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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.

Squarespace is proud to reveal its 10th Super Bowl campaign directed by Martin Scorsese. The 30-second spot, titled 'Hello Down There’, will run during the first half of Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, 2024. 

Squarespace helps millions of entrepreneurs worldwide succeed and, for the first time ever, the platform has been tapped by extraterrestrials looking to capture the attention of the billions of earthlings below. 

Directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese, ‘Hello Down There’ is a humorous take on capturing the essence of human life consumed by the digital world. As the spot opens, people around the world are so preoccupied by the normal barrage of digital content that they miss the bold attempts by extraterrestrials to make contact. The intergalactic visitors become increasingly frustrated, until they decide to leverage Earth’s best tool for standing out and getting noticed – a beautiful Squarespace website. 

Leveraging the Squarespace platform, the extraterrestrials secured a domain and built a beautiful and unique website using Fluid Engine™, the simplest way to express creativity online. Creating their website was the first step in making their dream of intergalactic connection a reality. A website made them discoverable; it made them real. 

“At my age, it's a stretch finding a directorial debut. When Squarespace first approached me to create a spot, I thought this was my shot,” said Martin Scorsese. “Let's go big, let's do something out of this world – space guys building a website. I'm a New Yorker. We're busy, always on the move. Would we even notice extraterrestrials living among us? It's going to launch on this show called Super Bowl? Supposed to be big!”

“At Squarespace, we have always said that an idea isn’t real until you make a website for it,” said David Lee, Chief Creative Officer at Squarespace. “It’s been an honor to work alongside the cinematic legend Martin Scorsese to bring this insight to life through his lens for our 10th Super Bowl campaign. Our focus on design and creativity has always been at the heart of our business and the reason why people choose us – and nothing illustrates this more than our Super Bowl campaigns.” 

The Super Bowl advertisement is at the center of a broader marketing campaign that aims to highlight the legitimizing effect of having a professional web presence. In addition to the game day spot, the campaign includes a comprehensive global content marketing campaign leading up to, and following, the game that will be promoted across digital and social channels throughout the first half of 2024. Additional elements of the campaign include an extended version of the in-game spot, special edition movie posters, as well as additional video content, including a comedic short film featuring Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca Scorsese discussing the creation of a Squarespace website. Francesca also directed a behind-the-scenes look at the in-spot production process.

As part of the campaign, Squarespace launched a new special edition website template Hello Down There built on Fluid Engine™ that features a sci-fi inspired design system and offers dynamic commerce features, including an online store front, courses, and appointment-based bookings via Acuity Scheduling. 

For anyone looking to turn their out of this world idea or business into reality, a website makes it real. Whether an entrepreneur or extraterrestrial, Squarespace has all the tools you need to stand out and succeed. From securing your domain, building a beautiful and integrated online presence, and running your business, Squarespace makes it easier than ever to get started.

To learn more about the campaign or build a website using the customized Hello Down There template, click here. 

As we prepare for the new year, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything we have accomplished in 2023. It has been a landmark year for us – we celebrated our 20th anniversary, and released some of the biggest advancements to our commerce product to date. We are proud of our continuous work building products to help entrepreneurs stand out and succeed, and are incredibly grateful for the millions of customers choosing Squarespace. 

Take a look at some of the most exciting moments from 2023:

Celebrated our 20th Anniversary: We celebrated 20 incredible years on the web. From our culture of innovation to shaping technology, we have come a long way from a publishing tool to an entire suite of products for entrepreneurs. It’s incredible what we have accomplished over the last two decades. You can explore our journey through a timeline celebrating pivotal moments in our history. 

Launched Squarespace Domains, Welcomed Google Domains customers: Following our landmark acquisition of Google Domains assets this year, we are welcoming millions of new Google Domains customers to our platform. To support these customers, we relaunched Squarespace Domains with a more complete domain management experience, well-suited to provide domain-first customers a seamless experience.  

Launched Squarespace Refresh 2023: Our annual compilation of new products, features, and updates for a future where everyone can be an entrepreneur. This year’s Refresh showcased updates that span all of Squarespace's brands and platforms including Acuity Scheduling, Squarespace Payments, Squarespace AI, Courses, Client Invoicing, Bio Sites Pro, and Squarespace Domains, in addition to new ways to grow and scale with Enterprise and Tock. 

Launched Squarespace Payments: Central to our 2023 product releases was the launch of Squarespace Payments, which closes the gap for millions of customers seeking an integrated, secure way to transact seamlessly on a single online platform. The native payment solution enables merchants to collect money for goods and services directly, without having to integrate an external payment processor. In extending our beautiful design to transaction interfaces, we believe Squarespace Payments provides a better user experience for end users and customers, creating a seamless experience at every stop. The Payment solution will work seamlessly with other Squarespace offerings, such as email marketing tools and the scheduling platform.

