What's new at Squarespace — December 2023

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.  

Still beats me why focus on e-comerce is not on basic e-commmerce functionality such as "volume discounts" or "product rating tags" etc and for Denmark in particular allowing customers to pay with "Mobile pay" which is used for the bulk of transactions here.... 

/Rasmus

On 12/31/2023 at 3:00 PM, Parker_SQSP said:

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.

Since squarespace is often used by small local businesses, this may be really useful. They may use their own courier to deliver locally –fast and affordable– but may have to ship –more expensive and not as fast– for destinations further away. So I would think people are willing to pay for this feature and I personally don't care if it's only for the higher-tiered plans. However, I consider it a problem that this feature is only for businesses in America, France or the UK, even if they are on the most expensive plan, i.e. paying for a feature they are not receiving.