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Squarespace and Perplexity today announced a strategic partnership that reimagines how businesses launch and grow in an AI-powered internet. As part of the collaboration, Squarespace will serve as the website building and hosting partner for Perplexity’s browser, Comet, helping businesses move seamlessly from creation to discoverability and engagement.

Through this partnership, Comet users can seamlessly transition from AI-powered research to professional business building—getting guidance on domain registration, brand development, and design recommendations directly through Comet's conversational interface. Squarespace also offers AI tools that simplify business management and, through its suite of AI optimization (AIO) tools, enhance website discoverability.

"When someone discovers a business through AI-powered search, that first impression needs to be flawless,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer at Squarespace. “Our partnership with Perplexity helps guide anyone creating a website towards our best in class platform, ensuring their sites not only get found in modern answer engines, but also that they stand out when visitors arrive at their site directly.”

"Perplexity and Squarespace share a vision of technology that amplifies human potential rather than complicating it," said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. "Squarespace doesn't just build websites—it’s also an AI-driven platform for businesses. This partnership ensures that as Comet transforms how people explore the internet, the businesses they discover are equipped to deliver exceptional experiences from the first interaction."

The partnership is now live in Comet, representing the first step in a long-term collaboration focused on reimagining how businesses succeed in an AI-powered era. Get started here.

Today, Squarespace announced Refresh 2025. The annual release of new products, features, and updates is designed to help modern entrepreneurs stand out and thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. 

For more than two decades, Squarespace has set the standard in web design, anticipating shifts in how people authentically show up online. Refresh 2025 builds on this legacy by pairing trusted design expertise with AI-powered innovation and personalized business guidance to provide entrepreneurs with everything they need to create professional websites, increase visibility, and manage every aspect of their venture with ease.

For more than two decades, Squarespace has set the standard in web design, anticipating shifts in how people authentically show up online. Refresh 2025 builds on this legacy by pairing trusted design expertise with AI-powered innovation and personalized business guidance to provide entrepreneurs with everything they need to create professional websites, increase visibility, and manage every aspect of their venture with ease.

Featured in this year’s Refresh is Squarespace Beacon AI, an AI-powered business partner that guides entrepreneurs through the most critical parts of running a business, from streamlining content and listing creation to driving sales, and marketing automation. Whether planning a product launch or identifying new growth opportunities, Squarespace Beacon AI provides recommendations at every step.

As AI-driven search trends transform how consumers discover businesses, Squarespace has expanded its longstanding SEO tooling with a new suite of AI Optimization (AIO) tools. These tools provide structured guidance to help businesses improve both traditional and AI-related visibility and search rankings without compromising their design integrity. 

Squarespace has also launched Finish Layer, a suite of expressive design capabilities—animations, transforms, and advanced editing—that turn websites into immersive experiences with professional-grade customization. Design remains a key differentiator and trust signal for modern businesses, and Finish Layer helps them break through the noise.

"At Squarespace, we know entrepreneurs are navigating a complex digital landscape and looking for guidance on how to get discovered and grow,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer at Squarespace. “With Refresh 2025, we are expanding our product suite by combining design expertise with AI-powered tools to make it easier to run a business while maintaining an authentic brand."

Highlights of what is available today and coming soon include: 

Design Differently

Design tools to help entrepreneurs stand out in a crowded digital world.

Blueprint AI expansion: More ways to use Squarespace’s AI-powered design partner, including a set of designer-made templates with embedded, curated content that instantly adapts to one's industry and intent. Soon, users can get started via chat by describing their vision to generate tailored imagery, copy, and design recommendations. 

Squarespace GPT: Accessible from the ChatGPT Store, this guided experience offers another pathway to start building a more personalized website with Blueprint AI and continue designing in the Squarespace platform.

AI-Powered Image and Video Backgrounds: New libraries of premium-quality, AI-generated website background assets that support one's creative vision.

Finish Layer: Intuitive, designer-level editing and styling controls such as interactive block animations to bring content to life, customizable block transforms for added visual depth, and new editing capabilities that simplify workflows. Users can also optimize for views across devices and import external fonts for brand consistency.

