GoDaddy vs. Pagecloud: Best Business Website Builder Review

GoDaddy

Ease of Use

The GoDaddy website builder gets high marks from us in terms of ease of use. While the platform offers just enough features to allow for some customization, the emphasis here is on simplicity. This platform is truly tailored to beginners who aren’t interested in spending too much time learning how to design a website. The layout is easy to navigate and the drag-and-drop website editor allows users to effortlessly add and remove elements.

With that being said, some users — particularly those with a bit of experience in web or graphic design — may find this platform a bit limited in scope and find themselves wanting one with a few more features.

Pricing

GoDaddy includes four pricing tiers — Basic, Standard, Premium, and Ecommerce — and all new users are given the opportunity to try the platform for free before they commit to a plan. The Basic plan is a highly affordable option, but many small business owners may choose to opt for the Ecommerce plan — particularly if the business includes retail.

Pros

• Simple, drag-and-drop technology
• Allows you to build a website in just minutes
• Highly affordable
• Ecommerce capabilities
• Search engine optimization (SEO) wizard ensures your website is found via search engines

Cons

• Customization can feel limited at times
• Zero apps and plugins

Ecommerce

GoDaddy includes an ecommerce plan. With this plan, you will have access to a few basic features that should easily meet the needs of smaller businesses — albeit, they may not be up to par for companies looking for a platform that can scale with their business model. Some of GoDaddy ecommerce services include the ability to add and import products, integrations with third-party payment gateways like PayPal, social media marketplace integrations, and the ability to add coupons and discounts.

Templates and Themes

GoDaddy has a wide range of beautifully designed, professional templates to help you create an attractive website for your business.

By default, the GoDaddy website builder saves you some time spent browsing its 1,500 industry-specific template categories by asking a few basic questions about your business and automatically selecting and populating a template based on your responses. If you wish to change this automatic selection, you may manually select another template before you finalize your choice.

If you’re looking to go a bit more in-depth, you can change the theme of your website. Each template includes around 20 themes which allow you to choose between different layouts for your website’s content. This can help fully customize your template so it is consistent with your brand image.

Apps and Plugins

While the GoDaddy website builder does not offer any apps or plugins at the time this article is being written, it does have a few useful integrations that you can add to your website in their place. These include the ability to embed videos and livestreams from YouTube and Twitch, as well as playlists via SoundCloud, the ability to take reservations through OpenTable, and real estate listing integration via the multiple listings service (MLS).

You can also add online restaurant ordering with ChowNow, as well as embed Google My Business and Facebook Business reviews.

See what GoDaddy can do for your business website. Get started with a GoDaddy free trial.

Pagecloud

Ease of Use

Pagecloud is fairly easy to use, despite being a feature-rich platform with a range of editing tools to help you customize your template. The platform uses simple drag-and-drop functionality to help make adding and removing elements and content as easy as the click of a button. While it is not always as intuitive as other platforms, beginners should get the hang of it fairly quickly.

Pagecloud is trusted by many large companies — to see a list of businesses that have used Pagecloud to beautifully match their brand personality, read our article on Beautiful Pagecloud Website Examples.

Pricing

Pagecloud has a dual pricing strategy— the first plan only includes website-building capabilities. The second includes ecommerce. Each offers three tiers and all ecommerce come with all of the features of the equivalent website-building tier. Website-building plans include Small Business, Business, and Pro. Ecommerce plans include Starter, Advanced, and Unlimited.

Pros

• Fairly easy to use
• Templates are beautifully designed
• A fairly wide range of ecommerce features
• Customizable

Cons

• Price escalations may be steep for some customers
• Not as simple as some platforms

Ecommerce

Pagecloud offers three tiers of ecommerce plans, allowing users to expand as their businesses grow. The Advanced plan will provide most business owners with all of the features they need, including the ability to add up to 2,500 products, email integrations, integrations with third-party vendors like Amazon and eBay, product filtering, discounts and coupons, and more.

Small business owners in need of fewer features may be satisfied with the Starter plan, which lacks most of the aforementioned features, but still allows users to add up to 100 products and take payments both in-house and via third-party payment gateways like PayPal.

Templates and Themes

Pagecloud has a decent range of beautifully designed templates that allow users to create an attractive website for their small businesses. Each of these templates is fully customizable, allowing you to truly match your website to your branding. Though the number of templates may be limited compared to other platforms, Pagecloud’s template roster is continually growing.

Apps and Plugins

Pagecloud easily allows users to integrate their website with a wide variety of commonly used apps. These include analytics, chat, forms, donations, social media, events, music, podcasts, and more. Many of these can be accessed for free directly from the platform’s responsive editing tool, and can easily be dragged and dropped wherever you would like them on your page.