How to Use Squarespace Payments to Boost Ecommerce Sales
Setting up your clients for ecommerce success starts with a seamless payment solution. As a web designer, this is an important part of creating value for your clients and helping them establish a better experience for their customers.
Enter Squarespace Payments, an intuitive payment solution that helps ecommerce businesses* manage payments and payouts. Squarespace Payments is fully integrated with your clients’ online store, so they can accept payments directly through Squarespace without connecting to a third-party processor.
Continue reading to learn how you can help clients boost ecommerce sales with Squarespace Payments. Select a section to begin.
*Squarespace Payments currently services customers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Squarespace is working to expand Squarespace Payments to more countries in 2025.
Product overview
Squarespace Payments is a native payment processing solution that enables ecommerce businesses to accept secure payments directly through their Squarespace websites. It simplifies the checkout experience for customers while providing robust tools for managing transactions. This means your ecommerce clients can offer a seamless, professional storefront that boosts trust and conversions without requiring third-party extensions.
An optimized checkout experience
The better a site’s checkout page and process is, the more conversions it can drive. Squarespace Payments speeds visitors through checkout, offering flexible payment options that match their preferences and expectations. Customers can autofill intake fields using their saved payment information or pay using their preferred buy-now, pay-later provider.
A variety of payment options
Squarespace Payments is flexible and designed to meet the needs of any merchant. Your ecommerce clients can accept a number of payment methods, including:
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Discover
Automated Clearing House (US only)
PayPal and Venmo (after connecting a PayPal Business account)
Diner’s Club and JCB (after connecting Stripe)
The payment options don’t stop there. You can help your clients integrate Squarespace Payments to sell digital products, including courses and membership sites.
Highly secure at every step
End-to-end security is paramount for maintaining customer trust across every transaction. Squarespace Payments safeguards customers’ financial information using:
PCI-compliant servers
Industry-leading TLS payment data encryption
Secure checkout experiences protected by SSL
Instant transaction risk monitoring
Manage every detail
Without a streamlined, intuitive payment management system, tracking key details like customer orders and payment timelines can quickly become complicated. Every time a customer makes a purchase through a Squarespace Payments checkout form, that customer’s order details, including payment method and information, payment and payout totals, and contact information, are added to the Finance panel. From there, your client can efficiently view and manage each and every order, helping them to understand when they’ll get paid and how much to pay when issuing returns or chargebacks. They can swiftly resolve any payment problems by reaching the customer through their contact information provided on the checkout form.
Who uses Squarespace Payments
Squarespace Payments can support any ecommerce business, regardless of what your client sells. Below are a few popular use cases:
Client email template
Confident in your Squarespace Payments expertise? Take the next step by offering setup services to your clients. Use the template below to reach out to clients who could benefit from boosting their earnings with Squarespace Payments.
Subject Line: Boost Your Business with Squarespace Payments
Preview Text: Streamline sales and grow your business
Hi [Client Name],
I hope this email finds you well! As your web designer, I’m always looking for ways to help you maximize your online store's potential. I wanted to share an exciting opportunity to simplify your payment process and increase sales: Squarespace Payments.
With Squarespace Payments, you can offer your customers a seamless checkout experience, reduce transaction fees, and manage everything from one intuitive platform. It’s designed to make selling online faster, easier, and more efficient.
A few key benefits of Squarespace Payments include:
Reduce cart abandonment and increase conversion rates with a quick, simplified checkout process.
No need for third-party payment processors—everything is managed directly through Squarespace, saving you time and effort
Build trust with your paying customers with the added security of payment industry-standard SSL data encryption
Squarespace Payments supports multiple currencies, making it possible to serve international customers and expand your reach
Track and manage your transactions through your Squarespace dashboard, keeping all your financial information in one place
If you'd like, I can help you set up and optimize Squarespace Payments for your store, ensuring everything runs smoothly and aligns with your business goals.
Let me know if you’re interested—I’d be happy to schedule a quick call to discuss how this can work for your business!
[Your Name]
[Your Phone Number]
[Your Email Address]
Earn commissions on subscriptions
Adding Squarespace Payments to client sites can help you earn additional revenue. Through 2025, Circle members who participate in the Circle Referral Payments Benefit can earn one-time $50.00 commissions when a current or past client enables Squarespace Payments on their website (annual plans only) and then process an order. Learn more about earning commissions when clients use Squarespace Payments.
Further reading
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