SiteBuilder.com Review — Everything You Need to Know and 3 Better Alternatives

Before we give you a detailed run of SiteBuilder’s features, here’s an overview of the pros and cons of the platform.

(Collected from users' feedback on places like Trustpilot, G2, and others)

With a 1.1/5 rating on Trustpilot — SiteBuilder isn’t looking too hot.

If you're interested in learning why, keep reading since this SiteBuilder review has only just begun.

Here’s what we’re going to cover next:

Here’s the summary up front: if you want to build a professional-looking site with advanced features — SiteBuilder simply can’t do it.

But, if you’re looking to create a basic website that acts as a business card to showcase your professional services and provide contact means to your customers — SiteBuilder can pull it off.

(Not that it’s impressive for website builders to do that nowadays)

SiteBuilder offers a user-friendly, drag-and-drop editor that requires no coding knowledge whatsoever to use.

Here’s how you can use it to customize a SiteBuilder website of your own:

Unfortunately, it gets downhill from here… here’s what you can’t do with the drag-and-drop editor of SiteBuilder:

If we can describe all this with one word, it would be: limited.

You have limited customization options, limited functionalities, and limited room for scalability — safe to say these aren’t traits of the best website builders out there.

So if you’re someone who’s looking to create a business website to not only be presented in the online world but also bring in a sustainable income from traffic and leads, this site builder is not the best for you — that’s by a long shot.

If you’re looking to open an online store, or simply accepting customers’ payments for services you’re offering — you’re going to need to sign up for the ecommerce plan with SiteBuilder.

Then, you’re going to need to sign up for one of the packages of the ecommerce plan — Basic, Essential, Unlimited, and Professional.

Each one has different limits but generally speaking, you get inventory management features, default store pages, payment processors, shipping management tools, discount codes, and more.

That being said, SiteBuilder is only good for small online stores — it lacks the ability to scale ecommerce stores due to storage limitations as mentioned earlier, plus, it lacks advanced features like:

You can’t even edit any product page — that should give you a clear idea of how narrow the customizability is with SiteBuilder.

Nowadays, website statistics and tracking is an essential admin section to have in all modern sites — it gives you the ability to analyze the actions of your visitors, and use that to improve your whole website experience.

As far as we can gather info about this — SiteBuilder does provide website analytics natively with all plans, but they’re not anything sophisticated.

As with all of its features, keep your expectations as low as possible.

You can set the promotional period based on the subscription you choose for your plan (1 month, annual, bi-annual).

You have no way of turning off auto-renewal, and they state that you can cancel your account by calling their number.

There’s hope!

Don’t worry, not all website builders are SiteBuilder, in fact, here are 3 alternatives for SiteBuilder that do everything it does, but better in all directions.

But why stop there…

Get on the pros’ level with advanced features like A/B testing, deadline funnels, assistant accounts, evergreen webinars, and instant upsells — online store owners, in particular, would love this.

And if you can put all that on the side for a second…

What truly sets us apart from SiteBuilder is the amazing customer support team we have that’s ready to help you 24/7 — no matter how technical your issue is.

Maybe that’s why we have more than 1000 reviews on Trustpilot with an amazing rating of 4.9/5 — or maybe it’s because of how much value you get for absolutely free!

The Free plan offers you a free domain, a lifetime free SSL certificate, unlimited file storage, ability to send unlimited marketing emails, full access to the website builder, full access to templates, a blog with unlimited posts, and so much more — plus, it’s free forever.

You can save 30% on an annual subscription.

You also get a free migration for your online business — if you already have one — when you sign up for the Unlimited plan or any annual billing plan.

It’s a risk-free deal for you — nothing is stopping you from signing up right now to see if all our claims are true!

Wix provides hosting and has 7 pricing plans divided into 2 categories:

These are Wix’s affordable plans that’ll help get your website up and running.

They have varying limits in bandwidth, storage space, video hours, and the ability to get a free domain and remove Wix’s branding.

Other than varying storage space — all plans come with advanced features like abandoned cart recovery, scheduling services, automated reminders, memberships & packages, a ticket management system, and more.

Wix also has a — quite limited — free plan if you just sign up and want to have a feel for the platform and maybe publish a basic site under their domain.

No.

Here’s why:

With all of SiteBuilder’s shortcomings as a site builder — from the super basic features to limited customization options — they’re not the real reason why we can’t recommend anyone to use the platform.

Rather, the incredibly shady practices when it comes to handling customer data, the super vague billing process, and having an extremely bad reputation when dealing with customer inquiries are the real reasons why we advise staying away from SiteBuilder.

Alright, what did we learn today?

Since our Free plan is free forever, we won’t ask you for your card info if you sign up to experience it — go get your free account and try it out for yourself!

Cheerio!