Scale Your Business

Business management solutions to help businesses drive results and scale with ease. 

Squarespace Beacon AI: An AI-powered business partner that provides step-by-step guidance across the Squarespace platform to optimize setup, streamline management, and accelerate growth. 

AIO Scanner: A tracker that reviews mentions across AI platforms like ChatGPT, delivers a personalized report, and makes recommendations for increasing visibility. 

SEO Scanner: A scanner that audits website content and suggests optimized titles, descriptions, and image alt text to boost traditional and AI-driven search rankings.

AI Site Scanner: A scanner that will detect broken links and other website inefficiencies, providing quick-fix recommendations to enhance site performance and improve the visitor experience.

AI Product Composer: A tool to generate detailed, professional product and service listings with AI, starting from a short description or an image.

AI Discount Composer: AI-powered discount recommendations that can be instantly applied to drive sales without compromising profitability or brand integrity. 

AI FAQ Composer: A personalized, design-friendly FAQ builder to answer customers’ top questions and boost AI search visibility.

Squarespace Domains: Advanced security features, an expanded suite of TLDs, and simplified collaboration tools make it easier to style domain landing pages and stand out at every stage. 

Financial Solutions*: An expanded suite of financial tools and services focused on supporting business growth and ease of use, including:

Squarespace Balance: An all-in-one, Squarespace-hosted financial account for same-day earnings, rewards, and business spending cards.

Squarespace Capital: A funding program that helps small businesses access fast, flexible financing. 

Instant Payouts & Pay Links: Faster ways to cash out and collect customer payments, enabling more direct access to earnings.

Commerce: Features that make it easier to sell products, offer services, manage operations, and collect donations—from eye-catching listings for events and experiences and smarter invoicing workflows, to automated tax handling and customizable follow-up forms.

Marketing Tools: Tools to communicate with customers more effectively, including AI-generated campaigns that draft content in a brand’s voice, automations that enable time-saving, and customizable emails to trigger based on actions someone takes on your website. 

Acuity Scheduling: New tools that make it easier to create a cohesive brand experience and simplify client checkout. A style editor automatically applies website design choices to scheduling pages, while updated point-of-sale features handle deposits, balances, tipping, and more.

Bio Sites: Additional ways to generate income by charging for access to guides, sheets, and other content, plus native, bookable appointments empowering creators and brands to monetize their schedules.

To learn more about the latest innovations announced at Refresh 2025, visit Squarespace.com/refresh.

*Squarespace partners with Stripe Payments Company for money transmission services and account services with funds held at Fifth Third Bank, N.A., member FDIC. Squarespace Capital loans and Squarespace Balance commercial cards are powered by Stripe and issued by Celtic Bank, and YouLend provides merchant cash advances serviced by Stripe. All financing applications are subject to credit approval.

We are excited to announce a new professional-grade experience that brings together advanced design capabilities, productivity features, and business management solutions. Unveiled during Squarespace’s annual Circle Day gathering, Squarespace for Pros represents the company’s most significant investment to date in supporting professional designers and agencies.

Key Components of Squarespace for Pros

Finish Layer Design Tools
Transform websites into immersive experiences with a professional-grade design toolkit built directly into Squarespace. Finish Layer introduces interactive block animations that bring content to life, customizable block transforms like opacity, rotation, and offset to reinforce storytelling, and new editing capabilities that simplify workflows. Designers can also optimize for mobile views with greater control across devices and can now import external fonts for complete brand consistency.

Integrated Practice Management
A unified backend that simplifies project oversight, client collaboration, and day-to-day workflows that help professionals stay focused, scale efficiently, and deliver exceptional client experiences.

Integrated Commerce & Client Tools
Squarespace offers built-in scheduling, payments, invoicing, and more — bringing the same creative freedom used to design websites directly into how you showcase your products and services, without the headache or expense of needing to stitch together multiple systems.

