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Squarespace

Starting at $12 per month
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Overview

What is Squarespace?

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.

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Great customisation and user friendly experience

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 11, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We built our website in-house on Squarespace. Allows us to have tight control over our public content and keep it up-to-date.
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Verified user
Manager
Squarespace8 years of experience

Squarespace Checks All the Boxes!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 7, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our team uses Squarespace predominantly to create a variety of landing and squeeze pages for marketing messaging and engagement. We use different forms of advertising to drive...
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Verified user
Manager
Squarespace15 years of experience

Squarespace is a great fit for small businesses.

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 6, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it as an easy way to spin a one-off landing page/promotional page.
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Verified user
Technician
Squarespace6 years of experience

Quick, cool, trusty website builder.

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 24, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We launch websites faster with Squarespace for new events and services, allowing a modern, functional design with integrated modules. For innovation events, we embed other too...
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Maria Halse Duloquin
Consultant - Professional Services
Innovation Consultant
MHD Innovation
Squarespace6 years of experience
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Easy to Manage and Learn

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 18, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Squarespace as our website. We have implemented many forms through it and other programs to easily track users and make the website more user friendly.
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Maria Paparella
Director - Professional Services
Executive Director
Chair-ity, Inc
Squarespace5 years of experience
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.squarespace.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $12 per month
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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

6.8
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7
Avg 7.6

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.7
Avg 7.7

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Squarespace?

Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Their templates are designed to be elegant and give users maximum control over the look & feel of the website. Some Squarespace templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

Squarespace allows eCommerce users to customize not only elements like themes and fonts, but also structural elements like online store layout. Templates are optimized for mobile shopping. SEO, product galleries, and order management features are built in. Squarespace integrates with Stripe for credit card payments, and ShipStation for shipping.

Squarespace Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Squarespace starts at $12.

Reviewers rate WYSIWYG editor highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Squarespace are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Easy to Use with Some Limitations

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2019
Verified User
Administrator in Other
Religious Institutions Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Only our specific department is currently using it under my direct management (other departments also use it on their own), but the entire organization's website is not hosted on Squarespace. As the entire organization's website is proprietary and designed/developed for a Korean-speaking audience, Squarespace was our solution in allowing us to communicate with our English-speaking audience without having to go through the arduous process/task of re-coding the existing website.
Pros
  • Well-designed starting templates.
  • Flexibility for more advanced users who know how to customize through additional code.
  • Ease of use.
Cons
  • We would love to be able to add pop-up modules as a default option, without having to add additional code.
  • The site sometimes gets very laggy and working on the site gets slow/frustrating. We would like the option to perhaps work offline and push all edits live at once.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend it for the average user (and have already), especially for those looking for a solution that balances price and quality. Squarespace is certainly not the cheapest option, but I personally believe it is one more user-friendly options that allow people to create better-looking sites without any design/programming knowledge. Other alternatives, I have found, aren't as intuitive, or are just more clunky in the way they operate. However, I would probably still not recommend Squarespace for blogging, as post formatting can still get tricky when it comes to blog posts on Squarespace. I do not have personal experience with the e-commerce side of Squarespace, so I can't speak much into that side of Squarespace however.

Squarespace is stylish, easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 05, 2018
KT
Kelly Troyer
Sales Support
Mrs. Miller's Homemade Noodles (Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization uses Squarespace to run our company website. We use it as a web presence to inform people about our products, to direct them to stores that carry our products near them across the United States, and as a resource for recipes. We also use it for eCommerce as a retail store which is a very small part of our business but important nonetheless to allow people to purchase our products if they can't find them at a store near them. Our squarespace site addressed our need for an easy to maintain site, that still looks professional, to host all of these previously mentioned applications.
Pros
  • Squarespace has professional, appealing templates. It also allows you to change templates as well without affecting your live website while working on an update, which we are currently doing.
  • The eCommerce setup is very easy and user-friendly. Several options for customizing items, such as choosing 4 flavors to go into a 4 pack. The payment through Stripe is very secure as well.
  • There are many options for customizing your pages. There are various slideshow options, different ways to display pictures, products, and text. Each option comes in its own content block which you can't freely move but that helps keep everything aligned on the pages.
  • The pages adapt very well for mobile. There are mobile specific options you can change too.
Cons
  • Discounts don't have use limits. We have wanted to give a discount for a customer for a one time use but the only option currently is to give a code and then keep an eye on when the code is used and then end change the expiration code once it has otherwise they could use it more than once.
  • Shipping options are limited. You can choose to ship everywhere or add which countries you want to allow but you can't exclude more specific than countries. For example, we can include United States but can't exclude specific places such as the Virgin Islands which are included in the United States.
  • It's more expensive than other website options. The ease of use might make up for the cost, but if you have someone who can do coding and/or dedicate more time to maintenance of the site, there are likely cheaper options.
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace has great templates for displaying a portfolio or pictures. I imagine it would suit photographers and I think restaurants would benefit from Squarespace's features as well to display bold food pictures and capture attention with full screen images. For a site more focused on eCommerce another site might do better with payment, shipping, and coupon options. I do think it would be well suited for smaller businesses with interactive scrolling pages and good mobile adaptability which an individual or a small team could easily maintain.

