I already have a Wix site. Can I switch?

Yes. Fill in the brief like anyone else — we build fresh rather than importing, which takes the same 48 hours — and your domain points to the new site when you approve it. Domains registered through Wix transfer.

Isn’t Wix’s $17 plan cheaper than hiring you?

On the sticker, close. Add email and the after-year-one domain renewal — plus your own hours writing and building — and Wix costs more by month twelve. Our $10 includes the building and the writing.

What if my business outgrows five pages?

Then say so, honestly — a big catalog store belongs on a platform like Wix. Your domain is yours from day one, so leaving us costs nothing but the forwarding.

Plainsmith vs Wix

Wix hands you every tool. The job is still yours.

Wix is the most capable builder in the category — a free tier, and an AI that drafts a site from a conversation. The comparison isn’t about capability. It’s about whose evenings the website costs.

Where Wix wins

Be fair to it: the free tier is real, the App Market runs to hundreds of add-ons, and no builder gives you more design control if you enjoy having it. Its new AI builder produces a working draft fast. And if your plans go past five pages — a real store, online bookings, a loyalty program — Wix grows in directions we simply don’t. Want to run your own site and keep expanding it? Wix is a fine answer.

The difference is who carries the job

Wix is software you operate. The AI drafts the site; then you fix the copy, which arrives as a generic first draft, pick the apps, wire the domain, add email as a paid extra, and carry the webmaster job from that day on. There’s one more catch buyers rarely see coming: a published Wix site can’t switch templates. Changing your look means building a new site and copying the content over by hand. Plainsmith is a service: ten minutes of questions, and a finished site — every word written in your trade’s language — is live in 48 hours. Edits are an email, because running the site is what the $10 buys.

	Wix	Plainsmith
Who builds it	You, with an AI draft as a starting point	A person, from your 10-minute brief, live in 48 hours
The words	AI draft, generic until you rewrite it	Written for you, checked against how your trade actually talks
Realistic price	About $17–$29/mo billed annually; email ~$6/mo extra; domain free year one, ~$17/yr after	$10/mo or $90/yr all-in; two edits a month included; domain at exact registry cost
Changing the design later	Published sites can’t switch templates — new site, manual copy-over	Email us and we rebuild the page; a full redesign is quoted separately
Leaving	The site lives inside Wix; you rebuild elsewhere	Domain yours from day one; $300 buys the whole site outright, anytime

The year-one math

A service business on Wix realistically needs the Light plan (about $204/yr billed annually) or Core if you take payments or bookings (about $348/yr) — plus roughly $72/yr for a professional email address. Call it $275 to $420 for year one, before you count the hours you spend building and rewriting. Year two adds the domain renewal, around $17. Plainsmith’s whole first year runs $90 to $120, plus your domain at exact registry cost — usually $10 to $12.

Pick whichever is honest for you

Pick Wix if you want to start free and enjoy designing your own site — or your plans include a real store or booking system beyond a five-page business site.
Pick Plainsmith if you'd rather answer ten minutes of questions and have every future change be an email — a finished site in two days, $10 a month.

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Fair questions

I already have a Wix site. Can I switch?: Yes. Fill in the brief like anyone else — we build fresh rather than importing, which takes the same 48 hours — and your domain points to the new site when you approve it. Domains registered through Wix transfer.
Isn’t Wix’s $17 plan cheaper than hiring you?: On the sticker, close. Add email and the after-year-one domain renewal — plus your own hours writing and building — and Wix costs more by month twelve. Our $10 includes the building and the writing.
What if my business outgrows five pages?: Then say so, honestly — a big catalog store belongs on a platform like Wix. Your domain is yours from day one, so leaving us costs nothing but the forwarding.