Shopify vs SquareSpace: Head to Head Comparison

Me korero Shopify vs Squarespace.

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Ahakoa he pono kei te piri ahau ki nga ao o Shopify and Squarespace—site building, shop-building, ecommerce, etc—I tend to mix these two names up.

Why? Well, I suppose because I frequently see advertisements for the both of them, and they’re the two big “S” names in building software.

Ahakoa he pono e tau ana enei kamupene e rua, he rereke te ahua. Shopify Ko te ingoa tauhokohoko tino tuuturu i roto i te raupaparorohiko raupaparorohiko, kua neke ake i te $ 82 piriona nga hoko mai i te hanganga o te tau 2006.

Squarespace whakarato i te hanga paetukutuku ngawari, a ka whakapumautia i te tau 2003. Kaore pea ko te mea rongonui kotahi paetukutuku kaihanga (kaore e tino tau mo enei mea, kia pono), engari he pono koinei tetahi o nga waitohu tino mohio.

Ka taea e nga kamupene e rua te kii, hei waahanga o o raatau rongonui, he maha nga ingoa nui kua hainatia ki o raatau ratonga. Tuhinga o mua ShopifyKo nga kaihoko nui a te kamupene a Kylie Jenner me Nestle.

Squarespace, focusing more on an appeal to creatives, has Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves under its belt.

Woah. Māramarama Shopify and Squarespace are leaders in their respective fields. Suppose these two big names were to clash—who would win?

This isn’t a hypothetical, of course. Website-builders almost always extends into ecommerce, which means shop building. While pretty much all the popular easy website creators advertise ecommerce functions, Squarespace is unique in its core focus on freelancers, creatives, and pakihi iti.

Na kei reira te reanga, me te whakataetae whakamere e hua ana i a ia. Me tirotiro i a tatou.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Who has better pricing and features?

Kia titiro tuatahi ki nga utu me nga waahanga ka riro mo koe.

Squarespace’s prices are a tad more complicated in relation to ShopifyTuhinga o mua.

Squarespace has two types of mahere, kotahi mo te e-commerce me tetahi atu mo nga paetukutuku, me ia momo e rua nga reanga. Ka whakaaro koe na te mea i te whakataurite taatau ki a maatau Shopify, we’d only need to look at these two Squarespace plans. Nope.

Squarespace’s “Business” tier for normal sites also has ecommerce functionality.

This means you actually can get ecommerce software through Squarespace for the starting price of $18 a month. If you do so, you’ll suffer a 3% transaction fee, but you can add pop-ups, sell unlimited products, accept donations, get a free domain, and basically use a full ecommerce suite (including inventory tracking, order management, etc).

Mena kei te hiahia koe ki te whakamahi i nga mahere "toa tuihono", ka taea e koe te tiki atu i etahi atu taapiri hei tapiri mo nga mea katoa o runga ake: ka taea e koe te tango i nga utu tauhokohoko, whiwhi kaitoha koreutu, uru atu ki nga waahanga hokohoko pai, whakamahi pepa taapiri, tiki he maakete tika i runga i tou ake rohe, taapiri kaute kaihoko, ohaurunga ranei, me te maha atu.

Of course, some perks are reserved for different tiers, but with a range of $18 to $40 a month (billed annually—these are pricier if paid monthly), Squarespace manages to provide a ton of ecommerce tools and perks.

Inaianei mo Shopify.

Mo te haerenga atu o nga mahere matua, ka timata te mahere whakaurunga ki a koe me nga mea katoa e hiahia ana koe me nga mahere nui ake me taapiri etahi taputapu me nga tohu (maamaa noa nga kaipuke). Ko nga waahanga taketake kei roto i nga hua kore mutunga me te waihanga raupapa, nga punaha hanga-toa, nga waehere utu, nga waahanga hoko, me era atu.

Kei te iti noa iho koe i nga putea a nga kaimahi ka taea e koe te tango ahakoa te tiera, kaore pea nga taangata i te tiimata tuatahi e kaha ki te whakamahi i nga kaari koha ka uru atu ki nga ripoata matatau.

I roto i taku wheako, ko nga punaha hanga whare toa tae atu ki nga hua, raupapa, coupon, me te waihanga whakahekenga he tino pakari ki te Shopify. Ka taea e koe te whakatika i nga mea me te tino tohu o te kiko, a ka puta katoa mai i te pouaka.

