Podia and Wix make it easy to build a website and blog. But while Wix is mainly known for being a website tool, Podia is an all-in-one platform where your customers, website, blog, email, memberships, products, courses, affiliate marketing, and everything else are automatically connected.

Let’s take a look at Wix and Podia’s plans and features to help you decide which is the best platform for you.

Podia and Wix plans and pricing

It’s free to build a website with Wix, you’ll need to upgrade to one of their premium paid plans to unlock most of the business-building features.

Wix’s Light plan costs $16/month (when paid annually, their website doesn’t show month-to-month billing prices) and includes a custom domain and the ability to remove Wix branding. It also includes 2GB of website storage space, 30 minutes of video hosting, and up to 4 email lead capture forms. Checkout and ecommerce features are not included in the Light plan.

The Core ($27/month, paid annually), Business ($32/month, paid annually), Business Elite ($159/month, paid annually) and Enterprise plans all include checkout and selling features, as well as increasing amounts of storage, video hosting, and lead capture forms. There are also more advanced marketing features and website analytics features as you go up.

With Podia, you can set up your website and start making money on the 30-day free trial. All plans come with unlimited website pages, unlimited blog posts, unlimited lead capture forms, unlimited customers, and unlimited landing pages.

Here’s a closer look at the Podia pricing plans:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, course creation, and third-party code.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus affiliates.

All Podia plans include all email marketing features (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.

If you sign up for a monthly or annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

With fewer limitations on all plans, Podia gives small business owners and entrepreneurs more room to try new things and grow, no matter what stage you’re at in your business.

Website and blogging features with Podia and Wix

Many people go to Wix to build their website and blog, but is it the best option for you?

Wix is a drag-and-drop website builder that comes with a large library of templates. You can choose from premade sections or add text, images, buttons, and other decorations anywhere you want on the page.

You can change the layout of your page elements down to the pixel, but some users find that this level of detail can also make designing your website more complicated. There’s nothing worse than pressing publish only to realize that some of your words are cut off because you accidentally dragged your text box halfway off the screen.

Wix also limits your website storage space on all plans except for the top-price Business Elite plan. Your storage covers your videos, images, audio, and files, and you’re capped on Wix’s lower-tiered plans. You’re also limited by how many hours of video you can add to your website, with the lowest tier Lite plan including only 30 minutes of video footage.

Podia comes with dozens of pre-built sections like text, images, bios, FAQs, testimonials, categories, grids, email forms, product lists, and feature banners that you can customize to match your branding.

The sections look great out of the box, and there are hundreds of different layout, color, and style options to choose from. All combinations have already been tested so anything you pick will look good on desktop and mobile — you don’t have to worry about creating something that looks wacky when you press publish.

Podia lets you design your blog posts and blog archive pages using the same easy website builder. Add an author bio, change the featured image layout, share an email opt-in form at the bottom of every blog post, change the color of your fonts and backgrounds — anything you want, you can make.

Podia also has a media library with storage for up to 1,000 videos so you don’t have to worry about running out of room. Plus, if you want a quick way to get in touch with your website visitors, you can enable customer chat messaging on all plans.

On the technical side, both Wix and Podia include website hosting and allow you to connect a custom domain.

Selling digital products and checkout

When it comes to selling digital products, Podia has lots of features to make your online business run smoothly. Sell unlimited digital downloads, webinars, coaching sessions, online courses, and product bundles, and set up advanced checkout features like upsells, seat limits, access durations, and product waitlists.

You can make products free or paid, and Podia automatically keeps track of your customer’s information (which can be very helpful for your future email marketing campaigns). For payment processing, you can use PayPal or Stripe.

With Wix, you can only sell digital products on the Core plan and above and there are several add-ons to expand the functionality of your site.

For instance, you can accept calendar bookings, sell in-person event tickets, and manage online restaurant orders and restaurant reservations on the Core plan and above. There are also hotel management tools and fitness business features available on Core plans and up.

That said, these features all heavily lean toward in-person businesses and products. There isn’t a built-in course feature, webinar feature, coaching feature, or online community platform with Wix, so you’ll need to connect separate tools to sell these product types.

In short, Wix isn’t great for course creators, but if you’re running a restaurant or hotel business, it may be worth checking out Wix for these niche-specific features.

Email marketing with Wix and Podia

In addition to websites and blogging, Podia and Wix both have built-in email marketing functionality. Podia Email plans are based on subscriber count, and Wix email plans are based on the number of emails sent.

Wix’s free plan lets you send a total of 200 emails per month. This includes newsletters and automated emails, and there’s no email scheduling on this plan. When you set up your newsletters, you can choose from a premade Wix email template or create your own from scratch.

To get more features, you can upgrade your plan to get access to 500 monthly email sends, automated emails, and analytics. At this upgraded tier, you can schedule emails. You can move to higher tiers if you need more email sends.

With Podia, you can send unlimited emails each month on all plans, and your plan only goes up if your subscriber count increases. Your first 100 subscribers are free.

All email plans come with all features, including advanced automations and campaigns, entrance and exit triggers, segmentation, filters, and tagging. There are also over a dozen professionally designed email templates that you can use as a starting point for your emails.

You can use Podia Email with any Podia base plan and upgrade your Email add-on as your list grows.

Simply put, Podia lets you build a beautiful website and blog for your business, but that’s just the beginning.

Your digital products, coaching, courses, and landing pages all live under one roof. You can manage your email marketing and build out an affiliate program too. All your customers and subscribers will be organized in one system that’s connected to your sales data and email list, so there’s less work for you behind the scenes.

And if you need help, our fast and friendly customer support is only a few clicks away.

Sign up for your 30-day free trial to see it yourself!