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$26.00/month.
Starting Price
US$26.00/month
Pricing Details
It is also available at $30/mo and $46/mo with additional features.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes
Squarespace deployment and support
Support
- 24/7 (Live Rep)
- Business Hours
- Online
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
- In Person
- Webinars
- Documentation
Squarespace Features
Blog Software
- Analytics
- Collaborative Writing
- Comment Moderation
- File Sharing
- Group Posting
- Post Management
- Search
- WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing
Content Management Systems
- Audio Content
- Customisable Templates
- Document Indexing
- E-forms
- Full Text Search
- Image Editor
- SEO Management
- Text Editor
- Version Control
- Video Content
- Website Management
Ecommerce Tools for Small Businesses
- Catalogue Management
- Channel Management
- Customer Accounts
- Email Marketing
- Inventory Management
- Loyalty Program
- Mobile Commerce
- Order Management
- Product Configurator
- Promotions Management
- Returns Management
- SEO Management
- Shopping Cart
Email Marketing Software
- A/B Testing
- Auto-Responders
- CAN SPAM Compliance
- Customer Surveys
- Drip Campaigns
- Dynamic Content
- Event Triggered Email
- Image Library
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- List Management
- Mobile Optimised Emails
- Reporting/Analytics
- Subscriber Management
- Template Management
- WYSIWYG Email Editor
Multi-Channel eCommerce Software
- Catalogue Management
- Channel Management
- Data Synchronisation
- Email Marketing
- Inventory Management
- Marketplace Integration
- Mobile Commerce
- Order Management
- Promotions Management
- Returns Management
- SEO Management
- Shopping Cart
- Social Commerce
SEO Software
- A/B Testing
- Auditing
- Competitor Analysis
- Content Management
- Dashboard
- Google Analytics Integration
- Keyword Rank Tracking
- Keyword Research Tools
- Link Management
- Localisation
- Mobile Keywords
Shopping Cart Software
- Abandoned Cart Saver
- Catalogue Management
- Credit Card Processing
- Discount / Coupon Management
- Inventory Control
- Product Configurator
- Product Ratings / Reviews
- Refund Management
- Returns Management
- Shipping Management
- Tax Management
Web Analytics Tools
- Campaign Management
- Conversion Tracking
- Goal Tracking
- Keyword Tracking
- Multiple Site Management
- Pageview Tracking
- Referral Source Tracking
- Site Search Tracking
- Time on Site Tracking
- User Interaction Tracking
Website Builder Software
- Auto Update
- Content Import/Export
- Drag & Drop
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- Online Booking Tools
- Online Store Builder
- Pre-built Templates
- Real Time Editing
- SEO Management
- Survey Builder
eCommerce Software
- CRM
- Data Security
- Email Marketing
- Inventory Management
- Kitting
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Channel Marketing
- Multi-Store Management
- Promotions Management
- Returns Management
- Reviews Management
- SEO Management
- Templates
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Squarespace Reviews for UK Users
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Average score
Jenna S.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /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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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 04/08/2019
"The Best AND Easiest Website-Creating Software You Will Ever Use!"
Comments: Squarespace has saved me time, money, and has allowed me to expand my photography business over the past 5 years by providing the perfect place for clients to find me online. Plus, I get SO many compliments on my website! People always comment on how it is professional, clean, and easy to navigate.
Pros: When I first started looking for a platform to create a website for my fledgling photography business nearly 5 years ago, there were a few specific characteristics I was seeking: I needed the platform to be easy to use, quick to set up, and to showcase my photos in an optimal way to potential clients. I found all of that and more with Squarespace! I was able to get my website set up in just a few days and was able to do it without any tears or that "I'm going to pull my hair out!" feeling. If anything, it was the complete opposite! I couldn't believe how easy everything was to set up and how professional my website looked.
Cons: The ONE thing I wish Squarespace had more of: more creative templates. Their website templates are a great, solid "skeleton" (if you will), but you definitely have to put extra work in if you want to make your website stand out from others who utilize the same template.
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- Reviewed on 04/08/2019
Bridget C.
