Best Website Builder Australia: 12 Options Ranked

The best website builder australia service businesses can pick depends on one question: is the site a brochure, or is it the front door to how you actually get paid? A café, a tradie or a photographer can do well with a general builder. A coach, consultant or practitioner who sells sessions, packages and programs needs the site to take bookings, collect payment through their own Stripe account, send an agreement before the first call and hand the new client somewhere to do the work between sessions. Most of the twelve tools below solve the first half. Very few solve the second.

Our pick is Coachful, a coaching platform whose website builder sits inside the same account that runs booking, payments, contracts, programs, courses, community and email. We make Coachful, so weigh that, but the ranking criteria are stated openly below and every other tool gets an honest "pick it over Coachful if" line. If you are a general small business with no client delivery, the checklist in the next section will point you to Squarespace, Wix, WordPress.com or Hostinger instead, and that is the right answer for you.

Australian specifics matter more than most roundups admit. Prices on vendor pages are mostly listed in US dollars, the GST registration threshold changes what your checkout has to do, the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles shape what you collect on intake forms, and a .com.au domain comes with eligibility rules. Each is covered below, with the official source named.

Which questions should you answer before choosing a website builder in Australia?

Answer these five questions about your practice before you look at a single template. They take five minutes and they decide most of the ranking for you.

1. Do clients book and pay for time with you? If yes, booking with availability rules, reminders and paid sessions needs to be native, or you will be paying for a second subscription (Squarespace pairs with Acuity, Showit with an embedded tool).
2. Does the work continue between sessions? Programs with weekly goals, habits and check-ins, or a course clients move through, push you towards a coaching platform rather than a general builder.
3. Are you registered for GST, or close to the threshold? The ATO says you must register once your GST turnover reaches $75,000 a year (ATO: registering for GST). Once registered you add 10% GST to taxable sales and need invoices that show it, so your checkout and invoicing must cope.
4. Will your intake form ask about health, finances or family? Sensitive information gets extra protection under the Australian Privacy Principles (OAIC: Australian Privacy Principles), so you want forms that land in one private client record, not scattered across email and spreadsheets.
5. How many tools are you willing to pay for and log into? A $25 builder plus a $16 to $55 booking app plus an email tool plus a course host is a different budget from one subscription, and the gap widens as you add clients.

Keep your answers handy. The table below maps them to a starting pick.

What do your answers point to?

Find the row that sounds most like your practice. If two rows apply, the one higher up usually wins, because client delivery is harder to bolt on later than a prettier homepage.

How did we rank these 12 website builders?

We ranked for Australian service businesses that deliver work to clients, not for online shops or hobby blogs. That focus is deliberate and it favours platforms that handle the client journey after the click.

Within the criteria below, "one login" means site, booking, payment, agreement and delivery in the same account, and "total stack cost" includes the booking and email tools a general builder lacks. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page as listed in October 2026, except Hostinger, whose Australian page we read in November 2026 and which shows AUD. Everything else is listed in USD, so convert at today's rate and remember that card processing fees are separate. We did not run hands-on tests; we report what vendors document and what public reviewers say.

Ranking criteria in one line: one login for the client journey, between-session delivery, total stack cost and setup effort with a free build service.

For the wider category view across all coaching niches, see our parent guide to the best website builder for coaches. If you mainly want the cheapest option, the cheapest website builder for coaches comparison goes deeper on budget plans.

1. Coachful: why is it the top pick for Australian coaches and service businesses?

Coachful ranks first because its website is not a separate product bolted onto your practice. The page a Melbourne career coach or a Perth health coach sends traffic to is built in the same account that books the call, takes payment through the coach's own Stripe account, sends the coaching agreement for e-signature and then delivers the program. One login for you, one branded app for your clients.

