Wix
What if your website was automatically connected to your digital products, email list, and everything else?
Wix is for building websites. Podia is for building websites, blogging, digital products, courses, email marketing, growing an audience, and anything else you need to run your business. Plus, you can start selling on Podia’s free plan.
Podia vs. Wix
Hundreds of website customization options, unlimited landing pages, beautiful blog posts, and +1900 embeds from around the web – with Podia, you can make a great website in the same place you do everything else.
Podia
✓ Free plan
✓ Blogging
✓ Full website
✓ Website hosting
✓ Custom domain
✓ Sell digital products
✓ Sell online courses
✓ Online community platform
✓ Email marketing & automations
✓ Unlimited monthly email sends
Wix
✓ Free plan
✓ Blogging
✓ Full website
✓ Website hosting
✓ Custom domain
✓ Sell digital products on paid plans
x No online courses
x No online community platform
✓ Email marketing & automations
x Limits on monthly email sends
Podia vs. Wix
Podia
Wix
Free plan
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Price
Podia isFree, or $4/month - $89/month
Wix isFree, or $16/month - $159/month
Remove transaction fees
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Full website
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Blogging
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Website hosting
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Connect a custom domain
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Unlimited website storage on all plans
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Email marketing
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Unlimited email sends on all plans
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Sell on the free plan
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Digital downloads
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Online course builder
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Community platform
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Webinars
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Coaching
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Affiliate marketing
Podia is yes
Wix is no
Live chat messaging
Podia is yes
Wix is yes
Build a beautiful blog and website in clicks
Podia’s easy website builder lets you have a great-looking website that matches your style in an afternoon. Choose from professionally designed website sections, customize your layouts, colors, and fonts, and change any other details you want to make your site feel like you.
Sell digital products on the free plan
Podia’s free plan includes your full website and blog. It also includes your online community and the ability to sell a digital download and coaching session so you can start earning money before paying for a higher-tiered plan.
Send unlimited emails on all plans
All Podia Email plans come with unlimited email sends and a full suite of advanced email marketing features. You can segment your audience with filters and tags, and build automated campaigns, welcome sequences, and sales funnels. Plus, your first 100 subscribers are free.
The Podia blogging tool is super simple, yet you can create a really great looking and personalized design that fits your brand. And cherry on the cake, you have everything in one place, your store, your blog, your website, and even your CRM.
Daniele, Swiss Innovation Academy
Podia vs Wix: Which one is right for me?
Podia and Wix make it easy to build a website and blog. Both platforms have a free plan, and both give you the option to sell digital products and run your email marketing.
But Wix is mainly known for being a website tool. Podia is an all-in-one platform where your customers, website, blog, email, products, courses, affiliates, and everything else are automatically connected.
Let’s take a look at Wix and Podia’s plans and features to help you decide which option is best for you.
Podia and Wix plans and pricing
Both Wix and Podia have free plans that let you build a full website and blog. This is great if you want to start your business without a huge upfront investment.
But even though it’s free to make a basic website with Wix, you’ll need to upgrade to one of their premium plans to unlock most of the business-building features.
Wix’s Light plan costs $16/month (when paid annually, their website doesn’t show month-to-month billing prices) and includes a custom domain and the ability to remove Wix branding. It also includes 2GB of website storage space, 30 minutes of video hosting, and up to 4 email lead capture forms. Checkout and ecommerce features are not included in the Light plan.
The Core ($27/month, paid annually), Business ($32/month, paid annually), Business Elite ($159/month, paid annually) and Enterprise plans all include checkout and selling features, as well as increasing amounts of storage, video hosting, and lead capture forms. There are also more advanced marketing features and website analytics features as you go up.
With Podia, you can set up your website and start making money on the free plan. There are no limits on website storage, and all plans come with unlimited lead capture forms, unlimited customers, and unlimited landing pages. Mover and Shaker plans come with unlimited video hosting too.
Here’s a closer look at the Podia pricing plans:
- Free, $0/month and 10% transaction fee: The free plan includes a full website, blog, landing pages, one digital download, one coaching session, and your community.
- Starter: $9/month and 8% transaction fee ($4/month when paid annually): Starter includes all the Free features plus custom domains and chat support.
- Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes all the Starter features plus unlimited digital products, courses, and third-party code.
- Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($59/month when paid annually for the first year, then $75/month when paid annually after that): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus affiliates.
With fewer limitations on all plans, Podia gives you more room to try new things and grow, no matter what stage you’re at in your business.
Website and blogging features with Podia and Wix
Many people go to Wix to build their website and blog, but is it the best option for you?
Wix is a drag-and-drop website builder that comes with a large library of templates. You can choose from premade sections or add text, images, buttons, and other decorations anywhere you want on the page.
This is nice because you can change the layout of your page elements down to the pixel, but this level of detail can also make designing your website more complicated. There’s nothing worse than pressing publish only to realize that some of your words are cut off because you accidentally dragged your text box halfway off the screen.
Wix also limits your website storage space on all plans except for the top-price Business Elite plan. Your storage covers your videos, images, audio, and files, and you’re capped on Wix’s lower-tiered plans. You’re also limited by how many hours of video you can add to your website, with the lowest tier Lite plan including only 30 minutes of video footage.
Podia comes with over a dozen pre-built sections like text, images, bios, FAQs, testimonials, grids, email forms, product lists, and feature banners that you can customize to match your branding.
The sections look great out of the box, and there are hundreds of different layout, color, and style options to choose from. All combinations have already been tested, so anything you pick will look good on desktop and mobile – you don’t have to worry about creating something that looks wacky when you press publish.
Podia also lets you design your blog posts and blog archive pages using the same easy website builder. Add an author bio, change the featured image layout, share an email opt-in form at the bottom of every blog post, change the color of your fonts and backgrounds – anything you want, you can make.
On the technical side, both Wix and Podia include website hosting and allow you to connect a custom domain. On Podia, you can add your custom domain on the Starter plan, which only costs $4/month when paid annually. To connect a custom domain on Wix, you’ll need the Light Plan, which costs $16/month when paid annually.
Selling digital products and checkout
When it comes to selling digital products, Podia has lots of features to make your online business run smoothly. Sell unlimited digital downloads, webinars, coaching sessions, online courses, community tiers, and product bundles, and set up advanced checkout features like upsells, seat limits, access durations, and product waitlists.
You can make products free or paid, and Podia automatically keeps track of your customer’s information (which can be very helpful for your future email marketing campaigns).
With Wix, you can only sell digital products on the Core plan and above and there are several add-ons to expand the functionality of your site.
For instance, you can accept calendar bookings, sell in-person event tickets, and manage online restaurant orders and restaurant reservations on the Core plan and above. There are also hotel management tools and fitness business features available on Core plans and up.
That said, these features all heavily lean toward in-person businesses and products. There isn’t a built-in course feature, webinar feature, coaching feature, or community platform with Wix, so you’ll need to connect separate tools to sell these product types.
But if you’re running a restaurant or hotel business, it’s worth checking out Wix for these niche-specific features.
Email marketing with Wix and Podia
In addition to websites and blogging, Podia and Wix both have built-in email marketing functionality. Podia Email plans are based on subscriber count, and Wix email plans are based on the number of emails sent.
Wix’s free plan lets you send a total of 200 emails per month. This includes newsletters and automated emails, and there’s no email scheduling on this plan. When you set up your newsletters, you can choose from a premade Wix email template or create your own from scratch.
To get more features, you can upgrade your plan to get access to 500 monthly email sends, automated emails, and analytics. At this upgraded tier, you can schedule emails. You can move to higher tiers if you need more email sends.
With Podia, you can send unlimited emails each month on all plans, and your plan only goes up if your subscriber count increases.
All email plans come with all features, including advanced automations and campaigns, entrance and exit triggers, segmentation, filters, and tagging. There are also over a dozen professionally designed email templates that you can use as a starting point for your emails.
You can use Podia Email with any Podia base plan, including the free plan, and upgrade your Email add-on as your list grows.
Here’s how this plays out by the numbers.
Let’s say you have 100 email subscribers. You could use the free plan with both Podia and Wix, but with Wix you would be limited to sending those subscribers just two messages per month (including automations). You also wouldn’t have the ability to schedule any messages in advance.
With Podia, you would have all the features of an advanced email marketing platform from day one and you could send unlimited emails to your 100 subscribers. You could also build campaigns, set up automations, and tag your subscribers based on their interests. Best of all, because Podia is already connected to your products and website, it’s easy to keep track of all your audience information in one place.
Simply put, Podia lets you build a beautiful website and blog for your business, but that’s just the beginning.
Your digital products, courses, and community all live under one roof. You can manage your email marketing and build out an affiliate program too. And all your customers and subscribers will be organized in one system that’s connected to your sales data and email list, so there’s less work for you behind the scenes.
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Absolutely! You can check out our Podia demo site, which we’ve built to show you what the Podia experience will look like for both you and your customers.
There are also dozens of creator example sites on our Examples page, so you can see what other creators just like you have built using Podia.
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Yes! We offer free (and hassle-free) migrations on all annual Mover and Shaker plans. Get started here.
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Yes! Podia has a free forever plan that includes your full website, blogging, one digital download, one coaching product, customer chat messaging, and your online community. Sign up for free today to see for yourself!
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Absolutely! You can see how Podia stacks up to many of our competitors right here.
We also have some head-to-head comparisons of other leading platforms in case you’re choosing between those, including:
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