Freedom CMS vs Squarespace

• Users and Access. Freedom has a great system setup to create unlimited users for the back office & full control over access. Do you want someone to only be able to access News, Events & Web Pages? - No problem. Do you want someone to be able to access everything except the Billing Module - No problem.Do you want someone to be able to access/edit ONLY the "Volunteer" category of Web Pages - Great! No Problem.
• Custom Modules. Freedom has a great amount of pre-built modules that do a lot of great things. Custom Modules, however, takes that to the next level. Anything you can dream of for your client's needs, can be created as a custom module. You, as the developer, have full control over what fields should be created for a custom module, what types of fields are they (text, radio buttons, WYSIWYG editor, image, etc), and how those field values are used in a lister of ALL items added to that Custom Module & how they are used in a detailed view of one specific item in that Custom Module.
• Hosting & Security. All Freedom sites include the licensing & hosting with easy to update Domain module for us developers to change the virtual host domain at any time.
• Features and Usability. All of the modules offered (including custom) & the whole interface of the CMS as a whole is hands down one of the easiest to use & intuitive CMS's that I have come across. Our clients (and us) love it.

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• Easy to use. Literally, anyone can manage it after 30-60 minutes of training.
• It offers more design flexibility than it used to (backgrounds, more unique layouts, etc).
• There's no need for maintenance—plugin updates, security issues, etc.

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• Creating layouts could be simpler. For example, if you have a sidebar on different interior pages, it isn't very intuitive to have something different on each one. Having the ability to control what is in different regions of pages would be beneficial.
• The Commerce modules aren't quite there yet. We have had issues with reliability and if it's not built in by default, you can't use it.
• Documentation could be better organized. There has been a lot of mixed articles from past features that no longer exist, and for some things there just isn't any documentation at all. I have had to create complex layouts that had I known a shortcode existed, it would have made my life much easier.

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• Drag and drop interface is not as intuitive as it was when it first launched. It's a bit more challenging to use than, say, Weebly.
• Its ecommerce functionality isn't as robust as something like Shopify.
• Setting up grids or sections isn't as easy to do as other tools.
• Changing templates to see how content may look isn't seamless.

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• Without knowing the limits of the software, projects tended to go out of scope easily, especially since the client would expect functionality that simply wasn't available.
• The custom modules made it very simple to create something reusable. So, when we found a feature that clients liked, we could replicate it very easily.
• Backups and migration are very simple within the Accrisoft platform. Sites could be moved from one location to another in under a minute.

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• After recommending Squarespace to a small or low-budget client, they have come to me for other large projects or recommended my services to larger organizations. Squarespace has been my foot-in-the-door to several long-term customer relationships.

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