Is Weebly Shutting Down? What Weebly Site Owners Should Do Now

Weebly is not shutting down everywhere, but it has closed in 67 countries. Square, which owns Weebly, stopped new page publishing there on 29 June 2026, unpublished those sites on 27 September 2026, and will end account access on 26 December 2026. In the countries not on the list, including the United States, India, the UK, Canada and Australia, Weebly still runs, though Square encourages new sites to be built on Square Online instead.

This guide is for owners of Weebly websites and stores, and the agencies that look after them. It explains who is affected, what to save before the deadline, how to move your domain, and how to choose where to go next.

#What Square actually announced

Square published a notice on Weebly's support site called "Upcoming Changes to Weebly's Global Operations". It says Square has decided to wind down Weebly services in 67 countries by 20 September 2026, because of changes in regulation and to simplify its global operations.

For customers in those countries, the notice sets three dates:

The list of affected countries includes, among others, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, South Korea, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Egypt, Kenya, Oman, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Ukraine and Russia. Check the full list in the notice, linked under Sources.

India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are not on the list. Khaleej Times reported the same 67 countries and dates (opens in a new tab) in July 2026, based on the email Square sent to affected customers.

#If Weebly still works in your country

If your country is not on the list, your site keeps running for now. Weebly's support page on the future of the builder says Square has "no plans to discontinue the Weebly website builder at this time". The same page encourages new sites to be built with Square Online and says that is where the most up-to-date features are.

That is not a reason to panic, but it is a reason to plan. A builder whose owner recommends a different product for new sites is unlikely to gain major new features. If your site works and brings in enquiries, you can keep it while you plan a calm move on your own timetable. If you need features Weebly does not offer, now is a sensible time to move.

#What to do now if your country is affected

Follow these steps in order, and finish them well before 26 December 2026.

1. Download your account data. Weebly's notice says to go to Account Settings, then My Data, then Download My Data. This is your record of content and data held in the account.
2. Archive each site. For a single site, the notice points to Website, then Edit Site, then Settings, then Archive. Save the file somewhere safe, not just in your downloads folder.
3. Check what you actually have. Open the files and confirm your pages, images and blog posts are there. A downloaded archive is a record of your content, not a working website, so features that ran on Weebly's servers, such as forms and checkout, will need rebuilding.
4. Save business records separately. Export product lists, orders, customer details and form entries from your Weebly dashboard where it offers an export, and keep copies of any invoices you need for tax.
5. Collect your page addresses. Make a spreadsheet of every page address on your site. You will need it to set up redirects once the new site is live. If the site is already offline, your Google Search Console account, your analytics reports and the archive file can help you rebuild the list.
6. Transfer the domain if you bought it through Weebly (see the next section).
7. Ask Weebly support about Google Workspace if you bought business email through Weebly. The notice says to contact Weebly to transfer a Google Workspace account directly to Google.

The notice also says you can ask Weebly to erase your data once you have downloaded it. Do that only after you have checked the download.

#Moving a domain bought through Weebly

Your domain name is the one asset that carries your reputation, your email and your search history, so move it carefully. Weebly's notice lists the steps and the rules that trip people up.

1. In the Weebly dashboard, go to Websites, then Domains, then Manage and Manage Domain on the domain you want to move.
2. Turn off the Registrar Lock to see the authorisation code (often called the EPP code). Copy the whole code.
3. Start the transfer at your new registrar, which will ask for that code.
4. Do not change the domain's contact details (name, email or phone) before the transfer. Under ICANN policy, changing them puts a 60-day lock on the domain.

If your site lived on a free weebly.com address rather than your own domain, there is nothing to transfer and no way to redirect that address to a new site. You will be starting your search presence again on a new domain, which makes the next steps more important.

My domain, DNS and Cloudflare setup service covers transfers like this, and the domain and business email setup guide explains how domains and email records fit together. If you also need to move mailboxes, see business email setup.

#Where to move your Weebly site

Choose the new platform by what your site needs to do over the next few years, not by which one looks most like Weebly.

Square's help centre lists card processing in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Spain, and says it does not support card processing outside those countries. If you are in one of them and already sell with Square, Square Online is the natural step. Everywhere else, look at the other four.

For a closer look at the two simplest choices, see Squarespace vs Wix for small businesses. For ownership and long-term cost, WordPress vs Wix vs Squarespace compares all three, and what a website builder site really costs adds up the yearly bills.

#Keeping your search rankings

A move off Weebly is a rebuild, and rebuilds lose traffic when old addresses stop working. If you kept your own domain, you can protect most of what you built:

• Keep the same domain name and, where possible, the same page addresses.
• Where addresses change, set up a permanent (301) redirect from each old address to its new page.
• Carry across page titles, descriptions and the main text of pages that bring visitors.
• After launch, check Google Search Console for errors and submit the new sitemap.

If your affected site has been offline since September, some rankings will already have slipped. Getting the same content back on the same domain with the old addresses redirected is still the fastest way to recover. My article on why redesigns lose search traffic lists the checks in more detail.

#When to get help

You can handle the downloads yourself, and you should do them today if your country is affected. Get help when:

• the site is your main source of enquiries or sales and you cannot afford a long gap;
• you have a store with products, orders and customer accounts to move;
• the domain or email was bought through Weebly and you are unsure about transfers, locks or DNS records;
• you have dozens of pages or blog posts and need every old address redirected.

My Weebly support and migration service covers the whole move: a check of your account, saving your data, the domain and email, the rebuild on the platform that suits you, and redirects, with a fixed written quote once the page and product count is clear.