Squarespace Pricing Explained— Is It Expensive?

Squarespace is not expensive compared to other website builders—it’s actually quite average. There are cheaper website builders, but they are not comparable to Squarespace.

The top website builders all charge about the same price for an entry plan with no ads and unlimited bandwidth. In fact, Squarespace’s plan is the cheapest among those.

Cheapest Plans From The Top Website Builders:

Note: Wix, Square, and Webflow have cheaper plans, but those cheaper plans include ads and bandwidth limitations— which I’d suggest you avoid!

Squarespace offers four plans:

1. Personal
2. Business
3. Basic Commerce
4. Advanced Commerce

Most websites should choose either the Personal or Business plan. I explain the differences here.

Ecommerce websites should choose either Basic Commerce or Advanced Commerce. I explain the differences here.

Squarespace's four plans

Want to save money? Choose an annual plan.

Here’s what you would save if you paid for the Personal or Business plan annually instead of monthly:

Update: New Squarespace Plans

New plans

Squarespace seems to be testing a new pricing model with only three plans: Personal ($16/month), Professional ($27/month), and Premium ($59/month). But, as it stands, you are likely to see the four plans we discussed above. We’ll update this article if the new plans are made public/available to everyone.

The Personal plan is Squarespace’s cheapest plan, and it will be good enough for most websites.

The Business plan is more expensive. Here are the four reasons you’d want to upgrade to the Business plan:

1. Ecommerce

The Business plan lets you sell products and accept donations— though there is a 3% transaction fee.

This may be useful if you’d like to just try out ecommerce. If you’re doing any sales volume, you’ll want to upgrade to Squarespace’s ecommerce plans (which have no transaction fees).

2. 3rd Party Integrations

The Business plan lets you use 3rd party tools like Gmail, Opentable, Chownow, Acuity Scheduling and Mailchimp.

3. Advanced Metrics

The Business plan includes conversion metrics in your Squarespace’s analytics. These metrics are used for tracking how visitors convert on your goals (example: filling out a contact form, booking a service, joining a mailing list).

4. Marketing Tools

The Business plan includes promotional pop-ups, mobile information bars and announcement bars.

There are three Squarespace plans you could choose for ecommerce.

So which one should you use?

1. Business Plan

Technically Squarespace’s cheapest plan with ecommerce is the Business plan—but it includes a 3% transaction fee on purchases. These makes it suitable for testing ecommerce but not really for a full-blown ecommerce store.

2. Basic Commerce

This is the ideal ecommerce plan to start with— it includes all the basics ecommerce. Plus it has no transaction fees, gift cards, customer accounts, integrations with ShipStation and Xero and more.

3. Advanced Commerce

This is the ecommerce plan for growing stores— it adds subscription products, gift cards, more flexible discounts, abandoned cart auto-recovery, real-time shipping rates and an orders API that lets you build custom integrations with 3rd party systems.

If you’d like to set up email with Squarespace, you’ll need to use their integration with Google Workspace.

You will need to be on the Business, Basic Commerce, or Advanced Commerce plan.

Is Google Workspace Any Good?

Yes. Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite) is the only email provider I would recommend. It basically gives you Gmail for your domain name email addresses.

What Does Google Workspace Cost?

Google Workspace costs money— you will have to pay for any email address connected to a domain name. That’s just reality. (If you want a free email address, just use a @gmail.com email address.)

Squarespace offers the standard Google Workspace pricing, which is based on the number of email addresses:

If you sign up for an annual plan, you get the first year of your domain name free.

Otherwise, a .com domain costs $20 / year with Squarespace.

You can actually find cheaper deals on .com domain names through a Namecheap— which provides .com domain names for $13.98. The downside is you’ll need to do some technical work to connect your Namecheap domain name to your Squarespace hosting.

Squarespace includes free whois privacy— which anonymizes your personal information (domains require public contact information called whois). I appreciate this, as website builders such as Weebly charge you for whois privacy.

In addition to websites, Squarespace also has some paid add-ons:

Appointment Scheduling

Squarespace offers a paid add-on for appointment scheduling.

There are three plans:

Members Area

Squarespace recently started offering a Members Area add-on.

Here’s what it costs:

Email Marketing

Squarespace offers a paid add-on for email marketing.

There are four email marketing plans:

Bio Sites

Bio Sites is a link in bio tool that helps you make ‘link in bio’ landing pages. It’s part of Unfold, Squarespace’s app for Instagram creators and storytellers in general.

You can make a bio site free with this tool, but there are also paid plans for premium features:

Tock - Restaurant Reservation System

Squarespace acquired Tock to “combine the brand building power of Squarespace with the hospitality tools of Tock for everything you need to market and manage your [restaurant] business.”

In other words, you can make beautiful restaurant websites with Squarespace. And with Tock, you can manage reservations, events, takeout, and delivery all in one place.

Tock pricing varies depending on your needs:

Video Studio

The Squarespace Video Studio app helps you make engaging videos that grow your audience and drive sales. And It’s free with all Squarespace plans!

This means you have one more reason to build your website with Squarespace if video content is at the center of your business. Here are a few examples:

• You can create a fitness website with Squarespace and can make great Instagram content with Video Studio to promote your fitness business.
• You can create a marketing website with Squarespace and use Video Studio to make videos for your clients.
• You can make a wedding planner website and make great behind-the-scenes videos with Video Studio that’s included with your Squarespace plan.

Want to save some money?

Use the coupon code SBR10 and sign up through THIS link.

It will give you 10% off an annual plan. 😊🙏

Squarespace does not have a free plan.

Fortunately, they do offer a 14-day free trial to try it first— and it does not require a credit card required.

If you’re looking for a free website builder, check out my in-depth article about free website builders.

Some website builders (not Squarespace or any website builder I recommend) have deceptive pricing. For example:

• 1&1 — Advertises a $0.99 monthly rate but it’s actually an introductory rate that jumps after the first year.
• Web.com — Advertises monthly rates that are actually 28 days long. SERIOUSLY! This means you get charged 13 months in a year with Web.com.

Fortunately Squarespace does not do this kind of thing. I have found no hidden costs or misleading advertisements in Squarespace.

Cancellation

Some website builders go out of their way to make it hard to cancel. That’s why I pay and cancel for every website builder I try with my own credit card.

I’m happy to report cancelling Squarespace is easy and done through a web-based cancellation system. Awesome.