Shopify vs SquareSpace: Head to Head Comparison

Andao hiresaka Shopify vs Squarespace.

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Na dia eo aza ny zava-misy fa tena tafiditra amin'ny tontolon'ny 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.

Na marina aza ireo orinasa roa ireo dia mifanalavitra, samy hafa ihany koa. Shopify no anarana ara-barotra marim-pototra indrindra amin'ny rindrambaiko e-commerce, nanamora ny fivarotana 82 tapitrisa dolara hatramin'ny nananganana azy tamin'ny 2006.

Squarespace manome tranobe tranokala mora ary naorina tamin'ny 2003. Mety tsy io ihany no malaza indrindra tranonkala mpanorina (tsy manana isa marina izahay amin'ireto zavatra ireto, raha ny marina) fa io no iray amin'ireo marika tena fantatra.

Ireo orinasa roa ireo dia afaka mitaky, amin'ny maha-lazan'izy ireo azy, anarana marobe marobe izay efa nanao sonia ny serivisy. Mpivady vitsivitsy ShopifyNy mpanjifany lehibe dia misy ny orinasa Kylie Jenner sy i Nestle.

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

Woah. mazava, 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 orinasa madinika.

Ka ao ny fifanintsanana ary ny fifaninanana mahaliana vokariny. Andao hizaha izany.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Who has better pricing and features?

Andao aloha hojerena aloha ny vidiny sy ny endri-javatra azonao aloa ho azy ireo.

Squarespace’s prices are a tad more complicated in relation to Shopify'S.

Squarespace has two types of drafitra, ny iray ho an'ny e-commerce ary ny iray ho an'ny tranonkala, ary ny karazany tsirairay dia misy dier roa. Mieritreritra ianao fa satria mampitaha isika 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).

Raha te hampiasa ny drafitra «fivarotana an-tserasera» ianao dia mahazo valan-tsoa vitsivitsy ankoatry ny zava-drehetra etsy ambony: azonao esorina tanteraka ny saram-barotra, mahazo mpandray anjara tsy voafetra, miditra amin'ny metaly varotra tsara kokoa, mampiasa tapa-taratasy vita amin'ny marika, mahazo kitapom-bola azo antoka ao amin'ny sehatra misy anao manokana, ampio kaonty na famandrihana mpanjifa, sy ny maro hafa.

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.

Ankehitriny Shopify.

Raha ny alàlan'ny drafitra tena lehibe dia manomboka ny drafitry ny ambaratonga fidirana amin'ny zavatra ilainao ary ny drafitra lehibe kokoa dia mila ampiasao fitaovana sy perks (indrindra ny varotra fandefasana). Ny endri-javatra fototra dia ahitana ny vokatra tsy voafetra sy ny famoronana baiko, ny rindrambaiko mpanamboatra fivarotana feno, kaonty fihenam-bidy, fantsom-barotra, sy ny sisa.

Voafetra ao amin'ny kaonty mpiasa azonao raisina na inona na inona firy aminao, ary tsy afaka mampiasa karatra fanomezana ny olona ao amin'ny andiany voalohany na miditra amin'ny tatitra mandroso.

Amin'ny traikefa ananako dia matanjaka tokoa ny rindrambaiko fananganana tranombarotra ary koa ny vokatra, ny filaminana, ny tapakila, ny famoronana fihenam-bidy Shopify. Azonao atao ny manova ny zavamisy amin'ny alàlan'ny antsipiriany tena tsara, ary avy ao anaty boaty daholo ilay izy.

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 Shopifyambaratonga.

Squarespace offers a slight advantage in having a single-page checkout option. Shopify tsia, na dia mampiasa Advanced aza ianao Shopify. Tsy fahombiazana goavana izany, fa mahagaga avy amin'ny marika mitarika (araka ny tianao ho mora vidy amin'ny fividianana ny mpanjifa).

Raha ny fandehan'ny fandefasana dia samy manolotra fihenam-bidy sy fihenam-bidy ny orinasa roa fa amin'ny lafiny samihafa.

Shopifyfandefasana entana fihenam-bidy hefty, hatramin'ny 64% ho an'ny Basic Shopify ary 74% ho an'ny Advanced Shopify. Na dia tsy voatery hahazo izany vola izany isaky ny misy aza ianao, dia misy fihenam-bidy be loatra ka mahatonga azy hanintona kokoa ny mpanjifa hanome baiko ny vokatrao.

Ankoatr'izay, ny kaonty rehetra dia mila manao pirinty ireo marika fandefasana, ary ny drafitra roa farany dia manana ny vidin'ny USPS Priority Mail Cubic - izany dia hanome sarany mifototra amin'ny habe, fa tsy lanjany (eo amin'ny tarehimarika sasany) izay mety hampihena ny vidin'ny mpivarotra.

Ireo zavatra ireo dia ampahany amin'ny fanomezana Shopify such tremendous appeal to businesses of all sizes. How does Squarespace fare?

