The Home menu is the first menu that appears in the side panel when you log into your Squarespace site. It appears to the left of your site preview.

Note: The Home screen on the Squarespace app displays quick links, suggested actions, and a traffic overview.

Home menu basics

You can use the Home menu to access all admin areas of your site, called panels. Use these panels to find everything you need to manage and build your site.

By default, the Home menu shows these panels:

• Pages
• Design
• Commerce
• Marketing
• Scheduling
• Donations - After you've added a donation block
• Analytics
• Profiles
• Comments - After you've enabled comments
• Settings
• Help

Tip: Your Home menu may be organized or appear differently depending on when you signed up and what plan you're on.

Find the Home menu

The Home menu is open when you log in and hidden when you're in full site preview. If you can't find the Home menu:

• Ensure you're logged into your site.
• Review your browser's address bar to confirm your direct login URL ends only with /config. For example, https://your-site.squarespace.com/config appears if you're on the Home menu.
• Use our keyboard search shortcut to return to the Home menu.
• If the site displays fullscreen, click the expand arrow to open the side panel.
• If the side panel doesn't display the Home menu, double-click the Back arrow at the top of any panel.

Getting around from the Home menu

To open any panel in the Home menu, follow the example steps for popular panels below. The exact location of some panels differs depending whether you've chosen the website or commerce Home menu, but they all follow the same general path. The Home menu may also look different if you're on other plans, like a Parking page or Cover Page plan.

Pages

The Pages panel holds all of the pages and content for your site.

Design

The Design panel is where you can use site styles to change various elements of your site's design, like fonts, colors, buttons, and spacing.

Commerce

The Commerce panel is where you take important actions for running your online store, like fulfilling orders and managing customers.

Marketing

The Marketing panel is where you find tools for promoting your site and products. From here, you can build Squarespace Email Campaigns, create promotional pop-ups, and add Share buttons to your site.

Scheduling

The Scheduling panel is where you can use Squarespace Scheduling for booking appointments or classes.

Analytics

The Analytics panel holds your site's data reporting for measuring site performance and visitor information.

Profiles

The Profiles panel is where you can review and manage your relationships with your customers, mailing list subscribers, members and donors.

Settings

The Settings panel holds Permissions, Billing & Account, Domains, Connected Accounts, and more. If you sell products on Squarespace, you'll also find store setup options like Payments, Shipping, and Taxes.

Help

The Help panel takes you to our Contact page.

Account icon

Your account icon displays as a circle with your initials, or a profile picture if you've added one to your account. Clicking this icon opens your account dashboard.

Create menu shortcuts

To customize the Home menu to display panels you access most often:

1. In the Home menu, click Settings.
2. Click Advanced.
3. Click Menu Shortcuts.
4. Switch the toggle on or off beside panels to display or hide them from your Home menu.

When you’re done, panels you selected will be accessible in your Home menu. You can also still access these panels in their original locations.

Search shortcut

To quickly search for a panel, press the / or ? key and type the panel name. Use this shortcut to navigate between panels without clicking through the Home menu.

For example, to open the Colors panel, press / or ? and search colors.

Home menus on other plans

Depending on your subscriptions, your Home menu may have different options.

Parking page

If you started with a Squarespace domain, it may appear on a parking page. Parking pages have a unique Home menu.

Cover Page plan (discontinued)

If you're on the Squarespace Cover Page plan, your Home menu looks like this: