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Moving from Squarespace

How a move off Squarespace works: what you can export, what stays behind, and how your domain, bookings and rankings make it through.

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What comes with you

Leaving Squarespace, piece by piece. What moves, and what doesn't.

Stays on Squarespace

The template, its styling and the platform's extensions. Squarespace's export covers only some content.

  • The template and its styling
  • Section layouts and blocks
  • Extensions and their settings
  • The scheduling subscription
  • Your plan, once it's cancelled

Comes with you

Your domain, your pages and posts, your products, your booking clients and your rankings.

  • Your domain, kept or moved
  • Pages and blog posts
  • Products, exported as a spreadsheet
  • Booking clients and history
  • Your rankings, through redirects

How the move runs

Moving off Squarespace, step by step. From the first call to the weeks after.

Your Squarespace site stays live until the day we switch.

Nothing goes dark while the new site is built, and nothing is cancelled until it's live.

  1. 01Take stockEvery page, post, product, form and booking type, listed.
  2. 02Export what Squarespace allowsPages and posts in its export file; products and clients as spreadsheets.
  3. 03Plan the new siteA page map built around your customers, not the old template.
  4. 04Design and buildYour new site, designed and built in code, on a private link.
  5. 05Bring the content acrossWords, galleries and products moved over, and improved where they need it.
  6. 06Map every addressEach Squarespace URL, including blog and product addresses, matched to its new page.
  7. 07Switch the domainThe domain pointed at the new site, with email left untouched.
  8. 08Watch the weeks afterSearch Console, forms and bookings checked until everything's settled.

What's different about leaving Squarespace

The catches, and how we handle them. Specific to Squarespace.

A partial export

Squarespace exports some pages and posts, not the design or most features.

Galleries and layouts

Image galleries and section layouts rebuilt, not imported.

Scheduling on its own plan

Booking clients and upcoming appointments saved before it's cancelled.

Products and orders

Products exported as a spreadsheet; past orders kept for your records.

A domain on Squarespace

It can point to the new site, or move to a registrar of your choice.

Email through Google

Mailboxes set up through Squarespace keep working when the site moves.

Collection addresses

Blog, product and event URLs each redirected to their new pages.

Cancelling at the right time

The plan and the scheduling subscription end after the switch.

Keeping your rankings

How your search rankings come with you. The checklist we work through.

Rankings move with the pages, as long as every page has somewhere to go.

Search engines know your Squarespace site by its addresses. Each one is mapped to its new page before the switch.

  • Every old address mappedEvery Squarespace page, post and product address matched to a new page.
  • Permanent redirectsEach old page sends visitors and search engines to its new one.
  • Titles and descriptions carriedThe words search results show, kept or improved.
  • Structured data addedYour business, services and reviews, in the form search engines read.
  • A new sitemapSubmitted to Google and Bing the day the site goes live.
  • Search Console watchedErrors and missing pages caught in the weeks after the switch.
  • Your Business Profile linkedThe website link on your Google Business Profile updated.
  • Load time checkedPages tested on phones before launch, so the new site starts ahead.

Moving from Squarespace, explained

Everything to know before you leave Squarespace. In plain English.

Why businesses leave Squarespace

Squarespace sites look good, and that's usually how the conversation starts: the site gets compliments and still doesn't bring in enough work. The templates are shared, bookings live on a separate tool, and the pages that win local search are hard to build.

Moving off it is a question of order: save what can be exported, rebuild what can't, and switch without a gap.

What you can export

Squarespace's export creates a file of pages and blog posts that other platforms can read, but it leaves out the design, most layouts and many blocks. Products export separately as a spreadsheet, and scheduling keeps its own client list.

We collect every part of it before anything is cancelled, then rebuild the rest properly.

Your domain, email and bookings

A domain registered through Squarespace can stay there and point to the new site, or move to a registrar in your name. Email set up through Squarespace runs on Google Workspace and keeps working when only the website's records change.

Booking clients and future appointments are saved, and new bookings move to the new site's own booking flow on the day of the switch.

The day of the switch

The new site is checked on a private link first. On the day, the domain is pointed at it with every redirect in place, and visitors move across within minutes. Squarespace stays in the background until everything's confirmed.

The weeks after

We watch Search Console, test forms and bookings, and resubmit the sitemap. When the new site has settled, the Squarespace plan and any scheduling subscription are cancelled.

  • Search Console watched
  • Bookings tested
  • Squarespace cancelled last

Questions and answers

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  • Partly. Squarespace exports some pages and blog posts, and products as a spreadsheet, but not the design or most layouts. We save what it exports and rebuild the rest.

  • Clients and upcoming appointments are saved before anything changes, and new bookings move to the new site's booking flow on the day of the switch.

  • Yes. It can stay with Squarespace and point to the new site, or move to a registrar in your name.

  • No. It stays until the new site is live and checked; then the plan and any scheduling subscription are cancelled.

  • No. Your Squarespace site stays live while the new one is built, and the switch takes minutes once it's ready. Visitors go from one to the other without a gap.

  • Not if every old address is redirected to its new page, which we set up before the switch. Rankings usually hold through the move, and often improve once the new pages settle in.

  • The move is part of building the new site: a fixed project price agreed before anything starts, then one monthly fee to host and look after it. You keep paying Squarespace only until the switch.

Kind words

Hear it from the businesses we've built for. What it's like to work with us, in their own words.

“Our new website and ads brought in more customers than we expected. Stratasis made the whole thing easy from start to finish.”
Anna BorowskaOwner, Apex Windows
“They took our whole website from idea to launch, online booking included, and never made it feel complicated.”
Elizabeth MarkowskiOwner, Virelle
“Everything was built around how we actually work, with the compliance side looked after from the first day.”
Daniel ZhaoFounder, Pelagion
“One team for the brand, the site and the ads. It finally feels like one business online.”
Mark SullivanDirector, Harbor
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