Ny drafitra “tranokala” miaraka amin'ny fiasa e-commerce dia tsy tena misy ny fizarana fandefasana mialoha. Na izany aza, ny drafitra "fivarotana an-tserasera" dia samy mahazo: ny roa tonta dia mahazo pirinty be marika, toy ny Shopify. Ny dier avo indrindra dia manana kajy fandefasana fandefasana, izay mahasoa — na izany aza ShopifyNy drafitra 's dia manana kalkulator fandefasana.

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 eto raha mila fanazavana fanampiny.

Indrisy anefa, Shopify and Squarespace take some transaction fees. Theses vary plan to plan: ShopifyNy dier ambony indrindra dia manana ny tahan'ny ambany indrindra amin'ny 2.4% + $ 0.30 ho an'ny fividianana an-tserasera amin'ny alàlan'ny karatra. Tsy mitovy ny sarany raha mampiasa ianao ShopifyNy mpizara mpanamboatra mba handray vola, ary misy ny sarany hampiasana ny mpamatsy vola hafa Shopify Fandoavam-bola.

Squarespace only takes transaction fees for its Business plan (as mentioned), the second “Websites” tier. Ny iray amin'ireo drafitra roa "Stores an-tserasera" dia esorina ny saram-barotra, ka tsy mila mandeha lavitra ianao mba hisorohana azy ireo.

Ity misy zavatra iray farany hitako fa ilaina ny manamarika hoe: midina. Shopify dia mpitarika ny indostria amin'ny ampahany noho ny fahaizan'ny fahatratrarana. Ny Dropshipping dia midika hoe anao, tompona fivarotana, dia hanana fety fahatelo (mihazakazaka amin'ny trano fitehirizam-bokatra, angamba) entana vokatra iray alain'ny mpanjifa mivantana amin'ny mpanjifa. Midika izany fa hampiasa ny fivarotanao ny mpanjifa, fa tsy handoa ilay vokatrao ianao.

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

Ny olana dia azonao atao ny mampiasa ny fandefasana ny pirinty miaraka amin'ny drafitra fivarotana Advanced (ny dier avo indrindra) sy ny olona Shopify afaka mampiasa Oberlo amin'ny tier rehetra, ary i Oberlo dia afaka mampiasa tanteraka raha toa ka manana Shopify kaonty (na dia afaka manavao aza ianao ho an'ny tier avo Oberlo).

Ireo zavatra ireo dia zava-dehibe, saingy, rehefa mametraka fivarotana an-tserasera ianao, ny endrika ivelany sy ny fitaovana hafa, tsy fitaovana fanao mahazatra dia tena ampahany lehibe amin'ny fampiasa amin'ny e-commerce koa.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Who has better templates and apps?

Ny maodely sy ny famolavolana dia zava-dehibe ho an'ny roa tonta 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.

Samy samy manolotra tempolety ireo orinasa roa ireo ary samy tsara avokoa.

Shopify dia manolotra am-polony vitsivitsy lohahevitra, nandoa vola ny ankamaroany.

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.

Raha ny hevitro dia samy Shopify and Squarespace have beautiful themes. I’d say I generally prefer Squarespace’s themes and find Shopifytoa mitovitovy ihany ny fijerena azy - na izany aza. satria ShopifyNy lohahevitr'ireo lohahevitra dia namboarina manokana ho an'ny fivarotana, hoy aho Shopify mandresy amin'ny lohahevitra / modely.

Na izany aza, raha handeha hatrany ny fanovana sy ny fananganana tranokala dia omeko 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.

Manaraka, manan-danja tokoa ny fivarotana app rehefa mampiasa an sehatra ecommerce. Tsara ny mahazo “ivelan'ny boaty” araka izay tratranao, saingy tsy afaka miantehitra amin'izany foana ianao.

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 eto, 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 dia hafa. Shopify manana fomba nentim-paharazana bebe kokoa app store firafitry ny fametrahana azy. Mety ho toa fifanarahana ratsy kokoa izany, saingy tsy eritreretiko hoe, na izany aza, marina fa mety lafo indraindray.

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 ShopifyNy fivarotana app dia mavitrika sy mivoatra. Afaka mahita fampidirana niche bebe kokoa ianao, miampy ny malaza be dia be indraindray.

Izany dia mitarika antsika amin'ny fomba fijerintsika lehibe manaraka: mora ny fampiasana.

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 manokana indrindra ny tsena ny tenany ho mpitarika amin'ny fitaovana famoronana mora ho an'ny mpampiasa.

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

Ary izao no hatao Shopifymitovy aminy:

Ireo orinasa roa ireo dia mahatakatra ny filàna mora ampiasaina. Soa ihany ho antsika roa tonta dia manaraka ny sainy.

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.

Ity ambany fijery amin'ny SquareSpace'dashboard'

ary eto ny topimaso momba ny Shopify'dashboard'

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

Ny antsipiriany amin'ny fanitsiana ny varotra dia toa mora sy matanjaka avokoa amin'ny orinasa roa (na dia Shopify dia lalindalina kokoa), fa ny famolavolana fanitsiana dia tsara kokoa Squarespace. Tsy ireo maodely anananao ihany no alehanao, fa ireo fitaovana sy fahaizana azonao ilainao ireo fanovana ireo maody ireo.