The website builder is section-based, with a blog, custom domain support (so your .com.au works), SEO settings, 30 designed homepage templates and an Import website option if you are moving from another platform. Around it sit booking, application, lead-magnet and checkout funnels with Meta Pixel, GA4 and UTM tracking, plus a link-in-bio page that sells. You are not stitching a booking widget into a page and hoping the confirmation email lines up.

Booking is where Australian coaches feel the difference. Booking pages have availability rules, buffers, minimum notice and time-zone detection, which matters when a client in Brisbane books across a daylight-saving boundary with you in Sydney, or when you take clients in New Zealand and Singapore. Calendars sync two ways with Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook, and each session gets built-in video or an auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams link. Email reminders are standard, with SMS 24 hours before and WhatsApp one hour before once messaging is enabled. You can ask intake questions at booking and sell paid sessions or session credits.

Payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account: one-time, subscriptions, payment plans, order bumps, coupons, refunds, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Stripe Tax is supported, which helps once you are registered for GST, and every transaction gets an invoice, with manual invoices available too. Coachful charges a 0% platform fee (since August 2026), so you pay only your processor's fees. PayPal is not supported.

After the sale, the site hands clients into delivery. Multi-week programs carry weekly goals, daily tasks, habits, morning and evening check-ins, goal progress bars and streaks. Courses with modules, drip and completion tracking, a community feed with group chat and video events, and cohort groups created automatically on enrolment all live in the client's branded home and app. Email lists, broadcasts and multi-step sequences with triggers, delays, branching and A/B splits are included in your Coachful membership, so the newsletter sign-up on your homepage feeds the same contact list as your clients.

Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from your live practice data: it drafts emails and page copy, builds programs, summarises recorded sessions and briefs you before calls. Questions and planning are included; confirmed builds use AI credits. For coaches pursuing an ICF credential, Coachful also counts coaching hours and distinct clients against ACC, PCC and MCC thresholds.

Here is a short walkthrough of the website builder:

Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. On every plan, you can open Create, choose "We'll build it for you" and describe the website, funnel, sales page, program, email sequence or link-in-bio page you want. Attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files such as your logo, photos and existing copy, and the Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing is invented: no fake testimonials, credentials or prices, and gaps are left for you to fill. Recent anonymised builds include a five-page site in sage and cream for a menopause and midlife health coach with every button leading to a free 20-minute consultation, and a single clean homepage with a repeated "talk with me" button for a leadership coach whose Squarespace renewal was days away. It does not cover video recording, logo design, ad management or ongoing marketing. Read more about the free white-glove service.

Where Coachful is the wrong fit. It is not a general website builder for non-coaching businesses, so a café, a building company or an online clothing shop should look elsewhere. There are no third-party plugins, no PayPal and no permanent free plan. It is not HIPAA-certified and not for clinical record-keeping or Medicare and health fund billing, so allied health practices that need a clinical system should keep one. The client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account.

Price: flat monthly plans, with lower plans capping the number of clients and Pro unlimited (current plans: Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients; Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; Studio: $199/month with unlimited clients). Monthly plans cancel in one click and there is a free trial. More on the builder itself at Coachful's coach website builder.

2. Squarespace: the design-first choice for brochure sites

Squarespace is the builder most Australian consultants already know, and for good reason: its templates look finished out of the box and the editor keeps you inside a consistent design system. For a service business whose site mostly needs to explain who you are and get an enquiry, it is a strong second.

Plans as listed in October 2026, in USD: Basic $25/mo ($19/mo billed annually), Core $39/mo ($29 annual), Plus $65/mo ($49 annual) and Advanced $139/mo ($99 annual). Squarespace pitches Core at service businesses. There is no free plan, and the 14-day trial needs no card, although trial sites cannot be exported.

The catch for coaches is booking. Online scheduling needs Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription listed at $16 to $55 a month billed annually, added to the site with a Scheduling block. Acuity brings intake forms, reminders, packages and memberships, so the combination works, but you now manage two accounts and two bills. Selling courses or memberships natively carries a Squarespace fee of 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced, on top of card processing. For an Australian coach selling a A$1,500 group program on Core, that 5% is roughly A$75 per sale before Stripe or Squarespace Payments fees (example figure).

