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Square Online
Formerly Weebly

Overview

What is Square Online?

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.

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Popular Features

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  • Mobile optimization / responsive design (39)
    9.0
    90%
  • Code quality / cleanliness (36)
    9.0
    90%
  • Page templates (40)
    2.0
    20%
  • Library of website themes (40)
    2.0
    20%

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Pricing

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Personal

$9.00

Cloud
per month

Professional

$16.00

Cloud
per month

Performance

$29.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6 per month
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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.9
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.1
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Square Online?

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It is inexpensive, and aims to allow all users to easily create high quality sites, regardless of technical skill.

Pricing ranges from free to $25/month. All offerings include email and chat support; Pro and Business include phone support, as well as a site search, video & audio, and password protected pages. Paid subscriptions include a domain name (free for one year), and remove the Weebly link from the website.

Square Online is available in 11 languages (English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Dutch, and German).

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Square Online Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.

Square Online starts at $6.

Reviewers rate Internationalization / multi-language highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Square Online are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Weebly is a versatile website builder that has been used by various individuals and organizations to create professional-looking websites without the need for coding skills. Users have praised Weebly for its effectiveness, usability, and capability in creating customizable and visually appealing websites. It has been utilized by small businesses, educational programs, non-profit organizations, and marketing teams to build and maintain their websites to reach a wider audience and provide information online. Weebly's drag-and-drop interface and extensive features make it suitable for novice users as well as those with different levels of web design knowledge. It has also been used for social marketing purposes, allowing users to communicate and share reviews easily. Weebly's intuitive platform enables quick website updates, making it a time-saving solution for organizations and individuals alike. Additionally, Weebly offers an e-commerce platform that allows businesses to sell products online effortlessly. With its user-friendly interface and customizable templates, Weebly offers a flexible solution for creating websites for various purposes, from personal portfolios to small business websites.

User-Friendly Navigation: Many users have found Weebly to have a user-friendly navigation, making it easy for them to find what they were looking for. The intuitive interface and well-organized layout with buttons on the left-hand side allow for quick and convenient navigation between pages.

Drag and Drop Website Builder: Reviewers greatly appreciated the drag and drop website builder feature of Weebly. This powerful tool allows users to easily create web pages and blog posts by simply dragging elements onto the page without any coding or technical knowledge required. Users can spend more time on writing and gathering information rather than learning how to put a website together.

Professional Look and Feel: Users praised Weebly's professional look and feel, which helps their sites stand out from the competition. With the option to upload custom background or banner images, users can quickly create a polished and professional appearance in just minutes. The availability of a wide variety of beautiful templates further enhances the overall aesthetic appeal of websites created with Weebly.

Limited template options: Users have expressed disappointment with the limited selection of templates available on Weebly. Some reviewers feel that the templates are not up to date with today's website trends and do not offer visually appealing designs.

Lack of advanced SEO features: Several users have mentioned that they find the SEO functionality on Weebly to be elementary and lacking in custom options. They advise those who focus on SEO to avoid using Weebly as a platform.