Launched Squarespace Blueprint: We believe design is the ultimate competitive advantage, and this year, we introduced Squarespace Blueprint to help customers unlock endless design possibilities with more than a billion combinations to build a unique online presence. The interactive design experience features expert guidance, handpicked layouts and styles, live preview and progress bar, and more. When starting a new site with Blueprint, customers can now leverage AI in the onboarding phase to produce core site copy early on.

Launched Award Winning Creative Work: Our award-winning in-house Creative team continued to push the limits of creative excellence through innovative and dynamic campaigns. We produced global campaigns with renowned talent including Super Bowl with Adam Driver (The Singularity), a social campaign with Joseph Lee (The Artist and the Actor), and ran localized campaigns across international key markets such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France and Australia. The team received multiple Fast Company Innovation by Design awards, won two Webby Awards, and our Super Bowl commercial was one of the most awarded of the year, winning top honors at ADC, AICP, Cannes Lions, Ciclope, D&AD and the One Show.

Launched Squarespace Collection: We launched the latest installment in our Squarespace Collection program in partnership with trailblazing photography collective Magnum Photos. For this campaign, we partnered with six of Magnum's world renowned photographers to capture original imagery from across the world. The results came together in a one-of-a-kind photography project, which includes six signature website designs inspired by each photographer’s creativity and the design choices they made for their own Squarespace websites. 

Continued Globalization of Our Suite of Products: In a testament to Squarespace's continuous commitment to supporting entrepreneurs globally, we increased our currency options 5x, which, alongside our growing support languages, bolsters our ability to support our international customers. We are excited to continue empowering a broader community of entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed no matter where they are, further solidifying Squarespace's position as a global web-building leader.

Brought Pro Users Together for Our 2nd Annual Circle Day: Circle Day is a hybrid event dedicated to giving our Circle community, Squarespace’s partner program for professional web designers, behind-the-scenes product access and first-hand knowledge from some of Squarespace Circle’s most influential members. This year, we extended the conference to two days, adding a Member Workshop Day where attendees got to experience using the Courses product and develop their own "course" with fellow Circle members. Our CEO, Anthony Casalena, joined us this year for a Q&A and our Chief Creative Officer, David Lee, wrapped the conference discussing creativity and how to stay inspired.

Held Our Annual Hack Weeks & Design Weeks: At Squarespace, we celebrate creative possibilities. There is no greater example of this commitment at work than our annual Hack Week and Design Week, where members of the Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design departments have the opportunity to investigate creative concepts, freeing themselves to work on anything they want. 

Celebrated the 10 Year Anniversary of Dublin Office: We celebrated the 10th anniversary of launching Squarespace’s office in Dublin, Ireland in July 2013. In honor of this occasion we hosted various games, activities, and events such as Squarespace Olympics, video game tournaments and an in person happy hour for all employees in Ireland.  

Achieved Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies & Other Global Recognition: We are continuously humbled to be recognized as a best in class organization in various areas including being employer of choice, the excellence of our customer support team, our impeccable in-house creative work, or as an accelerating business. In 2023 alone Squarespace won over 25 awards and recognitions, including a Fast Company Award for Most Innovative Companies and Comparably’s Best Places to Work in New York.

We thank our customers and employees who continuously push us to be the best company we can be. We can’t wait to share more about what is in store for Squarespace in 2024. Stay tuned! 

We are excited to introduce Squarespace Refresh 2023, our annual release of new products, features, and updates in support of a future where everyone can be an entrepreneur. Many of the innovations launched in 2023 are designed to help entrepreneurs sell, and represent the biggest advancements in commerce since we launched two decades ago. 

Central to the 2023 product releases is the upcoming launch of Squarespace Payments, which will close the gap for millions of customers seeking an integrated, secure way to transact seamlessly on a single online platform. Currently in Beta, Squarespace Payments will roll out to customers in the U.S. in the coming months and launch in additional markets in 2024. This powerful payment solution will let you accept payments directly through Squarespace instead of having to connect a third-party payment provider. You will have complete control over your finances and easily manage payments, payouts and view refunds, disputes, and charges, all within a centralized dashboard. The simple signup process, intuitive onboarding experience, and access to Squarespace’s award-winning customer support team, will ensure you can begin securely transacting on Squarespace Payments within minutes. 

Squarespace Payments

In addition, we continue to make enhancements to Squarespace AI, a custom combination of Generative AI solutions aimed at helping you build an integrated online presence faster and easier than ever before. The initial focus of our new AI-powered technology is to help with a major pain point: content readiness, with new features that help you draft polished and professional website content. 

“Today’s entrepreneurs want a frictionless experience, more ways to sell, superior design and better outcomes when it comes to building a presence and running a business online,” said Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace. “We continue to push the boundaries in what is possible, placing more powerful and dynamic tools in the hands of entrepreneurs worldwide. Our 2023 Refresh unveils incredible new ways to maximize success online, from the integration of Squarespace Payments, expansion of Domains, and the introduction of dozens of new tools and features that allow anyone to more easily monetize and sell online.” 