What Squarespace does not do is deliver the coaching itself: no habit tracking, check-ins or per-client programs. Public reviewers on Trustpilot rate it 3.5 from more than 6,000 reviews.

Pick it over Coachful if your business is not coaching (a photography studio, an architecture practice), or you only need a beautiful site with an enquiry form and will rarely book sessions online.

3. Wix: booking included once you reach the Core plan

Wix suits general Australian small businesses that want a drag-and-drop editor with more built in than Squarespace. Its main advantage for service businesses: Wix Bookings, covering appointments and classes with online payment, is included from the Core plan rather than sold separately.

Listed prices in October 2026 (USD, annual billing): Light $17/mo, Core $29/mo, Business $39/mo and Business Elite $159/mo. The free plan needs no card, but you get Wix branding and no custom domain, so it will not carry your .com.au. Light cannot accept payments at all. There is no free trial of Premium plans; instead there is a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first upgrade. Wix lists no platform commission on sales; Wix Payments processing applies.

Beyond booking, the Pricing Plans app sells memberships, session packages and subscriptions, and the Online Programs app runs step-by-step courses, programs and challenges, with paid programs needing a payment-enabled plan. A Contacts CRM with segments and Wix Email Marketing round it out. So Wix can approximate a coaching back office, but it is assembled from separate apps inside the editor rather than built around a client record with goals, check-ins and session notes in one place.

Trustpilot shows 3.4 from over 29,000 reviews. As with every USD-listed tool here, budget for the exchange rate moving between renewals.

Pick it over Coachful if you run a mixed business, say a yoga studio that also sells retail, and want one general builder with bookings that does not need to be coaching-specific.

4. WordPress.com: when the blog is the business

Content-led consultants, the ones who win clients through long articles and search traffic, often end up on WordPress. WordPress.com is the hosted version: you get the WordPress editor and plugins without managing your own server.

Plans as listed in October 2026 (USD): Free, Personal $9/mo ($4 annual), Premium $18/mo ($8 annual), Business $40/mo ($25 annual), Commerce $70/mo ($45 annual) and an Enterprise tier with no listed price. The free plan runs on a wordpress.com subdomain with ads and no plugins. Plugins can be installed on any paid plan from Personal. WordPress.com charges a fee on paid subscriptions and payments that falls by plan: 10% Free, 8% Personal, 4% Premium, 2% Business and 0% Commerce. Refunds are available within 14 days on annual plans and 7 days on monthly.

For a coach, booking, courses and memberships all come from plugins. That flexibility is the appeal and also the cost: each plugin has its own settings, updates and sometimes its own subscription, and you become the person who makes them work together. The built-in newsletter with unlimited subscribers and paid content gating is a genuine plus for writers.

Trustpilot: 3.8 from about 4,200 reviews.

Pick it over Coachful if publishing is the core of your business, you want full plugin choice, and you are comfortable maintaining a stack of add-ons for booking and payments.

5. Showit: freeform design for visual brands

Showit appeals to brand-conscious coaches, stylists and photographers who want pixel-level control over desktop and mobile layouts separately. Its footer lists coaching among its target industries, though the product is aimed at creatives.

Pricing in October 2026 (USD): Showit alone $27/mo ($22 annual) with no blog; Showit with Basic Starter Blog $34/mo ($27 annual) for up to 10,000 blog visits; Advanced Blog $49/mo ($39 annual) for up to 25,000 visits, with higher-traffic tiers at $79 and $149 a month. Blogs run on Showit-hosted WordPress, and installing your own plugins needs the Advanced Blog plan. There is a 14-day trial without a card, though you cannot connect a domain during it.

Showit has no native booking, payments, store, member area or courses. It does not take a cut of sales because it does not process them; you embed HoneyBook, Dubsado or another tool for bookings and payments. For an Australian coach, that means a design tool plus a client management tool plus probably an email platform, each billed in USD.