Difficulty in migrating content: Users have found it complicated and challenging to migrate their websites from Weebly to another content management system. This can pose a problem for those who want to switch platforms or expand their website capabilities beyond what Weebly offers.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Weebly as our website designing platform. We needed an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop option to rebuild our website. WordPress is harder to use and isn't user-friendly. With Weebly, we can easily make changes when needed and it doesn't take a professional website designer to handle it.
  • Drag and Drop Ease
  • Easy page management
  • Easy to understand terms and pricing
  • Easy to purchase domains
  • The mobile app is almost worthless
  • The only way to insert a document is using Scribd, which shows the branding and isn't easy to view
  • There are very few themes to choose from. If you change a theme, items become misplaced and distorted.
Weebly is best used for people with a small business that need an easy-to-edit website. The purchasing with square integrates easily if needed, and I have used this feature with another company before. I would not recommend using this if you need an employee portal that is specific to a person. Multiple users do not seem to work well with this platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a variety of teachers and students who use Weebly in a variety of ways including digital portfolios, websites, blogs, student projects, and teacher reflections. Teachers are often looking for a way in which students can learn to share their voice and information with a greater audience. What we are finding is that teachers are promoting the idea of students creating a website or blog as part of a greater assignment or project in which they keep track of what they are doing and have check-ins where they post about what they are doing and what they have accomplished. Our English and Science Departments seem to use it the most, but this is an app that can be used in any discipline or subject matter.
  • Great drag and drop website or blog builder which lets students spend more time writing and gathering information than learning how to put a website together.
  • Professional look and feel with a modern touch. Students can upload a background or banner image and really make a basic site or blog look professional in minutes.
  • Love the option for students to decipher between building a full blown website or a blog. Often, if students are blogging, they don't need the whole gamut of site pages, etc. This lets them target their audience and style.
  • They offer a free version which is great for education and student made sites.
  • The embed code option is great for teachers creating a website so that they can embed other apps they use daily like padlet, thinglink, flipgrid, etc.
  • Wish there was a way to track website revision history when making changes/reversions.
  • Data and analytics features, which are great resources when teaching students about blogging and their effect to a wider audience is limited. Something more closely resembling what WordPress offers would be great. This hurts using Weebly as a blogging app.
  • The program is simple to use. Sometimes customization seems limited because of it.
If you are having students create websites or information pages about something they are studying in class, this is a great option. The fact that students can spend less time getting situated and learning the app and get right to work researching and creating their pages is great. For middle to high school, this is a fantastic app to use. However, if you want more nuanced analytics or want students to focus on blogging more than webpage building, this is limited.
September 07, 2018

My web designing tool

Pankaj Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
You don't need to have much knowledge about programming as Weebly provides you automated templates. You can just select, drag and drop and design your website as per your choice. In this way it helps me to design a website for my company and its customers.
  • Weebly provides its customer best speed and security which reduces the risk of hacking.
  • If you add a subdomain within your website then Weebly is free forever.
  • You don't need to have much programming knowledge. It provides you templates you just need to drag and drop them as per your choice.
  • Every system has sort, filter, and edit features. It has a pages section that shows all the pages on its site, and it allows you to drag and drop the hierarchy and click to edit each. But it not efficient.
  • The main disadvantage of Weebly is that if you move to different platform it becomes difficult for you to migrate your content and redirecting your URLs
  • You can do HTML editing, so most marketing tools can be added to it. But since you don't have overall control to the site and server it can be difficult or impossible for you to add.
As I mentioned before, Weebly allows for HTML editing, so most marketing tools and features can be added to your site. So as you don't have 100% access to the site and server, it can be difficult or impossible.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At our company we use Weebly as our primary tool for building, editing and hosting our company website. Weebly is an effective platform for companies that don't have a huge budget to hire developers to build their website. Weebly allows us to easily edit and control our website's content and design, quickly.
  • Weebly is easy to use. It's not hard to create web pages/blog posts and edit them with a convenient drag and drop builder.
  • Weebly templates are responsive and mobile friendly, so you don't have to worry about your site's appearance on a phone or tablet.
  • Weebly has e-commerce capabilities and is great for small companies just starting out in e-commerce.
  • Weebly doesn't have a lot of templates to choose from, so if you don't have any experience with CSS or HTML, it's hard to customize your site to an extent.
  • Weebly isn't fully SEO friendly. They don't allow you to add H1 tags to pages out of the box.
  • You can't create folder structures when it comes to web page URLs. You can put web pages under a main menu dropdown, but they don't allow you to put all sub-menu items in a structured folder (like site.com/folder/page-1 and site.com/folder/page-2).
Weebly is well-suited for small e-commerce companies that have limited budget and expertise for creating a website. If you need to come up with a website fast and aren't worried about heavy customizations, Weebly will be a good tool in the short-term. It won't take long for you to outgrow Weebly though.
Jennifer Lamas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This application was used specifically in a department of the company that since it was possible to create a web page for the offices of several states at a national level, to be used by those offices that did not have a page, it was very easy to create since you do not need to have knowledge in computer science, especially programming.
  • It is not necessary to have programming knowledge.
  • It is very easy to use because it has great editors and you can make eye-catching designs.
  • It is perfect for inventory management and order tracking.
  • You can place the type of currency you want to be used to buy on the page.
  • It does not stop loading new seedlings.
  • the information may be a little messy.
  • Telephone support is in English.
Weebly adapts very well to all the companies that require a website to make an online store, helps the company to grow at a professional level, which means that profits increase, you can view it from any device, it helps attract more customers.
Albina Walczak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Weebly has been used for over 1 year by our organization as a main website builder tool. All functions and tools are working properly, and we did not experience any mistake or errors on any of the features they provided. The best thing is drag and drop. It really changes the whole thing with simplicity and efficiency. And our customers have pretty nice thoughts about our website!
  • They have a trial version
  • Predesigned templates
  • They provide the perfect chance to create blogs and professional websites
  • Being an online application is awesome
  • Limitations on customization of templates
  • Original domains are expensive
  • More predesigned and specific templates would be great
First, I think Weebly is currently the best and easiest software to create and edit any website. Dashboard and overall design is wonderful and easy to navigate anything you want to do. You can add and work on font types, images, videos and other graphic sources, except personalize the templates. They have a lack of customization on this side.
January 16, 2018

