Pixpa

Updated on Jun 3, 2024

Introduction

Pixpa is a website builder targeted at creatives. The platform combines an online digital portfolio with e-commerce functionality to help photographers, designers, artists and creators to market to clients and monetise their businesses.

Using the Pixpa platform users can manage their portfolio website, sell online, manage clients and publish blogs without needing any coding knowledge.

As part of the subscription, you get access to their drag-and-drop interface, 24X7 support and fast hosting. Choose from an array of templates to easily design a professional portfolio, including galleries, pages, forms, blogs and calendars. You can also brand your website by adding your logo image, title text, and bio.

Customer service

24/7 live support and email.

Main Features

  • Templates & themes
  • Portfolio functionality
  • Ecommerce functionality
  • Blog functionality
  • Custom domain names
  • Free SSLs
  • Marketing Pop Ups
  • SEO Tools
  • Mobile Gallery Apps
  • Plug-and-play
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Unlimited Client Gallery Albums
  • Share images with Clients
  • Sell images as prints or downloads

Pricing

All packages come with the following basic features: mobile optimised websites, customisable themes, domain connection, free SSL certificate, custom CSS & HTML editing, advanced SEO features, social media connections and 24/7 customer support, basic email lists.

Below is the pricing for their Plans, billed twice yearly.

Basic – R147.93/month 

Includes: All basic features

Creator – R277.38/month 

Includes: All basic features plus

  • Online store sells up to 5 products
  • Cookies information
  • Client galleries

Professional – R369.84/month 

Includes: All Creator features plus

  • Online store sells up to 50 products
  • Advanced email lists
  • Basic marketing pop ups
  • 5 User accounts
  • Basic announcement bar
  • Cookies information
  • Website setup service
  • Website extensions

Advanced – R462.30/month 

Includes: All Professional features plus

  • Online store sells up to 1000 products
  • Advanced marketing pop ups
  • Unlimited user accounts
  • Advanced announcement bar

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Pros

  • Great Templates

  • E-commerce Functionality

  • Client Galleries

  • Affordable Pricing

Cons

  • Limited SEO Tools

  • Fewer Template Options

  • Focus on Creatives

  • Limited Customization

FAQs

Pixpa offers a user-friendly interface with drag-and-drop functionality. It also includes comprehensive tutorials and a knowledge base to guide you through the process.

While Pixpa doesn’t offer built-in membership functionalities, it does integrate with third-party membership solutions like Memberful and Paid Memberships Pro. For online stores, Pixpa has basic built-in e-commerce features, but for advanced subscription management, you might need to consider integrating with external platforms like Shopify.

Pixpa offers a good degree of design customization within its templates. You can change fonts, colours, and layouts, and add custom CSS code for more advanced tweaks. However, for a unique website design, Pixpa might not be the most flexible option.

Pixpa doesn’t currently offer a direct way to perform manual backups. However, you can export your website content regularly as an alternative safety measure.

Pixpa provides basic SEO features like meta descriptions, title tags, and image alt tags. However, for advanced SEO functionalities, you might need to integrate with third-party SEO plugins.