Trustpilot shows a small sample: 1.8 from 16 reviews, so treat that as limited evidence.

Pick it over Coachful if the look of the site is your most important sales asset and you already run your clients through HoneyBook or Dubsado and do not want to move them.

6. Paperbell: a coaching-specific option for 1:1 packages

Paperbell is the closest direct substitute on this list: an all-in-one admin tool for solo coaches covering booking, packages, payments, contracts, a client portal and a simple coaching website. If your practice is one-to-one packages and little else, it removes most admin.

Paperbell lists a single plan as of October 2026: $97/mo or $970/yr (USD), with unlimited clients, sessions and packages. It includes scheduling, payments and packages, contracts, email workflows, forms, group coaching, video call integration, notes, digital downloads and online classes. Paperbell says there are no additional transaction fees; Stripe or PayPal processor fees apply. It offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The limits show once clients do work between sessions. Our profile notes no courses or LMS, no community and no goal or habit tracking, and no native mobile app (mobile browser only). The website is simple by design, so coaches who want a multi-page site with a blog and funnels usually add another builder. At $97 USD a month, Paperbell also sits well above most general builders for a solo practitioner just starting out in Australia.

Trustpilot: 3.5 from 14 reviews. Our Paperbell alternatives page compares it in more depth.

Pick it over Coachful if you only sell 1:1 packages, want PayPal as a payment option, and prefer one fixed USD price with nothing else to learn.

7. Kajabi: built for courses, community and funnels

Kajabi is a knowledge-product platform: courses, community, website, funnels and email, aimed at people whose income comes from selling programs at scale rather than delivering sessions.

Plans as listed in October 2026 (USD): Basic $179/mo ($143 annual) with 5 products, 2,500 contacts and 0 AI credits; Growth $249/mo ($199 annual) with 50 products and 25,000 contacts; Pro $499/mo ($399 annual) with unlimited products and 100,000 contacts. The standard trial is 14 days. Kajabi Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic down to 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro; other processors (excluding PayPal) add a Kajabi fee of 2%, 1% or 0.5% depending on plan.

For Australian coaches, the price is the first hurdle: Basic at $143 USD a month annual is a large fixed cost before you have course sales. The second is fit. Kajabi treats coaching as products and communities, not per-client plans, so there are no habit tracking or daily check-ins for individual clients. If you run 1:1 work alongside a course, you are likely to add a scheduling tool too.

Trustpilot: 3.4 from about 2,300 reviews.

Pick it over Coachful if your business is mostly evergreen courses sold to thousands of contacts and 1:1 coaching is a small side line.

8. Systeme.io: free funnels for a near-zero budget

Systeme.io bundles funnels, email, courses, a basic community, a blog and an affiliate program at prices that are hard to beat. The free plan never expires and needs no card.

As listed in October 2026 (USD): Free with 2,000 contacts, 3 funnels, 1 course and 1 custom domain; Startup $17/mo with 5,000 contacts and 10 funnels; Webinar $47/mo; Unlimited $97/mo. Systeme.io charges 0% transaction fees on every plan; Stripe or PayPal processing applies. Public reviewers are positive, with Trustpilot at 4.9 from about 8,700 reviews.

Where it falls short for a coach: no native one-to-one scheduling tied to client records, no habits or check-ins, and course and community features that our profile describes as basic, with no branded mobile app. A new coach in Adelaide could run a lead magnet and a webinar funnel on the free plan, then would need a booking tool and somewhere to deliver the coaching.

Pick it over Coachful if you are testing an idea with almost no budget and your offer is a funnel into a course, not ongoing client work.

9. Podia: a simple storefront for digital products

Podia keeps things deliberately simple: a storefront for courses, downloads, webinars, coaching sessions and community. It suits a consultant who wants to sell a few products without learning a large system.

