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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/cn/EV/MTUP7E033QBO.PNGSquarespaceIf Squarespace went to high school, they would have won "best all around" as their senior superlative.2018-11-23T19:05:08.377ZWe use Squarespace to support our company website. I also personally use Squarespace to support multiple websites for side projects.
Our marketing team uses the platform most consistently internally. We had formerly built our site on Wordpress, which proved to be too difficult to update and maintain. We switched to Squarespace and haven't regretted it for a second. The website builder is intuitive, but also has advanced customization so our design team is happy and our marketing team can manage it.,Intuitive User Interface: Literally anyone can create a website on Squarespace, from the experienced designer to the absolute novice.
Customization: While Squarespace manages to be extremely user-friendly, it doesn't do so at the sacrifice of customization. You can still add custom coding if you need to, but it doesn't require coding experience to make a well-designed site.
Functionality without hundreds of plugins: Many Squarespace competitors offer expanded functionality through plugins, which can be difficult to work with as they are third party functions that vary in quality. Squarespace has done a great job of adding features to their platform, so plugins are less necessary. They offer many integrations to major services (like Typeform and Stripe), but the experience is much better than sifting through hundreds of plugins.,I could see an experienced designer being frustrated by the limitations of Squarespace compared to an open platform like Wordpress.
Sometimes it's difficult to make quick edits in the website builder because you don't know where the functionality resides. For example, you can make some edits to your nav bar by clicking on the nav bar, but you can make others by going through a series of menus. This is easily resolved by watching the tutorials, but can be frustrating for new users.,10,Our Squarespace website has saved us thousands of dollars in our technical development budget, as we were able to build and support our website internally instead of outsourcing the project to an agency.
In combination with Hubspot, we've been able to increase our inbound website leads by 150% over the last year.,WordPress, Leadpages, ClickFunnels and Wix,AdStage, ClickFunnels, Hootsuite Pro, Zoho Projects,Content Author / Administrator,10-100 pages,3,1,We use Squarespace to build and support our main company website.
We use Squarespace to build and support website for any new offerings or side projects.,We have integrated Squarespace with Hubspot Sales to build an excellent inbound marketing engine.,We'll continue to use Squarespace for new product offerings and side projects websites.,10,Yes,Price
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Prior Experience with the Product,I wouldn't change it.Emily MuhoberacSquarespace is an excellent platform for simpler websites, but be aware of some e-commerce limitations2018-11-20T01:52:28.312ZWe use Squarespace as our e-commerce website and platform. It is our portal through which customers can find out about us, our products and what we do and then they are able to purchase our products on our website. It is basically like most traditional e-commerce websites. We do utilize certain other tools that Squarespace offers, like their Analytics tools to gauge the traffic to our site, traffic sources and sales data. We do also use their "Abandoned Cart feature which allows us to contact customers that added product to their shopping cart but did not complete a purchase. At this time we do not use a lot of the marketing tools that Squarespace offers as part of their Advanced Commerce plan.,Getting started with Squarespace is incredibly easy. Their templates make getting an early design for your website set up and published quick and simple. There are plenty of advanced features that can be utilized to tweak the design indefinitely but getting up and running smoothly and quickly is key and Squarespace does that beautifully.
The Squarespace Analytics tools are incredibly helpful. They are quite detailed yet very easy to understand and parse through. If you've ever tried to understand all of your Google Analytics data, you can feel like you need to get a new degree to comprehend it all. Squarespace Analytics are intuitive and easy to understand allowing you have an easier time making decisions based not eh data you re provided.
Squarespace makes integrations with other platforms very easy as well. Email service providers (like Mailchimp or Contant Contact), or integrating with outside fulfillment centers for orders of your products is very easy to set up. The back end design and control makes navigating through these things very easy (with the right instructions, of course).,My biggest complaint about Squarespace is particularly about the shipping rates controls in the Commerce plans. Squarespace does not allow you to assign different shipping costs to different products. You can set up different costs for different levels of shipping (for example, Ground, Express, Overnight, etc.). But if you have two different products that are different sizes and weights you cannot independently assign each of them a different cost for Ground shipping. All products have to have the same price for Ground, the same price for expedited, etc. It is incredibly frustrating. This one deficiency alone has actually been enough to have prompted me into looking for alternative platforms for my e-commerce site. If you sell multiple products of varying sizes and weights and you intend to charge you customers shipping, then be aware of this beforehand. If you only sell digital products, or products that don't vary much in size or weight, or you intend to offer free shipping on everything then this will not be as big a deal for you.
Squarespace offers excellent help services via live chat, but in the years that I've used it I get the sense that recommendations from users are taken seriously. I've made numerous recommendations for enhancements and fixes over the years and I know other people that have as well. However what I continue to see from Squarespace is development of new product offerings that aren't necessarily in line with their core product offering, and not much in the way of making what they already offer much better. There are certain things that should be prioritized by their development team but I don't get the sense that these are taken seriously. Of course this is just my guess as I don't work there but it's important to remember that perception is reality to those who are perceiving.
