Squarespace versus WIX

[Yaz]

I own a small business that supplies commercial equipment and supplies to the commercial horticulture/greenhouse industry. Currently my site is with GoDaddy and find their templates to be bland with very little presentation flexibility, however, for the last few years its been good enough. Quite often when I am on our site making changes, adding products or general hygiene, it appears that GoDaddy IT is also working on things and my changes don't get published or changes just won't take. Then I have to call in for CSR and at that point I find out that my issue is a known issue that GoDaddy is working on. This happens more than I care to deal with. Today I spent 4 hours trying to get changes published and was told I would get an email when all was fixed. My changes finally happened and no email from GD.

At this point, we don't need complex ecommerce/transaction functions as we offer custom solutions. However, at some point I could see the need for that service with a limited amount of products for reorders. Any who, we are starting to add more products to our site and would like to do more marketing directly from our site and have better presentation. Before I get to far into building the GoDaddy site too far out, I am considering moving to another provider.

Anyone have experience with Wix or Squarespace or other? Good or bad? Do you experience the same issues? Also, do you know if the URL is transferable to another provider?

Thanks

 

[Cloneon]

If you own the domain name, you can take it anywhere you want.
As far as 'online' web presence, I discourage anything that will 'bind' you to them. So, develop using 'standards' and always import the latest html+. Portability is, impo, the single most important requirement.