Move a website
Move a website to another of your companies, to another account of your own, or hand it over to someone else - without taking it offline.
Do this
- Open ⋯ on the website's card in your list of websites.
- Choose Move website.
- Pick one of your companies, one of your other accounts, or To someone else.
- Confirm. Handing it to someone else, you type their email address instead, and they have to accept.
What happens next: the website stays online the whole time, at the same address. Pages, customers, bookings, statistics and the connected web address come with it, and everyone you invited to the website keeps their access. AI credits and the subscription stay with the account.
Three places a website can go
Open ⋯ on the website's card in your list of websites and choose Move website. You get one list with three groups:
- Your companies - file the website under a different company in the same account. Nothing changes for your visitors, and nothing changes on your bill.
- Your other accounts - if you have more than one account, move it to one of them. One confirmation and it is done; there is nobody to ask, because you own both.
- To someone else - hand the website over to another person. They get an email and have to accept it.
What happens to the website
It stays online the whole time, on the same address. A connected web address is not disconnected, the website is not unpublished, and visitors notice nothing. For a few seconds while the move runs you cannot edit the website - the editor says so.
Everything about the website travels with it:
- All pages, sections and published versions
- Every message, customer, order, invoice and booking
- Your statistics and version history
- Images, fonts and what the AI knows about your business
- The connected web address
Everyone you invited to the website keeps their access. If your bookkeeper or a photographer could edit the website before the move, they still can afterwards.
Two things stay behind, because they belong to the account rather than to the website: AI credits, and anyone you invited to the whole account (rather than to this website).
Handing it over to someone else
Type their email address and send the request. Then:
- They get an email with a link. They need an account with us - it is free to create one.
- They see who is handing the website over, the website's real address so they can check it, and what they are taking on. Nothing is charged.
- When they accept, the website moves to their account.
Until they accept, nothing changes. Your website works exactly as usual and you can cancel the request at any time. If email is slow, you can copy the link and send it yourself. We remind them after a week, and if nobody answers within 14 days the request closes and the website simply stays with you.
The subscription does not travel. Plans belong to the account, not to the website, so the person receiving it pays for their own. That is also why we check their account before the move: if the website uses its own web address, a webshop, statistics tools or the visitor assistant and their plan cannot cover it, we stop and say so instead of moving the website and quietly switching those things off.
By default you stay on as an editor, so you can keep working on the website after handing it over. Untick that box if you do not want to. The new owner can remove your access whenever they like.
Keys do not travel with the website. If you or your developer had connected a terminal or a build to it, those keys stop working the moment the move lands. It is one command to connect again, and the new owner has to agree to it, which is the point: their website, their decision. Nothing about your access as an editor changes.
When we cannot move it
We will tell you which of these it is:
- The receiving account has no room. Its plan allows a certain number of websites and they are all taken. Upgrade that account first.
- You bought the web address through us. It renews on your card, and that cannot be moved automatically yet. Get in touch and we will help you.
Half-finished orders do not stop the move - they travel with the website, and we tell you how many there are so it is not a surprise.
After the move
If you handed the website to someone else, their messages now go to them: form notifications and any email forwarding are reset so your inbox stops receiving their customers. The new owner sets their own address under Inställningar.
If you moved the website between your own companies or accounts, nothing about notifications changes.
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