Weebly

Ai Ashe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Weebly as a student portfolio resource. Students use Weebly to construct a website to post blogs and completed assignments as a way of documenting their learning throughout the semester. Students can also use Weebly to set up a demo reel.
  • User-friendly; simple interface
  • Awesome free templates to get students started quickly.
  • Allows for customizing
  • Pre-made template banners are hard to customize. Before the update, you could hover over a banner, obtain the pixel dimensions and recreate a customized banner on your own. Now, that feature has been taken away.
  • Greater selection of free images for educational use.
Great for digital portfolios. Wonderful for small business ventures that needed to develop a website to promote products/services. Less appropriate for classes that are not digital or use graphics: for example a math class. However, I believe that Weebly can be designed to fit any needs; a resource for flipped learning.
Stephanie MacMillan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Weebly both personally as a portfolio and living resume for myself as well as a recreational site for my current place of employment, Wyndham. For Wyndham, we use Weebly to share a virtual scavenger hunt for guests and bloggers that participate in social media. It's a fun way to get our guests engaged. Weebly is simple to use and navigate, easy to maintain or make changes and has plenty of options to customize.
  • Easy to customize. I love the many options Weebly offers to create customized pages.
  • I love the ease-of-use Weebly has. It is super easy to navigate and find what you are looking for. They even offer starter templates that you can customize.
  • I also appreciate that Weebly offers a free and paid version. The fact that I can use their free web-hosting and then buy a permanent link address is a great feature that I appreciate.
  • I love all the options Weebly has to offer, however, many of these options are stagnate in the sense that they cannot be manipulated. Some templates have fonts I would prefer to change and manipulate but Weebly doesn't allow it. I wish there was more freedom with font editing.
  • Editing shapes and placement of objects could be improved. Much like font, it is limited and would be amazing if there was a bit more freedom.
  • I wish there was a better variety of stock photos that don't look like stock photos for free. Sometimes the photos are just too cheesy to use and not everyone is a photographer.
It is truly perfect for any start-up or personal portfolio. It is really a great platform for those who are not professional web designers but want a professional looking platform with ease. I don't think it's great for web designers that want to build from scratch with their own personal codes or touches because its's not truly meant for that purpose.
Sarah Ciras Rousseau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Weebly is used within my program to create portfolios for teachers and students. The free web hosting and customizable elements are extraordinarily helpful for students and teachers alike. The program allows one to make something truly representative of themselves. It could also be used to create a class website or way to share other information.
  • Customizable, allows for creativity and expression.
  • Secure hosting, data and analytics are very helpful tools as well.
  • Free hosting also is a huge draw.
  • Weebly's web development integration could be smoother.
  • An educational license would be a nice improvement.
  • Getting started tutorials could be implemented.
Weebly could be very useful for long-term projects and classroom websites. They don't have a ton of interactivity though, so better integration with Google Suites would be helpful. Weebly is very easy to work with once you have played around with it a bit, so tech-savvy students could get a lot out of it.

Sarah Rahbari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Weebly is being used as a tool of social marketing in our office. Its currently being used only in our office. It address patients to communicate with us better thru social media contact and as well giving us reviews on how we are doing as a practice. We really enjoy using Weebly.
  • Communication
  • Having social media contact with patients that are younger
  • News and updates to our patients
  • More template options
  • Easier to maneuver when it comes to moving objects around
I think that Weebly can be used on any platform when it comes to business. Weebly is a essential tool that can be used in a variety of things. Most companies are familiar with Facebook Pages, but I think Weebly has more of a diversity of making the page look the way you want for your company.
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