Circle, the Partner Program for Pros
Expanded tiers, perks, and resources reward freelancers and agencies with commissions, discounts, and exclusive benefits. A new Circle dashboard brings everything into one place —from membership status, points, and referral payments to product updates, community conversations, and curated insights.

"With Squarespace for Pros, we’re giving creative professionals the ecosystem they deserve, one that delivers advanced design, animation and commerce capabilities for experts while remaining intuitive and approachable for their clients," said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer at Squarespace.

Circle Day, now in its fourth year, provided the ideal stage for this debut. Themed “Design Differently,” the event brought together freelancers, agencies, and industry leaders to celebrate the creativity and impact of professional designers — underscoring Squarespace’s continued commitment to serving this community.

For more information about Squarespace for Pros, visit squarespace.com/professionals. To join Squarespace’s Circle partner program, visit squarespace.com/circle.

We are pleased to introduce Squarespace Capital, a new way for entrepreneurs to access fast, flexible funding to support their growing businesses. Whether expanding locations, launching a new product, hiring additional staff, or investing in marketing, eligible sellers can use Squarespace Capital to support their evolving needs. 

Built to work seamlessly for sellers, the Squarespace Capital experience is simple and designed to deliver financing in just a few days, pending approval. Unlike traditional financing sources that involve lengthy applications, fixed repayment schedules, and collateral requirements, Squarespace Capital provides an intuitive, streamlined experience.

“For over two decades, Squarespace has built tools to help entrepreneurs easily start, scale, and sustain their businesses,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer. “With the launch of Squarespace Payments in 2023, we laid the foundation for a more robust commerce ecosystem. Squarespace Capital is a natural next step, expanding our support to provide access to the critical financial infrastructure businesses need to grow.”

The Squarespace Capital program has become one of the fastest adopted products in our portfolio with early recipients spanning a wide range of industries and business types, including health & beauty, home and trades services, professional consultants, camps and after-school programs, non-profits and membership-based organizations, and retail stores, among others. 

We also recently introduced Instant Payouts, giving businesses the ability to transfer earnings to their bank accounts within minutes. Together, Squarespace Capital and Instant Payouts provide a flexible, integrated financial solution to support immediate or longer-term business needs. 

Squarespace Capital is currently available to eligible* customers, with financing provided in the U.S. by Celtic Bank and in the U.K. by YouLend. Squarespace Capital is powered by Stripe. Further international expansion is planned for 2025. Instant Payouts is available to eligible** customers in the U.S., U.K., and Eurozone. Learn more about Squarespace Capital, Instant Payments, and Squarespace Payments here.  

* eligibility requirements for Squarespace Capital can be found here

** eligibility requirements for Instant Payouts can be found here

 Squarespace is proud to unveil its 11th Super Bowl campaign starring acclaimed actor Barry Keoghan. The 30-second spot, titled ‘A Tale As Old As Websites’, will air between the first and second quarters of Super Bowl LIX on February 9, 2025. 

As a pioneer of modern websites, Squarespace has played a defining role in shaping how people bring their businesses to life online – and in encouraging them to do so. This campaign, directed by Steve Rogers, seamlessly blends the old with the new, bringing to life a world where Squarespace’s platform existed long before its time, empowering people to transform their skills into thriving businesses online. 

Set in a bygone era in Ireland, the humorous tale showcases how Squarespace’s intuitive tools allow everyone – no matter the time or place – to turn their ideas into reality. As Barry spreads the Squarespace word across the countryside, he inspires established businesses like Daly’s Bar and aspiring entrepreneurs like the Shepherd to elevate their digital presence and expand their reach with a beautiful and intuitive website. 

“I’m a very proud Irish lad so bringing this campaign to life with Squarespace and shooting it against the beautiful backdrop of Ireland was incredible,” said Barry Keoghan. “Squarespace has always made incredible advertisements with such top tier filmmakers, actors and actresses, so to have a chance to work with Steve Rogers and the amazing crew and people was special. Steve has done a brilliant job showcasing Squarespace in a very slick and cool narrative and I am excited for people to see. It also gave me a chance to work with a donkey again too!”

