have 0% transaction fees, so small businesses won’t be charged that heavily.

On the other hand, larger online shops will benefit from Shopify whose fee model is set up in a way to accommodate for more sales and help larger businesses flourish.

Are Weebly SEO and Marketing Tools Any Good?

The answer to this question depends on your expectations. It’s far from amazing but for small and mid-sized online stores, Weebly offers, we’d say, just enough.

SEO — Basics and Nothing More

Let’s start with SEO.

If you go to Settings and locate the SEO menu, you’ll find that you can add a site description, keywords, 301 redirects, and meta keywords. An interesting option is to use a customer header and footer code, plus, you can include a Google Analytics tracking code.

That’s… pretty much all.

You can play around with more advanced SEO “stuff” but you’ll need a bit of coding knowledge or a third-party app. Weebly’s SEO menu is a bit barren, so to speak, and there’s no SEO Checklist we’ve seen in Wix or anything remotely similar to help you get started.

Marketing — Disappointment Continues

Email marketing is another somewhat disappointing aspect of Weebly. It relies on the Weebly Promote tool, which houses a few email templates, which you can edit and personalize to match your brand. The question is — how many emails can you send monthly?

Wait for it… wait for it… TWO! Compare this to Wix‘s free email marketing tool, which sends 5,000 emails monthly, or Shopify‘s 10,000 free email campaigns each month. You can use Weebly Promote’s premium plan at $8/mo if you want more but it’s not worth the money.

Weebly App Center Review

While the option to add an Instagram feed to your site is handy, Weebly doesn’t offer many social media tools. Sure, you can add social media icons to help people find you but that’s pretty much all. You can, however, find some third-party tools to compensate for that.

Visit its App Center to explore Weebly-friendly apps divided into several categories:

• Boost Traffic
• Spike Sales
• Get Social
• Made by Weebly

These apps are made for e-commerce, marketing, social media, communication, and site tools/features. There are plenty of them and much to our surprise, many are free. For example, you can implement Google Ads for free or use the Better Coupon Box apps to include pop-ups.

We also love the Accordion tool, which displays your top content on the website, in addition to the Simple Table tool, which helps make tables for free. These tools are handy and will enhance the experience but they’re, again, basic when compared to Wix’s apps/add-ons.

Wix’s app store is much more populated and while some of its tools are pricier, they offer way more in terms of SEO, content creation, website functions, and more. Weebly’s App Center lacks a punch. It needs not only more apps but better ones overall.

How Much Is Weebly Website Builder: Cost Analysis

Weebly is a cheap website builder and that’s great if you’re not looking to spend much.

As said, the free version of the website builder is pretty good from a website design and e-commerce perspective. If you want to add a custom domain and enjoy that “posh” feeling, you have to spend at least $10/mo for the Personal plan.

The Professional plan is $12/mo, while the top-tier Performance plan is $26/mo.

Given the prices, the best option is the Performance plan because it’s fairly inexpensive but includes everything the company has to offer, with its most impressive e-commerce tools. Thee are a few problems here.

First, Weebly’s free plan is already feature-packed and its paid plans don’t build too much upon it.

Second, since Square purchased Weebly, the latter’s offers started lagging compared to its competitors, including Squarespace, Wix, and others. To remind you, Square purchased Weebly in 2018, and since then, Weebly hasn’t added a single new feature to its website builder.

Compare this with Wix or Hostinger Website Builder, both of which are progressing rapidly, and you’ll see why Weebly isn’t very appreciated by people online and on Reddit.

Thus, if you don’t want to spend much, a perfect Weebly alternative would be Hostinger, which costs merely a few monthly dollars. However, even splurging more on Wix is a great idea because you’re getting a free domain for a year, which Weebly doesn’t offer.

Being affordable doesn’t always mean having good value for money, which applies to Weebly more than to any other website builder we recently tested.

Customer Support

Weebly’s customer support depends on the subscription plan you choose.

Free and Personal plans rely on the community forum and chat/email support. Go up to the Professional plan and you’ll get phone support! Finally, to get priority support, pay for the Performance plan.

We’re never fans of tiered support but when it works well, it’s okay. Weebly’s phone lines are open from 6 AM to 6 PM PT, which is plenty. As for other means of support, such as email, Weebly performs reasonably well, although it takes a bit longer to respond compared to Wix.

Live chat support begins with the Support Assistant, which is an AI that tries to answer your question and resolve the issue. However, it’s very inconvenient because it’s kind of stupid and won’t understand a more complex question/request. Luckily, you can get in touch with a human representative.

Simply click “Contact Support” and IF the support team is online, you’ll get to an agent right away. If not, you’ll be prompted to send an email and here, we go back to Weebly’s longer response times that get old too quickly.

You can use Weebly’s knowledge base but not all problems are tackled there, so at some point, you’ll have to get in touch. Good luck with that.

Weebly Website Builder Review — The Final Verdict

Now that our Weebly review for 2026 is at its end, we’ll say outright that we don’t recommend it and there are many reasons for that. Weebly is a good (not great) platform to use for selling online. As much as it sounds crazy, we found the most value in its free plan.

To be clear, free website builders are never outstanding but Weebly indeed does a nice job.

Ultimately, its paid plans, while affordable, didn’t live up to our, dare we say, mild expectations. You can use it for a small business but have lower earnings because of its transaction fees. Large online shops will suffer the same fate and have even bigger losses because they sell more — very annoying.

Add to that a small selection of outdated templates, poor scalability, and Weebly’s lack of will to innovate, and you get a recipe for a basic website-building package that offers nothing more than that. It’s elementary, archaic, and not ready to take on new challenges.

You’ll find more luck with Wix and Squarespace as some of the largest, most popular website builders in 2026.