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Moving from Webflow

How a move off Webflow works: your CMS collections and form entries exported, the site rebuilt so it doesn't depend on the builder, and your rankings carried across.

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What comes with you

Leaving Webflow, piece by piece. What moves, and what doesn't.

Stays on Webflow

The Designer, the hosted CMS, the interactions, and the plans and seats.

  • The Webflow Designer
  • Editor seats and site plans
  • The hosted CMS
  • Webflow interactions
  • Webflow hosting

Comes with you

Your content, collections, form entries, domain and rankings, in a site that runs on its own.

  • Pages and CMS content
  • Collections, exported as spreadsheets
  • Form entries, exported
  • Your domain, already yours
  • Your rankings, through redirects

How the move runs

Moving off Webflow, step by step. From the first call to the weeks after.

Your Webflow site stays live until the day we switch.

Nothing goes dark while the new site is built, and nothing is cancelled until it's live.

  1. 01Take stockEvery page, collection, form and embed on the site, listed.
  2. 02Export what Webflow allowsCMS collections and form entries as spreadsheets, and products if there's a store.
  3. 03Plan the new siteA page map built around your customers, with every collection placed.
  4. 04Design and buildYour new site, designed and built in code, on a private link.
  5. 05Bring the content acrossCollections imported, and embeds replaced with built-in features.
  6. 06Map every addressStatic pages and CMS item addresses matched to their new pages.
  7. 07Switch the domainThe records pointing at Webflow changed; email left untouched.
  8. 08Watch the weeks afterSearch Console and forms checked; plans and seats cancelled last.

What's different about leaving Webflow

The catches, and how we handle them. Specific to Webflow.

Code export isn't a site

Exported code leaves the CMS, forms and store behind, so the site is rebuilt.

Collections as spreadsheets

Each CMS collection exported and brought into the new site's content.

Your domain's already yours

Webflow doesn't sell domains, so yours sits at a registrar you control.

Interactions

Animations rebuilt where they help, dropped where they slowed things down.

Form entries

Past submissions exported before the plan ends.

Embeds and automations

Third-party widgets and automation chains replaced with built-in features.

Plans and seats

Site plans and editor seats cancelled after the switch.

Translated pages

Localised pages, if you have them, mapped language by language.

Keeping your rankings

How your search rankings come with you. The checklist we work through.

Rankings move with the pages, as long as every page has somewhere to go.

Search engines know your Webflow site by its addresses. Each one is mapped to its new page before the switch.

  • Every old address mappedEvery static page and CMS item address matched to a new page.
  • Permanent redirectsEach old page sends visitors and search engines to its new one.
  • Titles and descriptions carriedThe words search results show, kept or improved.
  • Structured data addedYour business, services and reviews, in the form search engines read.
  • A new sitemapSubmitted to Google and Bing the day the site goes live.
  • Search Console watchedErrors and missing pages caught in the weeks after the switch.
  • Your Business Profile linkedThe website link on your Google Business Profile updated.
  • Load time checkedPages tested on phones before launch, so the new site starts ahead.

Moving from Webflow, explained

Everything to know before you leave Webflow. In plain English.

Why businesses leave Webflow

Businesses usually leave Webflow when the designer who built the site moves on, or when plans and seats keep climbing for a site the owner can't change. The site looks fine; it just depends on a tool and a person the business doesn't have.

Moving off it means a site that doesn't need a design tool to change, looked after by the people who built it.

What you can export

Webflow exports a site's code on paid plans, but the CMS, forms and store don't work in it. What does export cleanly is the content: every CMS collection as a spreadsheet, form entries, and products if there's a store.

We take the content and rebuild the site properly, so nothing depends on Webflow afterwards.

Your domain and email

Webflow doesn't sell domains, so yours is already at a registrar you control, which makes the switch simple: the records that point to Webflow are changed to point to the new site, and the email records are left alone.

The day of the switch

The new site is checked on a private link first. On the day, the domain is pointed at it with every redirect in place, and Webflow waits in the background until everything is confirmed.

The weeks after

We watch Search Console, test forms, resubmit the sitemap, and once everything has settled, cancel the site plan and the editor seats.

  • Search Console watched
  • Forms tested
  • Plans and seats cancelled last

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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  • The code, on paid plans, but the CMS, forms and store don't work once exported. Your content exports cleanly as spreadsheets, and we rebuild the site around it.

  • No. We need access to the Webflow project to export the content, and to your domain's settings for the switch. That's all.

  • Every collection is exported and brought into the new site, with each item keeping its page, and its address where it can.

  • They stay until the new site is live and checked; then the site plan and editor seats are cancelled.

  • No. Your Webflow site stays live while the new one is built, and the switch takes minutes once it's ready. Visitors go from one to the other without a gap.

  • Not if every old address is redirected to its new page, which we set up before the switch. Rankings usually hold through the move, and often improve once the new pages settle in.

  • The move is part of building the new site: a fixed project price agreed before anything starts, then one monthly fee to host and look after it. You keep paying Webflow only until the switch.

Kind words

Hear it from the businesses we've built for. What it's like to work with us, in their own words.

“Our new website and ads brought in more customers than we expected. Stratasis made the whole thing easy from start to finish.”
Anna BorowskaOwner, Apex Windows
“They took our whole website from idea to launch, online booking included, and never made it feel complicated.”
Elizabeth MarkowskiOwner, Virelle
“Everything was built around how we actually work, with the compliance side looked after from the first day.”
Daniel ZhaoFounder, Pelagion
“One team for the brand, the site and the ads. It finally feels like one business online.”
Mark SullivanDirector, Harbor
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