Short answer: You can't lift your whole Wix site off and host it somewhere else. Wix is a closed platform — your site is built with their tools and runs on their servers, so the design and page structure stay behind. What you can take is your data: CMS collections and store products as CSV, your contacts as CSV, and your blog posts through an RSS feed. You export the data, then rebuild the pages on the new platform.
Why there's no "export site" button
Wix isn't a host you can pack up and move. The pages, layouts, forms, and galleries are tied to their editor, and there's no full backup that runs anywhere else. That's not a setting you missed — it's how the platform is built. So treat the move as a rebuild, not a transfer. The good news for a breeder: the part that's hard to recreate by hand — your dog records, litters, and listings — is exactly the part that comes across as data.
What you can pull out of Wix
- CMS collections (where your dogs, litters, or available-puppy data usually live): export each collection as a CSV from the collection's dashboard.
- Store products (if your puppies are set up as products): export as CSV from the Wix Stores dashboard.
- Contacts (inquiries, waitlist, past buyers): export as CSV from your contacts panel.
- Blog posts: export through your blog's RSS feed.
- Images and media: download from the Media Manager. Heads up — when products export, images come out as URLs, not files, so grab the actual media separately.
What stays behind
Your page designs, layouts, navigation, forms, galleries, and any third-party embeds don't export. You'll rebuild those. In Pet Records, most of it rebuilds itself: once your dogs and litters are imported, your public pages and listings are generated from those records instead of hand-built.
Do this before you export
Long ID numbers break in CSV exports if you're not careful. Format your microchip and registration columns as text first, or they'll come out mangled. See Why chip and registration numbers break in spreadsheets.