For business owners
A professional website you can actually run yourself.
Update pages, improve how you appear in search, check accessibility and handle customer requests—without learning web design.
Made for people with a business to run
Change the website, not your job title.
Habitat turns website tasks into clear decisions: what to say, what to show and when to publish. The technical work stays out of your way.
Make changes in context
Update words, images and pages while looking at the website your customers will see.
Keep customer work together
Handle enquiries, bookings and reserve-and-collect orders without stitching together extra tools.
Improve how people find you
Follow clear SEO guidance for every page instead of learning search-engine terminology.
Publish with confidence
Preview changes on desktop and phone, check common accessibility issues and restore an earlier version.
Know what is ready before it goes live.
Plain-language checks help you improve search visibility and catch problems such as missing image descriptions, confusing heading order and hard-to-read colour combinations. No standards manual required.
Turn website visits into useful customer action.
Keep the website and the requests it creates together instead of paying for, learning and connecting another tool for every job.
Bookings
Set your services and availability, then keep new requests visible in a clear diary.
Enquiries
Collect customer questions and contact details with the right consent, ready for follow-up.
Reserve & collect
Show products and stock, accept reservations and prepare orders for payment at collection.
The essentials, without assembling a stack.
Journi hosting, every built-in capability, new themes and blocks, and future platform updates are included. Habitat covers pages, repeatable content, customer requests, local commerce, discoverability and safe publishing in one consistent experience.
| Capability | Habitat£15 all-inclusive | WixCore | SquarespaceCore + Acuity | WordPress + WooPressable + Bookings | ShopifyBasic + booking app | PrestaShopHosted + module |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual page building | Built in | Built in | Built in | Core editor or builder plugin | Theme editor | Themes or modules |
| Reusable collections and directories | Built in | CMS collections | Content collections | Content types and plugins | Metaobjects and catalog | Catalog and modules |
| Bookings and service diary | Built in | Wix Bookings | Acuity Scheduling | Plugin or Woo extension | App | Module |
| Enquiries and customer forms | Built in | Built in | Built in | Plugin | Basic forms or app | Core contact or module |
| Search and page-quality guidance | Guided checks | SEO and accessibility tools | SEO and site-audit tools | Usually plugins | Built-in SEO controls | Core controls and modules |
| Products, stock and reserve / collect | Built in | Built in | Built in | WooCommerce | Built in | Built in |
| Online checkout and payments | Coming soon | Built in | Built in | WooCommerce gateways | Built in | Built in and gateways |
| Core website work in one workspace | Integrated | Integrated | Integrated with product add-ons | Host, theme and plugins | Commerce-led workspace | Commerce-led with modules |
| Platform ads on a live business site | No platform ads | Free plan shows Wix branding | No permanent free plan | Free plan shows ads | No permanent free plan | No platform ads |
| Themes, blocks and platform updates | All included as Habitat grows | Platform updates included; premium apps extra | Platform updates included; add-ons separate | Core updates included by host; themes and plugins renew separately | Platform updates included; apps and paid themes extra | Core, module and theme maintenance varies |
| Bundle price | £15 / month · all-inclusive | US$36 / month · Core | £41 / month · Core + Acuity Starter | US$25 / month hosting + US$249 / year Bookings | £25 / month + US$15 / month booking app | €29 / month + booking module |
You get an all-in-one builder, reusable CMS content and day-to-day business tools without having to connect and maintain separate products.
One subscription covers the website, hosting, built-in tools and future Habitat updates.Prices use each provider's month-to-month option where one is offered and were checked 22 August 2026; provider currencies are retained. WooCommerce Bookings is only sold annually, so its published US$249 yearly price remains separate from Pressable's US$25 monthly hosting plan. Squarespace combines the £23 monthly Core plan with £18 monthly Acuity Starter. Shopify combines its £25 monthly Basic plan with the US$15 monthly Easy Appointment Booking Standard plan. VAT, payment fees, domains and other paid themes, apps or modules may add cost.
A better website workflow
Spend less time managing the website.
Explore the product in full or see the blocks and extensions available for different kinds of business.