A long-time Squarespace designer finds the forced Fluid Engine a disaster: everything is harder and the layout will not stay put.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
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Customer reviews (196)
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Tried a one-page portfolio on Squarespace after leaving a year ago; the editor froze and stuck in a grab cursor, called a known issue.
Finds Squarespace hard to use for beginners: limited image and text placement and a poor phone layout for $25 a month.
Moved all their clients off Squarespace over the years and a new demo site showed things are even worse.
Moved to Cloudflare after finding the Squarespace editor miserable, saving about $300 a year.
After ten years on Squarespace, the 7.1 upgrade cost hours of spacing fixes and they gave up, calling the marketing exaggerated.
Paying £28 a month for Squarespace while layout spacing keeps breaking; plans to switch providers.
Over seven years on Squarespace, rebuilt the same site on Shopify and found Squarespace clunky, hidden in menus, with limits everywhere.
E-commerce owner who calls Squarespace awful and worsening since 7.1, lacking basic commerce features.
Squarespace forces buyers of courses and member areas to register before seeing checkout; they quit and paid for a replacement.
A services business that is moving off Squarespace because it cannot print invoices to PDF or hold orders for admin approval.
A long-time WordPress builder who finds Squarespace maddening to format and limited.
Common questions about Squarespace
What do customers say about Squarespace?
Customers are split. Many find it easy to use and stable for simple sites and small shops, but the most common complaint is support, often bots and slow replies, especially over domain renewals and failed payments after the Google Domains move. Rising prices and a few payment holds also come up.
Is Squarespace worth it?
Of the 161 reviews with a clear verdict, 35% are positive, 5% mixed and 60% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Squarespace?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (49 reviews), reliable (18 reviews) and great value (8 reviews). For example: Reasonably happy with Squarespace: payments take a few days to process at low volume and the UI is easy to use.
What are the most common complaints about Squarespace?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (48 reviews), renewal price hike (26 reviews) and surprise bill (8 reviews). For example: A Squarespace domain with a dead owner email took about six weeks to resolve because of the verification step.
What does the signal score of 66 mean?
It's how well reviewed Squarespace is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Squarespace?
Category: Website builder. Free plan: No.
Where do these Squarespace reviews come from?
196 are quotes from Reddit and YouTube, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.