The Super Bowl spot is the centerpiece of a broader campaign designed to inspire viewers to embrace the opportunities in front of them. Beyond the game-day ad, the campaign includes an extended version of the spot, additional shorts of Barry helping local businesses get online, and Barry and Mosley – a comedic film in which Barry helps create a website for his co-star, Don Mosley. The campaign celebrates Squarespace’s enduring impact on the evolution of the internet and the possibilities it unlocks for everyone.  

“For nearly as long as there have been websites, there’s been Squarespace,” said David Lee, Chief Creative Officer at Squarespace. “This year’s Super Bowl campaign is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of what could have been if Squarespace existed in another era – one where websites were delivered door-to-door like newspapers. It’s a celebration of Squarespace’s legacy, blending humor and filmic storytelling to inspire anyone who's ever thought about bringing an idea to life online.” 

The campaign also features a dedicated Mosley website design to help aspiring entrepreneurs get noticed online. Inspired by the website Barry helps make for his beloved donkey in Barry and Mosley, the template includes everything needed to establish a standout digital presence, including advanced layouts, animations, a portfolio, and appointment booking through Acuity Scheduling. 

By combining cutting-edge technology with thoughtful design, Squarespace empowers millions of individuals and businesses with the tools needed to succeed. To learn more about Squarespace or build a website using the Mosley website design, click here. 

We’re proud to announce that after the acquisition of the Google Domains business last year, Squarespace has successfully completed the migration of millions of domains. We worked closely with the Google team to make the migration as seamless as possible, and expanded Squarespace Domains to provide an upgraded, industry-leading service, for all customers. Beyond the migration, we’ve deepened our long-standing partnership with Google by integrating services like Cloud DNS into our Domains offering and continuing to offer private, professional email from Google Workspace. We remain committed to providing all customers, both migrated and new, with a completely independent registrar experience for hosting domains, regardless of whether they use other Squarespace services. 

Since launching Squarespace Domains eight years ago, we’ve become one of the leading global domain registrars, and we’re continuing to invest in building our best-in-class platform. Over the last year, we’ve made significant updates, including a redesigned Domains dashboard, that makes it easier for users to manage their domain. In addition to our updated feature offerings, we’ve also added more than 100 top-level domains (TLDs) this year. From in-demand technology domains like .dev and .ai, to our newest TLD .music for music professionals, we now offer over 360+ TLDs that support a variety of distinctive fields and industries. 

Migrated customers can continue to enjoy the premium service they’ve come to expect, with a full suite of tools included in every Squarespace Domain, at no extra cost:

Premium DNS powered by industry leading services, like Google Cloud DNS, provides secure and reliable connection and ensures domains always stay online.

End-to-end encryption protects and authenticates domains with DNS security extensions (DNSSEC).

A free SSL/TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt secures and safeguards website connections to protect from hackers and guarantee a trusted experience for website visitors.

Email forwarding capabilities allow users to create up to 100 email forwarding addresses that match their custom domain name. 

Domain forwarding capabilities allow users to forward domains to a preferred destination, including social media pages or Bio Sites.

Free WHOIS privacy keeps personal information private and protects users from unwanted spam. 

Spam-free parking pages are clean, professional-looking parking pages for domains, free of ads.

Two Factor Authentication protects access to domains at the account level and is a standard security offer with any Squarespace account.

With Squarespace, buying a domain name is a simple first step toward getting an idea off the ground. Plus, Squarespace provides all the tools and services customers need to take the next steps in building their brand. Whether that means building a website, adding professional email, integrating Acuity scheduling, or simply expanding their reach on social media with a Bio Site. Squarespace is committed to making it easier than ever to get online, invest in a dream, and make it real, all in one place.   

You can learn more about Squarespace Domains here. Additional support and resources can be accessed online here.

We are thrilled to unveil the fourth iteration of Squarespace Collection, a collaboration with Jeff Koons, one of the world’s most prominent working artists. Squarespace Collection is an award-winning partnership series in which Squarespace partners with the world's most creative minds to develop signature website designs. Jeff Koons joins Björk, Magnum Photos and Rick Rubin as contributors on inspired template designs, all featured alongside thousands of other options that inspire millions to get started on their own creative journey online through Squarespace. 