This is also true for Squarespace in my experience—Squarespace doesn’t simplify or reduce the details you can manage in your store, though it’s not fully on Shopify'taumata.

Squarespace offers a slight advantage in having a single-page checkout option. Shopify kaua, ahakoa kei te whakamahi koe i te Arawa Shopify. Ehara tenei i te ngoikoretanga nui, engari he maere mai i tetahi waitohu rangatira (ma te hiahia koe ki te mahi kia ngawari ki te hoko mai).

Mo nga wa e rere ana te kaipuke, e tuku ana nga kamupene e rua i etahi tohu me nga utu rereke, engari i nga kaupapa rereke.

Shopify'kaipuke pä hefty, tae atu ki te 64% mo te Tumuaki Shopify me te 74% mo te Arawa Shopify. Ahakoa e kore koe e riro i enei moni i nga wa katoa, he nui nga utu ka taea kia pai ake nga kaihokohoko ki te tono mai i o hua.

Hei taapiri, ko nga kaute katoa te whakaputa i nga tapanga kaipuke, a, ko nga mahere e rua o muri nei he USPS Priority Mail Cubic utu — he utu tenei ma te rahi, kaore i te taumaha (i raro i etahi taatai) ka taea te heke iho o nga utu mo nga kaihoko.

He waahanga enei mea Shopify such tremendous appeal to businesses of all sizes. How does Squarespace fare?

Ko te mahere "paetukutuku" me te maakete e-kore e tino kitea nga tohu kaipuke. Heoi, ko nga mahere "ma te ipurangi": ka puta te taarua tapanga tapanga, pera me Shopify. Ko te taumata teitei te tātai kaipuke matatau, he mea whai hua-ahakoa, katoa ShopifyKei a maatau mahere he kopaka mo te tuku.

Squarespace’s “Advanced Online Store” plan lets you apply free shipping discounts to products automatically at checkout. You can’t set shipping rates per-product, so a free shipping option would be made available to all customers—it’s a little complicated and you need to be in the Advanced plan to exert the amount of control over it most desirable.

The less advanced Squarespace plans will let you create discounts that customers can apply to shipping—thus less directly offsetting the charges. It’s a bit complicated: you can read ki konei mo nga korero taipitopito.

Kia aroha mai, Shopify and Squarespace take some transaction fees. Theses vary plan to plan: ShopifyKo te taumata teitei te taumata iti rawa atu i te 2.4% + $ 0.30 mo nga hoko tuihono ma te kaari. He rereke nga reeti mena kei te whakamahi koe Shopifyte kaiwhakawai kaituku hei utu takitahi, me nga utu mo te whakamahi i tetahi kaiwhakarato utu neke atu i te Shopify Te utu.

Squarespace only takes transaction fees for its Business plan (as mentioned), the second “Websites” tier. Ko tetahi o nga mahere "Toa Ipurangi" e rua te tango i nga utu tauwhitinga, na kaore koe e haere ki tawhiti kia karo i a raatau.

Anei tetahi mea whakamutunga ka kitea e au he whakahua: dropshipping. Shopify Ko te kaiarahi i tetahi waahanga o te umanga na te mea he ngawari te peera. Ko te tikanga a Dropshipping koe, he rangatira toa, ka uru tetahi roopu tuatoru (e rere ana i tetahi whare putunga, tera pea) ka tukuna he hua ka tukuna e tetahi kaihoko ki te kaihoko. Koinei te tikanga ka whakamahi te kaihoko i to toa, engari kaore koe e kohi i te hua.

Shopify whakamahinga Oberlo to make dropshipping incredibly easy. And it works, honestly, like a wonder. Squarespace has a corollary: instead of Oberlo, Squarespace integrates with Tāngia.

Ko te raru ko koe anake ka taea te whakamahi i te Taapiri whakauru me te mahere toa Ararau (te tiihi teitei) me nga tangata kei runga Shopify Ka taea e koe te whakamahi i Oberlo i tetahi taera, tae atu ki te Oberlo he tino waatea ki te whakamahi me te roa tonu kei a koe Shopify pūkete (ahakoa ka taea e koe te whakapai ake mo nga tiera Oberlo teitei).

He mea nui enei mea, engari, i te wa e whakarite ana koe i te toa tuihono, te ahua me te taapiri, he taputapu kore-taunoa he waahanga nui ano hoki te mahinga ecommerce.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Who has better templates and apps?

