Squarespace review

A hosted website builder with polished templates and built-in hosting, so a trade owner can get a professional-looking company site online without a developer, and take appointments through Acuity Scheduling, which Squarespace owns but bills as its own subscription.

What it costsas of August 2026

Basic: $19/moPaid yearly; $25 month to month
Core: $29/moPaid yearly; $39 month to month
Plus: $49/moPaid yearly; $65 month to month
Advanced: $99/moPaid yearly; $139 month to month

Booking is not part of these prices: Squarespace's scheduling product is Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription at Starter $16/mo, Standard $27/mo or Premium $49/mo paid yearly ($20, $34, $61 month to month). There is no free plan, only a 14-day free trial. A site plus online booking is realistically about $35/mo and up combined.

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What Squarespace does

Pricing & terms

Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.

Basic $19/mo paid yearly, $25 month to month; no free plan, only a trial

How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.

Flat price per site, no per user fee; booking is billed as a second product

Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?

14 days free, no card needed; after that you are refundable for 14 more days

ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.

Advertised prices need a year up front; month to month runs about a third more

Fit & support

Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.

Templates and a section editor, no code; tidier to run than a plugin site

SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.

No phone line. Email answered 24/7, live chat weekdays 4am to 8pm Eastern

What it does

Templates you can run yourselfYou should not need a developer to change your hours.

Hundreds of designer templates on every plan, all mobile ready out of the box

Booking built inThe point of the site is turning a visitor into a booked job.

Booking is Acuity, its own subscription from $16/mo yearly, not in the site price

Takes paymentsDeposits and payments online, not just a contact form.

Every plan takes cards and invoices; Basic skims 2% on store sales, Core 0%

SEO basicsSo people searching your trade in your town can actually find you.

You edit page titles and descriptions; sitemap and SSL are handled for you

Domain & hostingWhat is bundled versus billed on top.

Hosting and SSL included; yearly plans get a free domain for the first year

How Squarespace compares

WordPress

Alternatives to Squarespace

Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.

GoDaddy Website Builder

A point-and-click site builder from the company most trades already bought their domain from, so the website, the domain and a matching email address all sit on one bill, with appointment booking on the middle plan and up.Free plan, then Basic $9.99/mo, Premium $14.99, Commerce $20.99 paid yearly

Wix

A drag-and-drop website builder with a built-in booking calendar, so a trade owner can get a simple site online without hiring a developer and let customers request or book a job straight from the page.Free plan, then Light $17/mo, Core $29, Business $39, Elite $159 paid yearly

FieldPulse

A growing mid-tier field-service platform pitched as a step up from starter apps without enterprise cost.About $99/mo for 1-3 users, up to ~$399/mo at 10+ users

GorillaDesk

Field-service software popular with pest-control and lawn-care operators.From about $49/mo (Basic), priced per route

Housecall Pro

Field-service management for home-service trades, strong on dispatching, service agreements, and customer marketing.$59/mo (Basic, billed annually)

Jobber

Simple, well-liked field-service software for solo operators and small crews.$29/mo (Core, 1 user, billed annually)

ServiceM8

Low-cost, iOS-first field-service app aimed at sole traders and very small crews.From ~$29/mo (Starter, 50 jobs/mo); free plan up to 30 jobs

WordPress

The free open source software most web designers build on, which gives a trade owner a site they fully own and can extend with plugins for booking, quotes and reviews, as long as somebody keeps it hosted, updated and backed up.Software is free, but a real site runs about $5 to $30/mo once hosting renews

How we research this

Pricing comes from Squarespace's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.