Squarespace Add-Ons and Extensions and - What is Your Website Missing?
Squarespace add-ons and extensions offer a world of possibilities for enhancing the functionality and design of your website. From customized merchandise, seamless shipping and taxes, to advanced marketing options, Squarespace add-ons empower you to create a unique and immersive online experience for your visitors. Let’s take a look at some of the best ones.
Merchandise, Drop-Shipping and Print-on-Demand
Printful - free (our favorite)
Squarespace and Printful make it simple to start selling high-quality, custom products without having to create or store excess merchandise - it is truly Print-on-Demand. With over 400 premium products to choose from, Printful eliminates waste and overproduction: products are created and shipped out by Printful when an order comes in so you never have to hold onto extra inventory or packaging. Just upload your logo, choose your products to sell, and go! Click here to see Printful in action.
Printify - free (a close second)
Access hundreds of high-quality blank products to customize and sell on your website. We manage production, quality assurance, and speedy shipping around the globe right to your customers' doorstep.
Use our integration to seamlessly publish and manage your listings from anywhere.
Printique - free
Sell premium photo products featuring your images printed with state-of-the-art technology on the highest-quality materials. We handle production and white-label (unbranded) shipping when you receive orders to give you the flexibility of offering a variety of product options without the worry of managing inventory. You have full control over the products, sizes, images and crops you want to sell.
Sprocket - starting at $24.99/month
Spocket is a dropshipping platform with global pre-vetted suppliers primarily from the USA, Europe, and Asia. You'll be able to build a competitive advantage through a vast range of quality products with faster shipping and higher profit margins. Seamlessly push products to your Squarespace store and start building your brand with branded invoicing.
Art of Where - free
Design your custom printed products made on-demand. Create your own leggings, silk scarves, t-shirts, handbags, notebooks and more! Send them to your store, and earn profits while they handle all production and shipping.
Shipping and Fulfillment
ShipStation - starting at $9.99/month (our favorite)
ShipStation is a leading e-commerce shipping software that simplifies the order fulfillment process for online businesses. With its user-friendly interface and robust features, ShipStation enables merchants to seamlessly integrate their online stores and marketplaces, manage orders, and efficiently ship products to customers across the globe. From batch processing to automated workflows, ShipStation streamlines the shipping workflow, saving businesses time and effort. Its powerful analytics and reporting tools provide valuable insights into shipping performance and costs, empowering businesses to make informed decisions and optimize their operations.
Shippo - $0.05/label
Shippo is a highly efficient and user-friendly shipping platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to streamline their shipping processes. With a robust set of features and integrations, Shippo simplifies the entire shipping experience, from label creation to tracking and fulfillment. Shippo's intuitive dashboard provides businesses with real-time shipping rates, ensuring they can select the most cost-effective and reliable carrier for their shipments.
Finance
TaxJar - starting at $0.00/month (our favorite)
With their user-friendly software and extensive knowledge of sales tax laws, TaxJar simplifies the complexities of tax compliance. Their platform seamlessly integrates with popular e-commerce platforms and marketplaces, making it effortless for businesses to collect, report, and file sales tax accurately. TaxJar's advanced features, such as state nexus analysis and tax rate calculations, ensure businesses remain compliant in an ever-changing tax landscape.
QuickBooks Online Connector - free
Designed for businesses who sell only through their Squarespace store, QuickBooks Connector allows you to easily connect sales and stock data to your QuickBooks Online account to automate accounting. Save hours of manually entering invoices, customers, and products across apps.
FreshBooks - starting at $15/month
Everything You and Your Accountant Need…and More. Balancing your books, client relationships, and business isn’t easy. FreshBooks gives you the info and time you need to focus on your big picture: your business, team, and clients. Automatically sync your clients, items, and orders from all your stores and businesses to FreshBooks, ensuring your business and accounting information is consolidated.
Email Marketing
Email Campaigns - starting at $5/month (our favorite)
Email Campaigns makes it easy to send emails that look like an extension of your website and brand. Transform any template to match your site by applying site colors, fonts, and logo with the click of a button. Create content quickly by importing products and blog posts into your email.
MailChimp - starting at $0/month (our other favorite)
Create targeted email campaigns to recommend products and motivate your customers to buy again. Nurture customer relationships with custom automations. Mailchimp can help you optimize your marketing and acquire new customers through digital ads, social media posting, postcards, and other powerful marketing tools.
Other Great Tools
LiveChat - starting at $20/month (our favorite)
LiveChat lets you communicate with your customers in real-time as well as asynchronously. It comes equipped with essential analytics, support, and sales tools that you’ll appreciate in your everyday work.
Contact visitors through popular platforms like Messenger, WhatsApp, Apple Messages for Business, SMS, and emails, assign your agents and chatbots to specific channels, and nurture customers with personalized messages, precise surveys, and a real-time preview of their browsing history.
Wetlot - starting at $0/month
Weglot allows businesses to add 110+ languages to their Squarespace websites in minutes. Without the need for cover pages or duplicate websites, Weglot automatically detects, translates and displays the content of your site under language subdomains.
Progressier - starting at $15/month
Make your website an app! Progressier turns your Squarespace site into a stunning Progressive Web App (PWA) — making it installable on any iPhone, iPad, Android device, Mac, or PC. Take advantage of the power of push notifications to actively engage your users and customers. Progressier's intuitive dashboard allows you to effortlessly send promotional messages to your audience.
Sprout - $0.50/use (best eco-conscious extension)
Embed tree planting in your store, and plant trees with each product sold or each order completed and showcase your positive impact through no-code marketing badges. Revive natural habitats, improve coral reef health, and fight against climate change. Pay only for trees you plant, $0.50 per tree.
Business Tools
Swyft Filings - starting at $0.00
Start an LLC, Corp, or Nonprofit. Their process is simple, fast, and affordable. They handle the paperwork so that your business is set up the correct way, saving you time and money by avoiding costly errors. If you have questions during the process, their Business Specialists are available via phone, email, and chat.
Rocket Lawyer - $19.99/month paid annually
Get the job done with legally sound contracts that you can make and electronically sign from anywhere your business takes you. Easily customize your documents on the go and sign in seconds. Power up your business with trusted corporate and employment documents and affordable attorney advice, business formation, and tax services.
Summary
Every small business owner is a hero to me. Unless you own a small business yourself, it is not easy to see the time, effort, and sacrifice needed to make that business successful. But I get it. Like all other small business owners, we are the CEO, CFO, COO, and CIO. We are the sales and marketing team, the development and visionary team, the accountant, the IT department, the customer service rep, the admin assistant, and the receptionist. And all that is on top of our actual business: offering a service or product and doing it better than our competitors.
Not every business owner has the time or expertise to create a professional website and write relevant content consistently, not to mention the knowledge to utilize SEO or social media to its fullest extent.
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