Is Webflow good for a small business?

It's good if you have a designer who knows Webflow and will keep running the site. Without one, owners find they can't change much themselves, and plans, seats and design time add up.

Is Webflow hard to use?

For designers it's powerful. For owners it's a professional tool with a real learning curve: the simple editor covers text and images, and little else.

Can I export my Webflow site?

You can export the code on paid plans, but the CMS content, forms and store don't work once exported, so moving still means a rebuild.

Will I lose my Google rankings if I leave Webflow?

Not if the move is done properly. Every old address is redirected to its new page, so search engines carry your rankings across. They usually hold through the move, and often improve once the new pages settle in.

Can I still make changes myself?

You can ask us for any change and it's made for you as part of looking after the site. Where you'd like to edit something yourself, like menus, prices or posts, we build a simple way to do it.

How long does a switch take?

Most small sites take a few weeks from the first call to launch, and your Webflow site stays live until the day we switch, so there's never a day without a website.

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Stratasis vs Webflow

A website built and run for you, or Webflow, a builder made for designers that still leaves the running to you. How they compare, and which one fits a small business.

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The short answer

Webflow vs a custom website, in two lines. Who each one is for.

Choose Webflow if

You have a designer in-house who wants to build and run the site in a visual tool.

You have an in-house designer
You'll learn a professional design tool
Marketing pages are the whole job
Your content fits the plan's limits
You'll manage plans and seats

Choose Stratasis if

You want the design, the build and the running handled, without learning a design tool.

You'd rather not run the site
One team, design to hosting
Booking, payments or a portal
Room to grow without caps
One monthly fee, no seats

Stratasis vs Webflow at a glance

Webflow vs a custom website, side by side. What changes for the business.

Compared

Webflow

Stratasis

Who builds itYou or a designer, in WebflowWe do, from a design for you

How the cost worksSite plans, plus editor seatsA project price, then a monthly fee to run it

Making changesA professional tool to learnAsk, and it's done

ContentCMS limits by planBuilt for your content

Booking and paymentsEmbeds and third-party toolsConnected to the tools you use

Custom featuresWithin what the builder allowsBuilt when you need them

Owning itHosted on WebflowYour code, domain and accounts

When it breaksWebflow support, or your designerOne team you can call

What Webflow does, and where it falls short

Where Webflow helps, and where it holds a business back. The plain version.

Pros

Design controlFar more freedom than a template builder.
Cleaner outputLighter pages than most drag-and-drop builders.
Good for marketing pagesLanding pages and content for a marketing team.

Cons

A tool for designersOwners rarely learn it, so every change waits on someone who has.
Plans and seatsHosting is per site, editing is per seat, and both climb as you grow.
CMS limitsCollections and items are capped by plan.
Not an app platformPortals, logins and real booking need other tools bolted on.
Exports leave the CMS behindExported code doesn't bring the CMS, forms or store with it.
Two vendorsA designer for the site, Webflow for the hosting, and you in the middle.

Our take

A designer's tool, not a business's website.

Webflow is a good tool in a designer's hands. But a small business doesn't want a tool; it wants a website that brings in work and someone who looks after it. On Webflow you're still the one managing plans, seats and whoever knows how to use it.

How a move off Webflow works

Signs your Webflow site is holding you back

When a Webflow site gets stuck. Eight we see most.

If only one person can change the site, the site is stuck.

These are the problems we hear most from businesses on Webflow.

01Changes wait on a designerSmall edits queue up behind the one person who knows the tool.
02Seats and plans creeping upAnother editor, another upgrade, another line on the statement.
03The CMS hitting its limitsLocations, services or posts running into the plan's caps.
04Booking bolted onA third-party widget that looks nothing like the rest of the site.
05No portal, no loginsThe customer area you need isn't what Webflow is for.
06Integrations held togetherAutomation chains between the site and your tools, breaking quietly.
07Beautiful, but quietLovely motion, thin service pages, few enquiries.
08Nobody accountableThe designer built it, Webflow hosts it, and problems fall in between.

Webflow or a custom website, explained

What to weigh before you choose. In plain English.

What Webflow is, and what it isn't

Webflow is a visual website builder made for designers. It gives far more control than template builders, and in the right hands the result can look very good.

But it's a professional design tool, and that's the catch for a small business: someone has to know Webflow to build the site and to change it, and that someone is rarely the owner.

How the cost adds up

Webflow charges a site plan for hosting and a workspace plan for the people who edit, priced by seat. More CMS content, more languages and more traffic move you up the tiers. Then there's the designer's time, because someone has to make the changes.

With Stratasis it's a project price, then one monthly fee that covers hosting, updates and the changes you ask for, with no seats to count.

Webflow: site plans, seats, and a designer's time
Stratasis: a fixed project price, then one monthly fee

Who can actually change the site

Webflow's editor lets clients change text and images, but anything structural means the designer view, with its classes, layouts and interactions. Most owners never learn it, so the site stays exactly as it was launched.

With a site from Stratasis you ask for a change and it's made, as part of looking after the site.

Content, limits and growing

Webflow's CMS is capped by plan: the number of collections, items and fields. A business adding locations, services and posts can reach those limits, and the answer is a bigger plan.

Logins, client portals, quote forms with photos, booking tied to your calendar: Webflow isn't built for these, so they arrive as third-party embeds. A site built in code grows with the business instead.

Load time and search

Webflow pages are lighter than most builders', to its credit. Heavy interactions and third-party embeds can undo that, since every embed loads its own code.

For local search, structure matters most: a page for every service and town, structured data, sensible links between pages. That's planned into a site from Stratasis from the first page map.

Owning your site, and leaving Webflow

Webflow can export a site's code on paid plans, but the CMS, forms and store don't work once exported, so a working site still means rebuilding.

A site from Stratasis is yours: the code, the domain and every account in your name.

Moving from Webflow to a site of your own

We carry your content across, keep your domain and redirect every old page, so search engines follow. Your Webflow site stays live until the switch, and nobody has to learn a new tool.

Your domain stays
Every old page redirected
No day without a website

Questions and answers

Still have a question?

Ask us anything. We'll answer it straight, even if the answer is that we're not the right fit.

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It's good if you have a designer who knows Webflow and will keep running the site. Without one, owners find they can't change much themselves, and plans, seats and design time add up.
For designers it's powerful. For owners it's a professional tool with a real learning curve: the simple editor covers text and images, and little else.
You can export the code on paid plans, but the CMS content, forms and store don't work once exported, so moving still means a rebuild.
Yes. We rebuild it properly, carry your content across, keep your domain and redirect every old page, so you keep what you've built in search.
Not if the move is done properly. Every old address is redirected to its new page, so search engines carry your rankings across. They usually hold through the move, and often improve once the new pages settle in.
You can ask us for any change and it's made for you as part of looking after the site. Where you'd like to edit something yourself, like menus, prices or posts, we build a simple way to do it.
Most small sites take a few weeks from the first call to launch, and your Webflow site stays live until the day we switch, so there's never a day without a website.