Wix is a company that specializes in website building and hosting services. The app store has over 200 apps for you to choose from, as well as integrations with Zapier and other platforms. You can also use Wix Velo to use code to create custom site functionalities. With all of these features, it's no wonder Wix is the world's most loved website builder!
The following 15 apps are some of the most popular ones on offer:
1. Wix Bookings
This app allows you to easily turn your site into a booking-ready business. Users can book appointments, classes, Zoom meeting calls, and more directly from the website itself! There are many features available with Wix Bookings that allow for easy management of transactions, scheduling, and more. For example, you can customize SMS booking reminders on your own as well as collect a prepaid deposit before an appointment can be made. Manage contacts in one place by creating categories for customers and employees alike so everything is readily accessible when needed. Additionally, each appointment booked through Wix Bookings will be synced back to Google Calendar to block out that appointment slot, preventing duplicate bookings per each team member.
Feature Overview:
Offer appointments, group sessions, classes, workshops, Zoom meeting calls and more
Manage your calendar, team, and customers from any device
Can optionally configure prepaid deposit amount per each service offered
Customers can book and pay on-the-go with the Wix mobile app
2. Wix Stores
This app allows you to easily turn a website into an online store with ease. With Wix Stores, adding products is easy and there are many different possibilities for customization available too! For example, users have access to multiple product layouts, product options, Wix Velo coded integrations, and much more! Also included is inventory management capability so businesses never run out of stock while also reducing clutter from ecommerce sites by allowing customers to see what's in stock right away instead of having to check back at a later time.
Feature Overview:
Create an amazing online store for your website with prebuilt product page layouts, data collections, and custom functionalities
Manage your orders, inventory, shipping, fulfillment and finances directly from your Wix dashboard or Wix mobile app
Sell across multiple channels with prebuilt integrations to Facebook, Instagram and more
Accept secure online payments for your products and subscriptions
3. Wix Hotels
Wix Hotels is an all-in-one online booking system that will revolutionize your hospitality business. With this app, you'll be able to create a website that people can instantly book their accommodations on. For example, you can include your facilities, rates, amenities and more. In addition, you'll have access to different language versions of the site as well as facilitate last minute booking requests from anywhere it seems necessary.
Feature Overview:
Book rooms from anywhere with one easy-to-use interface
Include pricing and availability on your website 24/7
Choose between a free or premium online booking sites
Add pictures of your hotel's facilities and services for an enticing customer experience
4. Wix Events
Wix Events is an event management app that helps you sell tickets, collect RSVPs and promote your event across social media at the touch of a button. Drag-and-drop on-site ticketing lets you sell tickets without the need for third party software or expensive software licenses. Use Wix Events to control all your event data, handle RSVPs, set up email campaigns and more.
Feature Overview:
Offer on-site ticketing with our easy drag-and-drop builder
Create custom email campaigns that send information about your event to attendees
Track attendee data like registration payment methods, volunteer availability and more
Manage your events in one central place with the Wix mobile app or Wix Dashboard
5. Wix Restaurants Orders
The Wix Restaurants Orders app is ideal for restaurant businesses of any size - the more orders you get, the better! You can easily accept orders for pickup or delivery without paying commission on every sale. A website is not required to use this app - it can be used completely independently. Plus, with Wix’s Restaurants App, you don’t need any coding knowledge to integrate services like Chained Appointment Booking, Loyalty Programs and SMS Notifications into your ordering system. You just need to know how that service works in practice and what its capabilities are.
Feature Overview:
Accept online orders 24/7 without the need for third party software
No commission fees on all your sales--ever!
Create a website with Wix that can be used completely independently
Add services like Chained Appointment Booking, Loyalty Programs and SMS Notifications into your ordering system with no coding knowledge needed
6. Wix Blog
The Wix Blog App on Wix is a free tool that instantly creates a blog for your business without the need to know html or coding. This app lets you publish and edit your blog from any device, as well as include both social media and email marketing integrations. The Wix Blog App also allows you to create beautiful layouts and customizations with hundreds of web fonts and website themes, all at no cost.
Feature Overview:
Advanced SEO configurations per blog posts
Tons of customization and layout options to find the best look to match your site
Get paid by monetizing your blog with advertisements and pay to read subscriptions
Monitor, edit, and publish blog posts on the go with the Wix mobile app
7. Wix Forms & Payments
Wix Forms & Payments is a free app that lets you add email capture, forms and payments to your site--no coding required. You'll be able to create and manage your forms from any device with the Wix mobile app, and we allow you to collect visitor data like emails and phone numbers, receive signups for newsletters and services, and even process online credit card payments.
