Squarespace: The fast and easy website builder
January 03, 2024

Squarespace: The fast and easy website builder

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace

As our backend for our website and some website creation. Used the templates to build the look of our site
  • Easy to build templates
  • Easy to adjust settings on the templates
  • Easy to link documents for the public to view on your site
  • Easy to build test backend pages or make those pages live with drag and drop feature
  • Templates are meant not to be broken too much but that limits the variability. Some design feature restrictions could be lowered
  • Sometimes its unclear whether a background page is live or not.
  • Hard to run backend dns items
  • The main ROI for Squarespace is the low monthly cost to have a nice website up and runnning quickly
  • Transparent pricing and visibility for billing
  • Provides help to have a modern looking website without a lot of effort
WordPress is for more advanced users and allows more functionality to be built into the website. However, Squarespace is easy to use and you will be able to get a functioning website up and running on your own. That is their main point and purpose for their mission. However, throughout the years, they have built in more robust functionality. Sometimes hard to find but easy to fix with a quick youtube.

Do you think Squarespace delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Squarespace's feature set?

Yes

Did Squarespace live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Squarespace go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Squarespace again?

Yes

I believe Squarespace is perfect for startup companies. You can have a serviceable website up in a day. It works well with any domain service, we used Google Domain, which they purchased recently to make things less confusing. Once you get into custom websites with full service SEO and many other features, that web designer will need to completely start from scratch building your site. However, you do not really need this until you have a large company, if at all. Squarespace offers tons of functionality for online purchases, private customer access areas and much more.

Squarespace Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
6
Page templates
5
Library of website themes
5
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
10
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
7
Bulk management
8
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
9
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
7