Squarespace - Easy to Use For Just About Anyone

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 11, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have used Squarespace for a personal webpage for a local club I ran. Between myself and the one other person who utilized it, we were able to launch a website that was easy to edit and share ongoing information about meetings.
Pros
  • The themes they provide are clean, fun and easy to setup.
  • The setup prompts and questions are easy to follow to link to your own domain if you own it outside of Squarespace.
  • Making edits weekly were very easy and only took a few minutes.
Cons
  • It would be nice to have more themes.
  • A direct email login from the sites somehow.
Likelihood to Recommend
I've already touched on all of these in my previous responses.

An easy-to-use platform to create great responsive websites

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 19, 2016
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Squarespace is used as an easy to use solution to create perfect responsive and mobile friendly websites. Since it incorporates a great set of tools to add and modify content blocks, it offers great flexibility to quickly and effortlessly create websites varying from corporate websites to e-shops. The ability to customise the look and feel even further using css/html allows us to satisfy customers' needs.
Pros
  • Create responsive and mobile friendly websites using ready made templates.
  • Easily customise and extend the existing templates.
  • An adequate set of pre-built content blocks and functions provide the necessary tools to create any type of websites.
Cons
  • The gallery library requires some changes in order to more easily manage the added images.
  • Better support of multilingual websites.
  • The option to secure parts of the websites and not only the entire website.
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace is ideal for creating elegant responsive websites. Specifically, portfolios, blogs, small e-shops, corporate websites are a great match for the available feature set. Squarespace is suitable for creating full-featured content sites with multiple article categories and sections.

Visually Stunning & Easy to Use, But Has Some Drawbacks

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 26, 2016
PS
Paul Stainton
Consultant in Marketing
Deluxe Corporation (Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have helped small business owners develop their online presence using Squarespace. In particular, building a food/recipe site for a well-known chef who needed something professional looking while really emphasizing the imagery of the dishes he created. Squarespace is a visually stunning platform and did a great job showcasing the finished recipes.
Pros
  • Visual representation - the way Squarespace showcases imagery is excellent.
  • Flexibility - we were able to create unique pages as well as elements within pages that really showcased finished recipes.
  • SEO - The system allowed us to craft dedicated title and description tags for each page to help boost the organic traffic to the site.
Cons
  • Content Management - Trying to integrate fixed pages with a blog functionality, while maintaining a consistent look and feel, have been a challenge. The platform seems to do well as either a fixed site OR a blog site, but not one with mixed types of content.
  • Creating a Master Template - It would be nice if Squarespace allowed you to maintain a master style sheet that could be applied to other pages on the site. We created a workaround by creating a blank, unpublished, page and simply duplicating it each time a new page was being created.
  • Scheduling Content - Other platforms allow you to easily create and schedule content for publishing later, but either Squarespace doesn't have that functionality or I was not able to figure out how to use it.
Likelihood to Recommend
I find that Squarespace is very well suited for a small to medium size business that wants a visually attractive site that is easy to put together. However, it takes some technical knowledge to figure out the SEO and customization options (which is not unusual). The templates are very nice and offer a great deal of flexibility in choice. However, it lacks some flexibility in creating "visual" pages with a "blog-like" navigation. You either need to decide on the blog type user experience or do a LOT of manual coding to create the user and next-page flows that a blog would provide.
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