What's new at Squarespace — September 2024

Check out everything new that happened at Squarespace in September below. 

Squarespace Navigation 

Customize your site’s Home menu 

You can now customize your Home menu so that it is more relevant to your needs. Click the Edit button in the top-right corner of the Home menu to rearrange the order or hide options you don’t need. 

Please note, the Website, Finance, Marketing, Contacts, and Analytics panels cannot be hidden or rearranged. The following panels can be rearranged or hidden: 

• Products & Services 
• Invoicing 
• Content & Memberships
• Donations
• Scheduling

Learn more about customizing the Home menu. 

 

Commerce 

Create a first draft of proposals, estimates, and contracts with AI-suggestive text

Drafting professional communications can be time-consuming, but now you can use AI to suggest text when drafting proposals, estimates, and contracts for your clients. 

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 using Squarespace AI and sending proposals, estimates, and contracts to clients. 

 

An automatic record of your client/seller agreements 

With the release of documents, you can create proposals, estimates, and contracts and send them to clients. After a client accepts a document, both you and the client will now receive a PDF copy via email. 

Please note, PDFs will only be sent if the document includes an acceptance section.  

Learn more about sending proposals, estimates, and contracts to clients. 

 

A new Orders panel, inclusive of all of your orders 

Over the last few years, we’ve expanded how and what you can sell on Squarespace. To ensure you have quick access to all of your orders, we’ve introduced a new panel under Finance > Orders that’s inclusive of all selling methods. This panel offers advanced filtering options for: 

• Product category (or how you sell) 
• Payment status 
• Fulfillment status 

Check out the new Orders panel.  

 

An updated Discounts panel 

Based on feedback we’ve received about the experience creating and managing store discounts, we’ve given the Discounts panel a refresh. All of the functionality is the same; the existing options have just moved to make managing discounts more intuitive. 

Learn more about creating discounts. 

 

International availability for new donations features

The improvements we made to the Donations experience in July 2024 are now available on sites in all of our supported languages. 

Recurring donations: You can set up weekly and monthly donations to give donors the option to donate continuously. Donors will need to create a customer account when submitting recurring donations if they don’t already have one. 

Donation block: The new Donation block offers greater design flexibility and options for providing more information to donors. You can change the layout of the block, including the buttons’ style, and include descriptions for each suggested donation amount. Please note, existing donation blocks will not be updated automatically. To use the new donations features, remove any donation blocks on a page and replace them with a new one. 

Donations dashboard: The Donations dashboard shows you a snapshot of how your fund is performing. You can see the number of contributions and the donations revenue you’ve received. 

Learn more about the donations block and managing donations. 
 

Email Campaigns  

Weekly subscriber list updates in your inbox

To make it easier to track, we’re now sending a weekly email to site owners with details about changes to their audience. These emails will include: 

• Number of new subscribers 
• Total subscribers 
• Total percent change 
• Unsubscribes 
• Signup sources for new subscribers 

You’ll only receive an email if there were changes to your subscriber count that week. To unsubscribe, click Manage subscription preferences at the bottom of any report. 

Learn more about the email subscriber report.

 

Email Campaigns panel redesign 

We’ve redesigned the Email Campaigns panel to improve navigating around the Email Campaigns tools. Sent campaigns, drafts, scheduled campaigns, and automations are organized with tabs. Mailing lists have been moved into the Contacts > List & Segments panel for better organization. 

The email campaigns editor hasn’t changed with this update. 

Learn more about getting started with Email Campaigns.    

 

Websites

Change your section layouts in one click 

Version 7.1 templates removed the need to switch templates to access different page layouts; all 7.1 templates are meant to be starting points with the same features and style options. That said, we understand that there was an opportunity to make broader layout changes quicker to complete.  

Now, you can change the entire layout of a page section by clicking the View Layouts button and selecting a new design to lay your content out on. Regardless of where you started, you can make broad changes to the design of your page quickly. 

Learn more about changing section layouts. 

 

Make quick style changes with Themes 

Styling your site’s fonts and colors is a key part to making it your own. You can now make changes to colors, fonts, and buttons in the Site Styles panel by selecting a site theme. Themes are preset packs, each with their own colors, fonts, and button styles and there are 14 to choose from. 

After you choose a theme for your site, you can further edit individual style elements (like font and colors).

Learn more about using Themes.