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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Squarespace

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASquarespace 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.

    $25

    per month

    TYPO3

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATYPO3 CMS is an open source web content management system with a global community, backed by the approximately 900 members of the TYPO3 Association.

    $0

    Pricing
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Core
    $36
    per month
    Plus
    $56
    per month
    Advanced
    $139
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Considered Both Products
    Squarespace
    No answer on this topic
    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Squarespace and TYPO3
    Feature
    Squarespace
    8.4
    67 Ratings
    2% above category average
    TYPO3
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Squarespace and TYPO3
    Feature
    Squarespace
    6.6
    58 Ratings
    17% below category average
    TYPO3
    -
    Ratings
    API7.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Squarespace and TYPO3
    Feature
    Squarespace
    7.5
    99 Ratings
    4% below category average
    TYPO3
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor9.284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.778 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.398 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.386 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.580 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Squarespace and TYPO3
    Feature
    Squarespace
    6.1
    89 Ratings
    21% below category average
    TYPO3
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.376 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.380 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management5.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions5.565 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management5.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (100 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SquarespaceTYPO3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    TYPO3 is great if you need to connect some systems in company to work together: like ecommerce + CRM + ERP + MRP and build an Extranet for partners/dealers where they can order your products, see particular BOM (bill of material), paid/unpaid invoices and use email marketing on top of it. You can do it but keep in mind that you will need a dedicated hosting, well organized admin(s) and some handwritten code. For simple blog TYPO3 is also a good choose, but WP would be better I think.
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    Pros
    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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    Open Source
    • open source - do what you want, and even if you dont know how to do it - someone will do it for you
    • more secure than others (Joomla, WP, Drupal) - thanks to dedicated Typo3 Security Team
    • modularity and diversity - a lot of plugins/extensions
    • workflow and user roles - feel free to build a workflow templates ie. for documents routing
    • assets management - no matter is it a video, audio or text file, you can REALLY manage it.
    • typoscript language - sometimes JS is not enough
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    • compared do Wordpress - far less community support
    • when you run a simple blog - it is simple as piece of cake. But if it is a large news site, with many user roles, extensions and permissions - it may be hard to find an admin that will organize and keep that stuff working.
    • server resources: so you want performance and speed with all that modules enabled? make sure that you have dedicated server in most cases. WP works much better here.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Squarespace
    Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    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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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    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).
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    • more complex and elastic revoke system (undoing changes for multi-administrator systems) PHP/JS and TypoScript language
    • LTS - long ter msupport (bugfixes and updates)
    • usage rights and permissions (much more advanced thatn in WP/Joomla)
    • separation of design and content (in WP also but here is complex)
    • many plugins to integrate with external systems
    • several portals may be operated from a single admin/install
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Open Source
    • + 1 platform that handles connections to 11 external systems (CMS, CMR, ERP, MRP, accounting, controlling, email marketing etc.)
    • + still lower TCO than commercial systems (Oracle, Microsoft)
    • + LTS - long term support - can provide you an updates or bugfixes
    • - resource consuming (forget about shared hosting in large projects)
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