Koons collaborated with Squarespace to revamp his website,  jeffkoons.com, to showcase over four decades of his work online. Koons is well known for his Celebration series, notably the iconic “Balloon Dog,” one of the most photographed artworks in the world. This is the first time Koons’ complete works can be viewed in one place. The site serves as a chronological and archival representation of his illustrious career while also democratizing access for anyone to view his work online. The website’s design reflects Koons’ ethos of connection and accessibility, blending everyday images and objects to invite viewers to interpret and enjoy the art in their own way.

“I've enjoyed my collaboration with Squarespace designing a website that brings all my works to date together,” said Jeff Koons. “I was able to create with Squarespace a site that communicates visually, emotionally, and intellectually the way I see the world. This custom website design called Reflect will give the user the same power and dynamism to create their own visual story through the use of this template.”

Koons’ site inspired a new custom website template, Reflect, now available to all Squarespace customers. Reflect is built on boundary-pushing design structure and the functionality needed to house a modern portfolio. The new template offers a unique starting point for creatives and artists alike to showcase their work expressively through a bold approach to branding and display for projects. Reflect also leans on conventional viewing methods like gridded text, galleries and accordion blocks for the artworks, which allows the art to take center-stage without distraction. 

Squarespace’s award-winning Creative team, in collaboration with Jeff Koons, produced a short film, Inflate, to accompany the Collection. The team also created a separate short film showcasing the creative process behind building Koons' website. It was directed and produced in-house and shot at Jeff Koons’ studio in New York City.

“As one of the most influential visual artists of our time, Jeff’s work has inspired both our team and a global audience for decades,”  said David Lee, Chief Creative Officer. “Built on 20 years of design excellence, Squarespace shares Jeff’s ideology in democratizing access to design and art. His meticulous approach and impactful body of work are unmatched, and we hope this Collection inspires other artists and doers to showcase their portfolios and businesses online with Squarespace.”

The website design is available in six languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. You can find more information on the latest Squarespace Collection here and access to the new website design, Reflect, here. 

We are thrilled to announce Refresh 2024, our annual release of new products, features, and updates that empower entrepreneurs to unlock their creativity and take their business to the next level. 

As AI has become more prevalent, we are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs harness this technology to enhance their creativity and simplify their business operations so they can focus on their passions. We are excited to introduce Design Intelligence: a new approach to web design that combines cutting-edge technology, including AI, with two decades of industry-leading design expertise. Built on our belief that AI should unlock human creativity, not replace it, the Design Intelligence suite of features aims to support and amplify user’s creativity in building their personalized and unique online presence, tailored to their specific needs. 

As part of Design Intelligence, we have launched the next evolution of Blueprint AI, our first AI-powered website builder. Serving as a creative partner, Blueprint AI helps users create elevated, fully-bespoke websites through curated design and content  recommendations that reflect their individual brand identity. Blueprint AI supports users at every step of the website building process, from the initial onboarding experience to design and functionality stages. By incorporating core elements that make each brand unique—such as business type and preferred color palette—Blueprint AI helps create a beautiful, custom starting point for any entrepreneurial journey. Blueprint AI is now available globally in all languages.

"Squarespace champions the irreplaceable value of human creativity, and our latest platform innovations are designed to further empower entrepreneurs to easily bring their visions, brands, and businesses to life," said Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace. “It has been an incredible year of innovation at Squarespace as we combine the latest technologies with our deep rooted focus on design to deliver unmatched capabilities for customers globally.”

The latest tools and features highlighted in Refresh 2024 include: 

Make your mark 

The latest suite of design and content generation tools deliver a more personalized online presence, tailored to every brand profile and need.

Design Intelligence:

Blueprint AI: The next evolution of our guided website builder is enhanced with AI integrations that automatically create a standout website populated with curated and beautifully-designed imagery and copy, tailored to a customer's goals and brand personality.

