Squarespace Commerce

Squarespace Commerce is the ecommerce component of Squarespace’s hosted website platform. It lets businesses create responsive storefronts, list unlimited products, accept payments, and manage orders from a central dashboard.

Merchants can sell physical products, services, gift cards, subscriptions, and digital downloads. Commerce also includes checkout, inventory, shipping, tax tools, sales analytics, abandoned-cart recovery, social selling, and point-of-sale capabilities.

Squarespace began in 2003 and is headquartered in New York City. The company describes its platform as a managed cloud service, so customers don’t maintain ecommerce servers or core software infrastructure.

Commerce supports product catalogs with variants, product images, inventory quantities, gift cards, digital goods, service products, and subscriptions. Product and order workflows operate within the Squarespace website environment.

Payment options include Squarespace Payments, PayPal, Apple Pay, Afterpay, Klarna, ACH, and major credit cards where supported. Availability and processing fees depend on the merchant’s country, payment method, and subscription plan.

Store operators can configure flat-rate, weight-based, carrier-calculated, local delivery, and pickup options. Squarespace also supports shipping labels, automatic tax calculations on eligible plans, discounts, product reviews, customer accounts, and abandoned-cart recovery.

Squarespace Extensions connect stores with services such as Printful, Printify, Easyship, TaxJar, QuickBooks, LiveChat, Weglot, and EZ Texting. The available extension catalog can vary by region and product requirements.

Squarespace does not offer a permanent free plan. New sites receive a 14-day trial without requiring a credit card. Paid plans include managed hosting, and annual subscriptions include a free custom domain for one year.

The official U.S. pricing document found for the four current plan names lists Basic at $16 per month, Core at $23 per month, Plus at $39 per month, and Advanced at $99 per month when billed annually. Monthly billing costs more.

Basic lists a 2% online-store transaction fee. Core, Plus, and Advanced list 0% online-store transaction fees. Digital content and membership fees vary by plan, and payment-processing rates also vary by plan and payment method.

Squarespace’s live pricing page should be checked before purchase because prices, plan availability, taxes, payment rates, and regional terms can change.

Squarespace Commerce combines website design, hosting, storefront management, content publishing, analytics, and payments in one service. This reduces the need to assemble a separate ecommerce stack.

Its main trade-off is flexibility. The platform provides APIs and extensions, but businesses needing deeply customized workflows, advanced multi-store operations, or highly specialized merchandising may find a dedicated ecommerce system more suitable.

Shopify is a stronger fit for merchants focused primarily on ecommerce operations, large app ecosystems, and extensive retail workflows. Wix eCommerce offers a broader visual website builder with integrated selling tools.

WooCommerce is suitable for organizations that want an open-source WordPress store with extensive plugin control. BigCommerce targets growing merchants needing more advanced catalog, multichannel, and B2B capabilities.

Ecwid can suit smaller businesses that want to add ecommerce to an existing website. Webflow Ecommerce is an alternative for design-led sites that prioritize visual control and custom front-end presentation.

Does Squarespace Commerce have a free plan?
Squarespace does not offer a permanent free plan. Each website starts with a 14-day free trial without a credit card.

What can merchants sell?
Merchants can sell physical products, services, gift cards, subscriptions, and digital downloads.

Does Squarespace Commerce support an API?
Yes. Squarespace provides Commerce APIs, including Products, Orders, Inventory, Contacts, Discounts, Transactions, Analytics, and Webhook Subscriptions APIs. The current Products API version is v2.

Which integrations are available?
Squarespace provides Extensions and payment integrations. Official examples include Printful, Printify, Easyship, TaxJar, QuickBooks, LiveChat, Weglot, and EZ Texting.

Can customers buy in person?
Yes. Squarespace supports point-of-sale payments and Tap to Pay on compatible iPhone and Android devices, subject to eligibility and regional availability.

Does every plan support ecommerce?
Squarespace states that all paid plans allow users to sell products or services, although commerce features, transaction fees, payment rates, and advanced tools differ by plan.