FastPage vs Wix for hospitality websites

Wix has been around forever. They sell to everyone — venues, gyms, churches, ecommerce shops, freelancers. If you've used them before, you know the drill: pick a template, drag blocks around, browse the app market when you need a feature, click "Publish".

The drill is what makes Wix expensive in ways the sticker price doesn't show. But the drill is also what makes Wix powerful for the right buyer.

Where Wix genuinely beats FastPage

Wix's strength is breadth. A blog, an online shop, a forum, a members area, a thousand free templates, an AI builder that's genuinely decent, email marketing built in. If your venue needs a website AND a shop for branded merch or beans AND a paid newsletter AND a wholesale ordering portal, Wix is a legitimate one-stop-shop. We're not pretending that's nothing.

FastPage doesn't do any of those. We're a single-page venue builder, not a CMS. If you want to sell merch online, run an email marketing list, or build a membership portal, Wix is the right tool, not us.

Where the Wix bill grows

Wix's pricing page quotes a "Core" plan that gets you the platform. That's the base. The menu app you'll want is a third-party add-on with its own subscription. The booking integration is another add-on. The gallery app that doesn't look like 2014 is another one. Each of these is a separate monthly fee.

By the time you've added the apps a venue actually needs, the real bill is closer to double the headline. And if you ever decide to leave Wix, you start from scratch — Wix sites can't be exported.

The page-speed thing

Wix sites are famously slow. Not "I notice on my fast home wifi" slow — "the customer's phone gives up loading and they go to your competitor instead" slow. If you've ever pulled up a Wix site in the venue with one bar of reception, you know.

This isn't a fixable Wix problem. It's structural: Wix sites are built from a heavy framework of drag-drop blocks, and a lot of code has to load before the page renders. FastPage sites are small by design.

When each is right

Wix is right when you genuinely want feature breadth — a venue site AND a shop AND a newsletter AND a membership area — and you'll use the pieces. The bundle plus add-ons adds up but you get a lot for it.

FastPage is right when you want a clean, fast venue page and nothing else. One subscription, no add-ons, no marketplace.

Try FastPage free for 14 days. If your business genuinely needs Wix's breadth, you'll know — your needs go beyond a venue page. If you just need a venue page, save yourself the marketplace.