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With the version update tool, you can update your Squarespace 7.0 site to our newest version, 7.1 to access new features, all while preserving your site data. We’ve published a new on-demand webinar, Updating your Website Squarespace 7.1, demonstrating how to use the version update tool and to review some new features. Topics include: Preparing your site for the update Previewing your site in version 7.1 Publishing the update A review of version 7.1 expressive design features A review of 7.1 commerce tools You can register to watch this webinar at any time. All questions asked during the webinar will be sent to our Customer Support team, and they will get back to you as soon as possible.

Choosing a shipping option can feel like an intimidating task when building your online store, especially when there are multiple options to choose from. We’ve collected some common questions from our Setting up shipping and taxes webinar, and boiled them down into five frequently asked questions to help you out. What’s the best shipping option for me? Setting up shipping options is not a one-size-fits-all process. The best shipping option for you depends on the products you sell and what will help you reach your profit margins goals. That said, let’s go through the shipping options available on Squarespace and identify the types of products that will be best suited for each of them. Flat rate Flat rate shipping is an option that lets you set a shipping price based on the number of items in an order. Flat rate shipping is easy for customers to understand, and it can be a great selling point to advertise on your online store. It’s best suited for merchants who sell items that are roughly the same size and weight. You may want to consider flat rate shipping if you find most of your products can fit in the same size packaging or if you sell high-value items where the price of shipping is negligible. Jewelry, for example, usually lends itself well to flat rate shipping as pieces can typically fit in the same sized packaging. If you use flat rate shipping, consider adding an announcement bar to your site to highlight it as a selling point. Depending on weight As the name suggests, depending on weight shipping lets you set shipping costs based on an order’s weight. It’s an excellent option for merchants who sell merchandise that’s roughly the same size but vary significantly in weight. With this option, you can set weight ranges with their own shipping costs. A merchant who sells clothing, for example, may want to consider the weight dependent shipping option as a winter coat is much heavier than a silk blouse, and it will cost more to ship. If you plan to use weight dependent shipping, ensure you’ve added accurate weights and dimensions to all of your products. Carrier calculated shipping Carrier calculated shipping lets you use real-time shipping rates calculated by FedEx, UPS, and USPS based on package weight, dimensions, and shipping addresses. This is a good option for those who want to ship with a particular carrier and those who sell items that vary in size. If you plan on using carrier calculated shipping, you’ll need to add weights and dimensions (based on how they’re shipped) to your products to get the most accurate rates. Please note, carrier calculated shipping is available on the Commerce Advanced, Premium, and some legacy billing plans, and it’s not available for shipping to Puerto Rico and the U.S Virgin Islands. . What if I want to have different shipping options for specific products? After reviewing the shipping options above, you may be thinking, “What if one shipping option isn’t suitable for all of my products?”. This is where fulfillment profiles will come in handy. Fulfillment profiles are similar to categories that you can create and assign to specific products to limit shipping options for them. They let merchants who sell a variety of products control the shipping options that customers see at checkout. Let’s use an example of a merchant who sells vintage furnishings. They may want to make smaller items (like vases and light fixtures) available to ship at a flat rate, but may want to reserve heavier, fragile items (like glass tables and mirrors) for local pickup only. Assigning fulfillment profiles to these products will automatically limit the shipping options available at checkout for those products. This lets you use multiple shipping options on your site and contributes to a seamless checkout experience for your customers. How can I use a free shipping discount to achieve my business goals? Shoppers love discounts, and free shipping discounts are no exception. With Squarespace, you can create a discount to offer free shipping by sharing an offer code or, if you’re on Commerce Advanced or Premium plan, by creating an automatic discount. Let’s talk about a couple of ways that adding a free shipping discount can help you achieve your business goals. Increasing average order value (AOV) Have you ever added an extra product to your cart when you saw that orders above a certain amount were allotted free shipping? It’s a nice perk because it’s effective at getting shoppers to follow through with their purchases, and it can also help increase your average order value (AOV). With Squarespace, you can set up a free shipping discount for any order or orders over a certain amount within the Selling > Discounts panel of your site. You can even limit the discount to specific shipping options, like free two-day shipping. Building your mailing list A free shipping discount can also help you build your mailing list. Consider creating an automated email campaign with a special free shipping discount code for those who subscribe to your mailing list. You can advertise that subscribers receive free shipping off their first order in your newsletter block to see if that moves the needle on your mailing list growth goals. What if I want to charge different shipping rates based on location? A package’s shipping cost depends on multiple factors, including where (and specifically how far) you’re shipping it. That said, you may want to charge different shipping rates for different areas or limit shipping to some areas. For example, if you’re shipping from the U.S, you may want to charge one rate for orders within the U.S and another rate for orders shipping to the rest of the world, which will cost more to fulfill. You can do this by creating shipping zones. When you add a new shipping option, you’ll be prompted to create shipping zones for it; and when your customers enter their shipping address, they’ll only see the shipping options that are relevant to them. Squarespace supports state, province, city, and postal code specific shipping options for eight countries. As a tip, you can create a local pickup option for buyers in your postal code to avoid having to pay for shipping on orders that are very close to your business location. What are some benefits of offering local pickup? Local pickup may work for your business if you have a local customer base or if you sell items that are difficult (or too expensive) to ship. Aside from providing your customers with another fulfillment option, there are some other benefits to offering local pickup. Save effort and money This may already be apparent, but local pickup can spare you the effort and money it takes to ship your products. Customers come right to your business to pick up their order, and you don’t have to worry about the shipping cost or lugging your packages to the carrier. Build a local customer base Offering local pickup can help you build a local clientele base. If you have customers in your area, local pickup can encourage them to make a purchase as they won’t need to pay for shipping. Additionally, if you sell your products at markets or trade-shows in your area, you can inform shoppers about local pickup if they’re on the fence about making a purchase right then and there. As a note, if you do sell your products in person, you may be interested in learning more about selling in person with Squarespace point of sale.