Listed in October 2026 (USD): Mover $49/mo ($42 annual) with a 5% Podia transaction fee; Shaker $99/mo ($84 annual) and Earthquaker $179/mo ($150 annual) with 0% Podia fee. Card processing (2.9% + 30¢ standard) applies on top. The trial runs 14 days with no card. Email allowances are small: 100, 500 and 1,000 subscribers included by plan, which an Australian coach with an established list can outgrow quickly.

Our profile notes no mobile app, no native video calls, and no client habits, check-ins or per-client plans. Selling a session works; running a 12-week program with weekly accountability does not have a home here.

Trustpilot: 4.1 from about 150 reviews.

Pick it over Coachful if you sell a handful of downloads and a course, keep a small email list, and want the simplest possible storefront.

10. Hostinger: the cheapest paid site priced in AUD

Hostinger is the only builder here whose pricing page we could read in Australian dollars, which makes it easy to budget. It is a general drag-and-drop builder with AI writing and design tools, ecommerce and built-in SEO features.

On its Australian website builder page in November 2026, during a Black Friday promotion: Premium A$2.99/mo (A$143.52 paid upfront for 48 months, renewing at A$15.89/mo), Unlimited A$3.99/mo (A$191.52 for 48 months, renewing at A$24.59/mo) and Cloud Startup A$11.59/mo (renewing at A$37.59/mo). The page mentions a free domain and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Note the structure: the low monthly figure depends on prepaying four years, and the renewal price is several times higher. We did not verify whether the free domain can be a .com.au.

For a coach or consultant, Hostinger gives you a site and a shop, not a practice. The page we read does not list appointment booking, contracts, client portals or program delivery, so plan on separate tools for each. We have no screenshot of Hostinger for this article.

Pick it over Coachful if you need the cheapest possible paid website in AUD, are happy to prepay several years, and run bookings and client work somewhere else.

11. Carrd: one page, a few dollars a year

Carrd builds one-page sites: landing pages, profiles and link-in-bio pages. For a new consultant who needs something live this afternoon, it is quick and nearly free.

Listed in October 2026 (USD): a free Basic plan with up to 3 sites on carrd.co subdomains and Carrd branding; Pro Lite $9/yr; Pro Standard $19/yr, the cheapest tier with a custom domain, forms and embeds; Pro Plus $49/yr, which you need to take payments through a form using your own Stripe account. A 7-day Pro trial needs no card.

No blog, booking, store, member area or course features are listed, and recurring billing is not described in the docs. Email sign-up forms connect to external tools such as Mailchimp or Kit. Trustpilot: 3.1 from 61 reviews.

Pick it over Coachful if you need a single holding page with a contact form while you decide on everything else.

12. Stan Store: selling from your Instagram bio

Stan Store is a link-in-bio storefront for creators selling digital products, courses, memberships and paid calls. Coaches who get most enquiries from Instagram use it to turn a profile link into a checkout.

As listed in October 2026 (USD): Creator $29/mo ($25 annual) and Creator Pro $99/mo ($79 annual), both with unlimited products and customers. Stan takes a 0% fee; Stripe or PayPal processing applies. Email marketing, upsells, discount codes and affiliates are only on Creator Pro. There is a 14-day trial.

It is a storefront, not a website or a client system: no contracts, invoices or client records, no programs with tasks, habits or check-ins and no team seats. Trustpilot: 4.7 from about 2,200 reviews. If Instagram is your main channel, it is worth knowing that Coachful has its own link-in-bio page that sells, plus Instagram automations that send your booking link or lead magnet by DM when someone comments a keyword.

Pick it over Coachful if you sell only digital products from your bio and do not need a full website or anywhere to run client work.

Which features does each builder include?

The matrix below shows where each tool handles the parts of a service business that sit beyond the homepage. "Add-on" means a separate product or plugin; "Not listed" means we found no documentation for it.

What does each option cost at 5, 15 and 40 clients?