As much as Squarespace makes integrations easy, they still have along way to go with regards to being recognized by many other platforms as integration worthy. Very often I come across services that offer integrations with web design platforms and Squarespace is not one of them. I'm not sure why this is but I wish Squarespace would do a better job of working with these other companies to have integrations with them.,8,Our direct to consumer selling platform is done primarily via our website so Squarespace is the major player here. We do sell on Amazon and eBay as well, but the majority of our direct to consumer revenue is generated via our website with Squarespace.
Due to the above-mentioned deficiencies in making shipping costs product specific we do see a small percentage of loss in individual orders depending on where an order is being shipped to. We have to make sure our shipping prices are not exorbitant so in some cases the cost to ship a product is greater than what we charge the customer. This could be rectified is Squarespace would enhance the way they allow users to implement shipping charges.
The clean look of the website, the ease of creating new content and the ability to add new products in the Commerce Advanced plan has surely allowed us to grow our sales with a clean look and added product offerings. Hard to measure though how much the can be attributed though directly to Squarespace.,Shopify, Wix and Magento Commerce Cloud (formerly Magento),MailChimp, Hightail, Grasshopper, Calendly,Content Author / Administrator,10-100 pagesDaniel Shatzkes CEO Entrepreneur, Manufacturer, MusicianSquarespace: Making the Novice Look Professional2018-11-30T20:33:33.017ZWe use Squarespace for our website and email hosting. We selected it to replace our GoDaddy/Microsoft Exchange-based email and web hosting. We needed a solution that was inexpensive and easy to update. The GoDaddy site was a Wordpress site and, unlike Squarespace, requires a higher level web design experience. We are a small company and needed to be easily able to modify/update our website and also make it look professional. Squarespace does both.,Flexible: Squarespace allows me to quickly and easily make changes to our website.
Professional: I am not a web design professional. Squarespace helps me makes my site look professional.
Inexpensive: Squarespace's price point is great for a small company that needs to maximize our use of every dollar.
Integration: Squarespace integrates well with other services (such as LinkedIn) and helps me do my job.
Responsive: Squarespace has a lot of tutorials and help available on the web. They were also quick to respond if I had questions or problems.,Interface: Sometimes I have problems with their interface not saving or working correctly. For example, the photo editor tool sometimes locks up and crashes causing me to lose work.
Picture Integration: Sometimes it is unclear how to manipulate cropping and sizing of pictures so they look right on the website.,9,Presentation: Our Squarespace-based site is cleaner and smoother than our old site. This is a positive.
Responsiveness: We can quickly build, add, and edit pages. Reducing our workload. This is also a positive.,,Articulate 360, LearnUpon,Content Author / Administrator,10-100 pagesNathan MeehanGreat Software to Create Beautiful Websites2018-11-23T19:12:01.236ZSquarespace has helped me create a beautiful website to help drive my business. Most of my business has come from people online and interacting with my website. It is a lot more cost effective than hiring someone to build a website for us and it allows me control over all aspects of the website. I can customize and redesign whenever I want!,Ability to create your own domain, your own email, and an ad free website all in one place.
Many different layouts to choose from that are able to serve various different needs and services.
The analytics are awesome and really help me understand what people are interacting with on my website.
They offer a google adwords credit for signing up.,Some layouts are difficult to customize.
The design process is a little clunky at times and takes some getting used to.
It's a little more expensive than some other web builders.,9,Increase of visibility of my company.
Professional place to display my portfolio online.
I've received many inquiries from the form on my website.,Wix,Google Ads (formerly AdWords), Adobe Photoshop, SketchUp, AutoCAD,Developer,1-10 pagesJacqueline DeCapuaSimple and beautiful solution for artist.2018-11-23T18:16:43.398ZI've been using Squarespace for years for my photography business. Setting up my site was incredibly easy. The design layouts provided are beautiful and complement my work. They keep the selection of templates fresh and modern. It's always easy to jump in and configure my site and update the images and products offered. I've only had to use their customer support once in the years I've used Squarespace. The one time I chatted with customer support, they were super helpful and gave a thorough explanation with screenshots. I expect to be using Squarespace for many more years and growing my business through their many plans.,Templates are sleek, modern, and beautiful.
Customer support is U.S. based and super friendly.
There are multiple plans so your site can grow with your business.,An even more basic plan would be welcomed for people looking for just a simple gallery to host w/o the bells and whistles.
I'd like to see Squarespace suggest the optimal layout/design based on my content.,10,The modest cost of using Squarespace is always covered with a single transaction.
Having a clean, modern, and beautiful site is invaluable when reaching new customers.
I've been able to easily change my plan as my business has changed over the years. Keeping it cost effective.,Content Author / Administrator,1-10 pagesEdmond Lorts
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