Squarespace Core
Physical products, on the plan Squarespace recommends.
- Plan, billed yearly
- £17
- Fee on product sales0% on Core
- £0
- Card feesSquarespace Payments 2% + 25p on 80 orders
- £60
Total a month
£77
£2 a month less than Orbit Solo.
Sell the same
things.
Stop paying a
cut on top.
Looking for a Squarespace alternative for a shop that has grown? Orbit charges no platform fee on top of the card rate, on any plan.
Solo is £25 a month (£19 billed yearly), ex VAT. Squarespace Basic is £16 a month (£12 billed yearly). How switching works
Added on top of card fees
0%
Orbit, every plan
Digital sales too. The card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included: 2% + 25p for UK personal cards on Solo.
2%
Squarespace Basic, product sales
0% from Core. Digital sales: 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus.
Squarespace figures checked 24 September 2026 against squarespace.com/pricing.
- Nothing on top of the card rate
- Digital downloads on every plan
- Gift cards on every plan
- 14 days free, no card
Every fee and rate, next to Squarespace’s.
Squarespace’s figures are its published UK prices and its help centre, on the date below.
| Orbit Commerce | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| UK plans | Solo £25, Team £85, Pro £249 a month (£19 / £64 / £187 yearly) | Basic £16, Core £24, Plus £36, Advanced £89 a month (£12 / £17 / £29 / £79 yearly) |
| Fee on product sales | Nothing on top of the card rate | 2% on Basic; 0% on Core, Plus and Advanced |
| Fee on digital sales | Nothing on top of the card rate | 7% Basic, 5% Core, 1% Plus, 0% Advanced |
| UK personal cards | 2% / 1.7% / 1.5% + 25p | 2% + 25p Basic and Core; 1.7% Plus; 1.5% Advanced |
| UK business cards | 3.3% / 3% / 2.8% + 25p | 3% + 25p on every plan |
| UK Amex cards | 2% / 1.7% / 1.5% + 25p | 3% + 25p on every plan |
| Cards from abroad | From 3% + 25p (European) to 3.65% + 25p (outside Europe) on Solo | The domestic rate plus 1%, plus 2% currency conversion |
| Staff accounts | 10 on Team, 40 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise, owner included | 2 contributors on Basic; unlimited from Core |
| Carrier-calculated shipping | Every plan | Core and above |
| Custom code | Every plan, in the page builder’s Code element | Core and above |
| Cart reminder emails | Every plan | Every plan |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 14 days |
Squarespace prices and features checked 24 September 2026 against squarespace.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) and support.squarespace.com. Squarespace is a trademark of its owner. Figures exclude VAT unless stated. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
What do you mostly sell?
Products that ship. On Squarespace Core and above there is no transaction fee on these.
Opens that version of the bill below.
Digital gift cards on every plan
Sold in your shop or issued by hand
Downloads and gift cards, with nothing on top of the card rate.
Digital products, gift cards and subscriptions are product types in the same editor as your physical stock, on every plan. When a download or gift card sells, the card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included.
Digital downloads
Attach the files, set how many days a download stays live, keep version numbers and offer a free sample. Licence keys too, generated or imported.
Delivered when paid
When an order for a download is paid, the buyer is emailed their download links and any licence key it needs.
Gift cards
Digital gift cards in the amounts you set, sold in your shop or issued by hand. Each one is created and emailed the moment the payment succeeds.
Subscription plans
Make it a Subscription product, weekly to yearly, on every Orbit plan. Customers pause, resume or cancel from their own account.
Columns matched on upload
Title, description, SKU, price and stock
Three columns and a handle, then the column mapper.
Squarespace exports products, customers and orders as CSV. The product file needs a spreadsheet pass before you upload it, then the column mapper matches the columns it recognises, you set the rest, and your first product shows before anything is written.
Three columns to add
Squarespace’s export has no Status, Is Physical or Is Taxable column, and Orbit needs all three to create a product. Add them in the spreadsheet; the sample CSV in the import dialog shows the values.
A handle on every row
Squarespace writes a product’s URL on its first row only and leaves its variant rows blank. Orbit groups variants by their handle, so copy the URL down to every row, then map Product URL to Handle.
