I'm in the process of migrating my website before renewal. They just sent me this email:

You’re receiving this email because you’re currently subscribed to a Weebly service plan that has been discontinued, and your account will be impacted by an upcoming plan change and price increase.

What is changing?

The Business Site plan has been discontinued and will be updated to the Premium Site plan upon the date of your next renewal, November 18, 2024. The annual price for the Premium Site plan is $864.00, or $72.00 per month (plus applicable taxes).

This is the lowest-cost Weebly plan that includes access to the features you currently enjoy.

Why are you making this change?

In 2019, we launched our current set of Weebly plans alongside the previously existing plans. To help streamline operations and to continue to serve users like you, we’ve decided to align all Weebly plans to the current pricing model and discontinue the legacy plans. These pricing updates reflect the current cost of maintaining and supporting the Weebly platform while continuing to offer competitive pricing to our customers.

I'm in Canada and this is USD pricing. So, obviously they don't want my small business. Just a heads up to anyone paying for Weebly - move elsewhere!

Background info (if needed):
I'm a Canadian artist and have had a paid Weebly site for years (in USD). I don't do a lot of transactions through my website, it's mainly as a CV/Portfolio/Blog although I do pay to have e-commerce. I've had my website since before the Square merger and used Square at art fairs independently before they combined.

Questions:
1:
Why when I google Weebly pricing do I get way different pricing than what I'm paying?
It's half of what I'm currently paying for the features I use. And it's listed in CDN dollars. I realize I'm in some kind of grandfathered price grid (prices and names of plans are different) but why is there no price transparency?

2:
Am I missing something? Is the price for the new builder even though is says Weebly?
I tried to contact support and they were absolutely no help with this OR the last website issue I had (responses were cut and paste).

3:
What's the point of staying if it's expensive AND I don't get proper tech support?

I'm looking at platforms elsewhere but I manage my own website, have a tight budget and need it to be fairly easy.

I appreciate you if you read this far!

I've read that you can have 10 sites connected to Weebly. But I can't find anywhere exact info does that mean I'm paying 1 subscription per month or 10 (one for each site).

I need a simple static site and have my own domains, and so far all of site-builders have similar per-page pricing and bundling custom domain with that which I don't want.

I was paying $29.95 per year, and now the only option is a monthly subscription, cheapest of which is $10/month. It doesn’t sound like a lot per month but my website is not a huge part of my income. And it’s basically a 400% increase.

What does anyone recommend for a service for people like me who don’t know anything about building websites and need something easy, attractive, and has an option for absolute basics- no e-commerce needed?

I used to Pay $120 for 2 years, now I got billed $240 for 2 years? What gives?

I thought this message was spam so I ignored it but I keep getting it. I have my website and domain reg through Weebly and have had it there for years. Now they are saying that the design I am using is custom and that they have to charge me a monthly fee or they will delete my site. This really pisses me off and I just want to jump ship.

Has anyone else had this happen? What should I do? My website is not super complicated and due for an update, maybe I should go elsewhere?

I have Square account for my in store sales, been using it for a couple of years. Now I want to make a website, but I like Weebly pricing. Once I created Weebly account, it suggested me to connect my Square account for my inventory. Now wneh I wan to build a website, it shows me Square pricing ($36/mo) when I want to go with Weebly pricing ($15/mo). How I can do that?

I am so confused and frustrated. I get that Weebly has changed their pricing structure (apparently since 2019 even though I've never seen those prices reflected every time I renew my subscription). So one of my websites expires next month. I get the email that everyone has been getting, but to my surprise they want to charge me $68 per month (or $1,632.00 for a 2 year renewal). So I went to my Weebly account to see what I'm currently paying. It is $25 per month, just like I thought it was. When I click to renew, it wants to bill me at that price for the next two years. Nothing has changed. If I did want to upgrade, I could move up to the highest tier which is $38 per month, but I have no interest in that since the current plan does everything I need it to do. So WTF are they talking about with this so-called "Premium Site Plan" that I don't even see listed as an option on Weebly? What am I missing here? Do I need to rebuild my site in the next 3 weeks so I don't get hit with this big bill?? I added an image of the email, and an image of the Weebly price page.

