Wix for Nonprofits: 70% Off for Two Years, Then the Fine Print

Wix has the largest nonprofit discount of the website builders we compare: 70% off a two-year Premium plan for one site, through TechSoup. Squarespace, by comparison, offers a code for 10% off the first payment. But the Wix offer comes with a TechSoup fee of $34 to $119, excludes the cheapest plan, renews for another two years at full price if you miss the date, and leaves you to produce your own donation receipts. Wix’s help centre and TechSoup’s listing also disagree on two of the rules. We read Wix’s and TechSoup’s own pages on 10 November 2026.

The offer, plan by plan

Wix’s discount article says “The promotion includes a 70% discounted rate for a 2-year Wix Premium plan to create and host one website”, with “a free, 1-year domain registration voucher”. You apply through TechSoup. Its listings for Core, Business and Business Elite each give “a coupon code for a 70 percent discount on a two-year subscription”, and charge the administrative fees in the table. TechSoup has no listing for Light, which is also the only plan that does not list “Accept payments” on Wix’s plans page, so it could not take donations anyway.

Eligibility in the United States is narrow and simple: “Coupon codes are available only to qualifying nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation and to public libraries.” Other exempt organizations, such as 501(c)(4) or (c)(6) groups, do not qualify through this route. Recipients must also be willing to provide information to Wix for a case study or testimonial, and TechSoup’s fee “is not refundable”.

What it costs

We do not print Wix’s plan prices. Wix shows prices in the visitor’s location, and from where we checked, its plans page labelled its dollar figures “USD prices displayed for reference only”. The final price is shown at checkout before you pay. The arithmetic is simple once you see your own price: you pay 30% of the two-year price of your plan, plus TechSoup’s fee, plus tax. On Core, the TechSoup fee is $34, or $17 if you are a TechSoup Plus member.

Pick the plan for what it includes, not only the price. Core is the entry point for donations, with 50 GB of storage and five site collaborators. Business doubles both. Business Elite matters only for large sites or teams of more than ten editors. Budget the full-price renewal now, in the budget for year three, so it is not a surprise.

The renewal, which is where the saving disappears

Wix’s article is direct: if you do not cancel or take a new offer before the end of the second year, “you will be automatically billed by Wix for an additional two years of service at the standard rate.” That is two more years at full price. TechSoup’s listing says you “can request this offer again before your subscription expires to receive the same discount for an additional two years.”

So diary the expiry date three months ahead and request a new code from TechSoup in good time. The domain is separate: TechSoup notes that the free voucher “covers one year of domain registration, not two years”, so the domain renews at Wix’s normal price after year one, a year before the plan does.

Where Wix and TechSoup disagree

These matter if you want to renew at the discounted rate or already pay for Wix. TechSoup’s terms are the more generous on both points, but Wix applies the code. If you already have a Premium site, ask TechSoup and Wix to confirm in writing before paying the admin fee, since the fee cannot be refunded. How to check any nonprofit offer like this at source is in our nonprofit software discounts guide.

Donations on Wix

Wix’s donations tool adds no fee of its own. The Wix Donations article says it “does not charge additional fees for setup or usage”, though “Standard payment processing fees from your payment provider” still apply, and you must “upgrade your site to a plan that supports payments”. Donors can give one-off or recurring gifts, weekly, monthly or yearly, and they can choose to cover the processing fees, an option switched on by default for new campaigns.

Those are the US rates from Wix’s payment fees article. There is no nonprofit rate. Compared with Squarespace, which takes 2% of every donation on its cheapest plan, Wix’s own fee is zero on every plan that takes payments, so the processor’s 2.9% plus $0.30 is the whole cost on a standard card. Recurring gifts are the ones worth setting up first, as our donor retention guide explains.

A year of online giving, costed

Take a charity that raises $25,000 online in a year from 500 gifts averaging $50, all on standard US cards through Wix Payments. Processing is 2.9% of $25,000, which is $725, plus $0.30 on each of 500 gifts, which is $150: $875 in all, with nothing added by Wix. If half of donors tick the option to cover fees, roughly half of that comes back. The same gifts on Squarespace’s Basic plan would cost a further $500 in Squarespace’s 2% transaction fee. Our arithmetic; your mix of cards and gift sizes will move it.

Two other routes exist. Wix’s donation payments article says that to use Wix Payments, your cause “must be registered as a charity in a country where Wix Payments is available”; otherwise you can connect PayPal and use a Donate button, or add a third-party app such as Givebutter, where “Donations are processed by Givebutter, not by Wix.” The second route moves receipting and donor records to that platform, which can be an advantage. Our payment apps for nonprofits guide compares the processors.

Who can edit the site

Each plan caps the number of site collaborators: two on Light, five on Core, ten on Business and 100 on Business Elite. A collaborator is anyone you invite to edit or manage the site, so a staff member who updates the blog, a volunteer who posts events and a board member who approves content each take a place. Five is enough for most small charities. If you rely on a rotating group of volunteer editors, count them before choosing Core, and remove people when they leave rather than sharing one login.

Receipts: Wix does not make them

Donors get a confirmation email after every gift, but Wix’s own feature request page says “Wix Donations does not offer automatically-generated donation receipts for your donors.” The request is still open for votes.

That matters for tax. For any single gift of $250 or more, the IRS requires a written acknowledgment with your organization’s name, the amount, and a statement of whether you gave goods or services in return. A payment confirmation does not do that. Send a proper acknowledgment from your CRM or by hand, using our donation receipt template, and combine it with a thank-you letter. If you would rather not manage receipts yourself, a dedicated donation platform from our fundraising software guide, embedded in the Wix site, generates them.

Applying, in order

1. Check eligibility. A 501(c)(3) or public library, building one site.
2. Do not upgrade first. Wix says the offer is not available to sites already on a Premium plan, so build on the free plan and wait.
3. Get validated by TechSoup if you are not already, then request the Core, Business or Business Elite offer and pay the admin fee.
4. Redeem the code on Wix with a credit or debit card, which TechSoup says Wix requires.
5. Register the domain with the one-year voucher, and diary its renewal.
6. Diary the plan expiry for 21 months after purchase, and request a new code before it.

Wix or Squarespace?

On price, Wix wins for any nonprofit that qualifies: 70% off two years against Squarespace’s 10% off one payment, and no platform fee on donations on any paid plan. Squarespace’s case is design consistency and a simpler editor for people who will not maintain the site often, and its Core plan also charges no transaction fee. Neither produces tax receipts for you. Our Squarespace for nonprofits guide works through its plans and fees, and our nonprofit website builders comparison sets both against WordPress and nonprofit-specific builders.

Whichever you choose, create the account on an organizational email address, keep two admins, and store the login in a shared password manager, so the site survives a change of volunteer. Wix and TechSoup have no commercial relationship with this site, and we take no referral fees.

This is reference information, not legal or tax advice. Rules vary by state and change over time. For a decision that carries real consequences, check the current text at irs.gov or your state registry, and talk to a nonprofit attorney or CPA.