Squarespace Commerce Websites

Helpful information for site owners

There is real value in selling your products or services from your website. An optimized commerce website gives your business market reach, it’s a great marketing asset. The ease of receiving and managing transactions also adds value to your business and, importantly, saves you time.

As with any business decision, it’s important to know the costs of operating your website as an online shop. Information on this page includes:

Seller fees from online transactions

There are transaction fees for receiving customer payments.

Website hosting costs for a shopping site is higher than for a standard website without a payment facility enabled.

This page includes information about these costs, plus what you need to set up to receive payments through your website.

Stripe and PayPal setup

With a Squarespace site, your customers have the choice of making a purchase from your site using a credit card (through Stripe) or through PayPal. Both payment types incur a transaction fee.

Stripe is a secure online payment processor for internet businesses of all sizes and is the facility and is used across the globe by millions of shopping site owners.

PayPal is a secure and safe online payment system that many customers choose to use for online shopping.

Setting up these accounts for your business is quick and easy with steps and a link provided below. Both these payment processors incur transaction fees for business owners in Australia:

How to set up a Stripe account

Connecting Stripe to your website lets customers pay with their debit and credit card. In Australia, Stripe accepts customer payments from: Visa (credit and debit cards); MasterCard (credit and debit cards); American Express.

Stripe account set up includes enabling two-step authentication for your account security.

You will need to enter:

  • Name and contact details

  • Business name

  • Bank account details

  • ABN

How to set up your PayPal account

Many customers prefer PayPal for making online payments for products and services. You will need to set up a PayPal Business account to enable these transactions from your website.

Your account PayPal business account set up will include enabling two-step authentication. You will need to enter:

  • Name and contact details

  • Business name

  • Bank account details

  • ABN

Squarespace pricing for commerce/shopping sites

There are three plan options to sell products from a Squarespace website:

Basic Commerce: Stripe and PayPal enabled with transaction fees only (on top of plan payment). Does not include additional facilities like AfterPay or Abandoned Cart Recovery,

Advanced Commerce: Stripe and PayPal enabled with transaction fees only (on top of plan payment). Functionality options include like Abandoned Cart Recovery and AfterPay, and other customizations like offering gift cards and subscriptions.

Business Plan: Transaction fees to Stripe and/or PayPal PLUS and additional 3% of each transaction paid to Squarespace.

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