For general builders the website price barely moves with client numbers; what moves is the stack you add around it. The table uses annual-billing prices as listed and notes the extra tools you would still need. Treat totals as examples, convert USD at today's rate and add card processing on top.

Two patterns stand out. General builders look cheaper until you price the booking app, the email tool and the course host, and those add-ons are usually billed in USD too. And percentage fees on courses or memberships (Squarespace, Podia Mover, WordPress.com below Commerce) grow with your revenue, not your client count.

Which Australian rules should your website handle?

Four local issues come up for almost every service business, whichever builder you choose. None is legal or tax advice; check specifics with an accountant or lawyer.

GST. Registration is required once your GST turnover reaches $75,000 a year, and optional below that (ATO). If you are registered, your prices and invoices need to account for 10% GST. Choose a checkout that issues an invoice per transaction and can calculate tax, and ask your accountant how to show GST on packages and payment plans.

Privacy. Many small businesses with annual turnover of $3 million or less are exempt from the Privacy Act, but there are exceptions, including businesses that provide a health service (OAIC: small business). Health and wellness coaches who collect health information on intake forms should read that guidance carefully. Either way, publishing a clear privacy policy and keeping intake answers in one secured record is good practice.

Scope for health coaches. Coaching is not medical treatment. If a client describes symptoms, medication changes or a mental health crisis, refer them to their GP or an appropriate health professional. Coachful is not HIPAA-certified and is not a clinical record system, so clinical notes belong in a clinical system.

Domains and ABN. A .com.au domain requires an Australian presence, and registrants typically use an ABN or ACN to show eligibility (.au overview). Sole traders can apply for an ABN free through the Australian Business Register (ABR: applying for an ABN). Register the domain in your business's name, then connect it to whichever builder you choose. Free plans (Wix, WordPress.com, Carrd) and Carrd's Pro Lite tier do not carry a custom domain.

How would an Australian coach set this up in Coachful?

Here is an example setup for a Sydney-based career coach selling a A$1,200 eight-week program and single A$180 sessions (illustrative prices; set yours from your own market research).

1. Register the basics. Get an ABN, register yourname.com.au, and decide with your accountant whether to register for GST now or once you approach the threshold.
2. Connect Stripe. Connect your own Stripe account to Coachful so payouts land in your Australian bank account; turn on Stripe Tax if you are GST-registered.
3. Request the site. Open Create, choose "We'll build it for you" and describe a four-page site (Home, About, Work With Me, Contact) with your logo, photos and two reference sites you like. Or pick one of the 30 homepage templates and build it yourself.
4. Set booking rules. Create a free 20-minute discovery call and a paid 60-minute session with Australian Eastern time, a 15-minute buffer and 24 hours' minimum notice. Add intake questions about career stage and goals.
5. Add the agreement. Upload your coaching agreement so it is sent for e-signature before the first call and stored on the client record.
6. Build the program. Ask Michelle to draft an eight-week program with weekly goals, daily tasks and a Friday check-in, then edit it in your voice.
7. Connect the funnel. Point your homepage button to a booking funnel and your LinkedIn posts to a lead-magnet funnel that feeds an email sequence.
8. Publish your privacy policy as a legal page, connect your .com.au domain and test the full journey from booking to first check-in.

For more on how other Australian coaches choose their whole stack, read our best coaching software Australia guide. Niche-specific comparisons are also available for life coaches, business coaches and health coaches.

What red flags and switching costs should you watch for?

The most expensive mistake is choosing a builder for its homepage and discovering the limits a year later, when your clients, content and payment history are spread across four tools. Watch for these.

