You picked Squarespace for the design. You're outgrowing it for the commerce. Keep the aesthetic — move to a platform built for where you're going next.
Squarespace Commerce is strong up to a point. Once you're past a few hundred products, or you need complex shipping, B2B, or subscriptions, the walls start showing up.
Squarespace's checkout is fine, but it doesn't match Shopify's Shop Pay and accelerated checkout when it comes to conversion. And your payment gateway choices are limited.
Squarespace's app ecosystem is narrower. When you need a specific shipping tool, accounting sync, or subscription app, you often end up building something custom — or waiting for Squarespace to add it.
We rebuild the editorial look you loved on Squarespace as a custom Shopify theme — same brand, no platform limits. Full creative control over every page, every section.
B2B, subscriptions, international selling, in-person POS, headless storefronts — every commerce feature is a first-class part of Shopify, not a workaround.
Shopify runs $1M/year stores and $1B/year stores on the same platform. You don't outgrow it — you just grow into more of what it offers.
| Feature | Squarespace | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Design system | Templates + style editor | Fully custom Shopify themes |
| Commerce feature depth | Basics + a few extensions | Full — B2B, subscriptions, POS, headless |
| Checkout | Squarespace Payments or Stripe | Shop Pay + Shopify Payments |
| App ecosystem | ~300 extensions | 8,000+ apps |
| International selling | Limited | Shopify Markets (full) |
| Typical time to launch | 2–4 weeks | 2–3 weeks |
| Room to scale | Mid-market | Up to enterprise (Shopify Plus) |
We walk through your store together and catalog everything that needs to come over — products, orders, customers, blog posts. We check every URL and search ranking you care about so nothing slips through the cracks. You walk away with a written plan to sign off on before we touch a thing.
Deliverables: Audit report · inventory sheet · URL map · risk register
We build your new Shopify storefront in your brand — colors, type, layout, the lot. Any checkout customizations go through Shopify's supported extension points so nothing breaks on a platform update. Speed targets are baked in from day one, not bolted on later.
Deliverables: Theme repo · Figma mapping · speed report · staging preview
Every product, customer, and past order moves over intact — nothing lost, no orphans. We build a complete redirect map so every old URL points to the right new one. Google keeps the link equity you've earned and your rankings stay where they are.
Deliverables: Migration scripts · redirect CSV · SEO preservation report
We test the whole site top-to-bottom on a staging copy — checkout, search, admin, the works. Then we practice the domain switchover ahead of time so there are no surprises on launch day. Go-live happens during a quiet traffic window, with a one-click rollback ready if anything looks off.
Deliverables: Test suite · launch runbook · post-launch monitoring dashboard
Share a few details and we'll come back with a scoped migration plan within one business day.
