What's new at Squarespace — March 2024

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.