There is Lite, WebPro, personal plan, professional plan.

If I publish a website on Lite for $15 a month, does it still end with .weebly? Would appreciate if someone can explain the difference !

Did anyone else receive this email from Weebly and, if so, what are your thoughts?

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This is an official notification from the Weebly account team in regards to the account under this email address.

You currently have a free Weebly website published on a custom domain (or vanity URL) and are not subscribed to a paid Weebly hosting plan. As of March 14, 2023, sites connected to custom domains are required to have a Weebly hosting service plan to remain published.

What does this mean for you?

To keep your site published on a custom domain, you will need to purchase a paid Weebly service plan subscription. If you take no action and choose to remain on a free Weebly plan, your account information and all associated site content will remain intact and accessible to you within Editor, but your site will be unpublished on March 14, 2023 and will no longer be visible to visitors or connected to your custom domain. You will need to republish your site on a free Weebly subdomain to make it publicly visible again (ex: my-name.weebly.com).

Here’s what you can do next:

To keep your site published on a custom domain, select and purchase a paid Weebly service plan >

To keep your site published and remain on the free plan, republish your site to a Weebly subdomain > (click “edit” in your domain settings)

Note: If you don’t take any action by March 14, 2023 your site will be unpublished from your custom domain and will no longer be publicly visible online.

Thank you for your support and understanding. If you have any questions, please contact us by visiting our Help Center.

The Weebly Team

I find weebly to be better and less of pain even if it hasn't been updated in years.

So, I attempted to extend my domain by paying for it for 2 years, which would put me in 2026 and the payment was refunded to my bank account after what it said was an error.

I got curious and found this: Weebly Website Builder Support Update | Weebly Support - CA

The last sentence at the bottom reads:

"Would Weebly consider extending support for the builder beyond July 2025?

At this time, we can only commit to supporting the Weebly editor until July 2025."

Wondering if this is the reason my extension was rejected. It's a shame that Weebly is heading in this direction, I have used it since the beginning, kind of grandfathered in some websites for a long time. But I may move my domains to godaddy just to keep them safe somewhere. and redirect the websites for now and slowly rebuild them and be ready for a 2025 sunset.

How do I take off any pricing options from my website. I want to show my products/repair services but do not want prices listed at all. I’ve seen online where you can follow the numbered instructions listed below but they don’t work. I only have the option to go to Theme > Edit HTML/CSS > Partials. After that there is only Commerce Not E-commerce & there is no main.tpl option either. Please help.:

1. Goto editior page (https://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php (https://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php))

2. Select "Theme" on the top bar menu

3. Select Edit HTML/CSS on the left pane

4. Select Partials -> ecommerce -> partials -> main.tpl on the left pane

5. Replace the line: {{> commerce/product/price}} with this line (just commenting out, so that you can restore the code later if needed):

<!-- Hiding the price {{> commerce/product/price}} -->

6) Click the Save (top-right corner) button Now, the price is gone from the product page.

Hey everyone, I’ve been selling my art on ebay, facebook, etsy, etc (7 marketplaces total) I figured its time I create a website for my business

My question is if Shopify is necessary, or is the free version of Weebly just fine? (Or another platform) I know Shopify does the integration thing so if I list a product on Shopify it’ll go to my ebay, etsy, facebook stores etc which would be super nice but only a short term benefit.

Trying to keep monthly costs as low as possible as I’m already paying a few hundred in various software. The weebly free version seems it fits my needs, it has search function, categories for my items, easy checkout/payment, SEO features, only a 3% fee on sales, etc. I just feel like something is going way over my head here and it’s worth it to pay $30 a month somewhere

The site is gilbertgallery.square.site (I’ll be getting a custom domain and adding all my art, cleaning up the website etc, just created it yesterday within a hour to test its features)

https://www.weebly.com/pricing showcases what the free version offers

The one con I’ve noticed is it zooms in on all the images you upload, I’ve messaged support to see if there’s any solution.

Any feedback/advice is appreciated.

Thank you!