Hello all! We wanted to take a moment to let you all know that a fix for this issue has been rolled out, and it seems to have done the trick. If you're still experiencing this issue, please reach out to our Customer Support team to report it: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/requests/new#choose-topic Thank you all for your patience as our team worked to triage this.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in March below. Which updates are you most excited about? Commerce Enable subscription renewal emails for your customers You can now enable subscription renewal notifications to be sent 15 days before the renewal date in the Subscription renewal panel. The email includes the name of the product, price, renewal date, cadence at which the subscription renews, and a link to log in and manage their subscription. Learn more about enabling subscription renewal notifications. Sell access to your blogs with Pricing Plans We introduced Pricing Plans with the release of Digital Products (Courses, Member Sites, and Video Pages). Now, you can add your blog pages to a Pricing Plan to place them behind a paywall. Please note, adding a pricing plan to blog pages is available on version 7.1 templates. Learn more about selling access to your blogs. Store payments panel is now Payments We’ve renamed the Store Payments panel to Payments. You can still connect and manage your payment processors from this panel. Learn more about connecting a payment processor. Websites Hide the header and the footer on a specific page With the release of version 7.1, we’ve heard from many of you that you miss Cover Pages. Now, you can hide the header and footer on a specific page. and add a section background image to get the same effect as a Cover Page on a 7.1 site. Learn more about hiding the header and footer on a page. Enhanced block styling tools We’ve added stroke, blend, and blur styling options to more blocks on version 7.1 templates. You can now use these with the following blocks: Accordion Form Newsletter Quote Scrolling Summary Text Please note, stroke is available on sections using either the classic editor or Fluid Engine, but blend and blur are only available on Fluid Engine. Learn more about these styling tools. Make content stand out by pinning it on your page You can now pin blocks on your page so that they remain visible as a visitor scrolls. You can pin blocks to make information stand out, like your contact information or a form block you want your visitors to fill out and submit. To pin a block, click on it then click the pin icon. Please note, pinned blocks are available for Fluid Engine sections. Learn more about pinning blocks on your page. Domains Move domains from the site you’re moving them to To move a domain, you’ll now navigate to the Domains panel of the site you’re moving it to, rather than the site you’re moving it from. This is a small change that will contribute to more domain management improvements in the future. Learn more about moving your domain between sites. An improved domains dashboard You can now use your domains dashboard to review and manage your Squarespace domains from one place. Open your domains dashboard to manage: Auto-renew Contact information Contributors and ownership Custom email addresses Domain forwarding DNS records Email forwarding Lock status Nameservers, glue records, and DNSSEC settings Payment information Whois privacy Learn more about the domains dashboard. Invoicing Client invoicing is now available on the Personal plan Sellers who work on a project-to-project basis, or sell specialized services, can manage their projects and invoice their clients in the Invoicing panel. Now, people on the Personal plan can use this panel to create and send invoices at a 0% transaction rate. The Invoicing panel is excellent for sellers of specialized or ‌custom merchandise that's difficult to list on their site. For example, a baker who sells custom cakes may want to use the Invoicing panel to track their orders and invoice customers directly. Learn more about invoicing clients and managing projects from your site. Squarespace AI Refine Squarespace AI output with Brand Identity To improve the quality and consistency of AI output, we recommend checking out Brand Identity. With Brand Identity, you can write a description of your business or site and choose a personality, like playful, neutral, or professional, for the writing style. To experiment with Brand Identity and improve AI output, click on a Squarespace AI access point, then click the i icon, and enter your details. Learn more about Brand Identity.

Hello everyone! We appreciate you all taking the time to flag this. We can confirm what @andtechgroupcom shared— our engineers are aware of the issue with our video playback on the newest versions of iOS (17.4+), and we wanted to provide some more details. There are other HLS video streams which work with those versions of iOS, however, some other HLS video streams from other video hosts are seeing similar issues. Our Engineering team is working to identify what is specific to our player (and other affected third party players) that could contribute to this issue from the most recent iOS release. Our fix will be forthcoming from what we find out. We know this is not ideal for those who use video on their sites. This is all the information we have available at the moment. We will reply in this thread once a fix has been rolled out. To receive notifications on updates to this post, click the Follow button in the top right corner of the post.

We publish answers to frequently asked questions on a particular topic each month. You can find each post linked below: SEO Email marketing Design tips to boost sales Domains Setting up shipping options This list will be updated as new posts are published.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in February below. Which updates are you most excited about? Unfold Make your Reels and Slideshows pop with transitions We’ve added a new transitions option in the Reels Editor and in Slideshows that work with both images and videos. You can use transitions to make your reels and slideshows more eye-catching. Learn more about transitions. Commerce Sell access to your videos You can sell content on Video pages using a custom pricing plan that works for you. You can now display a pricing plan over the video player so that visitors can still see titles and descriptions, but they’ll need to sign up for a paid plan to watch them. We’ve released this feature to bring an industry-standard video paywall experience to Squarespace customers and to offer more flexibility in how you merchandise your content. Learn more about paywalls and pricing plans. Updated subscription renewal email If you sell subscription products, the template for automatic renewal notification emails now includes more helpful information that reminds subscribers what they’re paying for: the subscription product, price, and renewal interval. We’ve made this update to give shoppers more visibility into their subscriptions. Learn how to customize this email. Squarespace Payments Use an existing Stripe account as your payment processor Squarespace Payments, our new all-in-one payment solution, is slowly rolling out to customers in the U.S. If you have access to Squarespace Payments but already have a Stripe account you’d like to use, you can now connect Stripe instead, in addition to PayPal and Square. Previously, Stripe wasn’t available to customers with access to Squarespace Payments. Learn more about connecting a payment processor to your site. Transaction dispute management with Squarespace Payments If a customer disputes a transaction, you’ll receive an email notification and see banners in your Selling Dashboard, Payments panel, and Payouts panel to notify you. You can choose to either accept or challenge the dispute, and submit evidence directly from your site. Please note, Squarespace Payments is slowly rolling out to customers in the U.S. Learn more about managing disputes with Squarespace Payments. Websites Use Squarespace AI to write content on the Squarespace App We’ve added Squarespace AI to the Squarespace app so you can use it to get a first draft of content when you’re on the go.. With Squarespace AI, you can draft a paragraph, sales pitch, or blurb about a topic of your choice or get ideas about how to improve copy you’ve already written. Please note, AI-generated text is a great starting point, but it may not be accurate, appropriate, or right for your needs. You should always edit what Squarespace AI writes to add your own voice and unique details. Learn more about Squarespace AI. Duplicate course pages You can now duplicate your course pages, inclusive of lessons and course landing pages, in the course’s pages settings. This feature will allow you to create more course content quickly on a layout that you’ve already created and like. Learn more about duplicating course pages.

If you’re using Google Ads on your site, and targeting users in the EEA, you might have received an email from Google suggesting that you implement their consent mode feature. Here is some example code, that I’ve added to my website to integrate consent mode. This enables me to collect a consent choice from my visitor via the website cookie banner, and then send that consent choice to Google. Before you begin: First, you need to enable the website cookie banner, and ensure you’ve selected the “Opt In & Out” banner type. Code: Next, you would go to Website > Website Tools > Code Injection. You could add the following code to your header code injection (removing any existing Google Ads code first): <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=AW-{AW-ID}"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('consent', 'default', { 'ad_storage': 'denied', 'ad_user_data': 'denied', 'ad_personalization': 'denied' }); gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'AW-{AW-ID}'); let squarespaceCookies = {}; if (window.getSquarespaceCookies) { squarespaceCookies = window.getSquarespaceCookies(); } const consentValue = squarespaceCookies.marketing === 'accepted' ? 'granted' : 'denied'; const consentObj = { 'ad_storage': consentValue, 'ad_user_data': consentValue, 'ad_personalization': consentValue }; gtag('consent', 'update', consentObj); window.onCookieBannerInteraction = () => { let squarespaceCookies = {}; if (window.getSquarespaceCookies) { squarespaceCookies = window.getSquarespaceCookies(); } const consentValue = squarespaceCookies.marketing === 'accepted' ? 'granted' : 'denied'; const consentObj = { 'ad_storage': consentValue, 'ad_user_data': consentValue, 'ad_personalization': consentValue }; gtag('consent', 'update', consentObj); } </script> Consent mode is a service provided by Google, so for any questions, verification, or testing support, you can reach out to their support team.