The column mapper
Upload the CSV or Excel file, up to 100MB. Title, Description, SKU, Price and Stock match on their own. Map the option columns by hand and check what it guessed: Squarespace’s Sale Price is the reduced price, not a was price.
Customers, orders and old URLs
Customers and past orders export as CSV and import through column mappers of their own, and each past order joins the customer with the same email address. Load your old addresses into the redirect importer before you move the domain.
Six steps, and the Squarespace site stays up until the last one.
Most of the care goes into the product file: shape it in a spreadsheet, try the import on the trial and check the result. If your site is mostly pages, the Squarespace site can stay for them while the shop moves to a domain of its own.
1. Start the trial
14 days, no card. Your Squarespace shop keeps trading while you test.
2. Prepare and import products
Export products from Squarespace as CSV, up to 10,000 of them. Add Status, Is Physical and Is Taxable, copy each product’s URL down to its variant rows, upload it, and check the mapped columns and the first product before you import.
3. Import customers and orders
Export customers from Lists and Segments and your orders as CSV, upload each and line up their columns in the mapper. Each order joins the customer with the same email address.
4. Build your pages
Pick one of our free or premium themes and shape it in the page builder, or paste your current homepage address into Nebula and it drafts sections in your colours and fonts.
5. Payments and delivery
Switch on Orbit Payments, connect PayPal if you use it, and set your delivery rates: flat, free over a spend, or the carrier’s live rate at checkout.
6. Redirects, then the domain
Load your old product and category URLs into the redirect importer, then point the shop’s domain in a quiet hour. Keep the Squarespace site for a fortnight as a reference, or for good if it stays your website.
A £2,000 month, on each.
Physical or digital, as you picked above, beside Orbit’s Solo plan. Core is the plan Squarespace recommends, so it is the one in the sum.
The sum assumes £2,000 of sales a month, about 80 orders, UK personal cards through Squarespace Payments or Orbit Payments, yearly billing, prices ex VAT.
- Squarespace Core
- £77a month
- Orbit Solo
- £79a month
Orbit Solo
The same shop, the same cards.
- Plan, billed yearly
- £19
- Fee on product salesNothing on top of the card rate
- £0
- Card feesOrbit Payments 2% + 25p on 80 orders
- £60
Total a month
£79
With physical products on Core, Squarespace is £2 a month cheaper at this size, which is the honest answer. On the Basic plan (£12 billed yearly) the 2% transaction fee adds £40 a month to physical sales and the 7% digital fee adds £140, so Basic totals £112 or £212. UK business and corporate cards cost 3% + 25p on Squarespace and 3.3% + 25p on Solo, 3% + 25p on Team and 2.8% + 25p on Pro.
Plans from £25. Nothing on top of the card rate, on any of them.
The card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included, and carrier-calculated shipping and custom code come with every plan. Plans differ by seats, storage, card rates and the Enterprise extras.
Solo
On every plan£19
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Nothing on top of the card rate
14 days free, no card
Team
£64
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Nothing on top of the card rate
14 days free, no card
Pro
£187
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Nothing on top of the card rate
14 days free, no card
Enterprise
£749
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Nothing on top of the card rate
14 days free, no card
Three things to know before you switch.
Nothing on top
Digital sales
Squarespace adds 7%, 5% or 1% to digital sales below Advanced. On Orbit the card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included, downloads and gift cards too.
A Nebula draft
Your pages
Paste your current homepage address into Nebula and it drafts sections in your colours and fonts, or start from a free or premium theme in the page builder.
Enterprise
Checkout customisation and B2B
Checkout customisation and company accounts with price lists come with Enterprise at £999 a month, and every plan gets the standard checkout.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
Leaving Squarespace, answered.
Fees, cards, downloads, the move, URLs, posts and how to leave again.
Three more useful pages.
Products
Every product type, one editor
Downloads, gift cards and subscriptions start on the same New Product screen as physical stock, with unlimited products on every plan.
See the product typesDiscounts
Codes that do the maths for you
Percentage or fixed amount off the order, or free shipping, with a minimum spend, dates and usage limits.
See discount codesPricing
Every plan in pounds, side by side
Solo, Team, Pro and Enterprise, monthly or yearly, and what each plan adds.
See the pricing
Sell the same things. Pay nothing on top of the card rate.
Import a copy of your Squarespace shop on the trial and click round the result. When it is right, point the domain; from then on, the card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included.