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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 Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 01/12/2020
"You get what you pay for"
Comments: After trying multiple free website building options, I finally relented and tried out the demo version on Squarespace to see what the learning curve would be like, and if it would be worthwhile ot go the paid route for a website. The answer was a resounding yes, and I've subsequently built 3 more sites with them since our first one. I tell every new business owner starting out, check out squarespace, save yourself the headace of the free platforms that limit creativity, and watch your business grow by the day.
Pros:
Ease of use
Easing learning curve
layout options
customizations options
sleek templates
quick onboarding
Cons: Towards the beginning of my experience with Squarespace, I needed some customer sesrvice and the process to find where I could go for help was not easy. This was back in 2017 however, so I'm not sure if that process has improved since then (I'd like to think so!)
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 01/12/2020
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support2 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 26/07/2020
"Squarespace, perhaps the best first-generation low-code website builder"
Comments: Squarespace is our goto for standard business sites including our site; we run heavy ecommece clients on Shopify, and anything more advanced on Duda or WordPress. Squarespace does win the first-gen low-code war -- way ahead of Weebly, Wix, or some of the others. The platform needs to decide which next market to focus on to continue to be relevant as Duda, Versoly, and other 2nd-gen platforms emerge.
Pros: Squarespace makes it easy to get websites up quickly -- we've built three, and all went from zero to launch within three days. If you just need some standard startup landing pages, Squarespace is for you. Their customer support is great if about the basic blocks.
Cons:
Squarespace has some gotchas that make for substantial challenges beyond the first few months of business unless you're willing to either pay for external plugins or write code, and that comes with several major caveats, such as:
* weird things such as sliders for images simply don't exist
* custom CSS only applies at the site and not the page level
* spacing is somewhat odd with no fine-grain control
* certain JS plugins simply don't work on the site
* there is NO undo of any unkind except plaintext
* there is NO copy/paste or page templating
Perhaps the biggest issue is that it feels like Squarespace is trying to straddle the fence between being the leading CMS and the leading ecommerce platform and as a result it is neither. Frankly, the basic site experience is such that we'd be very reticent to ever deploy the ecommerce capability for a client, and so we use it for customers with mostly static content who blog a couple of times / week or less.
The lack of premium support for code issues further hampers their market share -- adding that as an option might provide more revenue for them and a way forward, as few other platforms do.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 26/07/2020
Alyssa P.
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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 Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 04/10/2020
"Squarespace is my favorite web design platform as a boutique web designer"
Comments: I love Squarespace. I've been using it for over 3 years and have been able to quickly produce several websites with it. I'm a little disappointed by how much Squarespace is limited on design, but the tradeoff is worth it with how easy their platform integrates e-commerce, email marketing, scheduling, and inventory management all-in-one.
Pros: Squarespace is clean, sophisticated, modern, easy to use, and has built-in features such as domain purchasing, email marketing, scheduling, and e-commerce that make it easy to run a business. With Squarespace, I can trust that my clients will be able to manage their website 100% by themselves once I finish designing it for them. With other platforms (like Wordpress), I cannot guarantee the same. I also like how transparent Squarespace's pricing and plans are. It's so easy to upgrade or downgrade as your needs change. In Squarespace, I can design a high-quality website extremely fast and share the draft with my clients easily.
Cons: Squarespace is the least flexible of all the web design platforms that I work with in terms of design customization. There are a lot of different types of widgets and ways to display content that simply aren't available on Squarespace because the platform limits what you can change in the design (probably to prevent websites from turning out bad). I've also noticed that Squarespace websites typically load slower than some of the websites I've built on other platforms like Webflow and Duda.
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- Reviewed on 04/10/2020
Konisha 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 Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 07/01/2021
"Squarespace Review"
Comments: Overall I love Squarespace. My site runs smoothly I have not had any complaints from customers of card sales not going through of the site not working properly. I do use this app on a daily bases updating inventory, changing images and checking analytics for my social post to see the increase of traffic.
Pros: What I like most about Squarespace software is that it is very user friendly. It has up to date functions and accessibility for you to use other apps in combination with this app. I also like that there is a scheduling feature to take appointments. As a Cosmetologist this was very important to me as a buyer.
Cons: A feature that I like the least would be the shipping page on the features within the website. I feel that it could be more simplified or more automated to link with shipping rates based on the weight and measurements of the product. I figured it out eventually but honestly that part of setting up my site was a headache.
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- Reviewed on 07/01/2021
