Weebly makes it quick and easy to build a small business website, and has some of the best value plans around. Here we break down what you get for your money.
You can build a Weebly website for free (although there will be ads on it), while its paid plans range from £5 to £19 per month. It’s a one of the cheaper ways you can build a website, though we don’t rate it as the very best.
A combo of low prices and impressive performance earned Weebly an unbeatable 5/5 value for money score in our in-depth testing.
However, there’s strong competition in the web builder space, with high-calibre rivals like Wix and Squarespace offering feature-packed plans at similar prices.
So, what exactly do you get with each Weebly plan, and what other fees do you need to worry about? Read on to find out.
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Weebly pricing plans
Weebly has a pretty impressive free plan, and four paid plans:
- Weebly Free: £0 per month
- Weebly Personal: £5 per month
- Weebly Professional: £9 per month
- Weebly Performance: £19 per month
We’ll take a close look at each of these below.
Weebly Personal – £5 per month
- Low-cost plan
- Adds custom domain
- Only minor improvement on free plan
- Your site will still have Weebly ads
Price per year, billed annually: £60
Price per year, billed monthly: £84 (£7 per month)
It’s hard to really recommend this plan as the only real benefit it offers over Weebly’s free plan is a custom domain. That’s nice to have, but you’ll still be paying at least £5 a month for a site plastered with Weebly ads.
Weebly Professional – £9 per month
- Cheapest plan that removes Weebly ads
- Lets you sell online
- Phone support
- Only includes basic ecommerce features
Price per year, billed annually: £108
Price per year, billed monthly: £144 (£12 per month)
The £9 per month Weebly Pro plan is a great fit for small businesses that want to quickly and easily sell online. You’ll be able accept online payments via both Square and third-party providers, access phone support and get rid of those pesky Weebly ads.
However, you’ll need to upgrade for advanced ecommerce tools.
Weebly Performance – £19 per month
- Comprehensive ecommerce features, including inventory management and shipping calculator
- Pop-up notifications
- Advanced ecommerce statistics
- Some ecommerce features are still lacking
Price per year, bill annually: £228
Price per year, billed monthly: £264 per month (£22 per month)
The £19 per month Weebly Performance plan is perfect for businesses with serious online ambitions.
While it may cost twice as much as the Professional plan, you get a load of extra ecommerce functionality for that extra outlay. Think inventory management tools, customisable items, coupon codes, item reviews, a shipping calculator, and advanced ecommerce stats so you can track exactly what is and isn’t selling.
In short, the Performance plan gives you almost everything you need to supercharge your online sales.
Does Weebly have a free plan, and is it good for my business?
Yes, Weebly has a free plan, and it’s a pretty decent one as free plans go.
You get 500MB of storage, both chat and email support, and even some nice SEO functionality.
However, Weebly’s free plan is not suitable for business use.
Your web address will be Weebly branded (e.g. myawesomebusiness.weebly.com) and covered in Weebly ads. This will make you look unprofessional and put off potential customers.
You’ll also miss out on tons of extra features, and you can’t sell online with a Weebly free plan.
For business use, you really need to get a Weebly paid plan.
Weebly costs: billing cycles, ongoing costs, and additional fees
Billing cycles
As we covered above, Weebly’s published prices are based on annual billing.
In other words, you pay for a year up front and pay the equivalent of £9 per month for the Professional plan, £19 per month for the Performance plan, etc.
You can also pay monthly, but this will be more expensive overall.
- Professional plan – £12 per month (an extra £36 a year compared to annual billing)
- Performance plan – £22 per month (an extra £36 a year compared to annual billing)
Domain costs
If you’ve never heard of a domain, it’s the www. bit that functions as the online “address” of your business.
In short, it’s pretty damn important, and you need to pay for it.
With Weebly, when you need to pay depends on which plan you sign up to.
The Personal, Professional and Performance plans all come with a free domain for the first year and you’ll need to renew at Weebly’s standard rates after that.
These are:
- £13 for one year
- £22 for two years (breaks down to £11 a year, a 15% saving)
- £49 for five years (breaks down to £9.80 a year, a 25% saving)
- £82 for 10 years (breaks down to £8.20 a year, a 37% saving)
The Weebly App Center
Like most web builders, Weebly has a well-stocked app center that is packed with apps to add extra features and improve your website.
Some of these apps are free, but many come with extra charges that can range from a few pounds to hundreds of pounds a month.
Of course, you don’t have to use paid apps, but it’s definitely a potential cost you should bear in mind.
How do Weebly’s prices compare with other web builders?
Wix – our top web builder
Weebly’s £9 per month Pro plan places it squarely in Wix territory. Our top overall web builder for small businesses, Wix’s £11 per month Unlimited plan gives you access to most of what Wix has to offer, with a huge range of templates, design options, and advanced SEO and analytics. However, in order to sell online, you’ll need to upgrade to the £15 per month Business Basic plan.
To learn more, check out our in-depth Wix website builder review.
Square Ecommerce – start selling online for free
If you’re just looking to start selling online as cheaply as possible, then you might want to consider Square ecommerce. With Square’s free plan, you can create your website and start selling for free – you just need to pay a 1.9% (for UK and European cards) transaction fee when you make a sale.
To get the proper lowdown on how Square stacks up as an ecommerce platform, head to our Square ecommerce review.
Want to see exactly how Weebly compares to its rivals? Look no further than our rundown of the best small business website builders.
Final thoughts: is Weebly worth it?
Weebly is a solid basic web builder and ecommerce platform that had a perfect 5/5 value for money score in our testing.
Indeed, its £9 per month Professional plan is one of the cheapest ways to start selling online, with phone support and the ability to accept a variety of payments. The £19 per month Performance plan is also good value, adding advanced features like inventory management, shipping calculators and ecommerce statistics that tell you what is and isn’t selling.
Like the vast majority of web builders, Weebly’s advertised prices are based on annual billing, so watch out for that, and you’ll also have to factor in the cost of domain renewal and any paid apps you might want to use.
Weebly’s rather simplistic take on website creation won’t be to everyone’s taste, but if you just want to quickly, easily and cheaply get your online store off the ground, then Weebly could be a great fit.
Yes, Weebly does have a completely free plan. However, your site will be covered in Weebly ads, have a Weebly branded domain and you won’t be able to sell online with the free plan. This makes it a very poor fit for small businesses.
Wix is our top overall web builder and offers much deeper customisation and more features than Weebly. However, some may prefer Weebly’s more simplistic approach, and it’s cheaper to start selling online with Weebly.
Weebly offers a range of plans ranging from Weebly Free (for a site covered in Weebly ads) to £19 per month for the Performance plan (which gives access to advanced ecommerce tools). You also need to consider domain name costs and app center app subscription charges.
