A Comprehensive Guide on Squarespace Pricing in Australia (2024)
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Squarespace has become one of the most popular platforms for website management. With the power of AI, there is an ever-growing number of Content Management Systems (CMS) on the market. Still, the recognised powerhouses such as WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace remain viable options as they provide overall more solid experience with better support services.
In this post, we want to give you a full comprehensive guide on Squarespace pricing plans that could answer all your questions about using Squarespace. Find out which plan works best for you and how you can make the most of it.
Whether you are working on your website or are considering working with an agency or developer, this article should help you get a better understanding of which Squarespace plan is the best to go for.
Remember, you can get certain benefits and discounts if a Squarespace Circle Member designs your website.
What is Squarespace
You might be familiar with this platform (or similar platforms), but here is a brief description of Squarespace for those unfamiliar.
Squarespace is a Content Management System, often referred to as CMS. It allows you to design and manage a website without the need to do any coding. You can develop a website for personal or business use easily by simply dragging and dropping elements on the screen. There are also curated templates you can use to create your website.
Squarespace allows you to manage your website and all its content and has features such as e-commerce and email marketing that allow you to sell and market your products and services online.
To make things even easier, you can also purchase domain names and set up Google Workspace for organisational emails and cloud storage through Squarespace.
Now let’s have a look at the pricing plans they offer.
Squarespace plans
Squarespace offers four pricing plans to users:
Personal
Business
Commerce Basic
Commerce Advanced
Note: If you are a really large organisation and you need a service that is bigger than Commerce Advanced, you can get a custom website.
You can see these plans on the Squarespace website. Let’s have a look at each of these plans, their costs, and features.
Features you get with all Squarespace plans:
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Free domain name (with annual plan)
Free SSL certificate
Free themes
24/7 customer support
Personal
This is the basic plan for users who want to have a simple and functional website with analytical tools. It is at A$22 per month but you can save 27% if you pay annually, making it A$16 per month and A$192 per year.
This plan does not include any of Squarespace’s e-commerce tools such as Point of Sale, customer account, and transaction management. Also, you two users can access and contribute to the website.
If you want a simple website to showcase your business, campaign, or organisation this is the best cost-effective plan. This is what is usually referred to as a placeholder website.
Key Feature:
Free domain name
Free template for all your needs
Unlimited bandwidth
Missing Features:
No professional email from Google
No online Sales
Customise with CSS and Javascript
Business
Next up there is the Business plan which is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses with a small number of products or services to sell online.
For example, if you have a barbershop or ceramic shop with no more than 30 products this will be the perfect plan for your business.
With this plan, you can access basic e-commerce tools and sell online, and you get an unlimited number of contributors to the website.
Another factor to consider for using this plan is that there is a 3% transaction fee on all the transactions that users have on your website.
On the business plan, you can fully customise your website using Javascript and CSS, and customers can have user accounts on your website. You also get access to promotional banners and pop-ups that can help you sell your products.
On the e-commerce side, you get access to essential tools for selling products and services, but there are limitations.
The Business plan is priced at A$35 per month but you get it down to A$25 per month if you pay annually.
Key Features:
Professional email from Google
Sell products online
Customisation with CSS and Javascript
Missing Features:
3% transaction fee on sales
Selling on social media
Product reviews
Commerce Basic
For wider access to e-commerce tools, there is the Basic Commerce plan. With this plan, you have all the features of the Business plan plus more tools such as Point of Sale, and product reviews.
Another perk of the Commerce Basic plan is that you don’t need to pay any transaction fees.
This is ideal for larger e-commerce businesses with a wider range of products and higher revenue streams. There are still some limitations to marketing features such as cart recovery emails and advanced shipping and discounts.
The Commerce Basic plan costs A$40 per month but it goes down to A$34 per month if paid annually.
Key Features:
Product reviews
No transaction fees
Sell on social media
Missing Features:
Abandoned recovery cart
Advanced shipping and discount
Commerce API
Commerce Advanced
The top-tier plan of Squarespace is Commerce Advanced where you have access to a wide range of tools and features for e-commerce.
In this plan, you get all the features of Commerce Basic plus some advanced features such as advanced shipping and discount options and selling subscription products.
You can also use the abandoned cart recovery tool on this plan which is not considered an advanced e-commerce tool.
This plan is ideal for large e-commerce websites with complex delivery, third-party apps, and discount systems. The main feature of Commerce Advanced that sets it apart from other plans is the access to Commerce APIs. You can program your custom integrations for your website with this API.
This plan is at A$61 per month and if you pay annually you pay A$624 which is A$52 per month.
Key Features:
Advanced shipping and discount
Commerce API
Abandoned recovery cart
Squarespace discounts and offers
Squarespace provides some offers and discounts if your website is built by a Squarespace Circle Member.
For example, you can get 20% off your first-year subscription and get priority support. There are some other benefits of having your website designed by a Squarespace Circle Member.
Honeycomb Web Design is a Squarespace Circle Member and we can help you design your website and succeed online.