Squarespace and Wix are excellent website builders, but a coach who sells sessions, programmes and courses often ends up paying for a site plan, a booking tool, an email tool and a fee on course sales. If selling coaching is the main job of your site, an all-in-one creator platform such as WithMe, Kajabi, Kartra or Stan does more of it in one place. If your site's main job is design, a blog or local search, stay on Squarespace or Wix.
WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. More than 8,000 creators use it. Squarespace and Wix prices below are from their UK pricing pages, and Kajabi, Kartra and Stan prices from their own pricing or help pages in US dollars, all checked on 11 November 2026.
Why do coaches look for an alternative to Squarespace or Wix?
- Booking is a separate product on Squarespace. Appointment scheduling comes from Acuity Scheduling, which has its own monthly plan.
- Fees on course and membership sales. Squarespace charges a transaction fee on digital content and memberships on every plan except Advanced.
- Too many tools to connect. A site, a scheduler, an email tool and a course area each need setting up, paying for and keeping in step.
- Design time. A builder gives you a blank canvas, and many coaches spend weeks on pages when they could be selling from one.
What does Squarespace cost a coach?
Squarespace's UK pricing page lists four plans, at the prices shown there: Basic £12 a month billed annually (£16 monthly), Core £17 (£24 monthly), Plus £29 (£36 monthly) and Advanced £79 (£89 monthly). There is a 14-day free trial.
Every plan can sell courses, memberships and video, but with a digital content and memberships transaction fee: 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced. Card processing is extra, from 2.0% + £0.25 with Squarespace Payments on Basic and Core.
Booking runs on Acuity Scheduling: Starter is £11 a month billed annually (£12 monthly) for one bookable calendar, Standard £20 (£22 monthly) adds packages and memberships, and Premium is £37 (£40 monthly). Email campaigns are a further add-on.
What does Wix cost a coach?
Wix's UK pricing page lists Light at £9 a month, Core at £16, Business at £25 and Business Elite at £119, on yearly billing and before tax. Light does not include accepting payments. Core and above include accepting payments and scheduling and services, so booking is part of the plan rather than an add-on. Wix also lets you sell online programmes and challenges.
When we checked, Wix was showing a 50% discount on the first year of Core, Business and Business Elite for a limited time. Plan on the regular price for the years after.
What are the alternatives for coaches?
These platforms are built around selling courses, coaching and memberships rather than designing web pages:
- WithMe: $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), 0% WithMe commission. One plan covers a custom storefront, landing pages, coaching calls with booking and Google Meet links, 1:1 coaching with an apply process, unlimited courses, communities, digital products and emails, promo codes, payment plans, affiliates, a custom domain on the paid plan, and iOS and Android customer apps. It is not a free-form website builder and has no blog.
- Kajabi: Basic is $143 a month billed annually ($179 monthly) with 5 products and 2,500 contacts, Growth $199 ($249 monthly) and Pro $399 ($499 monthly). It includes a website and takes no revenue share. Kajabi Payments costs 2.9% + 30c on Basic. Strong on pipelines and automations.
- Kartra: Essentials is $52 a month billed annually ($59 monthly) with a 5% transaction fee and no calendars. Starter is $99 ($119 monthly) with 0% transaction fees, 2,500 contacts, built-in appointment booking and one custom domain. Strong on funnels.
- Stan: Creator is $29 a month or $300 a year with 0% transaction fees, and includes courses, calendar booking, memberships and a community. Creator Pro is $99 a month or $948 a year. Stores run at stan.store/yourname; Stan's help centre says a custom domain needs Creator Max at $299 a month, which is not yet available to every creator. On other plans you can forward your domain to your Stan page.
Cost example: a coach selling sessions and a course
Say you take paid discovery calls and sell £1,000 a month of an online course. On Squarespace Core with Acuity Starter, the tools cost £17 + £11 = £28 a month on annual billing, and the 5% content fee adds £50 a month on £1,000 of course sales. Moving to Squarespace Advanced removes that fee, but the plan is £79 a month.
On Wix Core, at £16 a month on yearly billing before tax, booking and payments are included. Check Wix's own terms for selling online programmes before you plan around it.
On WithMe, the same set-up is UK £25 a month billed annually, with booking, courses, email and the custom domain on one plan and 0% WithMe commission on the £1,000. Card processing fees apply on every platform.
Who should stay on Squarespace or Wix?
- Coaches whose clients find them through Google and who write articles regularly. A blog on your own site is something WithMe does not have.
- Coaches who sell mainly to companies and need an About page, a services page, case studies and a contact form.
- Studios and practices with several staff calendars, rooms or locations, where a full scheduling tool fits better.
- Anyone whose site is mostly a portfolio or a brand showcase, with selling a small part of it. You can also keep your site and link a creator hub from it for the selling.
How do you move from Squarespace or Wix to WithMe?
- Start the 14-day trial and set up your hub: profile, bio, and your offers as Coaching Call, 1:1 Coaching, course and digital products.
- Connect Stripe so you can take payments, and set your coaching availability and Google Calendar.
- Export your customers or email list from your old site as a CSV and import them into WithMe.
- When you move to the paid plan, open More → Custom domain and add the two CNAME records. If www currently points at Squarespace or Wix, edit that record to the value shown rather than adding a second one. If the domain was bought through your old platform, check first whether it needs disconnecting from the old site.
- Forward the bare domain to https://www.yourname.com at your registrar, then cancel the old site plan once everything is working.
What is not included?
WithMe is not a page-by-page website builder: there is no blog, no free-form page design and no contact form. WithMe does not sell domains. Custom domains need the paid plan, not the trial.
How much does WithMe cost?
WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. One plan covers courses, memberships, community, coaching, webinars, digital products, unlimited email and a custom domain.
Squarespace and Wix alternative questions
Is Squarespace good for coaches?
For a well-designed site with a blog, yes. For selling coaching, you add Acuity Scheduling for booking (from £11 a month billed annually in the UK) and pay a 1% to 7% fee on course and membership sales below the Advanced plan.
Is Wix good for coaches?
Wix Core and above include accepting payments and scheduling, from £16 a month on yearly billing in the UK before tax. It suits coaches who want a full website with booking built in. Light, at £9, does not include accepting payments.
What is the cheapest alternative to Squarespace for coaches?
For the site alone, Squarespace Basic (£12) and Wix Light (£9) cost less, but neither includes booking, and Wix Light cannot take payments. Among all-in-one creator platforms, WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25) and Stan Creator is $29 a month or $300 a year; Stan's custom domain needs Creator Max at $299 a month.
Can I keep my domain if I leave Squarespace or Wix?
Yes, the domain is yours. Check with your old platform whether it needs disconnecting from the old site first, then change its DNS records where it is registered or transfer it to another registrar. On WithMe you add two CNAME records and forward the bare domain to www.
Can I keep my Squarespace or Wix site and use WithMe for selling?
Yes. Many coaches keep their site for articles and link a WithMe hub for booking, courses and payment. The hub runs at withme.so/yourname, or on a domain you own on the paid plan.
Start your 14-day trial at https://www.withme.so/become-a-creator.
