Squarespace Pricing 2026: Plans, Transaction Fees and Add-ons

We make Drry, which sells memberships and courses but is not a website builder, so read the last section with that in mind. How much does Squarespace cost? $19 to $99 a month billed annually, or $25 to $139 billed monthly, across four plans: Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced. There is no free plan, only a 14-day free trial with no card. If you sell, a transaction fee comes on top: 2% of physical sales on Basic, and 7% of memberships and courses on Basic, falling to 0% only on Advanced.

Every figure here was read from squarespace.com/pricing and from Squarespace's own help centre (the transaction-fee article, the Digital Products plan article and the Email Campaigns billing article), as checked September 2026, at US prices. Squarespace prices each billing country separately, so outside the US the amounts and the currency differ, and the card rates differ most of all.

Squarespace plans and prices, monthly vs annual

Annual billing is the price Squarespace leads with, and it is the cheaper way to pay on every plan, by 24% to 29% at these prices. It also brings the free domain (below). Monthly billing is the flexible option: you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time, and the change takes effect at the end of the cycle you have already paid for.

What each Squarespace plan adds

• Basic. The full website builder, templates, hosting, SSL, the built-in AI tools, and up to two contributors. It can already sell products, services, content and memberships, and send invoices. What it costs you is the fee: the only plan with a cut on physical sales, and the steepest cut of the four on digital ones.
• Core. The plan Squarespace marks Recommended. Unlimited contributors, advanced website analytics, full CSS and JavaScript customisation, professional shipping and tax tools, sales-funnel analytics and API integrations. The physical-goods fee drops to 0%; the digital one only to 5%.
• Plus. Everything in Core, with a lower card rate through Squarespace Payments and the digital-products fee down to 1%. The pricing page pitches it as the plan for lower processing costs as you grow, and for memberships it is the one that changes the maths most (worked example below).
• Advanced. The lowest card rates and 0% on everything you sell, digital included, plus unlimited course video. It is the plan that makes Squarespace a zero-fee platform, and at $139 a month billed monthly it is priced like one.

Squarespace transaction fees: two ladders, not one

This is the part of Squarespace pricing most roundups get wrong, because the company charges a different percentage depending on what you sell. Physical goods (and downloads, services and donations) sit on the commerce ladder. Member sites, courses and video pages sit on the digital-products ladder, and it is much steeper.

Invoices and standard Pay Links carry no transaction fee on any plan, and when you refund an order through Squarespace Payments the transaction fee comes back to you, though the processing rate does not. Sites on older plans are on different ladders again; the member areas section below covers them.

Card processing, on top of the fee

The transaction fee is Squarespace's cut. Card processing is a separate charge on every sale, and with Squarespace Payments it falls as the plan rises too:

• Basic: standard cards from 2.9% + $0.30.
• Core: standard cards from 2.9% + $0.30.
• Plus: standard cards from 2.7% + $0.30.
• Advanced: standard cards from 2.5% + $0.30.
• Every plan: premium cards, American Express among them, at 3.2% + $0.30, and 1.5% more for an international card. The lower Plus and Advanced rates apply to standard cards only.

You can connect Stripe or PayPal instead. Then you pay their rates, and Squarespace still collects its transaction fee alongside (on a Stripe charge it shows up as an application fee). The lower card rates on Plus and Advanced are a Squarespace Payments feature, so they do not follow you to another processor.

Worked example: what a membership really costs on each plan

Run the same sum across every revenue level and the cheapest plan for a membership changes hands at predictable points:

• Basic is cheapest from the first sale up to about $480 a month in member revenue.
• Plus is cheapest from about $480 a month up to about $4,170 a month in member revenue.
• Advanced is cheapest from about $4,170 a month in member revenue upward.

Notice what is missing: Core, the plan Squarespace recommends, is never the cheapest way to run a membership at these prices. Below about $480 a month Basic wins on its lower subscription; above it, Plus's 1% fee and lower card rate beat Core's 5%. Core is an excellent plan for a physical store, where its fee is already zero. For a membership, skip it.

For scale: at $300 a month the cheapest bill is $53.20 on Basic, and at $5,000 a month it is $299.00 on Advanced. On monthly billing every subscription is higher, so the switch points move up; the logic is the same.

Squarespace member areas pricing, and the retired add-on

If you remember Squarespace Member Areas as a separate subscription, it was one. It became the Digital Products plan, and on July 23, 2026 Squarespace stopped selling it: the current four plans include selling memberships and courses, and the plan you are on sets the fee.

• Sites on the current plans pay the digital ladder above: 7%, 5%, 1% or 0%.
• Sites still on an older plan (Personal, Business, Commerce) pay 9% on digital sales with no Digital Products plan, or the rate of the one they bought before the cut-off (7% on Starter, 3% on Core, 0% on Pro). They cannot change that plan; to lower the fee they move to a current website plan.
• Video for digital products is capped by plan: 30 minutes on Basic, 5 hours on Core, 50 hours on Plus and unlimited on Advanced. A video course of any length is a practical reason to be on Plus or above, whatever the fee.

There is no limit on how many people can buy access, on any plan. For what a Squarespace member site does and does not include, see how to build a Squarespace membership site.

The domain, the trial, and the add-ons

• Domain. An annual plan includes a free custom domain for the first year. After that, or on monthly billing, you pay for it separately, or connect one you already own.
• Free trial. 14 days, no credit card, and you can choose a plan during or after it. There is no free plan to stay on afterwards.
• Email Campaigns. Squarespace's email tool is its own subscription with its own bill, priced by how many emails you send a month. The entry plan allows 500 sends and keeps the "Powered by Squarespace" footer; lists and drafts are free to build, you pay to send. Its prices sit behind a slider on the Email Campaigns page, so check them there.
• Acuity Scheduling. Booking is Squarespace's Acuity product, also billed separately: Starter $16 a month billed annually or $20 monthly, Standard $27 or $34, Premium $49 or $61, each with a 7-day trial. Squarespace takes no transaction fee on appointment payments; the processor's fee still applies.

Each of these bills independently of the website plan, so a site with email and booking is three subscriptions, not one.

Which Squarespace plan should you choose?

• A portfolio, a brochure site, a blog: Basic, on annual billing. Nothing on the higher plans changes the bill if you sell nothing.
• A shop selling physical products: Core, the first plan with 0% on physical sales, and Plus or Advanced once the lower card rate is worth more than the step up in price.
• Memberships or courses: work out the worked example above on your own numbers. At almost any real size it points past Basic and Core to Plus, and to Advanced once member revenue is in the thousands.

If the membership is the business (the disclosed pitch)

For a general website, Squarespace is the better tool, and Drry is not trying to replace it. We are not a website builder. The one reader we are a genuine option for is the one whose site exists mainly to sell memberships, courses or digital downloads, because that is the half Squarespace charges a percentage on and we do not.

Drry takes 0% of member payments on every plan, the free one included, and the charge runs on your own Stripe account. On the same $1,000 month, Stripe's standard US rate of 2.9% + $0.30 comes to $44.00, so the bill is $44.00 on the free plan (up to 100 members, no card) or $73.00 on Creator at $29 a month, which adds your own domain, against $101.00 on Squarespace's cheapest plan for it. What that buys is a members' feed, courses with drip and quizzes, email and events in one place; see membership websites and selling digital products. Plenty of people keep the Squarespace site as the shopfront and run the paid membership here. For the full side-by-side, see Drry vs Squarespace, and for why we charge a flat price, see our 0% commitment.