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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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The go-to for set-it-and-forget-it info sites

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 23, 2018
Verified User
Project Manager in Marketing
Farming Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Squarespace is being used as a supplemental campaign site in tandem with our main corporate site. Our marketing department is using it to easily and quickly execute a low-code/no-code solution for websites instead of having to work with a developer to build a campaign site that will have a short lifespan and have minimal complexity.
Pros
  • Building info sites with "standard" functionality
  • Easy to deploy for non-technical users in a Marketing environment
  • Getting a quick, nice looking site with minimal weekly maintenance.
Cons
  • Has a glass ceiling, some products in this space have more extensiblility at the trade off of more maintenance.
  • All-in-one means you have to go with their options (which they have plenty of!)
  • More granular design control would be beneficial to making sites feel less templated.
Likelihood to Recommend
This product is best suited for small to midsize business environments where there is a logical "ceiling" to what the customer will want. Also, this product is useful for secondary sites (landing pages, or campaign sites that have a limited lifespan) in larger corporate/enterprise environments that want to keep costs low.

Customer service reps are real people with real personalities

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 28, 2017
NS
Nicole Steen, M.A.
Graphic and Web Designer / Resume Writer
www.resumebynico.com (Design, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Squarespace to design my own business sites and as a web designer, I use Squarespace to design sites for my clients. It is easy, quick to set up and organize, intuitive, and modern. It solves the problem of having an affordable, easy to use, easy to train web design platform that anyone can use and learn.
Pros
  • Ease of use- this is a strength because you can quickly design a client site and teach them how to use it.
  • Modern design and templates- this is a strength because it makes your company look good and thus you, as a web designer, look good.
  • Customer service- one of the best teams out there. You talk to a real human with a personality. One woman stayed on chat with me for an hour helping me fix something on my site. I was freaking out and she helped calm me down and wouldn't stop until it was done.
Cons
  • They could add "extras" meaning things like special hover effects, ways to add 'movement' to the sites, ability to use more than 4 fonts. HOWEVER I understand Squarespace is modern and minimal and it helps keep things looking consistent and professional. SOMETIMES it would be helpful though.
  • They could think about adding an advanced team to help customers with custom code changes, maybe for an additional fee or something. It would be good to have that resource all in one place.
Likelihood to Recommend
Customer service is exceptional. Another place in my review I told the story of how a woman stayed on chat with me for an hour after something random went wrong on my site that no one could explain. She was a real person with a personality, like a friend. She came up with creative solutions and made me feel calm and like we were going to solve this. She did not stop until it was back to normal.

The perfect tool to create your web presence.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 16, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Corporate
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I used Squarespace to get my website and my webstore up and running. I needed a professional grade looking website that worked well. Since this was a side project, I didn't want to expend resources and set up a web development team to create it. Squarespace was a really good alternative that simply let me drag, drop and create something that looked great and functioned without any issues. I liked the fact that you don't need to be a software guru to get things up and running. I also loved how easily I could add e-commerce functionality to my website.
Pros
  • It is incredibly easy to use. Simple to the point where you can drag and drop. So you can create a very professional looking website with little to no coding experience.
  • There are a ton of customization options and a lot of templates to choose from. My website still looked unique and "mine" even though I built it using their pre-built tools.
  • You can add an e-commerce part to your website really easily. Very handy if you are providing services or selling items through your web portal.
  • Looks and works great on mobile devices as well.
  • The pricing is very reasonable. For the service it offers, it is priced very competitively. And certainly cheaper than hiring a web development team.
  • The user interface is simple and clean. You won't have to spend time searching online on how to do things.
  • Good support. They were very nice and helpful when I contacted them.
Cons
  • I had difficulty embedding video content into it. I got it to work but it took longer than it should have.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is perfect if you want to create a website to promote yourself or your small and medium-sized business. You don't need software knowledge and can build and deploy an e-commerce ready website almost over the weekend. It is also really good if you just want to create a web presence for yourself for cheap.

I wouldn't recommend it if you plan on creating a web store that you will be regularly selling items through. It probably would work out cheaper to engage a web development team for the long term savings. But it's good if you only occasionally plan on transacting through your webpage.

Also definitely not recommended for enterprise-level usage. You want more control over your web presence in that scenario rather than engaging through a third party.

Squarespace Quickly Gets You Up And Running!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 25, 2024
JM
Jeff Montgomery
CTO
Animal Necessity (Veterinary, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Squarespace to build quick and accessible websites for product information. It is super simple to quickly get basic "showcase" websites up and running so we can design and edit them on the fly. We can even change the formatting of the design (content and picture layout) with a simple click. It allows us to produce pages quickly and make future changes rapidly.
Pros
  • Design and layout.
  • SEO Integration.
  • Analytical Overviews.
  • Easy-to-use Menus.
  • Drag and Drop Features.
Cons
  • Needs more diverse integration with 3rd party apps.
  • Limited on custom coding.
  • Issues with Domain Connections.
Likelihood to Recommend
We've found Squarespace perfect for quick, well-designed websites that you can literally design and launch in a day. However, if you want to get more complex with your website, including custom backend integrations or code, Squarespace presents a bit more of a challenge when it comes to what they will allow you to modify on their platform (especially using third-party integration apps).

Easy Peasy Get Up to Speed within Minutes!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 23, 2021
MC
Michael Chow
Learning Experience Designer / Graphic Designer
ULearn.tech (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Squarespace
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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!
Pros
  • 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!
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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