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Squarespace

Starting at $25 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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Pricing

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Basic

$25

Cloud
per month

Core

$36

Cloud
per month

Plus

$56

Cloud
per month

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)

  • $25 per month
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Product Demos

How to Work with Demo Content | Squarespace 7.0

YouTube

How To Build A Website in 15 Minutes (Squarespace Tutorial 2024)

YouTube

How To Choose a Squarespace Template | 10 Minute Demo

YouTube
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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.

7.9
Avg 8.2

Platform & Infrastructure

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

6.8
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.9
Avg 7.8

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.5
Avg 7.4
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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 Videos

Meet Blueprint AI by Squarespace
The Squarespace Guide to Creating a Digital Brand

Squarespace Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
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 $25.

Reviewers rate WYSIWYG editor highest, with a score of 9.

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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Quick deploy those cost-sensitive websites.

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 01, 2016
BB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
2 years of experience
Squarespace is a DIY WYSIWYG website creation tool. Small business owners can tackle the moderate learning curve and be well on their way to a modest website in a matter of hours. It's very simple to choose a theme, input content and go live online, and of course, it's quite cost-effective. While I tend to refer my clients to better tools, Squarespace is the fallback for budget-wary customers and startups who just want to go live with their brand and message.
  • Down to earth setup and content management.
  • Affordable.
  • Easy updates.
Cons
  • Squarespace is by design limited in flexibility.
  • There is a modest learning curve, but nothing you can't tackle.
Use Squarespace for a quick and simple website when you don't know or want to learn basic coding and hosting concepts.

Perfect for small business

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 08, 2016
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
3 years of experience
We used SquareSpace at my previous job as our web solution for a small tech startup. Today, I use it for my band's website. It's a great solution for smaller organizations with limited time to futz with customization options to get a beautiful, mobile-friendly site up and running, fast.
  • Easy to adjust CSS with a drag & drop interface.
  • Healthy number of plugins that are ready to go as soon as you dive in - little to no configuration needed.
  • Easy, drag & drop page layouts.
  • Excellent security and uptime.
Cons
  • There's a bit of a learning curve for how to get around the software and figure out where to find certain things.
  • Sometimes the left nav disappears and I have no idea why.
  • I've managed to break the top-level nav and couldn't figure out why or how to fix it.
SquareSpace is ideal for small businesses. Probably not good for a site with more than a couple dozen pages to manage.

Easy Peasy Get Up to Speed within Minutes!

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 23, 2021
MC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
1 year of experience
A client of mine purchased Squarespace as their website for their business. Even though a custom design website would have cost more, she elected to pursue Squarespace for the ease of drag and drop and the ideas of a future blog.

Except they found it more confusing. The learning curve wasn't confusing. They didn't have a comprehensive flair for good design, usage of typography and colors for the website. That's where I come in, and I designed a site using the Squarespace interface with ease. It's likely one of the most accessible third-party platforms I have used!
  • Blogging feature - easy to set up
  • A variety of templates and designs for the clients to from
  • Mobile apps
Cons
  • Couldn't see anything wrong. Almost makes me want to stop creating custom sites because of Squarespace!
Although there are templates and themes, if you are skilled in web development or web design, one could further customize the site. You can use your custom code to CSS whatever you need to do. One is not stuck to the template or theme.

Squarespace is simply the best. Period.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 10, 2018
CT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
5 years of experience
I use Squarespace to manage, maintain, and deploy my personal photography/videography website. It is a wonderful all-in-one solution of domain management, hosting, and deployment. Squarespace is beautifully designed, completely secure, and such a delight to use. I was able to dive in and get started immediately on my site. There was virtually no learning curve. Their support is also top tier.
  • Ease of use
  • Beautifully designed on the front and back end
  • Secure
Cons
  • Can be cost prohibitive for some small businesses
I think Squarespace is a great option for everything from a small business to a large e-commerce website. It has so much built in and is highly customizable for your organization. The only scenario I don't see Squarespace being a good fit is for a large corporate website that has hundreds of subdomains or pages.

Create & showcase your creativity!

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 24, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
4 years of experience
SquareSpace is being used by the marketing department of our Independent Research Group. They setup a marketing site to showcase our research team and the multiple projects that they are working on. We are keeping this site separate from our organization site as we want to create a unique identify for this smaller research group to gain traction for the multiple projects.
  • Easy to set up initially
  • Learning curve isn't steep to access the dashboard features
  • Decent Analytics to keep track of basic traffic data that helps in making decisions.
Cons
  • Needs more integrations from other web friendly platform tools.
  • Not innovating fast enough - I feel their updates aren't creative enough
  • Better Video & multimedia integration.
SquareSpace is suited for straight forward, more simplistic web pages. We set up the informational site for our small research group with 8 pages to showcase a few new projects with pictures, information and some multimedia files. However for a more complicated workflow and forms, we wouldn't choose SquareSpace as it doesn't have more integrations with our backend Azure systems. I wouldn't recommend it for large corporations with complicated workflows. Its more suited for smaller businesses.
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