What is Squarespace?
From websites and online stores, to marketing tools and analytics, Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence. Our platform empowers millions of people — from individuals and local artists to entrepreneurs shaping the world’s most iconic businesses — to share their stories and create an impactful, stylish, and easy-to-manage online presence.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
86 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+80 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Squarespace?
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
- Saves Time
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Vendor Capability Ratings
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Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Squarespace Reviews
Ayrton C.
- Role: Vendor Management
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2024
Create a website using Squarespace!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Squarespace from other similar products?
Squarespace is easy to use because of its incredibly user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. Even beginners will get the hang of it quite fast. The building is maintained in an extremely "clean" manner; extra bells and whistles are not needed. It's a pretty stylish and contemporary design that I like. Additionally, there is an app that works well for traveling that lets you quickly and simply create articles on your smartphone. Squarespace makes it simple and painless to start a blog or website. No prior experience with programming is required. This facilitates getting started extremely easily. In order to make the website or blog appear
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Squarespace offers a plethora of design options, and the interface gently leads the user through the process. If something is changed, the page's structure is maintained and doesn't become disorganized. With just a few clicks, you can easily create stunning websites by adding text, video, and photographs. This gives every page the appearance of a polished website, and it can be connected to other partners like Stripe for payment processing and Printful for print-on-demand. It's simple to add things, and articles have amazing views. The Squarespace pages are among my most stunning creations to this day.
What do you dislike most about this product?
You may construct a website or blog for a lot less money with other providers; the annual subscription is rather pricey. Furthermore, unlike WordPress, for instance, there are no widgets. The subsequent photo editing is also a little difficult for me because it requires a lot of back and forth clicking. Moreover, there is only English on the menu. Since I haven't had any bad encounters with Squarespace, it's difficult to comment. Perhaps there aren't enough partners for further functionality. However, it's not really necessary. Squarespace appears to be the ideal choice for creating both a website and an online store.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I quickly and easily created stunning, eye-catching websites using Squarespace, and I linked an easy-to-use store that I filled with content from my production partner. As a result, I am also able to attract more customers who are looking for high-quality design. Squarespace is a scalable platform that has the capacity to manage high traffic volumes. For tech companies hoping to develop significantly, this is crucial. For our clients, we use Squarespace to build resource websites. Squarespace provides a vast array of customizable features and designs that let companies build websites that are suited to their own requirements and brand.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Matthew Lucca C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2023
Squarespace: Leading CMS.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Squarespace from other similar products?
Dozens of plugins, many options, unlimited amounts of intranet content, blogs, etc. Excellent accommodation, affordable (in terms of costs)
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Dozens of plugins, excellent hosting, high redundancy... Finally, create websites from the intranet.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I like this platform, I have had a pleasant experience.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is very versatile, providing all the flexibility you may need, from unlimited plugins and more.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Saves Time
Gabriel R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2023
A highly professional and sophisticated software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Squarespace from other similar products?
I've used many website builders and so far, Squarespace has proven to be very efficient, complex, yet simple to learn and use. The templates are sophisticated and contemporary, giving me great visual options for food industry related website designing. The email templates are also up to par as you can brand its design with one's website branding and look. The marketing tools are exceptional, too, and very clear to understand and execute.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the ease of moving the blocks around and also updating each page when needed. The same with the weekly email newsletters as they need to be changed every week, yet the adjustments are done very quickly and easily thanks to Squarespace's integrated and manageable software.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I wish there were more Text Font options for the email newsletters.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Once you learn the software well, the creativity part will take over, and from there the capabilities are so many. Using Squarespace has become quite enjoyable to use :)
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing