Squarespace - Website Builders

Our Verdict

Squarespace is a top choice for users who want to create a professional website quickly and easily without needing coding skills. With its intuitive drag-and-drop editor, beautiful templates, and integrated tools like SEO, audience management, and eCommerce, it simplifies the process of getting a site up and running.

While customization options can be limited for more advanced users, the platform’s support for CSS and JavaScript in higher plans adds flexibility. For shop owners, managing an online store is straightforward, though there are transaction fees on product sales.

Overall, Squarespace’s all-in-one approach, paired with 24/7 customer support, makes it an excellent solution for individuals, creatives, and small businesses looking to launch and maintain a polished, professional online presence without the need to hire designers or developers.

Pros

Mobile-friendly templates
Easy to customize
Modern template designs
Partnership with Square makes it great for businesses
Tons of integrations & eCommerce solutions

Cons

Limited control over design

Products & Pricing

Squarespace offers four packages for regular sites and online stores, each with different features and prices. All packages include unlimited bandwidth and storage, as well as a free custom domain with annual purchase.

Website – Personal Package

Available for $25 a month when billed monthly or $16 a month when billed annually. It includes mobile-optimized websites, a free custom domain for the first year, and beautifully designed templates. You can sell products, send invoices, and accept payments with 0% transaction fees on invoices.

Key features include SEO tools, unlimited bandwidth, video hosting, SSL security, and basic website metrics. With a drag-and-drop editor, Squarespace AI, and extensions, customizing your site is easy. The plan also supports customer accounts, audience management, and on-domain checkout. Plus, 24/7 customer support is available to assist you.

Website – Business Package

Available for $36 a month when billed monthly or $23 a month when billed annually. In addition to all of the features in the Basic package, this package includes more advanced metrics, unlimited contributors, a G-Suite email account for one year, promotional popups, integrated eCommerce with unlimited popups and donations, and more. This plan has a 3% transaction fee.

Basic Commerce

Available for $40 a month when billed monthly or $28 a month when billed annually. Includes all of the features from the Business plan plus mobile-optimized checkout, unlimited products, commerce metrics, inventory management with coupons, customer accounts, no transaction fees, and more. The POS Square can easily be connected to your Squarespace Basic Commerce plan.

Advanced Commerce

Available for $72 a month when billed monthly or $52 a month when billed annually. Includes all of the features from the basic plan, plus abandoned cart auto-recovery, advanced shipping options, flexible discounts, gift cards, and orders API.

Users can sign up for a free trial that has limited features but is not time-limited. Refunds are only available when canceling an annual website subscription within the first 14 days.

Personal Plan

$25 /mo

14-day free trial

Business Plan

$36 /mo

14-day free trial

Basic Commerce

$40 /mo

14-day free trial

Advanced Commerce

$72 /mo

14-day free trial

In-depth review

Features & Functionality

Squarespace offers dozens of useful features related to design, images, layout, management, SEO, and more. This includes:

Style Editor

The page editor allows users to quickly change colors, fonts, layouts, and more to make each page unique without having development or design experience. Images and items can be dragged and dropped to the desired location very easily.

Mobile-Optimized

Squarespace templates are optimized for mobile use, and the advanced packages for online shops also include fully optimized shopping and checkout experiences for mobile users.

SEO Friendly

While there are no SEO-specific tools, Squarespace is optimized for SEO and allows users to edit image tags, insert headers, and more. The company boasts of its ability to create websites with SEO best practices in mind so that additional plugins are not needed.

Extensions

Squarespace allows users to add third-party extensions, making it even easier to design and manage your website. These tools are available across a range of categories including shipping and fulfillment, finance, inventory and products, and sales and marketing.

Custom CSS and Code

A CSS editor and code blogs can be added to create more advanced design changes or add your own features that are not already available in the site builder’s platform.

Adobe Image Editor

All images hosted on Squarespace can be adjusted with the Adobe Image Editor directly from your browser. Editing options include cropping, resizing, rotating, adjusting brightness, and more.

Square Point of Sale (POS)

There is now Point of Sale available in the Squarespace Commerce app. It allows in-person payment processing to sync with offline sales, all while maintaining customer data, inventory, and sales analytics.

Multiple Ways to Sell

Squarespace is a great solution for those in eCommerce. They provide simple ways to sell not just products, but even services, digital content, and subscription services from your website. With a Basic or Advanced Commerce Plan, you don’t even need to pay for transaction fees.

Design & Templates

Squarespace offers around 70 unique templates in different categories, each with a sleek and modern design optimized for all devices. Once a template is chosen, it can be modified in the editor with new layouts, images, texts, colors, and fonts for a fully customized website. For users that prefer building a site from scratch, a website and online store can quickly be created without a template, allowing users to design their site starting with a blank white page.

Switching between templates is easy, and users can install multiple templates on a site at once and work on multiple designs simultaneously. Templates can be browsed on the website, filtered by keyword search, or filtered by category. Categories include online stores, art, nonprofits, fashion, entertainment, health & fitness, music, home & living, and more.

Ease of Use

Squarespace is an excellent option for anyone that wants to create a good-looking website or online store quickly and without any fuss. An initial draft of a site can be created in under a minute, and editing and customizing it is done in an intuitive interface. Each section on the site can be clicked in order to edit its images and content.

A drag & drop interface is also available to edit the layout of each page. Users can simply move sections around by dragging them with their mouse and dropping them in the desired locations. In terms of ease of use, Squarespace is highly suitable for users without development skills and does not require any coding unless very advanced features are required on your site.

Customer Service

Squarespace offers all paying customers 24/7 premium support. It also has an extensive support section on its website with guides, videos, webinars and a community forum to share knowledge and get help from other users. The forum is especially useful for more advanced customizations. The Squarespace support team can be contacted via live chat, which is open Monday to Friday, 4 am to 8 pm EST, via email 24/7, and on Twitter by tweeting and tagging @SquarespaceHelp.