Feature Overview:
Create forms--no coding required
Collect leads and signups
Process online credit card payments
Create custom notifications
Manage all your forms with the Wix mobile app. No coding knowledge required
8. Wix Photo Albums
Wix Photo Albums lets you create beautiful stand-alone albums for your client's photos! With the Wix app, you can upload and manage all of your customer's photos in one place. Customize your photo album with 100+ templates to match any event or occasion. Add captions and text to wow clients and look like a pro and have everything ready to share via social media, email, or printing in minutes!
Feature Overview:
Design & configure unlimited stand-alone albums for customers
Sell digital photos, prints, and merchandise straight from your album pages
Share albums that are password protected for your client
Manage all of your albums on the Wix Owner App
9. Wix Video
Wix Video is a free app that lets you create your own video channels with closed captioning, closed captions, subtitles, or dubbing. Every video you create can be customized to any length and we host the videos on fast CDN servers for reliable playback across all browsers and devices.
Feature Overview:
Create your own video channels to show off films, courses, portfolio work
Customize the videos to any length
Host videos on Wix's high-speed CDN servers so they play reliably across all browsers and devices
Customize the video for any device or browser with our responsive templates
10. Wix Music
The Wix Music app is a free tool that helps you create a website with an online store for your music. With this app, you can add and manage all of your songs in one place, customize your player to match any event or occasion, and get everything ready to share via social media, email, or printing in minutes!
Feature Overview
Advanced SEO configurations per song pages
Unlimited songs & albums for customers
Get paid by monetizing your music with advertisements and pay to read subscriptions
Monitor, edit, and publish songs on the go with the Wix mobile app
11. Wix Art Store
Wix Art Store helps you showcase, sell and print your art from your own site. Upload your art to create gallery-style collections and albums for purchase. When it comes to printing your art, the customer simply selects the image to be printed, then selects an item for the image to be printed on. From there after purchase, Wix will handle all printing and fulfillment for you. You can also use the Wix app to add and manage all of your pieces in one place and then share them with friends and followers on social media or via email.
Feature Overview:
Features an intuitive interface for uploading, ordering and managing artwork
Enables you to create gallery-style collections and albums for sale
New Wix app lets you add, manage and display all of your artwork from any device
Create beautiful wall art, posters or gifts with our tool for ordering prints online
12. Wix Velo
Wix Velo is open source software that can be used to create enterprise applications in minutes. You can also use it in many different ways to improve the user's experience with your website, for example, you can build custom forms that sync with a custom integration connected to a third party platform such as a CRM. Wix Velo is built to respond quickly to changing business conditions to make businesses more competitive. It's built to make it easy for developers to integrate third party services, control security and performance, adjust analytics, and optimize for search engine optimization.
13. Database Collections
Wix database collections allow you to easily create and organize databases within a simple interface with ease! Set up and build as many databases as you need for content you want to display on your site, or information submitted from site visitors. If you have not seen a database collection before, think of a spreadsheet as this is how the data will be displayed to you. With databases you can create dynamic pages, store order or member information, save user access information, and so much more!
14. Wix Dynamic Pages
A dynamic page is a webpage on your Wix website that is dynamic, meaning the content of the page can change but not the design or layout so to speak. For example, when you see an online store, generally each product page will show different products using the same design layouts. This can be done rapidly on your website for many different uses via what is essentially a spreadsheet (database collection) that saves & display the content when needed on a dynamic page.
15. Zapier Integrations
This app allows you to easily connect and automate tasks with other apps such as MailChimp, Shopify, Twitter, Facebook & many more! If you don't see the specific integration that your business needs within this section then it's also possible for them to write custom code using their API which is very helpful if there are some integrations that aren't currently covered by default so this makes customization a breeze regardless on how simple or complex your request might be.
Wix is a widely popular website builder that comes with many helpful apps and services. In this article, I've covered 15 of the most useful apps that come with Wix. I've explained each app as well as the dynamic pages with Wix, Wix Velo, Zapier integrations, and database collections. I hope you've found this article helpful and also learned a few things on new apps to make your business website better. Thank you for reading!
Author's bio:
Published by Cody Teagardin for Sunrise Coding, the full-service web design agency that marries smart strategy with elegant design & code to achieve powerful results.
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