Affirm vs. Squarespace

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Affirm
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Affirm, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their dynamic payment system for ecommerce, supporting payments broken out into installments to accommodate shopper preference.N/A
Squarespace
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$16
per month billed annually
Pricing
AffirmSquarespace
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Basic
$16
per month billed annually
Core
$23
per month billed annually
Basic
$25
per month
Core
$36
per month
Plus
$39
per month billed annually
Plus
$56
per month
Advanced
$99
per month billed annually
Advanced
$139
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AffirmSquarespace
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPersonal: $12/month (paid annually) $16/month (paid monthly) Business: $18/month (paid annually) $26/month (paid monthly) Basic Commerce: $26/month (paid annually) $35/month (paid monthly) Advanced Commerce: $40/month (paid annually) $54/month (paid monthly)
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Community Pulse
AffirmSquarespace
Features
AffirmSquarespace
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Affirm
-
Ratings
Squarespace
7.9
65 Ratings
3% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.965 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Affirm
-
Ratings
Squarespace
6.8
56 Ratings
13% below category average
API00 Ratings7.449 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.335 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Affirm
-
Ratings
Squarespace
7.9
98 Ratings
2% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.083 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.697 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.798 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings7.995 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.994 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.085 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.079 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Affirm
-
Ratings
Squarespace
6.5
88 Ratings
13% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.375 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings6.880 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings6.151 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings5.665 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings6.866 Ratings
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User Ratings
AffirmSquarespace
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
8.3
(98 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AffirmSquarespace
Likelihood to Recommend
Affirm
We use Affirm with a Woocommerce/Wordpress website and there is a plugin that integrates Affirm for us. We also use a payment method plugin that limits Affirms availability only to products that they support. Generally, we have had a good experience with integration and payments from Affirm to us are consistent and timely. People finance guitars, pedals, and amplifiers and it offers us a way to reach a customer base that may not otherwise purchase from us.
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Squarespace
Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
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Pros
Affirm
  • Easy installation.
  • Great customer service.
  • Painless pay as you go software.
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Squarespace
  • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
  • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
  • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
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Cons
Affirm
  • We haven't had any issues as of yet, we are very happy with everything.
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Squarespace
  • Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive
  • Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating
  • Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version.
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Likelihood to Renew
Affirm
No answers on this topic
Squarespace
Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
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Usability
Affirm
Easy to use, simple to integrate, especially if you are using Shopify Plus. Putting everything live and active was easy. We did have to do some simple HTML/CSS to make everything look the way that we wanted it to, but that was very easy and something that we did in house. If you can do some simple style work, you won't have any issues at all.
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Squarespace
It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
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Support Rating
Affirm
No answers on this topic
Squarespace
Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
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Alternatives Considered
Affirm
We have not used any payment plans before, this was the first for the company.
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Squarespace
Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With WordPress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
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Return on Investment
Affirm
  • Higher average order value.
  • Mores sales.
  • Better user experience.
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Squarespace
  • The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
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