Ko nga tauira me te hoahoa he mea nui mo nga mea e rua Shopify and Squarespace—both market themselves as great places for beautiful storefronts and sites. If you’re looking into ecommerce, having an online store that looks great to your customers is highly important.

Ko nga kamupene e rua te maha o nga tauira, he pai hoki te rua.

Shopify tuku he ruarua kaupapa, ka utua te nuinga.

Squarespace offers a similar number of themes, but there’s a catch.

The catch is that most of Squarespace’s themes are for ordinary sites. If you go to online store templates, there are only a few to choose from. You can add a store to another template, but it’s more of a hassle than it needs to be.

Ki taku whakaaro, e rua Shopify and Squarespace have beautiful themes. I’d say I generally prefer Squarespace’s themes and find ShopifyHe ahua rite te ahua o taua mea - engari he kaupapa ano. Na te mea ShopifyKo nga kaupapa kei te hangaia katoa mo nga toa, e kii ana ahau Shopify ka wini mo nga kaupapa / tauira.

Heoi, ki te whakatikatika me te hanga-pae, ka hoatu Squarespace the award. It’s not a huge difference, but Squarespace places heavy emphasis on style and design, and this investment of energy has returned very well.

Panuku, he mea nui te toa taupānga ka whakamahi koe i te te kaupapa ecommerce. He pai ki te tiki rite "mai i te pouaka" ka taea e koe, engari kaore e taea e koe te whakawhirinaki tonu ki tera.

Shopify leads when it comes to apps and installations, in my opinion. Squarespace builds in a lot of integrations into the platform, which means you don’t use an app store for installations. Some integrations are included by default, and others can be enabled if you’re willing to pay.

You can view the full list of integrations Squarespace supports ki konei, but it’s a decent enough list. Certainly, all the popular apps and add-ons are supported by Squarespace, and in some ways it can be really cost-efficient when they’re included.

Shopify he rereke. Shopify he nui ake te tuku iho taonga taonga hanganga mo ona whakaurunga. He ahua kino rawa atu tenei, engari kaore au e whakaaro he - engari, he pono tera ka kaha ake te utu.

The benefit is that you can access more than with Squarespace. Admittedly, most of what you’d be interested in is included on Squarespace, but ShopifyHe hihiri, he hou hoki te toa taupānga. Ka kitea e koe he maha atu nga whakauru honohono, me te nuinga o nga mea rongonui ko etahi wa kaore he utu.

Ka arahi tenei ki a maatau ki nga waahanga whakaaro nui e whai ake nei: kia ngawari te whakamahi.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Who is more easy to use?

Ease of use is a huge deal for SaaS (software as a service) companies. It’s all the rage these days—popular software and websites try to be sleek, modern, clean, and usable. Squarespace and Shopify ina koa ka maakete ratou ano he kaiarahi i nga taputapu auaha-kaiwhakamahi.

Here’s Squarespace, for example, advertising its easy product management:

Na ka waiho tenei Shopifyōrite:

E mohio ana nga kamupene e rua te tikanga ngawari mo te whakamahinga. Waimarie ki a maatau, mo nga kamupene e rua te noho ki o raatau ake waahanga.

Shopify and Squarespace both incorporate a lot of features and allow users to edit things to a high degree of detail, but make it clean and straightforward at the same time—a more impressive feat than you might think.

Anei te tirohanga whānui o SquareSpace'Papatohu

Anei ko te tirohanga a Shopify'Papatohu

On this note, I think Squarespace does a little better.

Ko te whakatikatika i nga taipitopito o te toa, ko te waatea noa, he uaua hoki ki nga kamupene e rua (ahakoa Shopify he mea paku hohonu ake), engari he pai ake te hoahoa mo te whakatika Squarespace. Ehara i te mea ka taea noa e koe nga tauira, engari nga taputapu me nga kaha ka whiwhi koe ki te whakatika i aua tauira.

Tetahi mea e pai ana ahau Shopify and Squarespace is they make things easy for advanced users. Specifically, both companies let customers edit code directly if they choose to. This can allow for a great degree of detail and control if you or someone on your team has programming knowledge.

Ko te raru i konei ko te hunga e hiahia ana ki te haina Shopify me ako Shopify'ake waehere hoahoa ake, Te waipiro. Ka taea e te kaihokohoko mohio te tiki, engari he uaua ake te mea ka tika.

On Squarespace, knowing the popular languages Javascript and CSS is all you need.

In short, I give credit to both companies for making things easy for developers and advanced users to take full control of their site should they wish. This mitigates the dumbing-down effects an “easy” builder application can have. Specifically, Squarespace is easier for developers who want to edit directly.

