Instant Site vs Wix
Wix is an excellent general-purpose website builder with hundreds of templates and a huge app market. Instant Site is a hotel website builder that lives inside your PMS. This page compares them honestly, for the specific job of running a hotel website that takes direct bookings.
If you need a website for a restaurant, a portfolio or a small business, Wix is a fine choice and this comparison does not apply to you. If you run a hotel on Prostay, the calculation changes completely: Instant Site reads your rooms, photos, rates and availability straight from the PMS, while Wix needs you to re-enter and maintain all of it by hand, forever.
The structural difference is the booking path. On Wix, hotel booking arrives through third-party apps and widgets, each with its own subscription and often its own commission. On Instant Site, the Prostay Booking Engine is native: the availability search in the hero, the room cards and the checkout all run against your live inventory, commission-free.
| What matters for a hotel | Prostay Instant Site | Wix |
|---|---|---|
| Live rooms, rates and availability | Native, straight from your Prostay PMS | Manual entry, or third-party booking apps |
| Booking engine | Built in, commission-free | Via app market, typically subscription plus fees |
| Templates | Six hotel-specific designs, one-click switching | Hundreds of general templates, no switching after launch |
| Content staleness risk | None: the site renders live PMS data | High: every rate and room change is a manual edit |
| Hotel SEO (schema, hreflang, sitemaps) | Hotel and room structured data by default | General SEO tools, hotel schema is manual work |
| Multilingual sites | Any language, field-level translation, hreflang wired | Multilingual supported, configured per site |
| Price | Included with the Prostay Booking Engine | Separate subscription, plus paid apps as needs grow |
Where Wix is the better choice
Where Instant Site is the better choice
You can embed the Prostay Booking Engine into a Wix site as a widget, and some properties run exactly that setup. What Wix cannot do is render your rooms, photos and from-prices as native page content; those stay manual copies that drift out of date. Instant Site generates the pages themselves from live PMS data.
Instant Site is included with the Prostay Booking Engine, so for Prostay customers the marginal cost of the website is zero. A Wix hotel setup typically stacks a site plan, a booking app subscription and sometimes per-booking fees, and it still needs someone to keep the content current by hand.
Instant Site drafts your new site from your Prostay data, not from your old website, so there is no migration project. Most properties build and review the new site on the free prostaysites.com address, then point their domain at it when they are ready. The old site keeps serving until the DNS change.
No, deliberately. Everything a hotel website needs, booking, galleries, FAQs, maps, forms, analytics, translations, is a built-in block maintained by the same team that builds the PMS. The trade-off is real: fewer toys, no plugin conflicts.
Book a demo and watch Instant Site draft a complete website from your live rooms, rates and photos. Comparing that against a blank canvas is the fastest way to decide.
Compare the alternatives
Weighing more than one platform? These comparisons cover the builders hoteliers ask about most.