Squarespace is a website builder that allows small business owners to create, launch, and maintain a website or online store without any technical or coding knowledge. We compiled Squarespace reviews from around the web and found that it has generally positive ratings. We also shared its available subscription options for small businesses.
Pricing & Features
Useful Resources
Overview Video
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Top Alternatives
User Reviews
Summary of Squarespace User Reviews
What Squarespace does well:
Users who recommended Squarespace said that it is beginner-friendly and really easy to use for people without coding knowledge. They also said that the platform offers a lot of sleek and modern-looking templates that users can easily add onto their websites.
What Squarespace does not do well:
Users who gave Squarespace negative reviews said that subscription plans are a little expensive compared to other providers. Some users also said that customizations that can be applied to websites are limited.
Most Helpful Positive User Review:
“Squarespace is good because it offers many website template options for users. There are free options available as well as paid ones. You can customize a website however you like with a wide choice of colors, fonts and layouts. It is a click and save system so you don’t have to know HTML, or be an advanced web designer to create a really good website. Plus, many of the newest designs and layouts offered are very modern and on-trend with the designs of today.”
— Monique La Barr
Most Helpful Negative User Review:
“Cost can be a hindrance for some as it is a bit more pricey and layouts/templates are few. Additionally, there can be some limitations with widgets or page customizations. There is also an odd issue with domains when migrating it to Squarespace. I have found purchasing several Squarespace domains with the company directly ends up being much more expensive than if I did it outside.”
— Alex
Squarespace Pricing
Squarespace has two subscription plans: websites and online stores. For websites — the Personal Website costs $16/month, while the Business costs $26/month. For online stores — the Basic costs $30/month, while the Advanced costs $46/month. The difference between the plans is the availability of features like ecommerce integrations & complete customization using CSS/Javascript.
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Squarespace Features
Check out the list below of some of Squarespace’s website features.
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Unlimited Pages
- Mobile-Optimized Site
- Website Metrics
- Free Domain Name
- SSL Security
- 24/7 Customer Support
Online store features:
- Unlimited Products
- No Transaction Fees
- Free Domain Name
- Inventory and Order Management
Useful Squarespace Resources
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Domain Name Registration – How To Register + Helpful Tips — Registering a domain is a just a simple task. However, there are a few possible stumbling blocks you may run into when completing the process. In this guide, we’ll go through the process of registering a domain and what missteps to avoid in order to obtain your perfect domain name.
How Much Does A Website Cost? — The cost of your website will depend on whether you want to go DIY or hire a person/company to build it for you. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the different options you have to build your website and how much each of the options will cost.
How to Make a Small Business Website in 5 Simple Steps — Not having a website means you’re losing out on potential customers. Follow our 5 simple steps in this guide to have your small business website up and running in no time.
Squarespace Overview Video
This video provides an example on how users can utilize Squarespace to create their business portfolio site and grow their business.
Popular Integrations
When choosing a website builder, it’s important that the software integrates with other applications your business is currently using. Here is a list of some of Squarespace’s popular integrations.
Top Squarespace Alternatives
Not sure if Squarespace is the right fit for you? Read our website builder comparison guide or check out one of these three Squarespace competitors.
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Stefanie Malone
It provides clean, smart looking website templates to build a professional website. I’ve used this for two nonprofits that I have managed and love the final results. I appreciate the ease of use, ability to inject code if needed, alternative templates, integration with G-Suite and more.
I wish that there was a database/directory option for Squarespace — that has been a frustration for me.
That they’ll offer you the domain for free with your first year purchase, as well as G-Suite integration. Do note: if you are a nonprofit, you’re able to use Google for Nonprofit as a G-Suite and not bother signing up through Squarespace.
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Jacqueline DeCapua
Squarespace really takes care of all options for you. You can create your own domain, your own email, and an ad free website all in one place, which was a huge plus for me. There are many different layouts to choose from that are able to serve various different needs and services. The analytics are awesome and really help me understand what people are interacting with on my website. They even offer a Google Adwords credit for signing up! I think this is the best platform for creating your own website, making it look professional, and avoiding paying someone thousands of dollars to do it for you.
It is fairly difficult to customize within certain layouts, and the process is clunky, with having to go to a different ‘design’ tab to do so. The pricing is moderate but you get what you pay for!
I would’ve started off watching some tutorials before just jumping in and trying to figure it out myself, that would’ve saved me a lot of time and frustration!
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Andy Ryan
SquareSpace is amazing for people who are not really good at design or coding for websites. They make it super simple to have a very professional looking website in a short amount of time.
The pricing and the customization would be the two limiting things in my opinion. When you get into more advanced things you want your website to do, it ends up becoming difficult with SquareSpace and at times more expensive with third-party apps.
I wish I was aware of all the pricing for the services that my website would require.
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Nicole Steen, M.A.
One of the main reasons I recommend Squarespace for all my clients (and use it for myself) as opposed to WordPress is because of their AMAZING customer service. They will happily help you with anything regarding your site, even outside the range of what they should be helping you with (code, server issues). It is extremely easy to learn and design with. I can build an effective and beautiful standard site in a few hours, and maybe 15 hours if I want to customize every little piece. They come with a few dozen templates but from there, you can customize them all to your (almost) exact liking.
I suppose pricing is a bit high but to me it is 100% worth it for the customer service.
That you can actually customize 90% of the elements and design features on the templates. After 3 years of building standard sites, I finally learned to customize and now my sites are wildly original, streamlined, and most importantly converting.
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Anna Swenson
SquareSpace has beautiful design options, so your site is certain to look stylish and polished. The edit features are pretty intuitive, and their customer service has been responsive for the most part.
The initial site setup can be cumbersome. It takes me a good long while and some help to get from my vision for the site to what it actually looks like on the screen. It’s also easy to mess up your formatting of site units if you don’t know what you’re doing. I’ve been a user for 3+ years and I’m still figuring it out.
SquareSpace is the cool option, not the community or empowering option. You pretty much have to figure it out yourself. That’s fine for some people, but I did have to hire an expert to execute what I actually wanted.
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