New products and features launching include:

New ways to sell: Tools to help you earn income, easily create additional income streams, and own your content. 

Squarespace Payments: Our new, native payment solution offers a fast and secure payment option for everyone selling on Squarespace. The new payments tool is easily accessible with a simple onboarding experience. 

Client Invoicing: With Client Invoicing, you can manage your business all on Squarespace – from vetting leads to receiving payment via invoices in one streamlined, customizable workflow. New tools include: 

Client intake forms & CRM: Capture important information from potential clients with intake forms and organize those details in Squarespace’s updated CRM.

Invoices: Collect payments from your clients with professional invoices that match your website brand identity.

Project tracking: Manage your client information, invoices, and tasks in one place with our project functionality.

Courses: Easily turn your expertise into income with a professional online course powered by Fluid Engine™, that is complete with beautiful course layouts, video lessons, progress tracking, and more. 

Commerce tools: Expanded commerce tools make it easier than ever for you to sell physical and digital products, including: fulfillment profiles, checkout improvements, shipping labels order tracking, UPS® shipping labels, improvements to subscriptions, shop page and product listing enhancements, and a new add-to-cart feature. 

Acuity Scheduling: Advancements in platform technologies and new branding celebrates Acuity’s core promise of never letting scheduling get in the way of success. Platform updates help streamline the client booking experience, making it more intuitive for clients to book appointments. Additional features include a new centralized dashboard, enhanced mobile app tools like mobile payment links, and payment features such as automated email receipts, hassle-free invoice creation and management. 

Email Marketing: Convert your site visitors into repeat customers with updated email marketing tools, including enhanced email automations, seasonal email templates, and an editable discount field that helps convert site visitors into repeat customers.

New ways to stand out online: Next-generation tools and technologies to help you easily create a unique brand and integrated experience across your online platforms. 

Squarespace Domains: A domain is the crucial starting point in your  journey to establishing an online presence. Squarespace is continuing to invest in building out our domains platform by adding new domains like .nz or .fr, introducing domain and email forwarding, and setting up bulk domain management, as well as overhauling the domains dashboard to emphasize simplicity in domain management.

Squarespace AI: Introducing new AI-powered tools that make it easier than ever to generate custom content. Squarespace AI helps populate nearly-final content on your websites, bringing you  much closer to a finished website product. Squarespace AI is available within the website text editor, Email Campaigns, Commerce stores, and Squarespace Blueprint to help you efficiently specialize your content to ensure it reflects your unique brand identity. 

Bio Sites Pro: We have expanded Bio Sites, beautiful one-page link-in-bio sites for social media, with the launch of Bio Sites Pro. The Pro tier offers premium features for you to have deeper customization, engagement, and monetization capabilities. The Bio Sites web editor option is also now available, which offers an easier way to create and update Bio Sites from any web browser.

Expanded Extensions: We added a dozen new Extensions to expand the functionality of our platform.

New Ways to Scale: Expanded tools to support businesses of all sizes and types as they mature and scale.

Enterprise: Updates help global brands scale their online presence efficiently and securely while maintaining brand integrity. New tools allow enterprise teams to easily collaborate on web page drafts and offer enhanced protection to keep internal sites secure through single sign on.

Tock: New and improved solutions for superior hospitality management. 

Enhanced User System: Search, discover, and book reservations easier than ever with Tock’s new iOS app. In addition, the new integration of Reserve with Google helps Tock customers drive more visibility, revenue, and covers.

Platform updates: New features include multiple start times for events, table prioritization to customize which tables get booked first, variable ticket types, and pricing for events. Credit card holds, to help reduce no shows, will be launching soon.

“We are excited to expand our platform with more tools for service sellers, a thriving and growing community of online entrepreneurs looking to turn their knowledge into ownable content and income," said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer at Squarespace. “We have built one of the most comprehensive suites of tools for anyone looking to sell online whether it be their time, services, and expertise, or physical products.” 

Squarespace Collection: Magnum Photos Contact Sheet

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In addition, we introduced the second edition of Squarespace Collection (formerly Squarespace Icons), our award-winning partnership series, with famed photography agency Magnum Photos. For this collaboration, we partnered with six of Magnum’s world renowned photographers to capture original imagery from across the world. The results came together in a one-of-a-kind photography project, which includes six signature website designs built on Fluid Engine™. Each design is inspired by the photographer’s creative vision and the design choices for their own Squarespace websites, and are available as a starting point for anyone looking to build a website with Squarespace. As part of the series, all six photographers will provide a limited number of one-on-one photography portfolio critiques, available by signing up via Acuity Scheduling*. Find more information on the latest Squarespace Collection, including access to the new website designs here. 

To learn more about our latest innovations, visit Squarespace Refresh here.  

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