Website.com
Website.com is a website builder for creating and hosting websites, online stores, and business sites.
What Website.com is
Website.com is a website builder for creating and hosting websites, online stores, and business sites. It uses prebuilt layouts and offers over 500 customizable templates for people without coding experience. The editor is available on Android, iOS, and the web, and is responsive for editing on a phone. Listed features include custom domains, contact forms, SEO controls, blogging, stores, and booking and scheduling tools; product and booking limits vary by plan. Integrations and embeds include Google Analytics, social media links, Facebook Messenger chat, YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud. The company also lists Google PageSpeed optimization and HTTPS security on paid plans. Hosting is included with free and premium plans. The free plan is a 30-day trial at no cost, with five pages, 500 MB storage, up to five booking services, five bookings per month, and up to three store products. It requires no credit card and ends automatically if the user does not upgrade.
Good
- Offers over 500 customizable templates
- Editor available on Android, iOS, and web
- Includes hosting with free and premium plans
- Lists store, booking, blogging, and SEO features
Watch out
- Free plan lasts 30 days and ends without upgrade
- Free trial limits pages, storage, bookings, and products
Who it suits
Website.com suits people building a website, store, or business site without coding experience. Its listed store and scheduling options may also suit users who need those functions, with limits depending on plan.
Verdict
Website.com combines site building and hosting with store, scheduling, and content features. Compare the trial limits and paid-plan details with the functions your site needs.
Plans and prices
From Website.com's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $4 a month | 2 GB storage · unlimited pages · 10 GB bandwidth · 15 sections/page · 10 MB uploads · 5 bookings/month · 10 store products · 67% off; regularly $12/month |
| Elite | $7 a month | 10 GB storage · unlimited bandwidth · 3 domain email accounts · 3 languages · 20 bookings/month · 25 store products · 59% off; regularly $17/month |
| Business Basic | $15 a month | 15 GB storage · 5 domain email accounts · 3 languages · 100 bookings/month · unlimited store products · 3 coupon codes · 32% off; regularly $22/month |
| Business Standard | $20 a month | 25 GB storage · 10 domain email accounts · 10 languages · 500 bookings/month · unlimited monthly orders · abandoned-cart recovery · 33% off; regularly $30/month |
| Business Advanced | $25 a month | 50 GB storage · 20 domain email accounts · 10 languages · unlimited bookings and orders · abandoned-cart recovery · product inquiry and personalized order forms · 40% off; regularly $42/month |
| Free Plan | Free | 5 pages · 500 MB storage · 5 booking services · 5 bookings/month · 3 store products · Website.com subdomain · 30-day trial; no credit card required |
| Free Website Plan (30-day trial) | Free | 5 pages · 500 MB storage · up to 5 booking services · 5 bookings/month · up to 3 store products |
The facts
Each one read from Website.com's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Password-protected pages, member accounts, member groups, staff permissions and site-wide access rules are available.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API and SDK extensibility
- No public API or SDK documentation is presented on the official pages; a G2 reviewer specifically requested clearer backend API integration guidance and reported limited documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Blogging
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Booking tools
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Contact forms
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Custom code
- The editor permits custom HTML sections, head and body code, verification meta tags and URL redirect rules.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Domain and hosting
- Website.com says hosting is included with free and premium plans, and yearly premium plans include one year of domain registration for selected extensions.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Ease of use
- The builder uses prebuilt layouts and lets users create a website without coding experience.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations and embeds include Google Analytics, social media links, Facebook Messenger chat, YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The terms prohibit reverse engineering, reverse compiling and deriving source code or service structure, indicating a proprietary closed service.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: domain fees
- Trustpilot reviewers complain about $20 charges for nameserver changes or domain transfers when cancelling.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: integrations and documentation
- G2 reviewers report limited third-party compatibility, difficult hybrid-cloud integration and insufficient backend/API documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: marketing and design depth
- G2 reviewers note no integrated email-marketing tools, restrictive design controls, few advanced features and clunky templates.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile editing
- Its mobile editor lets users edit sites from a smartphone and upload phone photos and files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Multilingual
- The multilingual editor supports more than 180 languages, custom language menus, language switching and multilingual SEO.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news: 2020 partnership
- A January 3, 2020 release announced Doteasy integration of Website.com Site Builder into its hosting plans at no extra charge.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company LinkedIn facts
- LinkedIn describes Website.com as a privately held internet company founded in 2005, headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, with 11–50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada (the vendor identifies this as the location of its hosting servers, not its headquarters).checked 19 Oct 2026
- Legal maker
- Crunchbase identifies the active private company as Website.com Solutions Inc., headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with 11–50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Limit: billing and refunds
- Trustpilot reviewers describe unexpected renewals, refund refusals, extra dispute fees and limited escalation paths.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: plan restrictions
- Trustpilot reviewers say tier limits can feel misadvertised and that some paid services or media capabilities were unavailable as expected.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: service and billing
- One G2 reviewer described slow replies, poor service and an unexpected card charge.checked 15 Oct 2026
