SamCart vs. Squarespace

SamCart

Squarespace

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SamCart	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	SamCart is an eCommerce platform built for direct-to-consumer brands. By focusing on the product level and not the store level, SamCart enables customers to create sites that showcase their products and are designed to convert more visitors and increase order value.	$79 per month
Squarespace	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.	$25 per month

Pricing

SamCart

Squarespace

Editions & Modules

Launch: $79
per month
Grow: $159
per month
Scale: Custom Pricing

Basic: $25
per month
Core: $36
per month
Plus: $56
per month
Advanced: $139
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SamCart	Squarespace
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	SamCart	Squarespace
Considered Both Products	SamCart No answer on this topic	Squarespace Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is more user-friendly and sleek. I'd recommend it over Freenom for beginners and those who are more interested in running a website (instead of caring about their DNS). Incentivized Helpful? Caitlin Sloan Founder & CEO Chose Squarespace I like Squarespace better if you are starting from scratch. I was able to use Wordpress when it was an existing site and I just had to make updates, but would have a difficult time starting from the beginning and building a Wordpress site. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Blackbaud DonorCentral, Donorbox, Alaya by Benevity, Intuit Mailchimp, monday CRM and monday.com Incentivized Helpful? TN Tyler Newman Marketing Director Chose Squarespace In my opinion, Squarespace beats Wix all day. We have used both for microsite development. We use Wordpress for our main site as the featureset is open source and is considered the industry best practice. You can do a lot more specific features with WordPress that are sometimes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace We picked Squarespace for a specific use case because it was easy to spin up the promotional content we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Maria Halse Duloquin Innovation Consultant Chose Squarespace Squarespace is easy to use, webflow can feel clunky (though I haven’t tried it recently), and Wix is very similar, but I preferred the Squarespace aesthetic. Also, Squarespace has clear, transparent pricing - you know what you get, and I like the design styles. I’m not in a … Incentivized Helpful? BG Bryan Grant Head of Product & Portfolio Management Chose Squarespace Squarespace was the quickest to get up and running for a basic website, and with the GoDaddy integration it simplified rapid setup. A plugin for basic language translation allowed us to be compliant from day one. Incentivized Helpful? JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Chose Squarespace Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With Wordpress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the … Incentivized Helpful? PL Phoebe Little Promotions and Programs Associate Chose Squarespace Submittable and Squarespace serve different functions but Squarespace is by far the easier and more user friendly platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Wordpress is for more advanced users and allows more functionality to be built into the website. However, Squarespace is easy to use and you will be able to get a functioning website up and running on your own. That is their main point and purpose for their mission. However, … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Ryan Launch Engineer Chose Squarespace I would choose Squarespace over all the competition unless I wanted a website builder/host that had an online course portal. Squarespace has the easiest website builder. It's relatively cheap. It automatically updates. It is easy to integrate with third-party services such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Elementor and Shopify Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Chose Squarespace Both of my fields are visual, so design is as important as functionality. Unbounce looks great, but it's not set up for the same full functionality. I've also been quite familiar with Squarespace and felt comfortable with them. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Dehner Owner Chose Squarespace Not even comparable. I was hacked within 2 years with WordPress in a brute force attack. Since going to Squarespace, I have had zero security issues. I feel the two platforms, though similar, are incomparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace I found it easier for me to use square space myself rather than have a middle person between me and my website. It was a lot easier for me to access and change something and when I wanted to change something on my site. It gave me flexibility and more options to utilize my … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Nagy Product Designer Chose Squarespace I didn't evaluate any other platforms because I knew Squarespace was the best. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace's most attractive feature in comparison to WordPress and Wix is its library of themes available to use. WordPress has a neverending supply of options but that's WordPress, the industry-standard however the limited options for Squarespace is nice so you aren't … Incentivized Helpful? Darcy Knapp, MBA Owner/President Chose Squarespace Squarespace offers better SEO options and ease of use than Wix/Weebly site builders. Squarespace is easy to manage and easy to track inventory and sales. For companies with lower skill sets in-house, it is also very easy to train staff to manage the platform. Incentivized Helpful? MG Meadow Griffin Author/Illustrator Chose Squarespace I liked the usability of Squarespace better than Network Solutions for the type of website we were looking for. I found it was easier to create and customize and I liked the overall look of the website in Squarespace better than what the end result of the Network Solutions site … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Myself and my team have used more robust web development platforms for bigger organization presence on the web. However that has always required more time, effort and talent by using web developers to setup and add content to the sites. With squarespace, a site can be setup in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is the best option relative to other web hosting and design platforms we initially reviewed. It was a bit more expensive than some of the free models we looked at but those sites often came with hidden fees if we wanted to customize anything and Squarespace has … Incentivized Helpful? IS Isabel Sam Owner Chose Squarespace I actually ended up going with Wordpress's OShine theme. Squarespace just missed some of the SEO and API tracking that I wanted and Elementor was too slow and WP Rocket isn't compatible with it. OShine ended up fitting the bill so everything I wanted could work together, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace I really like Squarespace's all-in-one concept vs. WordPress, where you add each piece individually. However, if you are building a much larger site, WordPress may be better. For our needs in terms of sales, Squarespace was great. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SamCart

Squarespace

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	SamCart - Ratings	Squarespace 8.5 Ratings 5% above category average
Role-based user permissions	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	SamCart - Ratings	Squarespace 4.2 Ratings 57% below category average
API	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	00 Ratings	3.50 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	SamCart - Ratings	Squarespace 7.1 Ratings 8% below category average
WYSIWYG editor	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Admin section	00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Page templates	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Publishing workflow	00 Ratings	6.20 Ratings
Form generator	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	SamCart - Ratings	Squarespace 7.0 Ratings 5% below category average
Content taxonomy	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
SEO support	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Bulk management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	00 Ratings	5.70 Ratings
Community / comment management	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SamCart	Squarespace
Small Businesses	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Shopify Plus Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SamCart	Squarespace
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.2 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SamCart	Squarespace
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	We've found Squarespace perfect for quick, well-designed websites that you can literally design and launch in a day. However, if you want to get more complex with your website, including custom backend integrations or code, Squarespace presents a bit more of a challenge when it comes to what they will allow you to modify on their platform (especially using third-party integration apps). Incentivized JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Squarespace is very easy to use, this is a super helpful thing as small business owners we have to wear many hats and being a full blown website developer doesn't need to be one of them. Squarespace has quick and simple plugins. Squarespace allows you to easily expand as you need to. Incentivized MM Megan Murray Owner Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version. Incentivized Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It's a great CMS tool. Easy to use and maintain. It looks great and the support is excellent. Incentivized Sharon Reaves Owner/Founder/Design Guru Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's dead simple to use. There are no over complicated controls or tons of menus to screw things up. People with bad taste couldn't make an ugly website. While it may be frustrating for the pro designer to get exactly what they want, it prevents the uninitiated from making something ugly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated Incentivized Angela Skees Director of Graphics and Marketing Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace definitely offers more options, customization, advanced features and design options than others, for a great price. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	I can see how squarespace can improve efficiency since it's so quick to build a site on there. For those who don't want to hook up a bunch of different stuff to their website and make it work...they most likely have whatever plug in you need and you can add it. Worst case scenario, they have developers you can hire who can make what you need. As your business grows you can add an online storefront to your site and make more money that way! Easy peasy! They have an easy system for adding special SEO words/phrases so you don't have to learn SEO at all! Incentivized IS Isabel Sam Owner Read full review
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