SELLING FROM SQUARESPACE
Adding a cart to Squarespace and where it starts to bite
Squarespace makes a handsome page and then charges you to sell from it, with a cut on the lower tier. Here is what that means in practice for a real catalogue.
WHAT TO KNOW
The parts that decide it and the ones that quietly cost you
Commerce is its own tier
Selling properly means the commerce plans, not the one you signed up on.
A cut on the lower plan
The cheaper commerce tier historically takes a percentage on top of the card rate.
The template decides a lot
Beautiful until you need a layout it did not anticipate, and then it fights you.
Beyond simple products
Subscriptions, made-to-order pricing and digital delivery are where simple stores stop.
Getting the products found
Product pages have to earn their own search visibility, not sit behind a gallery.
The alternative
A designed site with a full store inside it, built for you, with no cut of the sale.
HOW WE DO IT
Three steps, no cost to find out
1
Tell us what you sell
Products, services, or something priced per job. A few minutes is enough.
2
We design and build it
The site and the store together, wired to your payment account and tested.
3
You decide
See the finished shop working before you commit to anything.
QUESTIONS
Before you ask
Does Squarespace take a percentage of sales?01
On the lower commerce tier it has, on top of what the card processor charges. Check the current terms for your plan before you build a catalogue on it.
What would you do instead?02
Build the site with the store already part of it, on your own domain, with nothing taken from a sale beyond the standard card rate.
What does it cost?03
The design and the build cost nothing. You pay only the standard costs every website has: domain, hosting, software license. No design fee, and we take no cut of your sales.
Why would this be free?04
The free-design program is operated through Instinctor Design Academy. Academy-trained designers build real business websites under senior professional supervision, and every site is reviewed before you see it.
Get the store built in, not bolted on
