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Moving from Wix

How a move off Wix works: what comes with you, what stays behind, and how your domain, email and rankings make it through.

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What comes with you

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

Stays on Wix

The Wix site itself: its template, its apps and the editor. Wix doesn't export sites.

  • The template and its layout
  • Wix apps and their settings
  • The editor and its add-ons
  • Your plan, once it's cancelled
  • The builder's code

Comes with you

Everything that matters: your domain, your words and photos, your customers and your rankings.

  • Your domain, kept or moved
  • Your pages, rewritten where they need it
  • Your photos and posts
  • Contacts and form entries, exported
  • Your rankings, through redirects

How the move runs

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

Your Wix 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, post, form and app on the Wix site, listed.
  2. 02Export what Wix allowsContacts, form entries and store products, saved as spreadsheets.
  3. 03Plan the new siteA page map built around your customers, not the old template.
  4. 04Design and buildYour new site, designed and built in code, on a private link.
  5. 05Bring the content acrossWords and photos copied over, and improved where they need it.
  6. 06Map every addressEach Wix URL, including /post/ blog addresses, matched to its new page.
  7. 07Switch the domainThe domain pointed at the new site, with email left untouched.
  8. 08Watch the weeks afterSearch Console, forms and rankings checked until everything's settled.

What's different about leaving Wix

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

No export button

Wix can't export a site, so pages are rebuilt and content copied across.

Blog addresses

Wix posts live under /post/; each gets a redirect to its new home.

A domain bought through Wix

It can stay at Wix and point to the new site, or move to a registrar.

Email through Wix

Wix mailboxes run on Google Workspace, and keep working when the site moves.

Bookings and members

Upcoming bookings and member lists saved before the switch.

Apps with their own data

Reviews, forms and store data saved before the Wix plan ends.

Images at full size

Your original photos collected, not the compressed copies Wix serves.

Cancelling at the right time

The plan ends after the switch, never before.

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 Wix site by its addresses. Each one is mapped to its new page before the switch.

  • Every old address mappedEvery Wix page and /post/ address listed and 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 Wix, explained

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

Why businesses leave Wix

Most don't leave because Wix stopped working. They leave because the site stopped keeping up: the same template as competitors, app charges every month, pages that drag on phones, and features the business needs that Wix can't add. By the time they move, there's usually a list.

The good news is that leaving is mostly planning. Done in the right order, customers and search engines barely notice the switch, except that the new site works better.

What you can take, and what you can't

Wix doesn't let you export a site to host somewhere else, so the template and layout stay behind. What you can take is what matters: your domain, your words and photos, your contacts and form entries, and your store's products as a spreadsheet.

We gather it all before anything changes, so nothing is lost when the Wix plan ends.

Your domain and email

If you bought your domain through Wix, it can stay there and point to the new site, or move to a registrar in your name. Email is separate from the website: Wix mailboxes run on Google Workspace, and they keep working as long as the email records stay in place.

We change only the records the website needs, so mail keeps arriving through the switch.

The day of the switch

The new site is finished and checked on a private link first. On the day, the domain is pointed at it, the redirects go live with it, and within minutes visitors see the new site. Your Wix site waits in the background until we've confirmed everything works.

The weeks after

Search engines re-read the site over the following weeks. We watch Search Console for missing pages, check forms and bookings land where they should, and resubmit the sitemap. Once it has all settled, the Wix plan is cancelled.

  • Search Console watched
  • Forms and bookings tested
  • Wix 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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  • No. Wix doesn't export sites for use elsewhere, so the site is rebuilt. Contacts, form entries and store products can be exported, and we save them before anything changes.

  • No, and you shouldn't. Wix stays until the new site is live and checked; then the plan is cancelled.

  • Yes. It can stay with Wix and point to the new site, or move to a registrar in your name. Either way your address doesn't change.

  • It keeps working. Wix mailboxes are Google Workspace, and we leave the email records alone when the domain is pointed at the new site.

  • No. Your Wix 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 Wix 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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