What’s happening? We’ve split the content of the Getting Started with Squarespace webinar into two separate webinars. The first webinar in the series is called, Building a template and domains. This webinar is focused on getting your oriented with Squarespace and some backend items, like domains and email options. Topics include: Building a template with Squarespace Blueprint Navigating Squarespace Domains and email options Using help resources The second webinar in the series is called, Site editing and styling fundamentals. This webinar is focused on getting you comfortable with Squarespace editing and styling tools. Topics include: Preparing site content Building and editing a homepage Styling colors and fonts. Both of these webinars are under one hour, and we hope the information is more digestible and effective. Why? Customer feedback truly drives our webinars program. We’ve received feedback from viewers that the Getting Started webinar was hard to follow due to topic density and duration. Your feedback informs so many improvements to our webinars, and we greatly appreciate all who took the time to share their experiences with us. Where/when can I watch?: Register to watch these webinars on 2/20/204. If you can't make the scheduled sessions, on-demand sessions of both will be available. Please note, a team member is on-hand during scheduled sessions to answer any questions that come in via chat. Any questions that come in during on-demand sessions are sent to our team via email, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

1. What’s the difference between a domain and a website? While domains and websites are closely related, they aren't the same. A website is a collection of content hosted on a server. A domain is a user-friendly address your browser uses to identify the location of a website. Let’s put it another way: think of your website as a house, with the domain being the street address. Your house contains all of your belongings in the same way your website contains all of your content. Domains are like a home address because they provide visitors with the unique address that takes them directly to your home or website. Website and domain hosting are separate subscriptions that are billed separately. With Squarespace, you can get a free year of domain hosting when you register for an annual website subscription. 2. What’s the difference between transferring a domain to my Squarespace site and connecting it? Transferring a domain to your site makes Squarespace your domain host. This means you can manage your domain billing, settings and registration from your Squarespace account. You can connect a domain to your Squarespace site if you’re unable to transfer it. The main difference from transferring is that a connected domain uses the current domain provider as the host. Connecting, or pointing, a domain to your Squarespace site involves updating your domain’s DNS settings from your provider's end. Both setup processes lead to the same result. When you successfully add a domain to your site using either transferring or connecting, the domain directs users to your Squarespace site. 3. Why do you recommend transferring my domain to Squarespace instead of connecting it? If possible, transferring your domain to your Squarespace site is the recommended option over connecting a domain. Here are a few reasons why: Ease of use If you already have a Squarespace site, you can manage your domain’s DNS and billing settings from your Squarespace site. You won’t need to deal with two different providers. Scope of support Sometimes things can go wrong and questions can arise when managing your domain. If your domain is connected to your site, our Customer Support team can’t access your account with a third-party domain provider to provide more help. If Squarespace is your domain host, we can offer more insight and hands-on support to help you find solutions. Features All Squarespace domains include free Whois privacy and SSL certificates to protect your information and to keep your site marked as secure. While transferring your domain to Squarespace is the recommended domain setup option, the most important factor in your decision depends on what works best for you. Whether you decide to connect or transfer your domain, your visitors won’t experience any differences when viewing your site. 4. How can I choose a good domain name? For many users, their domain name is their name or the name of their business. For other users, it’s not as straightforward. Because a domain name is your first impression on the internet, we recommend choosing a name that's positive and memorable. Domains can be anywhere from a few characters to several words. Shorter domain names are more effective with audiences because their short length makes them easier for people to remember. Additionally, fewer characters means fewer possible misspellings. Consider the purpose of your site Before you choose a domain name, consider what the purpose of your site is and what your users will do when visiting your site. Are you selling products or services? Are you hosting a blog? Understanding your site’s purpose and audience will help you ‌develop a list of keywords to incorporate into your site content. These keywords are a tool you can use to find a domain name that's effective and relevant to your site. For example, if you’re choosing a domain name for a yoga studio, you can incorporate the word “yoga” into your domain because “yoga” is an important keyword throughout your site content that resonates with your audience and your site’s purpose. Distinguish yourself from your competitors It’s important to have a unique domain name to distinguish yourself from your competitors, especially if there are other websites that are similar to yours. For example, if you live in New York City and own a hardware store called Smith’s Hardware, smithshardwarenyc.com could stand out more to your local customers than smithshardware.com. Adding a unique identifier like “nyc” to your domain distinguishes your site from the competing Smith’s Hardware sites. 5. How can I set up a custom email address for my domain?? Once your domain is registered, you can create a custom email address for it, like youremail@yourdomain.com. Here are two ways to set this up in Squarespace: Email forwarding You can set up email forwarding for Squarespace-managed domains. With email forwarding, you create aliases for your email address. Then, emails sent to those aliases will be forwarded to another email address of your choice. Think of an alias as a nickname. For example, if your email is youremail@gmail.com, you can set up the alias youremail@yourdomain.com. All emails sent to youremail@yourdomain.com will forward to youremail@gmail.com. Google Workspace You can add Google Workspace to a Squarespace domain or third-party domain. Similar to email forwarding, you can use a custom domain email address with Google Workspace. The difference with Google Workspace is you create a new email with its own inbox instead of creating a nickname for an existing email This is a good option for businesses wanting a professional email address with its own inbox. Keep in mind, Google Workspace is a separate billing subscription from your domain and website. 6. I’m a Google Domains customer. Do I have to do anything? In 2023, Squarespace entered into an agreement to become the new home for Google Domains. Domains are being moved to Squarespace in phases. When your domain transitions from Google to Squarespace, you’ll become a Squarespace customer and manage your domain through an account with us. If you're a Google Domains customer, we’ll let you know when you need to take action. When your domain moves to Squarespace, you’ll receive an email to the email address associated with your Google Domains account. If you already have a Squarespace account, you’ll just need to log into it. If you don’t have a Squarespace account yet, one will be created for you automatically. Visit About the Google Domains migration to Squarespace to learn more about the migration, how to check the status of your domain and where to go for support.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in January below. Which updates are you most excited about? Commerce Send subscription renewal reminders to your customers You can now send subscription renewal emails automatically. When enabled, subscribers will receive an email reminder 15 days before their subscription renews. To be eligible for reminder emails, you need to have a subscription term of 12 weeks or more (if renewing weekly) or three months or more (if renewing monthly). Learn more about enabling subscription renewal reminder emails. Customers can now purchase digital products from their paywalls When a customer hasn’t yet purchased a digital product (access to a course, video page, or member site), they’re shown a paywall that merchandises the product. You can now feature different pricing plans on this paywall so that users can purchase the product directly from it. You can test this feature out by accessing your digital product page from the Pages panel and then clicking Paywall. Learn more about customizing your paywall. Authenticate your bank account for Squarespace Payments with microdeposits You can now authenticate your bank account for Squarespace Payments with microdeposits. This is a small sum of money deposited into your account and includes a verification code in the deposit description. Learn more about microdeposits. Websites A new header editing experience When editing your 7.1 site header, you can now interact with each element directly, instead of going through a single pop-up menu. The following elements can be edited directly by clicking Edit Site Header: Site title & logo Navigation Account Social links Cart Button Language switch Learn more about building a site header. Link editor improvements We’ve made adding links to your site’s buttons and text more intuitive with UI updates to the link editor. You can still link existing site content, external URLs, files, phone numbers, and email addresses through the editor. Learn more about adding links to your site. Co_Rick Rubin Transmission template Squarespace Collection brings the world’s most creative minds together with Squarespace to create something beautiful. We’re excited to introduce the latest Squarespace Collection, a collaboration with Rick Rubin to build tetragrammaton — his online world of curated materials sourced from intuition and intellect — and a new website design to inspire your creativity. Transmission is a minimally designed, customizable template for anyone to share their own interests, with layouts showcasing audiovisual media and members-only content. Get the Transmission template. The “folder” tool has been renamed to “dropdown” We’ve renamed the folder tool to dropdown to better represent its function. Dropdowns can be added in the Pages panel to nest multiple pages under a single page title. Learn more about adding dropdowns to your navigation. The Esc key login shortcut has been removed Prior to this update, pressing the Esc key on a Squarespace site would lead to a login screen. This keyboard shortcut has been removed as part of a larger effort to streamline menu navigation. Learn more about other keyboard shortcuts. Bio Sites New styles for Links sections You can now style your Links sections in Button, Card, or Advanced layouts. Click your Links section, then click the Design tab to preview these new styles. Please note, some Link styles are only accessible with a Bio Sites Pro subscription. Learn more about customizing your Links sections

