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Squarespace

Starting at $16 per month billed annually
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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
Vetted 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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Basic

$16

Cloud
per month billed annually

Core

$23

Cloud
per month billed annually

Basic

$25

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)

  • $16 per month billed annually
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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.

6.7
Avg 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

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

6.9
Avg 7.7

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

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 $16.

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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Squarespace is the right place!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 12, 2018
RM
Rachel McIntyre
Account Coordinator
McCullough Creative (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
[Squarespace is] Used for website building within an advertising agency for multiple clients. It’s a good website option for designers who aren’t extremely skilled or are new to the web, it provides customization but the ease of templates!
Pros
  • Templates that are easy to use
  • Tutorials on how to use the program
  • Clean and sleek design options
Cons
  • Hard to understand without watching tutorials
  • Not always user-friendly
  • Pricy
Likelihood to Recommend
I used it for multiple clients for quick clean websites. Any site that is extremely complicated wouldn’t be a candidate for Squarespace.

Great for startups! Bad for big business.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 03, 2017
BC
Brian Chung
Graphic Designer
Shopary (Retail, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use our website to sell our products. We start off when we have a few products or want a simple, quick and beautiful website. The business problem it addresses is ugly websites. Squarespace makes everything really easy to make our company have a beautiful website for our customers. It also solves the problem of connecting our website to our amazon products. We use the amazon link button to import our products.
Pros
  • Squarespace provides beautiful websites.
  • The website is intuitive and easy to use. Some of my co-workers who have limited experience in building websites can figure out how to use it!
  • Squarespace does a great job at connecting our website to Amazon.
Cons
  • Squarespace can grow in ecommerce - it's hard to manage multiple products on squarespace.
  • Squarespace can grow in making their templates for customizable.
  • Squarespace can grow in making their navigation a little easier to navigate. Sometimes it takes me a while to find simple things like SEO.
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace is well suited if you want to build a simple website for yourself or simple website fo your business. This is where Squarespace does well. Simple - meaning, a couple of key pages or a couple of key products. Where Squarespace is less suited is if you want to build a website with multiple pages or have 100s of products. It's not as easy to manage as say Shopify.

Squarespace: website creation made easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 28, 2020
ML
Michael Leone
Staff Training & Development Manager
Widget Financial (Banking, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Squarespace is used to share media mostly - blog and vlog posts. There is also a page that links to your use as well as a standard contact option. Squarespace allows for easy dissemination of social media posts as well as a convenient way to share thoughts, ideas, and motivation.
Pros
  • It's easy to design a bold, colorful and eye-catching website.
  • There are multiple avenues for creation and maintenance - web and app.
  • The user interface is easy to understand and requires very little learning and/or trial and error.
Cons
  • The mobile app lacks certain customization and editing options are native in the web app.
  • It would be nice to log-in and automatically be routed to your domain, instead of having to select it.
  • While it's easy to use, certain tasks take multiple clicks - it would be nice if there as a "Favorites" option to quickly access the areas you use most.
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace is well-suited for just about any online endeavor - be it a personal blog or vlog, a small- business store front, or a large scale website for a larger company. It's so simple to use a template to put something together - for a corporate campaign for example - that it's really a no-brainer.

Website building for people who don't know how to build websites

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 23, 2018
Verified User
General Manager in Customer Service
Food & Beverages Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using Squarespace for our companies website. It is being used across the entire organization as we make regular updates to the website and we also sell our products online. Our employees are able to log in to Squarespace when an online order comes in and fulfill the order. It's easy to use and easy to update.
Pros
  • It's easy for someone who has very limited experience with website creation and design to use.
  • The online store was easy to set up and easy to use.
  • It's easy to update and make edits to the website
Cons
  • It is a bit tedious to add photos to the online store.
  • Not all of it is intuitive, there was definitely a good bit of guess and check that I had to do which made it a bit inefficient.
Likelihood to Recommend
My scenario is the perfect use case. I needed a new website but didn't know a thing about building a website. I was able to use a template that Squarespace provided and within a couple of weeks create a website that has provided everything we need. Admittedly we didn't need a whole lot from our website, but I do like the fact that we were able to set up an online store for no cost.

Squarespace is an excellent platform for simpler websites, but be aware of some e-commerce limitations

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
February 18, 2021
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We 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.
Pros
  • 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).
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace is a perfect platform for an informational website, for selling digital products or as a scheduling website. These kinds of things it does incredibly well, what with their myriad templates and design tools. As an e-commerce platform it can be very good but it definitely has some catching up to do with other more well known platforms. They need to focus on some core features a little bit better to make selling easier.
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