Webgerek vs Wix vs Squarespace: Honest Comparison for Small Businesses (2026)

You run a barbershop, a dental clinic, or a small restaurant. Your customers are searching for you on Google but you don't have a website. You start researching — Wix, Squarespace, WordPress — and the prices hit: $17/month, $29/month, $39/month. Want a booking system? Extra. Custom domain? Extra. Analytics? Extra.

This article compares three platforms — Webgerek, Wix, and Squarespace — with real pricing and real features, from the perspective of a local service business. Not an agency, not an online store, not a tech startup — a business that serves customers in person and needs a professional web presence without the complexity.

The goal isn't to say "we're the best." Check our features, templates, and pricing and judge for yourself. The goal is to lay out strengths and weaknesses honestly.

Pricing Comparison

All prices are monthly costs on annual billing.

Wix starts at $17/month with the Light plan, but this plan doesn't include ecommerce, booking, or analytics. For those, you need the Core plan at $29/month. That's the real starting price for most businesses.

Squarespace starts at $16/month with the Basic plan. But it charges a 2% transaction fee on sales, and their scheduling tool (Acuity Scheduling) is a separate product starting at $16/month. A hair salon that wants a website and online booking pays a minimum of $32/month.

Webgerek has a free plan. Not a 14-day trial — a genuinely free plan that includes all features: 14 website templates, booking system, QR menus, blog, FAQ section, Google Maps integration, and analytics. The only limitation is your domain is yourbusiness.webgerek.com. Want a custom domain? The Pro plan is $6.99/month.

Setting up a site with booking for a barbershop or restaurant: $29/month on Wix, $32-39/month on Squarespace, $0 on Webgerek.

Hidden Costs

Looking at plan prices alone is misleading.

On Wix, the custom domain that's "free for the first year" costs around $15/year to renew. Apps from the Wix App Market range from $3-20/month each. A professional email address via Google Workspace costs $6.50/month per mailbox.

Squarespace has similar add-on costs: domain renewal after year one, email marketing add-ons ($7-68/month), and the Acuity Scheduling subscription mentioned above.

On Webgerek's Pro plan, the custom domain is included. Hosting is included. SSL is included. CDN is included. Analytics is included. One invoice, one price. No surprise charges beyond the $6.99/month.

Booking System

For local service businesses — barbers, beauty salons, dental clinics, physiotherapists, personal trainers — online booking matters.

Wix includes Wix Bookings starting from the Core plan at $29/month. It's powerful: calendar sync, automated email reminders, online payments. But for a small business, much of this is unnecessary overhead.

Squarespace treats scheduling as a separate product: Acuity Scheduling starts at $16/month on top of your website subscription.

Webgerek includes a booking system on every plan, including free. The customer picks a date and time, enters their phone number, and gets a confirmation. The business owner views, confirms, or cancels from the dashboard. No Stripe integration, no online payment processing — because a barbershop or restaurant doesn't need online payments. The customer pays when they arrive.

Simple by design. Any business owner can set it up in two minutes.

Templates and Design

Let's be honest: Wix and Squarespace are significantly ahead here.

Wix offers over 900 templates with a drag-and-drop editor that gives you pixel-level control over every element. Their AI website builder can generate a complete site from a text prompt. In terms of design freedom, it's hard to beat.

Squarespace has around 195 templates, each designed by professionals and aesthetically excellent. Particularly strong for portfolio sites, creative agencies, and visually-driven projects.

Webgerek has 14 website templates and 6 QR menu templates. Every template is mobile-responsive, fast-loading, and SEO-optimized. There's no drag-and-drop editor — you enter content through a panel interface and the template generates your site automatically. This limits design freedom but eliminates the possibility of broken layouts.

There are 47 industry presets: barbershop, dental clinic, restaurant, lawyer, beauty salon, and more. Select a preset and your site comes pre-populated with appropriate content, colors, and structure for that industry.

If you want complete creative control and pixel-perfect custom design, Wix or Squarespace are the better choices. If you want a professional site in 5 minutes without touching layout settings, Webgerek delivers that.

QR Menus

For restaurants and cafés, QR menus are standard at this point.

On Wix, you need a third-party app for QR menus. Some are free, others charge $5-20/month.

Squarespace has no built-in QR menu feature. You'd need an external service and link to it.

Webgerek includes 6 different QR menu designs (Elegant, Swiss, Retro, Newspaper, and more). Add your categories and items through the panel, customize colors, and generate a QR code — all included, no extra charge. There's also a built-in menu translation feature that can automatically translate your menu into other languages for international customers.

Language Support

Webgerek's interface is available in both English and Turkish. Templates, booking pages, and navigation generate in your chosen language. For businesses in Turkey or serving Turkish-speaking customers, this means buttons say "Randevu" instead of "Booking" and "Yayınla" instead of "Deploy" — which makes a genuine difference for business owners who aren't comfortable with English tech interfaces.

Wix has been partially localized to several languages including Turkish, though support and documentation are primarily in English. Squarespace is English-only for the interface and support.

Ecommerce

Time to be straightforward: if you want to run an online store — sell products, accept payments, manage shipping — Wix or Squarespace are much better choices. Shopify too.

Webgerek is not an ecommerce platform. You can create a showcase page listing services and prices, but there's no shopping cart, no checkout flow, and no payment processing. This is deliberate: the target audience isn't online retailers — it's local service businesses that serve customers in person.

Wix's online store on the Core plan is genuinely comprehensive: product catalogs, inventory management, coupons, dropshipping. Squarespace also offers ecommerce on all plans. If selling products online is your primary business, those platforms have infrastructure refined over years and millions of transactions.

Performance and SEO

Webgerek sites are deployed as static HTML to Cloudflare's global CDN. Page load times are typically under 1 second regardless of where your visitors are. Every page includes automatic meta tags, Open Graph data, structured data (Schema.org), and optimized Google Fonts.

Wix has historically been criticized for performance, though they've improved significantly. Squarespace generally performs well. All three platforms include SSL certificates.

For a deeper look at SEO for local businesses, our SEO tips guide covers what actually moves the needle.

Who Should Choose What?

Each platform has genuine strengths, and the right choice depends on what you actually need.

Choose Wix or Squarespace if you're opening an online store, selling hundreds of products, or building a creative portfolio where visual design is the top priority. They have extensive app marketplaces, robust ecommerce, and ecosystems proven over millions of users. If your budget allows $29-39/month and you need advanced features, both are excellent.

Choose Squarespace specifically if design quality matters above all. Their templates are genuinely beautiful, and the editor enforces visual consistency. Great for photographers, designers, agencies, and restaurants that want a visually striking site.

Choose Webgerek if you're a barbershop, dental clinic, restaurant, beauty salon, law office, or similar local service business. Your budget is limited, you need booking and QR menus included without extra fees, and you want a professional site live in minutes — not hours. Webgerek was built specifically for this use case.

You don't need 900 templates if you need one good one for your industry. You don't need a $29/month plan if you're not using 90% of its features.

The Real Question

Most local service businesses don't use even 10% of what Wix or Squarespace offers — and they pay $29-39/month for features they'll never touch. The question isn't which platform has the most features. It's which platform has the features you actually need, at a price that makes sense.

Create a site in 5 minutes with the free plan — no credit card required. If you don't like it, you've lost nothing. If you want to compare costs in detail, our website cost comparison breaks down every pricing model.