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in December below. Which updates are you most excited about? Commerce Sync your inventory to your POS with SKU IQ Did you know you could use the Squarespace app as a point of sale (POS) system with our Square integration? You can also use the new SKU IQ extension. With the SKU IQ extension, you can easily sync your inventory and orders from your Squarespace site to your point of sale system. To add SKU IQ or to browse all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Squarespace Extensions are vetted third-party tools that help you manage, optimize, and expand your site. Learn more about Squarespace Extensions. Use postal code shipping for greater control on all plans With shipping zones, you can limit where you ship products or set shipping fees based on location. You can now create local shipping zones on the Business and Commerce plans. More fine-tuned control over how and where you ship orders is an important financial factor for anyone who sells online, regardless of what you pay to host your website. So, by popular demand, we're no longer gatekeeping this popular feature to just our higher-tiered Commerce plans. Learn more about creating shipping zones. Websites Resize blocks symmetrically with your keyboard We’ve added a new keyboard shortcut to resize a block’s height and width symmetrically on Fluid Engine. To try it out, press ⌘ + Shift + arrow keys on a Mac or Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys on a PC. Learn more about Squarespace keyboard shortcuts. The Swarm and 500px blocks have been retired We’ve removed the option to add the Swarm and 500 px blocks. This will not affect existing Swarm or 500px blocks that you have on your site, but you will no longer be able to add them. By occasionally retiring older, rarely used features, we can focus our resources on developing more relevant features that benefit more of our customers. Add Member Sites from the Pages panel You can now add Member Sites directly from the Pages panel by clicking the + icon to make it more straightforward. Prior to this update, Member Sites navigation had to be switched on in the Settings panel which required more back-and-forth. Learn more about adding Member Sites. Domains DNSSEC is now supported on .com and .net domains DNSSEC is an advanced form of domain security, and you can now enable it on .com and .net domains that are hosted with Squarespace. It will be enabled by default on new registrations. Learn more about DNSSEC.

We’ve reviewed the questions we receive during our Design tips to increase your store’s sales webinar and boiled them down into 5 frequently asked questions. We then asked our merchandising expert and fellow Squarespace site owner to share some of their expertise, and here’s what they had to say: How can I showcase a new collection of products? There are many ways to merchandise a new collection of products, depending on the look and feel you want to go for. Here are a few different options: Use a products section Products sections were designed to display your products in eye-catching layouts. In addition to merchandising products on your store page, you can use a products section to merchandise your products on other pages of your site, like your homepage. As you drop new products, you can update the images in the product section to highlight them. Link a store category in your main navigation When you add categories to your products, your store page will be organized by those categories for an easier shopping experience. You can also link the specific product category in your site’s main navigation so more visitors will see it. Here’s one idea: you can create a “New” category for recently added products and then link that category in your main navigation so your newer products will get more views. Use Unfold to create templates for social media With Unfold, you can create beautiful templates for your social media feed and story posts. You can use these templates to advertise your new product releases on your social media platforms. Use the announcement bar An eye-catching call to action you may want to try is the announcement bar. The announcement bar appears at the top of your website, and you can use it to link to a new product drop in your store. What is a best practice for product descriptions? Of course, product descriptions should accurately describe the product in an enticing way, but let’s dig a bit deeper and talk about some other things to keep in mind when listing your products. Add high quality product photos A picture’s worth a thousand words, and your product photos are no exception to that. It’s best to have multiple photos that show off different angles of your products so that customers are more inclined to purchase. Choose your first and second product photos carefully. Your first photo will be the featured image on your store page, and the second photo will be the one that can display on hover. That said, it’s a good idea to use photos that are a bit different. For example, if you sell clothes, the first image could be the item itself, and the second image could be the item on a model. You can also enable image zoom on your photos. This is a particularly good idea if your products have any fine or ornate details that you want to show off. Of course, you should always make sure that you’re uploading photos that are the right dimensions and aspect ratios to ensure they look their best. We recommend an image width between 1500 and 2500px and a size of 500 KB so that they load quickly. Learn more about formatting your images for display on the web. In addition to looking great on your site, high quality product photos can also catch the eyes of customers shopping on Google, Instagram, and Facebook. With Squarespace, you can display your products in Google Shopping and sync them to Facebook and Instagram. Here’s a final tip: you can bulk upload photos from your phone using the Squarespace app. This is a great way to streamline the uploading process if you have your products on your phone. Enable reviews Do you look at customer reviews before you make a purchase? According to a study by trustmary.com, 93% of consumers read reviews before making a purchase. Enabling reviews is an excellent way to give your customers a voice and to inspire trust of your brand and products. Focus on benefits and use SEO keywords Your written descriptions are very important, not only because they can help a customer determine whether or not they want to purchase your product, but because they can help get your products to appear in search engine results. When writing your descriptions, it’s a good idea to focus on the benefits customers will derive from using a product. In other words, think of how the product could personally benefit someone who uses it and frame your descriptions around that. When you start to draft your descriptions, think about which SEO keywords you want to incorporate. SEO keywords are the words you use in your site content to help your site rank in search engines and help people find you. While not related to the overall design of your site, SEO keywords can help your products get noticed on search engines. When you’ve decided on the terms you want to prioritize, you can incorporate them into your product descriptions to help them surface on search engines. We recommend that your descriptions are at least three sentences. To get a first draft, you can use Squarespace AI to generate a description of your product. We recommend that you always review and edit AI output to ensure that it’s accurate, appropriate for your site, and incorporates your unique voice. Use limited availability labels Limited availability labels display product availability and flag items that are low in stock. They display on store pages and product details pages, and they can help drive buyer urgency. They’re an especially great merchandising option if you sell bespoke or limited edition items as you can communicate the scarcity elegantly. How can I merchandise my online courses? Course pages display a collection of online courses in an easy to navigate way. When a customer completes your course, they’ll see a visual indicator of their progress, motivating them to finish. Let’s talk about some ways you can further design your courses to encourage customers to purchase them. Use a digital products section Digital products sections are similar to products sections, however, they can be used to merchandise your digital products (like courses, member sites, and videos) on high traffic pages. If you’re a digital product seller, a great place to add one of these sections is to your homepage so visitors are aware of your offerings. There are plenty of layouts to choose from, and you can make your own edits to them to incorporate your own personal touch. Offer a freebie Everyone loves a freebie. Creating a free introductory level course can give potential customers a taste of what they can get out of your course, which may encourage them to make a purchase. You can then list that freebie in your digital products section or use a digital product block to advertise it on another page of your site. Within a course’s lesson page, you can link a downloadable handout with a detailed course overview or additional information to further encourage customers to enroll. How can I increase my average order value (AOV)? A tried and true strategy of increasing AOV is to offer a discount or free shipping when customers spend a certain amount. That said, you have many design options you can try to get customers to add more items to their carts. Let’s go over some popular ones. Use add-on products If you’re looking to increase the amount customers spend on an order, try add-on products. With add-on products, you can display other related or complementary items on a product page. For example, if you sell jewelry, you can upsell a jewelry cleaner add-on with any other product. This can encourage your customers to purchase multiple items from you and even increase their awareness of your other products. Display related products Similarly, you can display up to five related products on a product details page to help deepen customers’ engagement with your store. After you add categories and tags to your products, you can choose the ones you want to display. You can have random products within the category or tag, the newest products, or products with the highest stock quantity display. Use product variants to sell sets When adding a product to your store, you can set up variants for options like size and color. You could also use them to boost your sales by bundling sets of items. For example, if you sell tea cups, you can add a variant for a pair of cups or even a full tea set. Those variants display on the tea cup’s details page where the customer can add them directly to their carts. How can I make my site mobile friendly? While all Squarespace sites are designed to look great on mobile devices, sometimes additions like large media files or content-heavy pages can cause some issues to arise. Let’s share some tips on how to keep your Squarespace site mobile friendly: Keep your pages under 5 MB Pages with more than 5 MB of content may load slowly on mobile devices, impacting a visitor’s experience on your site. To ensure your site is designed with mobile in mind, check the size of your pages and make adjustments to the content as necessary. If your page has images on it, be sure to keep them below 500 KB to ensure they load as quickly as possible. You can use any third-party image editing software, like JPEGmini, to resize the image. (Fluid Engine) Edit your mobile layout With Fluid Engine, mobile layouts display the same content, but you can arrange the mobile layout and resize its blocks independently of the computer layout. In other words, if the alignment of a block looks great on a computer but not on a mobile device, you can reposition the block on the mobile layout without affecting the computer layout. (Classic Editor) Know how blocks stack on mobile With the Classic Editor, the mobile layout cannot be changed independently of the computer layout; Squarespace’s responsive design automatically stacks blocks vertically on mobile devices. If you have three image blocks in a horizontal row, they’ll stack on top of each other from left to right on mobile. Keep this in mind when editing your site, and be sure to take advantage of device view to get a preview of how edits you’re making will look on computer and mobile layouts.

