What's new at Squarespace — August 2023

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.

I'm quite disappointed that (besides other changes...where are the 1-3 member areas in the CORE Abo?) the pricing for memberareas rised again since I used it the last time only 2 months ago. To be honest it's not possible for small businesses like mine to sustain or to grow. At the end of the day I have all the effort but with only 15-30 members almost no income. Sad, that I get less and less for more and more money here. My yoga students can't pay more and more.. I really need to consider to close my Squarespace-websites soon :((

I was very excited about the option to create a course directly on my squarespace site.  However, when I go to the page and click on Create a Product -> Course, I get a window that opens and a little black box that twirls for infinity. Nothing happens.  Please advise me on how to utilize this new feature when it doesn't seem to be working--and yes, I checked my version--I am using 7.1

15 minutes ago, booneyogini said:

I get a window that opens and a little black box that twirls for infinity.

Some easy things to try.

Quit your browser. Relaunch, don't have a bunch of windows open (not that you did) and try again. This clears some things out and gives the maximum amount of memory to the window you are working in.

Restart your computer. Again gives you a cleaner slate to work from than if you've been using the computer for awhile.

Let us know how it goes.

Closed all windows and restarted computer.  Still little black box twirling.  Tried a completely different computer, little black box that twirls to nowhere.  Any other suggestions?  Have other people used the new feature successfully?

 

On 9/9/2023 at 2:10 PM, booneyogini said:

Closed all windows and restarted computer.  Still little black box twirling.  Tried a completely different computer, little black box that twirls to nowhere.  Any other suggestions?  Have other people used the new feature successfully?

 

If this is still happening, it could be a bug which the Squarespace team would need to look into. I'd recommend reaching out the Customer Support team!

You can reach them on the Help Center.

Hello.  I've been trying to find an option that would allow the customer to choose multiple variants from one category (i.e choosing two fragrance options for a candle rather than just one)  Is there a way to allow the use of multiple buttons or do they just need to email me and let me know?

11 minutes ago, RBare21 said:

I've been trying to find an option that would allow the customer to choose multiple variants from one category (i.e choosing two fragrance options for a candle rather than just one)  Is there a way to allow the use of multiple buttons or do they just need to email me and let me know?

If the fragrance options don't affect the price then you can use product forms to gather options info.

Let us know how it goes.