Guide to Squarespace Extensions

A website plugin is a tool that adds features or functionality to your site. Squarespace Extensions are third-party plugins that integrate useful tools directly into your Squarespace site and account. Many Extensions have a free access tier with the option to pay for additional features. You can use them to improve your site’s SEO, simplify your shipping and finances, or even turn your site into a mobile app.

Why use website plugins?

Plugins are a way to make your website work harder for you while keeping your site tools all in one place. Instead of searching for and managing extra tools, you can connect a third-party tool directly to your site for convenience.

For example, on Squarespace, you can use an Extension to add dropshipped print on demand merch to your website. Extensions integrate with your Squarespace account, so you can link your online store to third-party tools.

Squarespace Extensions for any website

You can use Extensions to help people discover you through search engines or make your website accessible in multiple languages.

Search engine optimization

The TinyIMG extension focuses on search optimization. You can use it to ensure your site pages load quickly and your copy includes target keywords for searches in your niche—both important to help your site rank higher in results.

Key features:

• Optimize image file names, sizes, and alt text

• Generate search-friendly copy, like page descriptions and titles

• Create search-optimized product descriptions for online stores

Read more tips for improving your SEO

Multiple website languages

Use Weglot Translate to translate your website into multiple languages. This is especially useful if you’re trying to capture the attention of international site visitors or if you simply live somewhere where multilingual websites are common.

Key features:

• Option to combine automatic translation with manual translation and edits

• Translated sites are automatically indexed by search engines, so you’re discoverable in multiple languages

• Quick translation and access to professional translators

Learn from Weglot why multilingual websites matter

Send push notifications to site visitors

Turn your website into an app with Progressier, so you can connect with your site visitors anywhere. The app functionality also makes it easier to stay in touch and drive traffic back to your site using push notifications.

Key features:

• Turns websites into a downloadable app across devices and operating systems

• Send promotions via push notifications for new content, business updates, or sales

• Get data on how and how often users use your app

Ecommerce plugins

Your business is unique, so the right Extensions for you will depend on your unique business needs too. You can support your Squarespace commerce site with shipping and dropshipping Extensions, tools for reviews and customer service, or Extensions that help you manage your taxes and finances.

Shipping and inventory management

As your business grows, you may need help with storing and tracking physical inventory and managing your shipping. Try these Extensions to save time and simplify your shipping workflow.

Shipping extensions

Squarespace partners with several third-party businesses to help online store owners manage their shipping workflows and costs. Compare the key features and choose one based on your budget and business needs.

• AfterShip: Track orders across multiple carriers and keep your customers updated along the way

• EasyShip: Preferred shipping rates and support to ship domestic and international

• Returns Center by AfterShip: Make managing product returns easier for you and your customers.

• Sendcloud: Get shipping labels from domestic and international carriers and manage tracking and returns (for those outside of North America)

• ShipBob: Hands-off shipping, inventory management, and order fulfillment

• Shippo: Streamline your shipping and get discounted rates from commonly used carriers

• ShipStation: Organize and ship your orders from multiple selling platforms

Learn more about setting up your shipping options

Inventory management

Keeping track of your stock is key to running your business well. A good inventory tracker will help you stay on top of when to reorder materials or stock, pricing, and popular products.

• inFlow Cloud: An inventory tracking system. This may be more helpful for more established businesses with multiple products and high sales volume.

• SKU IQ: Link your inventory tracking to your point-of-sale (POS) system, so you have your pricing and stock information on hand even while making in-person sales.

• Trunk: Connect your inventory tracking everywhere you sell, from your Squarespace store and third-party marketplaces to in person with a POS reader.

Get more tips on inventory management

Sales tools

Print on demand and dropshipping

Squarespace also offers multiple options for selling print on demand merch or starting a dropshipping business. Try Custom Merch for an experience that fully integrates with your Squarespace website and account or try out an option from below. 

• Art of Where: Create and sell print on demand clothing, art, and accessories featuring your designs.

• Candid Wholesale: Sell your products wholesale to other businesses without creating a process from scratch. Use this Extension to take orders and handle payments from partners.

• Printify: Another custom print on demand option for clothing, art, home goods, and more.

• Printique: Printique focuses on high-quality print on demand art and may be a good way to earn more income if you mostly sell or share digital art online.

• Spocket: This Extension allows you to start a dropshipping business with other suppliers’ products if you’re not ready to sell your own just yet.

• SPOD: Another print on demand option for clothing, wall art, and home goods.

• Syncee: Another dropshipping solution that offers the option to pick what you sell individually or in bulk.

Learn more about print on demand

Sell on multiple platforms

Sometimes, selling on third-party marketplaces or websites can help you build your customer base. Instead of manually managing listings on multiple platforms, you can use an Extension to manage multiple listings at once. 

• GoDataFeed: Create a catalog of your online store products and control how they show up on other selling and marketing platforms, like social media and search.

• LitCommerce: Add your products to third-party marketplaces and sync your inventory and pricing so you can manage selling across multiple platforms with one tool.

• Order Desk: Sell your products across social media and third-party marketplaces while automating steps in your order and fulfillment process to save time.

Marketing and customer service

The first step to sales success is reaching potential customers. But marketing your products takes time. You can use the Squarespace iOS app to create marketing assets like GIFs and images and Email Campaigns to send marketing emails. But consider these Extensions if you want to collect customer reviews, connect with customers, or hand off some of your customer service tasks.

• Channable: If you’re looking to invest in ads for your business, Channable helps you manage marketing across different platforms and track your performance.

• Delighted: Automate customer feedback so you can ensure your products and deliveries are leaving customers happy.

• EZ Texting: Launch text-based SMS marketing so you can send customers promotions and order confirmations on the devices they use most. 

• impact.com: Set up an affiliate program to turn your most loyal supporters into invested word-of-mouth marketers for your content or products.

• Judge.me: Collect and show off star ratings and reviews for your physical products and use the integration to boost your SEO or share reviews on social media.

• LiveChat: Offer real-time and asynchronous customer service chats across different messaging platforms.

• Outfy: Create and edit content for your social media channels to keep yourself top-of-mind for customers and potential buyers.

• Sprout: Give back to the planet by planting a tree for every order placed or item sold in your online store.

• soona: Mail in your products and get professional photos, GIFs, and videos to use in your online shop and in your email or social media marketing.

Learn more about marketing your business

Taxes and finances

Getting taxes and finances right for your business can feel overwhelming, but it’s important to get it right. In addition to working with a tax and accounting professional, these Extensions can help you keep track of your finances all year long.

• Dext: Collect your sales data from every platform you sell and view it in one, standardized place. Then import it into your accounting software.

• FreshBooks: Track your clients, items, and orders in one place for easy accounting.

• MYOB by Amaka: Automate tracking of the transactions in your online shop so you  always have accurate financial records.

• QuickBooks Online Connector: Another way to automate accounting for your Squarespace store and keep track of products, payments, and invoices.

• TaxJar: Automatically calculate sales tax in the U.S. when required and file tax forms.

• Xero by Amaka: Automate tracking of your sales, payment, and tax information to your cloud-based accounting tool.

Get more accounting tips from the Amaka team

How to use Squarespace Extensions plugins

You don’t have to use Extensions to have a successful website or business. Using plugins is about making your workflow more efficient or organized, so consider where you could use extra support—or if there are tasks you just wish you could take off of your plate.

To add an Extension to your Squarespace site, open the Extensions panel and browse your options. Then:

1. Click Connect to site.

2. Choose the site you want to connect the Extension to.

3. Click Allow if the Extension asks for permissions to access your site.

4. Follow the remaining steps to get set up with the third-party tool.