Hi @AdamSwish, I understand your concern here. I wanted to let you know that individual contacts can be deleted from the Contacts panel of your site, as well as removed from mailing lists. The steps to delete that data can be found here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046485652#toc-delete-contacts If you need a large amount of contacts deleted, you can reach out to privacy@squarespace.com. I hope this helps!

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in November below. Which updates are you most excited about? Acuity Scheduling Lock your scheduler’s time zone to avoid confusion over appointment times You can now lock the time zone for your appointments so clients can’t change it on their end. Prior to this update, clients were able to choose their own time zone while booking their appointments. This update should reduce the confusion we’ve seen around booking appointments at the wrong times. This setting can be edited in the Global scheduling limits panel. Learn more about editing your time zone settings. Commerce Boost your sales with add-on products You can now display another product on a product page to encourage your customers to purchase related or complementary items. For example, if you sell jewelry, you can upsell a jewelry cleaner add-on with any other product. Please note, add-ons are supported on download, physical, and service products. Learn more about selling add-on products. Consistent branding for your customer notification emails You can now apply your section style themes to your customer notification emails. When you click Quickly match your site, you can choose which section theme to apply and match your site’s existing colors and fonts for consistent branding. Learn more about styling your customer notification emails. Save up to 7 minutes per package shipped with Sendcloud With the Sendcloud extension, you can ship with 100+ regional and international carriers in just a few clicks. To add Sendcloud or to browse all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Squarespace Extensions are vetted third-party tools that help you manage, optimize, and expand your site. Browse all Extensions. Create regional and local shipping zones in France You can now limit shipping to specific regions in France. If you’re on the Commerce Advanced plan, you can further limit the shipping zone to specific cities and postal codes within a region. Learn more about setting up local shipping zones. Websites Update your site to version 7.1 At long last, you can now update your 7.0 site to version 7.1. All orders and customer data, site analytics, domain settings, SEO, and billing information will stay in place— no manual switching or starting over required. Prior to this update, the only way to update to version 7.1 was to rebuild everything and start with fresh data. Keep in mind, this is a permanent change, and some aspects of your site might look different. Click on Website > Design > Update to Version 7.1 to preview your site in version 7.1 and update it. The update tool is only available on the Brine and Bedford template families. If you’re not using those templates, you can switch your template to Brine or Bedford first. Learn more about updating your site to version 7.1. Blog on the go with your mobile device We’ve made more improvements to the mobile blogging experience on the Squarespace app. You can now edit existing posts, edit supported blocks in your posts, and use device view to see how your post will look on a desktop. Learn more about blogging with the Squarespace app. Block AI and search engine crawlers You can block search engines and AI web crawlers from crawling your site, while leaving it available for visitors to access, in the Settings > Crawlers panel. A web crawler is a type of bot, typically operated by search engines, that automatically scans the content of websites across the Internet, so their content can appear in search results. Web crawlers are also used by AI companies to train their large language models (LLMs). These models learn from the content of websites they scan, and use the data to improve the accuracy and general capabilities of their AI models. By default, crawlers scan all content published on the Internet, but if you'd like to exclude your website from these scans, you can choose to hide your site from search engines or AI crawlers. Learn more about hiding your site from web crawlers. Take control of your forms’ design and branding We’ve added a Forms section within the Site Styles panel so you can further style your forms to give them a unique, yet consistent look. Within the Forms section, you can adjust the fonts and colors of texts and buttons, as well as the style and shape of your forms’ other elements. Learn more about styling your forms. Bio Sites Monetize your content with Locked Links With Locked Links, you can monetize your content by including a paywall link in your Bio Site. You can charge customers a one-time fee for access to content, such as video courses or a photo library. Learn more about Locked Links.

