While Square Online (formerly Weebly) is often seen as an entry-level website and CMS for businesses, marketers, and content publishers, its revamped and robust features offer so much more. Offering a free version and paid options, Weebly enables its users to build the websites and the content properties that they want, the way they want it. Responsive themes ensure mobile compatibility and optimized user experience across all screen sizes while powerful design capabilities pave the way for engaging, visually enticing, and on-brand content. In addition, native e-commerce functionalities such as order and inventory management, secure checkout and payment processing, and sales analytics make it a viable option among merchants to sell physical products, services, and digital goods.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Speed plus design, font, color, layout options
Difficulty placing text and images and sizing images
Creating website. Ability to show work, skills, interests.
Was able to build my first two websites using Weebly. Easy to understand, even for a newbie. Great customer support when I needed it. Fast response.
Navigating the store and ecommerce integration has been difficult.
Promoting my online business and private practice.
Square online gave us a convenient way to pivot to online sales during the start of the pandemic
Inventory management and inability to fit around some of our order scheduling needs
Square online allowed us to easily transfer our in-store sales to an online pickup based platform
Easy to use platform for building and maintaining websites and correlating e-mail addresses.
I wish there was an option to change the theme on a singular page without it affecting all the other pages setup.
We needed a simple website to host information, domain-specific e-mail addresses, YouTube videos, newsletters, and sign-ups. Weebly offers all that (often with the help of additional widgets)
I liked how user-friendly the website is for building something that typically requires an expert web designer or computer specialist.
I disliked many of layouts that were provided.
I am solving web design. I also like how it solves the payment portion of an e-commerce shop. It makes it easy to get a website design started.
I love Weebly, it's so easy to use if you have no web design experience.
I dislike that there are not many customization options, like leading and kerning, but for ease of use it's fine.
We have a professional looking website that was fast and easy to make and user friendly.
It's very simple and easy to use, keeping web design drag and drop to simplicity
It's sometimes too simple - functions can be limited as you can't customize or edit a lot of the actions
Create websites quickly and easily.
I like that Weebly makes it fairly easy for non-coders to create websites with their WYSIWYG builder. If you have coding skills, it is even more customizable. I also like the ease with which you can build forms and databases.
The builder can sometimes be frustrating to use, since it's not always precise. It's also fairly expensive--I tell my clients that you pay more for the convenience, but I'm not sure it's always worth it.
It definitely makes it easy for clients who are overwhelmed by the prospect of creating a website to tackle it.
I like that Weebly is a format that students get excited about using. They feel like posting their thoughts online gives them more validation.
Sometimes, Weebly web page design can get overwhelming for the kids.
I have realized that when students are sharing their thoughts on a website, like Weebly, they're more likely to "say more." They dont write the bare minimum, or only write what their friends think is cool. They really give the topic some thought and write well.
I love how easy it is to navigate and customize to become your own unique page!
Not much, probably the cost associated with removing ads and Weebly watermarks.
Weebly provides a whole webpage for me to build upon with helpful templates and resources to make it look super professional and awesome
I have been an avid user for well over four years. Weebly has done at excellent job of formatting their interface and tools to fit the needs of G Suite.
The drag and drop options that typically work when using Weebly on Chrome are much slower.
Business problems consist of time management and efficiency, especially being Weebly is much faster in other settings.
Weebly is a very user friendly in terms of building your own website. There are a lot of templates and features that allows you to create a professional looking website in no time at all.
Some features are standard and cannot be customizable. If you are very critical about certain aspects of your website, it may be hard to find a customizable feature.
Weebly is useful in quickly building a website for events pages. It is easy to use and it gets the job done.
Easy to navigate and create pages, nice tools to view...views. If you're code savvy, you used to be able to edit things out (like the weebly logo). The majority of their templates are mobile responsive. Images loaded quickly, it had nice gallery options. It was easy to set up a domain you own to it, without giving up any of your ownership or being locked down to them. New templates are getting better, but still don't feel super luxe.
I felt like there was a lack of easy customization options, especially with super silly easy things like fonts and box colors. When I used it, you weren't even able to upload custom social media icons. Old designs were SUPER cheesy, which was a factor of why I left. I visited them while writing this review and they seemed to have improved! However, as it's an unpopular platform all-and-all, it's very hard if not impossible to find templates by custom designers/etsy/etc. I didn't feel like there were many apps to use for things such as forms, etc.
it seems like they were on the mobile-responsive train pretty early on.
Weebly is incredibly user-friendly. Depending on your plan, you can customize your website, or use one of their existing templates. Everything is laid out for you so there isn’t any guesswork.
You either have to pay for the whole year up front, or basically pay double to pay monthly.
We are able to quickly generate web pages and buy domain names all from the same place.
Very easy to build a website and set up an online store
The price keeps going up, and they have made it harder to implement my own PayPal integration system. This forces me to pay for their business plan.
Create and maintain website, sell merchandise online
Easy to use, reliable service, super quick set up and lower cost,
Very rigid, not easy to customize, and their site editor has huge flaws. You can’t for instance start to make a change and then undo the change. So if you make a mistake you are screwed, also SEO is hard bacuse you can’t add alt text to all images. Little things like rounding buttons and pictures is next to impossible. I guess if you want basic and easy they are in. You want a little more.. look else where
Build a website and online presence. I got that but, when the contract is up will be looking for something else.
I liked their free built-in templates. You can literally create a whole new website in a few minutes.
It's very slow, not many options to customize. So, basically, it's not a flexible tool. I wouldn't recommend it for big projects.
I used it when I was working at a Non-profit. We created a couple of static websites for our events and our campus program. It's very easy-to-use although I couldn't find any decent how-to guide. It doesn't require you to know any HTML/CSS or PHP. I had colleagues who had no experience with the web at all using this platform very professionally after a quick intro.
The ease of use to create a great looking website! The ease of customibility is amazing!
Sometimes the formatting is a little difficult to manipulate.
I use Weebly for school and I am currently using it to create a web for my tutoring business.
Easy to design and pretty templates. Sleek and clean looking on mobile, too.
Once I am logged into my account it is very difficult to find the "Build A new Website" page or link.
Client had limited funds and only neede a 3-5 page website as well as access to make updates.
I do like the fact that you can create a website. its a decent format, But not one of the best
The layout is confusing,and annoying and could be better
Not really any