Square/Weebly JUST emailed to say Weebly will cost 3X what it did last year.....

[mary896]

So I pay $300/yr to use Weebly....in 3 weeks I will be charged $864 if I want to keep my store's website.  UMMMMM, that is a HUGE MASSIVE INSANE price increase!  And with only 3 weeks notice....WTF??!?!  I can't rebuild my company elsewhere in just a handful of days.  Thanks so much for the notice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  NOT.  Wow, I'm so angry.  There's NO WAY I'm staying with Square, I can't trust your company, at all.  Not when you pull this kind of nasty thing on your customers.  I'm getting out, I don't know how, but I will.  The last bit of respect I had for Square, which was very low already, is GONE.  You SUCK Square! 😞

[Summer2024 · Accepted solution]

Hi there, @mary896. 

I think there has been a lot of confusion surrounding the plan pricing emails that went out. 

Weebly is moving away from Business Site plans and moving to the pricing model listed here.

However, your Business Site plan JUST renewed. You are good to go with your current website plan until October 2026. When your site plan expires, you will need to choose one of the plans listed in the pricing resource or you will automatically be bumped to the Premium plan and its pricing. The reason why it jumped to the Premium site plan option is because it is the only site plan that offers real time shipping besides the Business Site plan, which is what you are currently on. The system automatically bumps to the next plan that contains all the same features. 

If you are not using real time shipping, the Weebly Professional or Performance plans will contain most or all of the features you are working with now, just without real time shipping being available. 

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

[mondobop]

Hi. I am a dev with many client sites on Weebly, one of which is over 200 pages. Currently there is a notification on the Weebly support site (https://www.weebly.com/app/help/ca/fr/topics/weebly-website-builder-support-update) that says "At this time, we can only commit to supporting the Weebly editor until July 2025."

Does this mean that users who have not migrated elsewhere by that date will be left with a platform that's increasingly nonfunctional?

Does it mean that all users will be migrated to the Square Online Builder?

For larger sites, migration can take many months and is a cost that must be factored into fiscal calendar budgets. We need to know NOW if we need to migrate so we can begin planning for it. Please explain. Thank you.