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1. SQUARESPACE
REVIEW
BY
CMS CRITIC
http://www.cmscritic.com/squarespace-review-the-long-awaited-commerce-solution/

2. RELEASED LAST
JULY 17, 2012
winner of our 2012
Critics Choice Awards
for Best Website Builder.
On Valentine’s day 2013
they released
Squarespace Commerce.

3. "The ability to sell goods from
Squarespace has been the most
consistently requested feature
throughout our history. We’re thrilled to
be able to release a commerce offering
we’re proud of.” - Anthony Casalena,
CEO and Founder of Squarespace.

4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
 No need to download any applications to
install on your servers. You do everything via
your browser.
 No need for maintenance and updates. You
just need to make sure your browser is
compatible with Squarespace.
 You can use Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer
or Firefox to work with Squarespace 6.

5. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR EDITING
 Cookies must be enabled for login purposes.
 JavaScript must be enabled for the site
manager.
 Avoid running JavaScript blocking programs,
such as anti-virus software.

6. SQUARESPACE 6
There are 20 new
templates you can
use for your blog.
You can change the
way your blog is set-
up via the 'Blog
Settings' button, such
as changing the
name of the blog.

7. The + symbol lets you add
“Blocks” from images to quotes,
to video and code.
SQUARESPACE 6

8. The new Layout Engine lets you
drop images onto your image
blocks and once they are
embedded you can drag
them around to rearrange
them in your post.
SQUARESPACE 6

9. There is a wide variety of
social media you can tap
into. While you build your
website you are offered
many ways to integrate your
site into the social networks
you connect to your
Squarespace account.
SQUARESPACE 6

10. SQUARESPACE 6
Commerce
Section

11. SQUARESPACE 6
4 step 'Getting
Started' process
to get your store
up and running
quickly

12. CREATING PRODUCTS
Click content manager
Click “Add Page”
Click “Products”

13. You will be asked to enter a name
for the page, which will
correspond to the search friendly
URL it will create for the page,
although if you wish you can alter
this to be different than the page's
title if you want. It also gives you
the option to set this page as the
homepage of your website.

14. ADDING PRODUCTS
When the products page is
created it creates a new option
under the Top Navigation in
the Content Manager called
'Products', which has similar
options to the Inventory page in
the Commerce section.

15. Click “Add Product”

16. Lets you describe your
product, add images, add
categories for your
product, and an option to
make the product visible
or not in your store.
EDITING PRODUCTS

17. EDITING A PRODUCT VARIANT
Click to set price
and stock details for
each variant
Click to add options
to your items

18. ADDING A URL AND IMAGE TO YOUR PRODUCTS
it is set to 'new-product' by
default and you can’t edit
this, regardless of what you
set your product page URL
to be. You will be able to
type something after “new-
products”.
Click “Save & Publish”
once done

19. You can view the
product you have
added here.

20. IF YOU MADE IT AVAILABLE SO PEOPLE CAN FIND IT ON YOUR STORE THEN IT WILL ALSO
SHOW ON YOUR PRODUCTS PAGE. IF YOU CLICK ON THE PRODUCT IT WILL LOOK LIKE
THIS:

21. THE SHIPPING PORTION OF THE COMMERCE
ENGINE:
Click to add shipping
method

22. ADDING SHIPPING OPTIONS
Lets you set a
single price for
shipping costs.
Cost will be
based on how
heavy a product
is.

23. EDITING THE WEIGHT RANGE RATES FOR
SHIPPING
You get the
option to set
weight ranges
and the rate
each one will
cost.
Click to add more options

24. SETTING COUNTRY RESTRICTIONS
lets you say
which countries
you will deliver to.

25. CREATING COUPONS
You have the option
to make your own
coupons
for special promotio
ns and sales etc.

26. TAX RULE EDITING
You can set how much tax will
be charged for your products
on a state-by-state basis (and is
therefore limited to the USA
only). They also give you the
option to charge sales tax on
the shipping costs.

27. EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS
you can customise the
text that will be sent out
to customers, including
header and footer
options. There are two
message templates you
can tweak for emails that
are sent to the customer
regarding
order confirmation and
shipping.
If you cancel without
doing anything, a
message will pop up
asking to save or
discard changes even
when none had been
made. Just click
discard to move on.

28. SETTINGS
• Set up your Stripe payment account
•Support email address
•Express checkout option
•Set shopping cart to dark or light
•Integrate your MailChip newsletter account
•Get stock level alerts
•Write your own terms of service, privacy, and return
policies

29. THUMBS UP
Create any kind of
website regardless
of technical ability
Caters to developers
You can build your site for
free until you go live
Same monthly cost as a
low bandwidth Virtual
Private Server

30. THUMBS DOWN
Payment option is
restricted to USA only
LastPass does not
work with the login
form while using
Chrome

31. THANK YOU
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