How to move a website from Wix to an AI builder

What Wix lets you take, and what it does not

From Wix's own help center:

• The site itself: no. Wix's help center says a site needs to be hosted and operated on Wix's servers and that its architecture does not support external hosting. It also says the content you build on Wix belongs to you.
• CMS collections: yes, as CSV. In the dashboard, CMS, the collection, More Actions, Export to CSV, then Download File.
• Form submissions: yes, as CSV. Wix Forms' submissions table can be filtered and exported as a CSV file.
• Your domain: yes. A domain bought at Wix can point at another host through its DNS records, or be transferred away from Wix.
• Text and images on ordinary pages: copy them out yourself. Save the images you own at full size.

Step 1: Collect your content

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   Step 1: Make a page list

   Write down every page, its address and its sections. Keep the old addresses: you want the new site's pages to match where it makes sense.

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   Step 2: Export what exports

   Export each CMS collection and your form submissions to CSV. Keep the submissions file: it is your history of enquiries.

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   Step 3: Copy text and images

   Paste each page's text into a document, and save your logo and photos. Skip stock images you do not have the right to reuse.

Step 2: Rebuild it in an AI builder

In Veloxa Build, attach your logo, photos, the text document and any CSV files to the first message, and describe the site section by section, using the Wix site as the brief. For a bakery, for example:

Then fix structure before looks, point at elements to adjust them, and check every price, hour and address against the old site. A Wix contact form becomes a form whose submissions reach the site's inbox. A store, bookings or paid memberships do not carry over: there are no payments or booking calendars in the builder, so keep Wix for those, or link out to a service that handles them.

The starter prompts and the trade pages, such as bakeries and salons, are good starting points.

Step 3: Move the domain

Wix's help center describes two ways to send a Wix domain to another host. Custom domains for Veloxa Build sites are coming soon (1 on Starter and 5 on Pro). Until then a published site lives at an address like yourname.veloxa.site, with HTTPS.

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   Step 1: Point it, and keep it registered at Wix

   In your Wix account: Domains, the Domain Actions icon, Manage DNS Records. Add the A records your new host gives you, delete the old A records so they do not conflict, and save. Wix says DNS changes can take up to 48 hours.

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   Step 2: Or transfer it away from Wix

   Domains, Domain Actions, Transfer away from Wix. The domain must be unlocked, Wix emails an authorization code to the registrant address, and the transfer usually takes up to 7 days. Wix says your site is disconnected and business email needs its MX records added again.

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   Step 3: Keep email working

   Whichever you choose, leave the MX records for your mailbox alone, or re-add them after a transfer. Moving the website should not move your email.

Until custom domains for Veloxa Build sites arrive, you can publish on veloxa.site and keep the domain on Wix, or download the project and host it on a VeloxaHost Static site with your domain (add the A and TXT records the console shows). The second keeps the pages but not the builder's forms: Forms and their inbox work only on veloxa.site, and sign-in, file storage, the database and AI features call Veloxa Build's services rather than anything in the zip, so test them on the new host and plan to replace them if you leave.

Step 4: After the switch

A short checklist for the first week.

• Check every old address. Where a page moved, link to the new one from the closest page and tell search engines through a new sitemap.
• Submit a contact form yourself and confirm it reaches the inbox.
• Keep the Wix plan until the new site has run cleanly for a while; cancel once you no longer need it.