Email marketing is one of the most effective channels you can use to engage your audience. We’ve reviewed the questions we receive during our Engage your Audience with Email Campaigns webinar and boiled them down into five frequently asked questions. We then asked our CRM team here at Squarespace to share some of their expertise, and here’s what they had to say: What are some things I can do to build my mailing lists? A mailing list is a collection of email addresses that you send your email campaigns to. Let's take a moment to talk about some strategies you can use to build your mailing list subscribers. Make it easy for visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. When building your site, keep the visitors’ journey in mind and make sure that it’s easy for them to sign themselves up for your mailing list. Newsletter blocks can be placed throughout your site so that visitors can sign themselves up by typing their email address into the form. These blocks are often included in the site’s footer (that way they’re visible on every page), but you can place them anywhere. Depending on your site, you may want to place them in the middle of your homepage, on blog articles, or even create a dedicated newsletter sign up page. Use an automated email to offer an incentive. Have you ever visited a site and been offered a discount upon signing up for a mailing list? This is a common practice, and it can be quite effective at getting folks to sign up. You can create a subscriber-activity automation email to send visitors a special discount code upon signing up for your mailing list. You can then use a promotional pop-up to advertise this on your site. Upon visiting your site, people will be greeted by the pop-up notifying them about the discount. Advertise your mailing list on your social media. Leverage the audience your brand has on social media and advertise your mailing lists there. With Squarespace Email Campaigns, you can even copy the permalink URL for one of your blast campaigns to give your audience a taste of what they can expect from your emails. Utilize email sign-up form on your checkout page. When a customer is purchasing from you, they already have an interest in your brand or products. By including an email sign-up form on your checkout page, you’re making it easier for them to stay in the know about any new products or newsletters your release. Once I have a mailing list, how can I segment my subscribers and customers to boost sales? Are you familiar with your site’s Contacts panel? The Contacts panel displays all customers, mailing list subscribers, members, donors, and form submitters in one place so that you can better manage your brand’s relationships. The Contacts panel automatically sorts visitors who have interacted with your site into the following smart lists: Subscribers, Leads (subscribers who have not made a purchase), Customers, First-Time Customers, Repeat Customers, Donors, and Form Submitters. This is helpful data you can use to tailor blast campaigns. For example, you can send a blast campaign with a discount to your Leads smart list to encourage them to make a purchase or you can reward your Repeat Customers smart list with this discount. In addition to smart lists, you can create your own segments by using various filtering options (like tags, minimum amount spent, number of orders, etc.) to really take control of your customer relationship management. Like smart lists, you can send email campaigns directly to the segments that you create. What are some best practices for creating holiday campaigns? Did you know that there are seasonal email campaign templates available? These were designed with best practices in mind to help you create eye-catching holiday campaigns. You can check them out in the Email Campaigns composer. That said, many best practices for holiday campaigns are best practices for email marketing in general. Subject line and preview text. The subject line of your email should be as specific and concise as possible. Your subscribers should have an idea of what the contents of the email consist of before they open it. Actionable language is best. For example, for advertising your brand’s Black Friday sale, the subject line, “Take 25% off this Black Friday” is better than “Big news!”. Your email preview text goes hand-in-hand with your subject line. You can think of it as an additional opportunity to entice your subscribers into opening the email and give them a preview of the content. An example of preview text would be, “Build your new holiday wardrobe at great prices''. If your preview text is too short, many email clients will display some text from the start of your email. Therefore, make sure to maximize the standard character limit for email preview text to prevent this from happening. Create buzz with a teaser email. Before you announce the launch of a new collection or a sale, you can send out a teaser email to your subscribers to let them know that something is coming and when they can visit your site to get it. These emails not only create expectations and excitement, they can also prompt subscribers to visit your website and shop your current offerings. For example, you can include a call to action (anything in your email that is clickable) encouraging people to preview your products. You can find templates for teaser emails within the Seasonal category of the Email Campaigns composer. Create urgency. This may be a given, but it’s important to create a sense of urgency especially if you’re running a limited time sale or releasing a limited collection. To create urgency, you can use phrases such as, “while supplies last”, “for a limited time only”, or “last chance to shop the sale”. If you are running a sale, be sure to let your subscribers know when it ends. How can I use Email Campaigns to create drip campaigns? A drip campaign is an automated series of emails that are sent to your subscribers on a set cadence, and it’s a great way to keep them engaged. For example, if you sell jewelry on your site, you can set up a drip campaign that’s sent to purchasers sharing tips on how to care for their jewelry. That way, you’re staying in touch with your customers and offering them valuable information. To set up drip campaigns in Email Campaigns, create multiple subscriber-activity or customer-activity automated campaigns and schedule them to be sent out at different times. Your emails will then be sent out automatically as scheduled. Can I use AI to write my emails? You certainly can! When you’re adding text to your email in Email Campaigns, click the lightning bolt icon and enter a prompt. You can have Squarespace AI write a paragraph, a pitch, or a blurb directly in your email. AI is a helpful tool that you can use to get a first draft of content, but we always recommend that you review it to ensure that it’s accurate, appropriate, and includes your brand’s unique voice. As a note, by using Squarespace AI, you agree to the Content Generation Terms and that you are responsible for any text you use. Do you have any email marketing tips? Share them in the comments below!