To put all that together, both Squarespace and Shopify He tino ngawari ki te whakamahi me te pupuri i te tohu mana me te kore e patu patunga nui.

Ko nga mea ahua o tena ko tena Shopify is slightly better for in-depth store details, and Squarespace is better for design. Plus, Squarespace is easier for programmers, though both Shopify and Squarespace are programmer friendly.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Whose customer support is best?

Ka rite ki kua hanga ahau e tuhu ana, ara "ngawari" ki te whakamahi i te pūmanawa me tautoko te kiritaki pai. Ka raru te hangarau hangarau tae noa ki te pai, me nga kaiwhakamahi matatau pea ka hiahia pea ki nga korero kia eke ki runga i te papanga hou.

e rua Shopify and Squarespace have truly excellent customer support. However, I have to say that Shopify ka haere i te maero nui, na, ka tiimata ahau me ratou.

Ko te take tuatahi e kii ai ahau he na tenei Shopify whakawhiwhia ki a koe ki nga maataki ma te whakawhitiwhiti korero, te pūnaha imeera / te tikiti, me te waea. Ano, i roto i taku wheako, ko nga reps kua urupare me te awhina.

He nui ake i nga tohu whai hua, Heoi. Shopify he taara o nga rauemi kei runga-papanga. Ko etahi o nga mea tino nui kua whakamahia e koe kia kite, penei i te turanga matauranga (hoki e mohiotia ana ko te Pokapu awhina).

Ko te maatauranga matauranga he whanui katoa mo a ratau ano, me te nui o nga kaupapa tuhinga. He tino tupono, ka taea e koe te kite i au paanga anuanui mo te Pokapu Awhina.

Shopify he blog, he mea tino noa, engari he rauemi maatauranga he nui ake, he hohonu hoki. Ko tetahi tauira ka pai Shopify Academy, he akoranga koreutu ka whai painga ki nga timatanga. Ko tetahi atu tauira matua Shopify's huihuinga hapori, e taea ai e koe te pato Shopifyte papa kaiwhakamahi nui, ka whai hua mo nga raru motuhake, tohutohu ranei.

Ko tetahi atu ka Shopify kaiarahi, he kohinga tika tenei o nga pukapuka koreutu e whai tohutohu whanonga ana me nga tohutohu a-ipurangi. ShopifyNgaaata e rua He rite tonu te ahua, he momo taapiri mo te hunga e aro atu ana, a te encyclopedia Ehara ko tetahi mea e mohio ana ahau he tino painga engari he pai ki te whai tonu.

Shopify Paetukutuku he arataki super in-hohonu kia Shopifypaerewa hoahoa hoahoa. He rauemi tino kore mohiotia, engari ka noho hei kaiwhakaora oranga mēnā kei te hanga koe i nga papanga mo nga kiritaki (ahakoa ko koe anake).

Heoi, Shopify whakarato etahi taputapu koreutu tera ka taea te whakarite mo nga timatanga.

No reira, ae. Tauwha. Shopify clearly has a ton of resources, and even if some are fluffy, a lot aren’t. How on earth can Squarespace live up to this?

Well, Squarespace starts with pretty good customer representatives and an accessible means of contacting them: live chat or email. Unfortunately, there is no phone support yet.

He pai ahakoa, na te mea he pai te urupare me nga awhina o nga māngai ma te korero ora, i te imeera ranei.

The cornerstone of Squarespace’s onsite resources is its turanga matauranga.

Squarespace’s knowledgebase isn’t as in-depth as Shopify's, engari he pai tonu. Kei a ia ano akoranga ataata ma te hunga e pai ake ki te panui.

Squarespace offers a lot more aside from its knowledge base. For example, Squarespace has webinars, he rangitaki (ano hoki, kei te noa tenei), a forum. Ka kitea e au he iti ake te pakari o te huinga Shopify's, engari he pai rawa atu te taonga.

Squarespace also brings a lot to the table when it comes to customer support and resources. The reason I grant the win to Shopify he nui ake nga whiringa mo te whakapā atu ki nga māngai, me te mea he nui ake nga rauemi ka nui te hohonu o nga rauemi.

Who is more secure and reliable?

Na, mo te mea whakamutunga i runga i te raarangi arowhai: te haumaru me te tika. Kaore koe e hiahia ki te korero ki a koe he aha te mea he mea nui te haumarutanga, te tuuturu ranei ki te whakahaere pakihi i runga i te ipurangi, na me peke atu tatou.

Kaore tetahi o o maatau tautohetohe e kii ana mo te haumarutanga, engari kaore tenei e mate. Ko te korero tika mo o raatau tohu tohu mo te tukatuka o nga utu me nga korero a nga kaihoko, he tino pai te tangi tae noa ki te kitenga ko te tohu (he rite ki tetahi mea i runga ake i tetahi paerewa).

Squarespace is significantly better in outlining its security practices, though it’s slightly out of the way.

Ka kii atu ahau ki te tirotiro i te Whārangi itself if you want to see the full details for yourself, but the short version is that yes, Squarespace takes all the appropriate measures. Firewalls, internal monitoring, secure servers, DDoS attack prevention protocols, etc.

And of course, Squarespace and Shopify whakarato SSL mo nga kaute katoa.

Na, i te wa e haere tonu ana nga mahi, he pai nga wheako o au ki ia kamupene. Kei roto i tenei kaore ko te waa noa me te tere o te papaanga, engari ko te whakamahinga o te ra ki te ra. Kaore au i aro ki nga whaarangi, kua pakaru nga papanga, tetahi mea ranei e tino awangawanga ana.

These companies are both industry leaders with large thanks to their reliable performance. As far as security goes, Squarespace clearly is more transparent, but I don’t think it’s necessarily more secure than Shopify.

Kei te mau tonu ki te whakaaro Shopify nga ratonga a etahi o nga kamupene nui rawa atu o te ao (ae ra, he nui rawa atu te haumarutanga o te hinonga-hinonga ki runga ake i nga kaute maori tonu, ahakoa ko te tohu) a kua whakatauhia nga piriona taapene i roto i nga whakawhitiwhitinga, he tino kaha te haumarutanga.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Which do I Recommend?

It’s time to put everything we’ve talked about together. Which is better—Squarespace, or Shopify?

E matau ana tatou katoa kaore he rahi hei rahi katoa, a Shopify and Squarespace clearly have some different pros and cons.

He tau te tokorua, he pai te mahi. He pai te tautoko a nga kaihoko, engari ki taku whakaaro Shopify te kaiarahi.

Ka rite ki te ngawari ki te whakamahi ka haere nga mea e rua, engari Shopify is better at store details and Squarespace is better at site design. Plus, Squarespace is easier for programmers who want to edit a site’s code.

Mo nga tauira e haere ana, Shopify has a larger selection of online store-specific templates but Squarespace has a larger selection of templates in total—they just may require some extra steps to turn into stores. Design capacity is better with Squarespace, Heoi.

Squarespace’s integrations are mostly included in the Squarespace infrastructure and there is no app store. This can at times make things easier and more affordable, but ShopifyHe maha atu nga mea hou kua whakatauhia e te toa taupānga ma (ahakoa ka taea te utu i etahi wa).

As far as price and overall go features go, things get dicey. Squarespace is of course much cheaper, and ShopifyHe tino pai te whānuitanga o nga ra (ahakoa ka timata i te wa e manakohia ana ki oku whakaaro).

Squarespace is very well-featured for its comparatively low prices, which at first can make it seem a better deal.

Ano, Shopify is better for those who wish to scale their stores, which explains part of the prices, and the tools you get out of the box can be very in-depth if you wish them to be (though Squarespace’s aren’t bad either).

Although Squarespace foregoes some of the things that make Shopify nui atu i te mea e tika ana, penei i te whakanoho i nga waahanga taketake ki nga tiihi teitei me te utu mo nga utu tauhokohoko, Shopify tonu he kōwhiringa ecommerce totika kaha.

Me kii atu au i te katoa Shopify riro taku kupu tohutohu. Mo era te hoko hua mamati for whom shipping is not a major cost, Squarespace might be better. But for anyone planning on shipping regularly and/or in large quantities, Shopify is easily the better option. It’s also a better option for those who are particularly anal about controlling store details—Squarespace can be very detailed as well, but Shopify te whakamahi i te kaha tino whaihua mena ka hiahiatia.

Engari koe, mena kaore koe i te kore, ka taea tonu e koe te whakamatau ki a raatau! Shopify he 14-rā whakamātautau kore a Squarespace ka taea e koe te noho tonu i runga i te whakamatautau kore noa kia rite ra ano koe. Haere whakamua, haere atu ki reira, e aku hoa-haere!