Selling on the Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans

Use this guide to learn about our most current billing plans, and decide which option is best for you.

The Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans are only available to new & existing US customers.

The Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans are replacing the Personal, Business, Commerce Basic, and Commerce Advanced plans. Visit our pricing page to view the plans currently available to you. Available plans will also appear on the plan selection page when you upgrade your trial, or change your plan.

To switch to a new plan, review the section below.

​​For current pricing and a full comparison of these plans, visit our pricing page. Keep in mind the following:

• All website plans are available in annual or monthly billing cycles. On an annual billing cycle, the average monthly cost is lower, and you can register a free custom domain for a year.
• Domain pricing varies by TLD.
• You can review tax amounts at checkout. To learn more, visit US sales tax and Squarespace billing.

Squarespace plans include fees for sales. If you sell products, collect donations, or charge visitors for access to gated content, you’ll pay fees for these services. With Squarespace Payments as your payment solution, you can centralize your finances in one easy-to-use dashboard.

To understand which fee rates apply to you, how you’re charged, and how to view your fees per order, review Transaction fees and payment processing fees.

To learn more about each billing plan and their features, review the plan comparison section below. When you’re ready to purchase a billing plan, follow the steps in Upgrading to paid service. Use any of our accepted currencies, and accepted payment methods to purchase a plan.

Please note that billing plans apply to individual sites only. If you have more than one Squarespace site, you’ll pay for each one separately, and each will have its own billing plan.

With all of our plans, you can use our drag-and-drop editing system to lay out your content, add pages to navigation menus, upload galleries of images or videos, and more. You can also monetize your site by selling unlimited products, sending invoices and proposals, and selling courses and memberships.

Review the tabs below for a more in depth look at each plan’s key features. For a full list of features visit our pricing page:

If you plan to sell a lot of offerings through Squarespace we suggest you consider the Core, Plus, and Advanced plans. With the extra features you can more seamlessly market your business and analyze your sales data. And depending on your transaction volume, the lower rates and fees may offset the cost of a higher tiered plan.

When you’re done with your trial, and if you have any features on your site that are not included in the Basic plan, we recommend choosing the Core plan or higher. If you subscribe to the Basic plan, your site won't include these premium features. You can upgrade your plan at any time to use them again.

You can change your plan or billing cycle at any time. To learn how to change plans, and when upgrades and downgrades take effect, visit Changing your website billing plan.

If you meet the eligibility requirements, you can switch to the Basic, Core, Plus, or Advanced plan at any time. If you already have a paid subscription and would like to compare plans, you can check which plan you're currently on by following the steps in Checking your billing subscriptions. Visit Choosing the right Squarespace plan to review features from both our legacy and our newer plans.

To switch from your current website plan to the Basic, Core, Plus, or Advanced plan, follow the steps in Changing your website billing plan.

If you change your billing plan, or reactivate an expired legacy site, you’ll leave your legacy plan and move to a current pricing and plan. It's not possible to return to a legacy plan after switching to a current plan or canceling service.

If you move from a legacy plan to a comparable current billing plan, you'll typically gain access to more features we've added to our current plans. However, we recommend reviewing the list of features on our pricing page and in our Help Center to ensure the current plan supports the features your site uses.

The ability to sell Digital Products is included in the Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans. This means you don’t need an add-on subscription. If you’re on a legacy plan (Personal, Business, Commerce Basic, or Commerce Advanced) with an active Digital Products subscription and want to move to a current website plan:

1. Ensure the Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans appear on the pricing page. This means you meet the eligibility requirements to switch to these plans.
2. Cancel your Digital Product subscription. After canceling, your Digital Products go into a 30-day pause state during which subscribers will still have access to their customer accounts, but can’t view navigation links to gated content. Also keep in mind that after 30 days, your site visitors' subscriptions are canceled.
3. Contact us immediately to let us know you canceled your Digital Products subscription. We can issue a prorated refund for the time left on the subscription, and help you upgrade to a Basic, Core, Plus, or Advanced plan.

Although each of our new plans have access to most commerce features, there are some that remain premium, such as custom code and certain analytics features. To learn more about how you gain or lose access to these features, review the sections below. For a full list of features visit our pricing page.

During your 14-day Squarespace trial, you’ll have access to most premium features so you can play with them and decide if they’ll work for your site's needs.

Trial sites can’t accept payments, so commerce features and the donation block won't be fully functional. However, you can use your trial to set up your store, add products, and preview what it’s like to run an ecommerce business on Squarespace.

When you downgrade to a lower-priced plan, you’ll have access to premium features until the end of your current billing cycle. When your subscription renews on the downgraded plan, you’ll lose access to certain premium features. We don’t issue refunds when you downgrade plans.

When you choose a new plan, a message appears reminding you that you’ll lose these features. You can change your plan at any time to regain access to specific features. To learn more about changing plans, visit Changing your website billing plan.

If you’re on the Core, Plus, or Advanced website plan and switch to the Basic website plan, you’ll have access to premium features until the end of your current billing period. Before downgrading to the Basic plan:

• Delete any carrier calculated shipping options.
• Disable automatic tax rates.
• Remove contributors if you have more than two. Basic plans have a limit of two contributors for a site, including the site owner.

On every plan, the code block supports:

• HTML
• Plain text
• Markdown
• CSS code, when surrounded by <style></style> tags.

Adding JavaScript or iframes to a code block is a premium feature available in the Core plan and higher.

• Available in:
  • All trials
  • All Legacy Business and Commerce plans
• Not available in:
  • Current Basic plan

If you added Javascript or iframes code while on a trial or plan that supports premium features, then upgrade or switch to the current Basic plan, the code will remain in the block, but it won't be functional. When logged in, you'll see a note that the code isn't supported. This note isn't visible to your visitors. To use JavaScript or iframe code, upgrade your plan.