Squarespace development

Squarespace is the quickest route to a site that looks genuinely good without a developer on call. The design is the draw, and for a brochure site, a portfolio or a small shop it’s often exactly the right tool. We take it past the template, wire it up for South Africa, and tell you plainly when you’ve outgrown it.

What we build on Squarespace

We work in Squarespace 7.1 with the Fluid Engine editor, then push past it with custom CSS and code injection so the site doesn’t look like the template it started from. Considered type, real layout control, custom sections and small interactive touches where they earn their place. Your team keeps editing the words and images day to day; we handle the parts Squarespace doesn’t put in the editor.

Commerce and payments in South Africa

Squarespace Commerce takes card payments through Stripe and PayPal, both of which work for South African businesses, with prices shown in rand line where none is due. It doesn’t plug into local gateways like PayFast or Yoco the way WooCommerce does, so it suits a small, tidy catalogue rather than a high-volume or gateway-specific store. We set up products, shipping and pricing, and test the checkout on a real phone before launch.

Honest about the platform

Squarespace trades control for convenience, and for the right project that’s a good trade: hosting, security and updates are handled, and the site is quick to launch and easy to run. It isn’t the tool for a large catalogue, a multi-store operation, B2B pricing, or a checkout that depends on a local gateway. For those, PrestaShop or WooCommerce gives you far more, and for a bigger hosted store Shopify is often the better fit. We’ll tell you which one suits before you commit.

Squarespace work is a fixed quote once we’ve seen the content and the catalogue. Migrations onto Squarespace, or off it when you outgrow it, are part of what we do.