Who Uses Squarespace?
Trusted by the worlds best, Squarespace empowers people with creative ideas to succeed. Entrepreneurs, photographers, restaurants, musicians, businesses, fashion designers, and more use Squarespace.
What Is Squarespace?
Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence. Look like an expert right from the start with award-winning templates for your website, online store, or portfolio. Customize the design to fit your personal style and professional needs. Get found in search by more people with powerful SEO tools. Learn where your website traffic is coming from, what your visitors are looking for, and how they're interacting with your content or products with in-depth Analytics tools.
Squarespace Details
Squarespace
http://www.squarespace.com
Founded 2003
Squarespace Pricing Overview
Squarespace does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Squarespace paid version starts at US$12.00/month.
Starting Price
US$12.00/month
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Pricing Details
$12.00 a month billed annually or $16.00 a month billed monthly.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
In Person
Webinars
Documentation
Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Business Hours
Online
Squarespace Features
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Squarespace Reviews for UK Users
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Meghan H.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 30/09/2019
"The Best Website Builder for Simple Sites"
Comments: I genuinely love this tool for creating websites. It is easy to use, cost efficient, and turns out a great end product. I have used it to make websites for photographers, restaurants, and sales businesses alike. It is so versatile and every site visitor thinks it's professionally done.
Pros: This software is easy to use, intuitive, and when you can't figure something out Support is right there for you. They have tons of how to videos and instructions that make everything pretty easy to figure out.
Cons: I dislike the spacer feature - it gets pretty annoying to use those instead of being able to snap an object to a grid and align that way. It works much like Microsoft Word in the sense that if you try to resize or adjust something, sometimes everything on the page moves.
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- Reviewed on 30/09/2019
Kayla H.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money4/5
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- Reviewed on 17/06/2020
"A Great Website Making Tool"
Comments: Squarespace has made my online portfolio unique, eyecatching, and a great way to show off my work to prospective clients. They also consistently have great first time offers so if you are considering using their services you can almost always find it at a great deal.
Pros: It is easy to use, especially for someone who doesn't understand HTML like me. There are plenty of templates that fit each of my needs for my site as whole. I especially love the ways to set up picture galleries, which are most of what I have on there as I use it as an art portfolio.
Cons: Hooking up multiple domains to a single website can be a bit of a hassle, but eventually I was able to get mine running smoothly, and that is a very specific issue to have regardless.
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- Reviewed on 17/06/2020
Andrea C.
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Overall Rating2/5
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Ease of Use1/5
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Features & Functionality2/5
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Customer Support1/5
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Value for Money1/5
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- Reviewed on 23/07/2019
"SquareSpace is a let-down. It's hard to use and is missing basic features. The marketing fooled me! "
Comments: Overall, I hated using SquareSpace and I was so disappointed because I switched away from WordPress + Divi to give SquareSpace a whirl based on SquareSpace's amazing marketing. What a let down. I will never use SquareSpace again. My client wanted both of his sites designed in SquareSpace because he was also duped by the ads. I made one site and it took forever because I was constantly googling how to do something with code to get the site how we wanted it. If you use SquareSpace be prepared to be frustrated or to hire a developer. Basic functionality is missing and you can't copy anything you've done to use elsewhere. I wanted to duplicate the first site and modify it for the second. You can't do that. I had to make both sites from scratch. Support was absolutely terrible. Zero help compared to the awesome Divi support staff that has made my designing life so great for so many years (I'm not an affiliate, just a fan). Oh! And SquareSpace is expensive! You have to pay for each and every site. With WordPress, you pay for hosting somewhere, like Siteground, and you can add as many sites to that account as you like no charge. Squarespace has pretty templates that you can't modify pretty much at all, and it's expensive with terrible support. Do not choose SquareSpace as your CMS unless you are a developer. Awful.
Pros: SquareSpace has beautiful templates. They are truly gorgeous. SquareSpace also has an easy-to-use sidebar of options that puts everything that you can do on the left side. The interface is as clean as the templates. Hosting of your site is done through Squarespace. That's it when it comes to pros. There are a ton of Cons to using SquareSpace.
Cons: As a WordPress user (who has also designed with Wix), SquareSpace falls short almost everywhere. You can't import your brand font—essential. You have to use code or a back-door solution with AdobeFonts. If you want 5 items in a row, no can do. You get 4 or 6. You can't drag the amount of padding around items and sections. You must use spacer blocks (time consuming and such a bad way to do things). There's no media storage! If you upload your photo it isn't stored anywhere for easy selection later. You must upload the same image multiple times whenever you need it—frustrating. Changes can't be made on individual copy styles. Squarespace sets up its CMS as a global system so if you want to change the way your font looks in just one place, you need to insert code (markdown block). You should be able to select it and change the size or colour. But no. It's CRAZY! So time-consuming. Missing basic word-processing functionality. Squarespace has no plugin options. You can't duplicate a page of your site and you can't duplicate your site! Everything is done from scratch! In WordPress, you download a .JSON file and upload it somewhere else and you're flying. Not with SquareSpace. You can't make your overlays look different per section. Everything applies globally. You can't add borders to images. The biggest CON? There's no undo! No revision history. If you delete something accidentally, it's gone forever. Support is terrible. Every answer is "you can't do that" or "try to find code.
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- Reviewed on 23/07/2019
Karl M.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money4/5
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- Reviewed on 20/03/2020
"Squarespace is beautiful, but lacks some basic functionality"
Comments: Functional and beautiful when it works. Very limiting in the area of sales tax.
Pros: Squarespace makes it easy to build a nice website without too much coding know-how. It's very flexible, even for taking orders for customized products.
Cons: Squarespace lacks the basic function of making certain products tax-free. For instance, we don't have sales tax on clothing in MN, but we do on hard goods. If you sell both of these products on your website, your out of luck because the tax setting are tied to location only, not products. This makes selling both retail and wholesale through the same site virtually impossible without some serious workarounds. Myself and many other people have made squarespace aware of this basic issue for more than 3 years, but insofar they haven't come up with any solutions.
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- Reviewed on 20/03/2020
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money4/5
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- Reviewed on 29/04/2020
"Squarespace makes complicated tasks smooth and easy"
Comments: It's been really good! I use Squarespace for my photography portfolio. Back in the day I coded my own websites and it was a pain in the butt. Having Squarespace as an option is just so much better. I can focus on the parts of the process that I enjoy.
Pros:
- It's easy to use and quite easy to customize. There are a lot of possibilities.
- Templates are fresh and inspiring.
- Interface is smooth and easy to navigate.
- Uploading and organizing photos is a dream. It's very easy.
- Templates work flawlessly on desktop and mobile
- Price is fair (not cheap, but a good value for everything it includes)
- The first year was half price with my student email address
Cons:
- There's no way to create a client proofing gallery! This feature would be invaluable to photographers who want to give their clients a way to select which photos they're interested in.
- Having a custom email address costs extra (I believe it's $5/month)
- The selection of templates is a little limited and sites can have a noticeable Squarespace look. But there is room for customization.
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- Reviewed on 29/04/2020