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in October below. Which updates are you most excited about? Commerce A more seamless UPS shipping experience You can now purchase UPS shipping labels to fulfill your orders directly from the order summary. Prior to this update, only USPS shipping labels were available for purchase. Please note, rates are automatically calculated based on distance, package size, weight, and the service you select. Learn more about purchasing UPS shipping labels. Sell your products and manage your data with LitCommerce With the LitCommerce extension, you can list and sell products on the largest selling platforms (such as Amazon, eBay, and Google Shopping). You can also manage data from these channels in one place. To add LitCommerce or to browse all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Squarespace Extensions are vetted third-party tools that help you manage, optimize, and expand your site. Browse all Extensions. Optimize your page speed and SEO with TinyIMG The TinyIMG extension can help you optimize the speed of your pages and give your SEO efforts a boost through image size optimization and SEO metadata generation with AI. To add TinyIMG or to browse all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Browse all Extensions. Product editor updates The product visibility toggle has moved from the Visibility section of the product editor to the Organization section. Further, the Visibility section has been renamed to Selling Tools to better reflect the options in that section. Learn more about the product editor. Websites Add photos and videos to the Asset Library from your iOS device The Asset Library is now compatible with the share feature on iOS. In other words, you can now share photos and videos from another app (like your Photos app) directly to your sites on the Squarespace app. Your Asset Library is a hub for all of your site’s photos and videos. With this update, you can bulk upload media photos you took or are storing on your phone or tablet directly to your site, so you can add them to specific places on your site later. This works great for batches of product photos, gallery images, etc. Learn more about adding content to the Asset Library. Grid layout for Courses To further personalize your course overview page, you can now display your courses in a grid layout. Prior to this update, Course pages could only be displayed in a list layout. Learn more about editing your course overview page. New social icons for Threads and X We’ve added a new Threads social icon and updated the Twitter social icon to X. You can choose to use the old Twitter logo or the new X logo. Learn more about social icons. Project Management has been renamed to Invoicing Project Management within the Selling panel is now called Invoicing to better represent it. No functionality has been changed. We introduced invoices a few months ago so you can request payments directly from your site. This is a great option for those who sell services or customized products. Learn more about sending invoices with Squarespace. More filtering options in the Contacts panel We currently offer pre-built Smart Lists within the Contacts panel (Subscribers, Leads, Customers, First-Time Customers, etc.) to help you understand your customer segments. We’ve expanded the filtering options for all Smart Lists so that you can save your own filtered segments. Learn more about saving segments.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in September below. Which updates are you most excited about? As a reminder, feature requests are not monitored in this channel. To submit a feature request, please reach out to our Customer Support team. Bio Sites Create multiple Bio Sites from your browser You can now create multiple Bio Sites directly in the Bio Sites Web Editor. To create a new Bio Site, click the icon and then click Create New Bio Site. Learn more about creating Bio Sites from the Web Editor. Domains Get select domains for $12 USD per year You can register a .com, .net, or a .org domain with a 40% discount for the first year or registration. Normally, these domains are $20 USD annually, but you’ll pay $12 for the first year with the discount. Claim your domain. New domain TLDs available When you register a domain, you can choose from an additional 15 TLDs we newly offer: .audio, .baby, .dad, .esq, .foo, .hair, .lol, .makeup, .mom, .monster, .phd, .pics, .prof, .quest, .skin. Visit the full list of TLDs you can register or transfer to Squarespace. Websites Draft your site content with Squarespace AI Introducing generative AI in Squarespace Blueprint! When you build your own template with Squarespace Blueprint, you'll have the option to use Squarespace AI to generate text for your homepage. You’ll also get to choose the writing style to set the tone for the generated text. Please note, you should always review AI generated text. Because it’s generated by AI, it’s a great starting point, but it may not be accurate, appropriate, or right for your needs. You should always edit what Squarespace AI writes to add your own voice and unique details. Try Squarespace Blueprint. Learn more about Squarespace AI. Navigation changes We’ve changed the navigation labels and the location of some panels The following has been changed: Commerce panel is now Selling Profiles panel is now Contacts Marketing tools The Promotional Pop-Up and Announcement Bar panels are moving to the Website Tools section of the Website panel. To help you get around Squarespace as you get used to any menu changes, use the search keyboard shortcut: press “/” and search for the panel or setting you need. Manage your projects on Squarespace If you sell services on a project-to-project basis (like photography, consultation, or website design services), you can manage these projects in the Selling > Project Management panel. Within the panel, you can create and review project milestones, send invoices, and track revenue. You can also create a new project from a form submission to ensure all of the necessary information is together. Learn more about the Project Management panel. Pay for Squarespace with more currencies We’ve added 13 new currencies you can use to pay for Squarespace: Canadian Dollar (CAD) Colombian Peso (COP) Danish Krone (DKK) Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) New Zealand Dollar (NZD) Norwegian Krone (NOK) Philippine Peso (PHP) Polish Zloty (PLN) South African Rand (ZAR) Swedish Krona (SEK) Swiss Franc (CHF) Thai Baht (TBH) Please note, it’s not possible to change your currency after your first payment. Learn more about accepted billing currencies.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in August below. Which updates are you most excited about? Please note, feature requests are not monitored in this channel. To submit a feature request, please reach out to our Customer Support team. Acuity Scheduling Summary email only sent if you have appointments To prevent cluttering your inboxes, you’ll now only receive weekly summary emails if you have appointments that week. Weekly summary emails are enabled by default, but you can disable them in the Booking Alerts panel. Learn more about weekly summary emails. Bio Sites Grow your mailing lists from your Bio Site With Unfold Pro, you can now encourage people to subscribe to your mailing list with the new Mailing List section. You can export captured email addresses as .csv and then import them into Squarespace Email Campaigns or any other email marketing service that supports .csv imports. Learn more about Mailing List sections. Commerce Create and sell online courses with Squarespace Create online courses with the new Course collection page. Course pages have a two-part structure to keep your content organized: the course overview page and the individual lesson pages in the course. They also include a progress bar to keep your students motivated. Learn more about Courses. Watch the Create and sell online courses with Squarespace webinar. Selling digital products with Squarespace Digital products include course pages, member sites (formerly known as Member Areas), and video pages. You can now use pricing plans to place your products behind a paywall and bundle different digital products on your site. You can charge customers for access to your content, or you can offer free access which makes visitors create an account for your site’s gated content. For example, you can create a single pricing plan and bundle access to a course page and a member site into it. Learn more about courses pages, member sites, and pricing plans. Merchandise your digital products with the digital product block Use the new digital product block to merchandise your pricing plans throughout your site. Learn more about digital product blocks. Add to cart directly from your store page You can now enable Add To Cart buttons on your store page so customers can quickly grab items without clicking into product details pages. Products with one variant will display Add To Cart, and products with multiple variants will display View Options. Enable the add to cart button from the Format tab of your store’s section styles. Learn more about enabling add to cart buttons on your store page. Automate accounting information with Amaka MYOB and Xero by Amaka extensions automate the flow of your Squarespace sales, payments, and tax information into your MYOB and Xero file respectively. This will ensure your files are up to date, allowing you to make better data driven decisions. To add MYOB or Xero, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Squarespace Extensions are vetted third-party tools that help you manage, optimize, and expand your site. Learn more about Squarespace Extensions. Browse all available Extensions. Transform your site into an app With the Progressier extension, you can transform your site into a mobile app and deliver push notifications to your audience. To add Progressier or browse all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Learn more about Squarespace Extensions. Browse all available Extensions. Email Campaigns More automated campaign triggers We’ve added more automated campaign triggers, meaning there are more ways for you to connect with your subscribers and customers. Here’s what’s new: Follow-up email: Engage customers if they haven’t made a purchase in a set amount of time. Repeat customer email: Reward loyal customers by sending a discount email after a repeat purchase. VIP email: Connect with customers after they’ve spent a certain amount. Learn more about sending automated email campaigns. Unfold One-tap background removal With Unfold Pro, you can now remove photo backgrounds with one-tap… just like magic. You can use this to tidy up product images or to create dynamic backgrounds by layering images over other elements.. If you don’t have Unfold Pro, you remove the background from three images three times before upgrading. Learn more about editing images in Unfold. Websites and domains Delete customer profiles To give you more control over your CRM efforts, you can now delete customer profiles from the Profiles panel. To delete, click on the profile and then click Delete Profile. Learn more about deleting customer profiles. Domains panel redesign and domain forwarding We’ve refreshed the look of the Domains panel to help you better manage your domains. We’ve also added support for 301 redirects, 302 redirects, and path forwarding to the panel. In addition to managing your domains from your website, you can now manage your domain’s settings right from the Domains tab of your account dashboard. That means you can now manage multiple domains from one place. Learn more about forwarding a Squarespace domain. Improving Home menu navigation In an effort to improve the editing experience, we’ve consolidated some settings within the Home Menu: To access the Pages panel, click Website Near the bottom of the panel, a new System Pages section is the new home for managing your 404 page, Lock Screen, Access Denied, and Checkout pages. Prior to this update, these pages’ settings were located across different sections. Similarly, below System Pages, a new Website Tools section groups Custom CSS, Code Injection, Mobile Information Bar, and Cookies & Visitor Data in one place. (7.1 only) You can now hide and expand pages within the left-hand Pages panel (Main Navigation and Not Linked sections) for a cleaner view while editing your site. (7.1 only) The Design panel has been removed. To access Site Styles, click the paintbrush icon, even when not in Edit Mode. Learn more about the Home Menu and Pages panel basics. New domain TLDs available When you register a domain, you can choose from 31 TLDs we newly offer: .accountants, .casino, .ceo, .contact, .credit, .creditcard, .cricket, .doctor, .eco, .energy, .fan, .fans, .gold, .green, .health, .homes, .investments, .llc, .loans, .luxury, .movie, .page, .pro, .realty, .reise, .stream, .tires, .tube, .vote, .webcam, .works. Visit the full list of TLDs you can register or transfer to Squarespace.

