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A Weebly alternative for rebuilding an older site
Weebly is a drag and drop website builder, now part of Square, with ecommerce, email marketing, SEO tools and an app centre. Many small business sites on it were built years ago. OneCraft Sites can read your current Weebly pages and write a new site from them into sections you edit in panels.
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Nuwan Madhusanka · Co-founder
2 min read · Published
The short verdict
Weebly suits an owner whose site works, who sells through Square and wants real time shipping rates, abandoned cart recovery and email marketing in the same place. OneCraft suits an owner whose site looks dated and who wants the AI to rewrite it into a modern, mobile first site with a store, inbox and stats, without learning a new editor.
| Feature | Weebly | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Plans and prices are published on Weebly's pricing page and are not restated here checked 2026-10-13 | Per account: Free $0, Starter $8, Pro $25 and Pro+ $125 a month |
| Building | Weebly's powerful drag and drop website builder and guided set up get you to the finish line faster, no coding needed. checked 2026-10-13 | The AI writes the site from a brief and up to 3 of your existing pages; you edit sections in panels |
| Store management | Complete platform to manage inventory, track orders and handle taxes checked 2026-10-13 | Products, variants, stock per variant, orders, customers, tax settings and low stock |
| Advanced commerce | real-time delivery, abandoned cart, coupons and currencies checked 2026-10-13 | Discount codes and fixed rate shipping zones; no abandoned cart emails or live carrier rates |
| Email marketing | Engage your customers and promote your brand with emails you design and send in minutes checked 2026-10-13 | Newsletter sign-ups collected in the inbox and exported to CSV; no sending |
| SEO | SEO tools to find customers, climb the ranks and stay on top checked 2026-10-13 | SEO card plus canonical, sitemap, robots and LocalBusiness JSON-LD on publish |
| Apps | Choose from over 200 high-quality apps that make it simple to add advanced features like appointment scheduling, accounting, live chat and more. checked 2026-10-13 | No app market; YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps and OneCraft forms are built in sections |
| Editing on the go | Weebly is the only platform that lets you edit and manage your site or store from any device. checked 2026-10-13 | The builder and store screens work on phones; the admin installs as an app with push alerts |
| Shipping | Real time shipping rates checked 2026-10-13 | Fixed rates per zone with free over amounts and pickup locations |
Where Weebly is better
Live shipping rates and cart recovery
Weebly lists real time shipping rates and abandoned cart recovery. OneCraft shipping is fixed amounts per zone and there are no abandoned cart emails, so a shop with varied parcel sizes may prefer Weebly.
Email campaigns built in
Weebly lets you design and send marketing emails that sync with the site and store. OneCraft collects sign-ups but sends nothing, so you need a separate email tool.
An app centre
Weebly offers more than 200 apps for scheduling, accounting and live chat. OneCraft has no app market, only the built in sections.
Where OneCraft is different
It can rewrite your old site
Paste up to three addresses of your current Weebly site into the generator and the AI reads them for services, hours and details before writing a fresh site. You start from your own content in a new design, not a blank template.
Mobile first by construction
Sites are made of tested sections checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths with contrast held to WCAG AA, so an old desktop shaped layout does not carry over.
A store paid into your Stripe account
Checkout is Stripe Checkout on your connected account, with stock held during payment, discount codes, shipping zones, pickup and digital downloads.
Weebly today
Weebly pages link to Square Online for new online stores, and Square has renamed its own builder to websites. For a long standing Weebly site, the practical question is less which logo is on the editor and more whether the site still serves phone visitors and current customers.
Rebuilding without retyping
The OneCraft generator reads the public pages you paste under Your existing pages. Give it your home, services and contact pages, write two lines on what changed in the business, and generate. Then replace old photos, check prices and hours, and publish to a onecraft.live address before switching your domain.
Keeping your domain
If your domain is registered through Weebly or Square, you keep it and point it at the new site by adding the TXT and CNAME records shown in OneCraft site settings, on a paid plan. Make the switch only after the new site is published, so visitors never see a gap.
Who should stay with Weebly
Stay with Weebly if you rely on Square for in person sales, need live carrier rates or abandoned cart recovery, or use its email marketing. Move if your site needs a full rebuild and you would rather the AI did most of the writing.
Questions people ask
Can OneCraft import my Weebly site?
Not as a direct import. The generator reads up to three public pages of your Weebly site and uses their content to write the new site, which carries over services, hours and wording. Images are not copied, so upload the photos you want to keep.
Is Weebly still supported?
Weebly continues to operate as part of Square, and its pages point new store owners to Square Online, now called websites. Check Weebly and Square help pages for current plans and support before deciding to stay or move, since the products change over time and your domain and store settings may live in either account.
Which is easier, Weebly or OneCraft?
Both aim at owners without design training. Weebly uses drag and drop on a page. OneCraft has the AI write the site and you edit sections in panels, which removes layout decisions entirely. If you liked Weebly because it was simple, OneCraft will feel familiar.
Can I sell with OneCraft like on Weebly?
Yes on a paid plan: products with variants, collections, discount codes, shipping zones, pickup and digital downloads, paid through Stripe Checkout into your own account. There is no point of sale integration, no live carrier rates and no abandoned cart recovery, so check those against how you sell today.
Will my Google ranking drop if I move?
A move can cause a short dip if page addresses change. Keep the same domain, recreate your main pages with similar topics, and let search engines recrawl via the sitemap. OneCraft publishes canonical tags and a sitemap automatically on every publish.
Try the website side of OneCraft
The button opens the generator with a starting prompt already filled in. Change the wording to match your own work before you run it.
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What the module actually does, feature by feature: the websites maker page.
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