• Prepaid terms that hide renewal prices. A low monthly figure tied to a 48-month prepay (Hostinger) or a promotional first year can multiply at renewal. Read the renewal line before you pay.
• Trial sites you cannot export. Squarespace says trial sites cannot be exported, so build seriously only once you are sure.
• Percentage fees on your income. Platform fees on memberships or courses (up to 7% on Squarespace Basic, 10% on WordPress.com Free, 5% on Podia Mover) cost more each year as you grow.
• Booking that lives in another account. Acuity behind Squarespace or Dubsado behind Showit works, but every client exists twice, and reminders, payments and notes sit in different places.
• USD billing on every tool. When the Australian dollar falls, your whole stack gets more expensive at once.
• Data you cannot take with you. Ask how you export client records, notes and course content. Coachful exports your full client data as a ZIP (roster, notes, check-ins, goals, habits, sessions, form responses) and exports courses.

Switching costs are mostly time: rebuilding pages, reconnecting the domain, moving email lists, re-creating products and telling clients where to log in. Coachful imports clients, programs and content for you during onboarding, and the Import website option plus the white-glove build reduce the rebuild. Compare tools side by side on our comparison page.

Which is the best website builder in Australia for service businesses?

For Australian coaches, consultants and practitioners who sell sessions and programs, Coachful is our pick: one login for the site, booking, Stripe payments, agreements and program delivery, a 0% platform fee and a free white-glove build that gets your first site made inside your account. For general small businesses with no client delivery, Squarespace is the design-first choice, Wix the most complete general builder with bookings included from Core, and WordPress.com the right base if content is the business. Hostinger is the cheapest paid option priced in AUD, as long as you accept the prepay and renewal terms.

Start from your checklist answers, not the template gallery. If clients book, pay and keep working with you between sessions, choose a platform built for that journey. See Coachful plans or the coaching platforms with a website builder roundup for a narrower comparison.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best website builder in Australia for a small business?

For a general small business with no client delivery, Squarespace and Wix are the strongest all-round options, and Hostinger is the cheapest paid plan priced in AUD. For coaches, consultants and other service businesses that book and deliver programs, Coachful ranks first because the website, booking, payments and delivery share one account.

Do website builders show prices in Australian dollars?

Some do when you visit from Australia. On the pages we checked, Hostinger listed AUD and the others listed USD, so convert at today's rate and expect renewals to move with the exchange rate. Card processing fees are charged separately.

Do I need to charge GST on my coaching website?

You must register for GST once your GST turnover reaches $75,000 a year, according to the ATO. Once registered, you include 10% GST on taxable sales and issue invoices that show it. Check with an accountant about how this applies to packages, payment plans and overseas clients.

Does the Privacy Act apply to small coaching businesses?

Many businesses with turnover of $3 million or less are exempt, but the OAIC lists exceptions, including businesses providing a health service. Health and wellness coaches collecting health information should read the OAIC's small business guidance and get advice if unsure.

Can I use a .com.au domain with these builders?

Yes, on plans with custom domain support; the free plans of Wix, WordPress.com and Carrd, and Carrd's Pro Lite tier, do not include one. You need an Australian presence to register a .com.au, usually shown with an ABN or ACN, and you register it through a domain registrar before connecting it.

What is Coachful's free white-glove service?

On every plan, you describe the website, funnel, program or email sequence you want, attach up to 8 reference links and 10 files, and the Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing is invented, so gaps are left for you. It does not include video recording, logo design or ad management.

Is Coachful a general website builder?

No. Coachful is a coaching platform with a website builder included in the membership, built for coaches and service businesses that deliver programs and sessions. A retail shop or a café is better served by a general builder.

Which builder is cheapest for a new Australian coach?

Carrd and the free plans of Wix, WordPress.com and Systeme.io cost the least to start, and Hostinger is cheapest in AUD on a 48-month prepay. Each needs separate tools for booking and client delivery, so compare the total stack, not just the website line.

Can I move my existing Squarespace or Wix site to Coachful?

Coachful has an Import website option, and the white-glove team can rebuild your pages inside your account. Clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding. Plan the domain switch before your old plan renews.

Does Coachful support PayPal?

Coachful does not support PayPal. Payments run through your own Stripe or Razorpay account, with cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus payment plans you set yourself.