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 catalog, and how it differs from adding a cart to a site that already sells.
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
Tell us what you sell
Products, services, or something priced per job. A few minutes is enough.
We design and build it
The site and the store together, wired to your payment account and tested.
You decide
See the finished shop working before it goes live.
QUESTIONS
Before you ask
Does Squarespace take a percentage of sales?
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 catalog on it.
What would you do instead?
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?
The design and the build cost nothing. You pay only the standard costs every website owner in the world pays: domain, hosting, software license. No design fee, and we take no cut of your sales.
Why would this be free?
Because design is not where a website's cost sits. Every website owner in the world pays for the same three things: a domain, hosting, and a software license. That is what you pay, and nothing more.
What does the SEO management cost?
It is $35 a month and it is optional. It covers the ongoing work of being found: position checks, content that answers what people are actually searching for, and the profile and technical work behind it. Every action is performed by hand, not by a tool. Two of the sites we manage reached the first page of Google within a few months.
Do I see the site before it goes live?
Yes. You see the completed website, built with your own content and your own photographs, before anything is published. Nothing goes live until you have looked at it and said so.
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Ask anything
Where do we reach you?
Your name and a number. That is the whole form. The build costs you nothing and nothing goes live until you approve it.