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Self-hosting meets Wix business APIs

Run Wix business solutions on your own infrastructure and get full control over your tech stack, UX and distribution channels.

Wix Studio dashboard showing the Events section, with a list of upcoming yoga events including ‘Vinyasa Yoga’ and ‘Weekend Yoga Retreat,’ each displaying event details, sold tickets, total sales, and buttons to promote or manage the event.
Wix Studio dashboard showing the Events section, with a list of upcoming yoga events including ‘Vinyasa Yoga’ and ‘Weekend Yoga Retreat,’ each displaying event details, sold tickets, total sales, and buttons to promote or manage the event.

Ship faster with API‑wired templates

Start with templates backed by Wix business solutions—customize and deploy to your stack.

Self-hosting

Headless CMS

Create and manage content from a backend dashboard that groups your content into collections, connects it to your UI, and allows you to make updates without entering the site editor.

Wix CMS

Wix CMS interface displaying a ‘Departures’ data collection in table view, listing airline names, flight numbers, destinations, terminals, and departure times with an ‘Add Item’ button on the top right.
Wix CMS interface displaying a ‘Departures’ data collection in table view, listing airline names, flight numbers, destinations, terminals, and departure times with an ‘Add Item’ button on the top right.

Self-hosting

Headless eCommerce

Manage orders, inventory, shipping and finances in one place. Sell on Facebook, Instagram and beyond with secure payments, optimized checkouts and automated sales taxes.

Wix Stores product page for an A-7 Compact Pro Mixer, showing price, color options, quantity selector, description field, and add-to-cart buttons alongside a close-up photo of the mixer.
Wix Stores product page for an A-7 Compact Pro Mixer, showing price, color options, quantity selector, description field, and add-to-cart buttons alongside a close-up photo of the mixer.

Self-hosting

Headless
Bookings

Customize booking features by location and availability, manage appointments, sync staff calendars, automate reminders and more.

Wix Bookings section on a handyman website with the headline ‘Need a quick fix?’ and a ‘Book Now’ button, alongside a photo of a smiling handyman in a beanie.
Wix Bookings section on a handyman website with the headline ‘Need a quick fix?’ and a ‘Book Now’ button, alongside a photo of a smiling handyman in a beanie.

Self-hosting

Headless
Events

Host in-person or online events, sell tickets, manage guests, take secure payments and grow your community with built‑in marketing tools.

Wix Events widget embedded on a museum website promoting the 'Self layers' exhibition and ‘Greenlawn Workshop’ next to a large hero image of a dinosaur skeleton exhibition titled ‘Origins.’
Wix Events widget embedded on a museum website promoting the 'Self layers' exhibition and ‘Greenlawn Workshop’ next to a large hero image of a dinosaur skeleton exhibition titled ‘Origins.’

Self-hosting

Headless
Pricing Plans

Create members-only areas and offer exclusive access to services and content. Boost sales with discounts and flexible payment options using Wix Pricing Plans.

Wix Pricing Plan section displaying three pricing tiers—Basic, Pro (Most Popular), and Business—with monthly prices and feature lists in a comparison table layout.
Wix Pricing Plan section displaying three pricing tiers—Basic, Pro (Most Popular), and Business—with monthly prices and feature lists in a comparison table layout.

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FAQ

What are headless solutions?

Headless solutions separate the frontend presentation layer of an application from its backend functionality. In practice, this means the user interface is decoupled from the logic, data, and business capabilities behind it. Content and product data live in a backend database or API, while the frontend is fully responsible for how that information is presented to users. This architecture makes applications easier to scale and maintain, and allows developers to use any frontend technology without being locked into a specific backend.

What is Wix Headless?

Wix Headless lets developers use Wix’s full set of business solutions (Stores, Bookings, Events, CMS, Payments and more) through APIs, while managing everything from a single Business Manager dashboard.

 

You build and own the frontend code. Wix becomes the unified backend for commerce, scheduling, content and operations. Products are configured in the dashboard and consumed everywhere via APIs, keeping business logic, data and permissions centralized.

 

You can deploy via Wix-managed headless, which means Wix hosts and operates the project for you, or via self-managed headless, which lets you host the frontend anywhere and connect via APIs.

What is the difference between Wix-managed headless and self-managed headless?

Wix-managed headless means Wix hosts your project and provides builds, deployments, global CDN, SSL, automatic scaling, environment configuration and more. You can still run local dev, connect GitHub, and deploy through CLI even when the production hosting is on Wix.
 

Self‑managed headless means you host and deploy the frontend yourself (with Vercel, Netlify, AWS, etc.), while using Wix APIs to connect your frontend to your Wix business data and logic.

Is Wix Headless free?

While you can start coding with Wix’s SDK for free, upgrading to a Premium Plan will unlock additional benefits that are essential to business operations. These include receiving payments, accessing in-depth analytics, connecting a custom domain and other advanced features. To make the most of your experience, we recommend upgrading to a Premium Plan.

Which tech stacks can I use with Wix Headless?

Wix-managed headless: Projects are based on the Astro web framework. You can build components in frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and more within Astro.

 

Self-managed Headless: You host your frontend anywhere. You can use any frontend technology or mobile stack that calls Wix APIs.

How can I start a Wix Headless project?

You can start your Wix Headless project in a few different ways: 

 

AI: Use a built-in AI builder to generate a complete and tailored UI based on the description you provide.

 

Wix CLI: Use the Wix CLI—with or without a template—to create a minimal, locally developed Wix-hosted project.
 

Self-managed: Start a self-managed project using Wix’s Business Manager and robust APIs while keeping full control over hosting and deployment.
 

Both the AI and CLI options create Wix-managed headless projects, though you can still develop locally even when production hosting is on Wix. Self-managed projects are hosted outside of Wix.

What kinds of solutions does Wix Headless offer?

Wix Headless offers a range of solutions including eCommerce, content management, booking and scheduling, events and ticketing, pricing plans and more.

One dashboard. All your business streams.

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