Layout Switcher: An adaptive layout menu that enables faster website design experimentation—offering a set of flexible compositions with one's content automatically embedded, then applied instantly to a page.

Site Themes: One-click styling combinations that make it easier to preview and apply a new website aesthetic—via handpicked font pairings, color palettes, button styles and more, with recommendations aligned to a customer's brand personality.

Brand Identity Management: A central hub for crafting and storing one's unique brand identity that guides Squarespace’s AI writer to instantly generate first draft, on-brand copy populated across key surface areas, including website text, content descriptions, and client documents, among others.

Usability & Expressibility Tools: New updates to cookie banner functionality and compliance systems to enhance website privacy and protection on a global level. Plus, new pinning effects to create a more engaging website scrolling experience. 

Your business, your way

Built to support every type of business with an intuitive setup, management, monetization, payment, and marketing tools that help entrepreneurs establish their business effectively. 

Client invoicing: On-brand, professional documents like invoices, proposals, and contracts to help entrepreneurs easily secure and manage clients. Plus, tools to schedule document sends to automate a positive customer experience. With low-fee Automated Clearing House (ACH) direct deposit, clients can pay quickly and easily from a US bank account.

Squarespace Payments: An expanded native payment solution with exclusive payment options that improve conversion, like Klarna, now available in more countries. Squarespace Payments is available to customers in the US, Canada and the UK, with extended European availability coming soon. Customers can also now manage their finances in the Squarespace app for iOS and Android, with upcoming payout and processing summaries, payment and payout dashboards, and detailed views of each transaction.

Content & Memberships: New ways to monetize content, like charging for access to blog posts or videos, allow customers to turn their expertise into income. Entrepreneurs can provide website visitors a preview of their content, and then charge a one-time fee or recurring subscription for access to full blog posts and video libraries.

Donations: Enhanced tools to make collecting donations more efficient, including a new dashboard, support for recurring donations, and a streamlined donation process to help customers reach their fundraising goals faster.

Marketing Tools: An intuitive new experience for building automated email flows to give entrepreneurs total control over outbound marketing. Users can structure campaigns based on audience actions and custom rules, or browse existing templates to save time on customer communication, including thank you notes to first time buyers or discounts to new subscribers.

Business Guidance: New updates that make managing and growing every kind of business easier than ever, with dynamic dashboards, specialized analytics, custom navigation, and step-by-step setup guides that help customers succeed with customized guidance for their specific needs.

A platform that scales with you

An extended network of best-in-class digital solutions help anyone get more out of Squarespace as their brand or business grows.

Domains by Squarespace: As one the world’s largest domains registrars, we are continuing to invest in new features to support its millions of domain customers globally. The latest innovation, Domains Dashboard, offers an improved experience for configuring domain DNS settings, email or domain forwarding rules, and more, all from one place. Plus, a new Reseller API allows qualified reseller partners to earn commission on every domain registration.

Acuity Scheduling: A modernized appointment details page that makes it easier than ever to manage key actions: users can quickly contact clients, reschedule bookings, or initiate the checkout process directly from the streamlined interface. Acuity Scheduling also now features automated invoices generated directly from appointment details. These invoices can be customized before sending, ensuring a smooth and professional payment process that saves time and reduces administrative tasks.

Bio Sites: New releases help Bio Site users capture all of their content and interests in a single, social-friendly link. With the introduction of Product Links, Bio Sites offers a better way to turn followers into customers. Users can connect their Bio Site to their Squarespace store or manually import products from any digital storefront.

“Squarespace amplifies creative potential with an unmatched digital presence, tools to streamline business management, and support as users grow and scale,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer. “As we enter this new era of entrepreneurship, we're excited to launch these tools that will transform how entrepreneurs build, manage, and scale their businesses.” 

To learn more about all of the latest innovations we introduced in 2024, visit Refresh 2024.