Offering an online course is a great way to leverage your expertise to engage your audience and even create a passive revenue stream. With the new Squarespace Courses, you can create beautiful and intuitive online courses using an interface you’re already familiar with if you’ve created a site on Squarespace. On August 30, we’ll be releasing a new webinar, Create and sell online courses with Squarespace, that’ll teach you everything you need to know to get started. Senior Product Managers, Adam Parks and Brian Jacobs, will also stop by for a live Q&A at the end. Topics include: Best practices for preparing your curriculum Building your course with the new Courses collection page Setting up pricing plans to monetize your content Live Q&A with Senior Product Managers, Adam Parks and Brian Jacobs Register here. (For those that cannot make it on August 30, an on-demand session will be available to watch at any time)

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in July below. Which updates are you most excited about? Acuity Scheduling Get notified when an invoice is paid Administrators will now receive email notifications when clients pay their invoices. You’ll start receiving these emails automatically, but you can disable them by unchecking Get notified when invoice is paid in the Invoice Details panel. Learn more about invoice paid notifications. Commerce Customer accounts now available on the Business plan With customer accounts, visitors can save their payment method, shipping addresses, shopping carts, and order information, which can encourage them to become repeat customers. Customer accounts can now be enabled on sites with the Business, Commerce Basic, and Commerce Advanced plans. Prior to this update, customer accounts could only be enabled on Commerce plans. Learn more about customer accounts. Shipping hazardous materials When purchasing a shipping label, you’ll specify whether the package contains hazardous materials. If this box is checked, the Shipping services will update to only display select services from USPS that can accommodate your shipment. Learn more about buying shipping labels. Websites and domains Form submissions now stored directly in Squarespace To help you keep track of them, form submissions received after July 21, 2023 will be stored in the Profiles > Form Submitters panel when the email field is required in a form block. The email address, Google Drive, Zapier, and MailChimp options haven’t changed, so if you’ve opted to send submissions to those places, they’re still being sent there. Note that the form submissions will now also always be stored within Squarespace as a backup. There’s currently no option to remove them. Prior to this update, only third-party storage options were available for form submissions. We know many of you have been waiting for this update for a while! Learn more about storing form submitters on your website. Mobile blogging with the Squarespace App We’ve improved the blog editing experience on the Squarespace App for iOS and Android to make it more streamlined and focused. You can enable the new blog editor in Settings > Site Settings > Blogging when creating new blog posts.. Learn more about the mobile blog editor. Offset carbon emissions with the Sprout extension When you connect the Sprout extension, their team will plant a tree with each product sold or order received to showcase your commitment to sustainability. To add Sprout or browser all extensions, go to Settings, then All Extensions. Squarespace Extensions are vetted third-party tools that help you manage, optimize, and expand your site. Learn more about Squarespace Extensions. Browse all available Extensions. Rewrite text with Squarespace AI With this latest update, you can now highlight text you’ve already written and have Squarespace AI edit it. The following options are available: Fix Spelling and Grammar Lengthen Outline Shorten Simplify Summarize To test it out, highlight your text, then click the lightning bolt icon, and then choose the action you’d like Squarespace AI to complete. Please note, you should always review AI generated text. Because it is generated by a machine, it may not always be accurate, appropriate, or right for your website’s needs. Additionally, you should always edit the text to add your voice or details unique to you. Learn more about using Squarespace AI to rewrite existing text and best practices.

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in June below. Which updates are you most excited about? Reminder for Circle Members: Circle Day is on August 24, 2023. Register here. Acuity Scheduling Accept tips on mobile You can now enable and disable tipping in the Acuity Scheduling Admin mobile app so clients can tip you after their appointment. Learn more about enabling tipping in the app. Bio Sites Dark mode available on the web editor Dark mode is now available on the Bio Sites web editor. You can enable dark mode in the settings menu. To turn dark mode on or off: Log into the Bio Sites web editor. Click the gear icon. Switch the dark mode toggle on or off. Check out the Bio Sites web editor. Email Campaigns Send more emails during your trial Interested in trying Email Campaigns with a larger mailing list? We’ve increased the number of email addresses you can send a campaign to during an Email Campaigns trial from 500 to 5,000. Learn more about Email Campaigns trials. Learn more about Email Campaigns billing plans. Websites and domains Squarespace AI in text blocks With Squarespace AI, you can enter prompts or text you’ve written for help creating a first draft of text content on your site. To try it out, look for the lightning bolt in the text block toolbar. Please note, you should always review AI generated text. Because it is generated by a machine, it may not always be accurate, appropriate, or right for your website’s needs. Additionally, you should always edit the text to add your voice or details unique to you. Learn more about Squarespace AI in text blocks and best practices. Make images stand out with new block effects You can now add image effects to image blocks in Fluid Engine. Some effects add an animation so the image is always moving, while others only appear as the visitor scrolls through the section. Effects include: Liquid Film grain Parallax Refracted circles Refracted lines Learn more about image block effects. Form block background color You can now add a background color to your form blocks to make your forms more eye-catching on the page and to incorporate your site’s branding. Learn more about editing block background colors.

Most brands use different channels to market their products and connect with their customers. Channels like a website, email campaigns, and social media are valuable levers to pull when it comes to boosting sales. Let’s talk about how you can use Squarespace to cross-promote your products and make your product drops an event: Email marketing Squarespace’s Email Campaigns allows you to create branded marketing emails. Since it’s connected with your site, you can easily pull selected products from your store page into your emails with a product section. To sweeten the offer, you can even include a discount section to offer an exclusive promo code to your subscribers. Social media You can integrate your Squarespace site with Facebook and Instagram to not only share your products, but to use Facebook Ads, Facebook Shops, and Instagram Shopping. This lets you create more channels that your customers can use to shop with you. You can learn more about integrating with Facebook and Instagram here. Other ways to promote your products In addition to cross promoting your product drop, you can also promote it on your site with an announcement bar, scrolling block, or a promotional pop-up to help generate excitement. We have some more tips laid out in our guide, Creating a product drop. How do you market your product drops?

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in May below. Which updates are you most excited about? Acuity Scheduling Appointment receipts To save you time, you can now send your clients email receipts after payment automatically. This can be enabled in the Email Settings panel. Receipts include your logo (or your business name) and an order summary. Prior to this update, receipts had to be sent manually from the payment processor. Learn more about appointment receipts. Bio Sites Watermark removal With Unfold Pro, you can now remove the “Create a free Bio Site” watermark in the Bio Sites web editor. Try out the Bio Sites web editor at biosites.com. Commerce UK shipping improvements We’ve added four regions to UK shipping options: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. You can select which of these specific regions you ship to and limit shipping by zip code. Learn more about creating shipping zones. Websites and domains Build Your Own Template is now Squarespace Blueprint Squarespace Blueprint, previously called Build Your Own Template , is a way to design your site from scratch with guidance to help you along. You’ll design your homepage, add any other pages you need, and select your color palette. While you can start with a template for initial inspiration, this is a great option if you already have a strong idea of what your site should look like. Learn more about Squarespace Blueprint or try it yourself. Form block international improvements We’ve made several improvements to the form block to support international customers. These improvements are now live on new and existing form blocks: Addresses: Addresses now have a country drop-dow. The selected country will determine the field’s formatting. The default country is based on what’s selected in your site’s Language & Region panel.. Phone numbers: Phone numbers now have an optional country code drop-down. The default country is based on what’s selected in your site’s Language & Region panel. Dates: Dates are now a single date picker field. The field format will match the locale of the visitor. Times: Times are now a single time picker field. The field format will match the locale of the visitor. Learn more about form block fields. Resize multiple blocks at once You can now resize multiple blocks at the same time on Fluid Engine sites. Simply select the blocks and then resize the blocks to your liking. Learn more about resizing blocks. Video block upload improvements We’ve introduced background uploading to video blocks to improve the editing experience and to reduce failed uploads. When you upload to a video block, you can continue making other edits while the video uploads in the background. Learn more about video blocks.

We’re back with the third webinar in our Squarespace Commerce series. We’ll review some of the last steps to take to confirm your store is ready to accept orders and how to manage your orders once you start receiving them. Together, we’ll review how to manage inventory, add store policies, and run test orders. Then we’ll dive into how to fulfill, cancel, and refund orders. Click here to join us for the Managing Your Orders webinar on May ,2023 at 1:30 PM ET. (Those who cannot make the live session will be able to access the on-demand webinar.)