Squarespace’s ecosystem is uniquely suited to support the diverse needs of today’s modern entrepreneurs. We are pleased to introduce tools specifically designed for entrepreneurs who sell services, such as photographers and event planners. New features include branded invoices, proposals, contracts, updates to client intake forms, and projects. This suite of tools allow sellers to easily expand their product offerings and streamline project management to efficiently support their clients’ needs and increase revenue.

“Squarespace is committed to building an ecosystem that offers multiple ways to sell online,” says Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer. “Today, a good portion of the sellers coming on our platform are service-based. As one of the few platforms providing comprehensive support to this growing class of entrepreneurs, we are focused on building tools that help them at every stage of their journey, including marketing a business, simplifying workflows, and getting paid.”

From getting hired, to managing project deadlines, and receiving payment via invoicing, the new tools include:

Invoices: Users can easily create and send beautiful, low-fee invoices, customized to match the look and feel of their brand and website style. They can also accept major debit and credit cards, Afterpay, Apple Pay, and other popular payment methods, as well as offer flexible and convenient checkout experience to maximize conversion with Squarespace Payments.

Proposals, Estimates, Contracts: Users can create and share a summary of services and align on contract terms in a beautiful, branded document. This provides a streamlined way to share a scope of work with clients, terms and fees, and capture client agreement before beginning work. 

Client intake forms: This tool allows users to capture important project information through an updated client intake form, and allow clients to to upload documents, images, presentations, audio, videos, and other file types. All information collected is securely stored in Squarespace, expediting the intake process and helping to get projects off the ground faster.

Projects: Now, users can manage client information, invoices, and tasks in one central place. They can create invoices, proposals, estimates, and contracts, as well as track the status of their invoices, project notes and milestones, and recent activity.

After completing a project, users can leverage Squarespace’s beautiful portfolio tools to showcase work on their website alongside their offered services. Users can also create and send Email Campaigns to promote special pricing or new offerings to existing clients and leads, and explore marketing tools like Unfold or Bio Sites to further promote their business.

Proposals, estimates, and contracts are available in English on Business and Commerce plans. All other features are available globally on any Squarespace plan. For more information on Client Invoicing, please visit our website. 

The number of people selling content online, from online courses to memberships to videos, is at an all-time-high and growing. Thousands of Squarespace customers created content to sell in the past year alone, and the number of entrepreneurs making money on our platform has increased by more than 50%.

To further help entrepreneurs monetize their content, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of new features designed to help them turn their passion into profit:

Turn blog readers into paying subscribers with blog paywalls

Starting today, anyone can turn articles into a passive income stream by adding a paywall to their blog. Squarespace customers can simply set the price, and choose whether to charge a one-time fee or recurring subscription. Readers will see a preview of the blog content, and then pay for access to unlock entire posts.

Earn recurring revenue by selling video subscriptions
Video creators can monetize content by charging for access to their video library, or by placing a paywall directly on a video player. They can also offer a selection of videos for free as a preview to attract potential subscribers. Their audience can explore titles, thumbnails, and descriptions of videos before deciding to purchase access to the full video content.

Bundle and tier content
Entrepreneurs can sell individual pieces of content, or bundle various content types together into complete packages. For example, a creator can bundle an online course with access to a blog, or pair a membership with access to a video library. They can also create tiered offerings, selling select content for a base price and setting a higher price for full access to their entire content library. 

“At Squarespace, we are building a versatile toolkit to make it effortless for the next generation of entrepreneurs and creators to get online, monetize their work and grow a business,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer at Squarespace. “Modern entrepreneurs are looking for a platform adaptable enough to bring all of their ideas and creativity to life. From writing articles, to posting video content and creating multimedia online courses – we are committed to lowering the barrier of entry for anyone looking to share their knowledge online.”

These latest features join our growing set of tools designed to help entrepreneurs unlock income on our platform. Anyone with a Squarespace Business or Commerce plan can access them through their existing Squarespace plan, and customers with a Squarespace Personal plan can access them by attaching the Digital Products Add-On plan to their subscription.

Additional Squarespace tools to capture audiences and monetize include online courses, memberships, and Squarespace Email Campaigns. To learn more about easy ways to monetize audiences and run businesses online, click here.