Zavatra tiako be 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.

Ny tsy fahampiana eto dia ny hoe iza no te-hanana kaody Shopify tsy maintsy mianatra ShopifyNy volavolan-kaody famolavolana azy manokana, ranon-javatra. Ny mpikarakara za-draharaha za-draharaha dia afaka manangona azy io, saingy mbola manahirana kokoa noho ny ilaina izany.

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 dia mora ampiasaina ary mitazona fifehezana ny ambaratonga iray nefa tsy mahafoy fahazavana betsaka.

Ny manjombona amin'izany dia 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?

Rehefa nanantitrantitra aho, na dia "mora" aza ny mampiasa rindrambaiko dia mila fanohanana mpanjifa tsara. Ny fahasahiranana ara-teknika dia hitranga na dia amin'ny tsara indrindra aza, ary na ny mpampiasa mandroso aza dia mety mila fanazavana haingana hivezivezy amin'ny sehatra vaovao.

samy Shopify and Squarespace have truly excellent customer support. However, I have to say that Shopify mandeha ny kilaometatra fanampiny, noho izany dia hanomboka amin'izy ireo aho.

Ny antony voalohany ilazako izany dia satria Shopify omena anao ireo solontena amin'ny alàlan'ny chat mivantana, rafitra mailaka / tapakila ary telefaona. Ho fanampin'izay, tamin'ny zavatra niainako dia nahatsapa sy nanampy betsaka ireo reps.

Tsy mihoatra ny solontena mahomby anefa izany. Shopify manana loharanon-karena an-taonany maro. Ny sasany amin'ireny dia zavatra ilaina efa hitanao, toy ireo fahalalana fototra (fantatra koa amin'ny hoe Help Center).

Ny fototry ny fahalalana dia feno toy ny tsara indrindra amin'izy ireo, ary misy lohahevitra lehibe. Tena zava-dehibe fa afaka mahita na ireo fanontanianao manokana manavaka anao ao amin'ny Ivontoerana fanampiana aza.

Shopify manana bilaogy, izay somary tena mahazatra, nefa manana loharanom-panabeazana izay miavaka sy anaty lalindalina kokoa. Ohatra iray amin'izany dia Shopify Academy, izay manana fampianarana maimaim-poana izay mety mahasoa ho an'ireo vao manomboka. Ny ohatra iray lehibe indrindra dia Shopify's forum forum, izay mamela anao hidiranao Shopifyny mpampiasa mpampiasa lehibe ary mahasoa ho an'ny olana na torohevitra tokana.

Ny iray hafa dia Shopify mpitarika, izay fanangonana ireo ebook maimaimpoana izay manana torohevitra amin'ny raharaham-barotra sy toro-hevitra amin'ny e-commerce. Shopifypodcast roa dia mitovy, karazan-tsakafo ho an'ny liana, ary ny encyclopedia tsy zavatra fantatro fa tena ilaina nefa tsara ihany.

Shopify Polaris dia torolàlana lalina amin'ny ShopifyIreo fenitra famolavolana. Loharanom-pahalalana tsy fantatra izy io, saingy mety ho mpamonjy aina raha manamboatra tranokala ho an'ny mpanjifanao (na ho an'ny tenanao ihany).

Farany, Shopify manome fitaovana vitsivitsy maimaimpoana izay mety hitranga amin'ny mora.

Ka, eny, eny. Wow. 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.

Tsy maninona na izany aza, satria mandray andraikitra sy manampy amin'ny alàlan'ny chat live na mailaka ny mailaka.

The cornerstone of Squarespace’s onsite resources is its fahalalana fototra.

Squarespace’s knowledgebase isn’t as in-depth as Shopify's, fa tena mahafinaritra. Hita ao ihany koa Lahatsary fampianarana ho an'ireo izay mahaliana azy ireo ny mamaky.

Squarespace offers a lot more aside from its knowledge base. For example, Squarespace has webinars, blog iray (indray, mahazatra io), a Forum. Hitako fa tsy dia matanjaka loatra ilay forum Shopify's, nefa mbola fananana tsara.

Squarespace also brings a lot to the table when it comes to customer support and resources. The reason I grant the win to Shopify manana safidy bebe kokoa amin'ny hifandraisana amin'ireo solontena, miampy loharanom-pahalalana bebe kokoa izy io ary mihalalina kokoa ny loharanon-karena.

Who is more secure and reliable?

Ankehitriny, ho an'ny singa farany ao amin'ny lisitry ny kitay lisitra: fiarovana sy fitokisana. Tsy mila ilazako aminao ny antony maha-zava-dehibe ny filaminana na ny fahatokisana anao ny raharaha.

Tsy nisy na iray aza tamin'ireo mpifaninana aminay nilaza tonony momba ny filaminany, saingy tsy midika izany fa tsy misy azy ireo izy ireo. Izy ireo dia manamarika ny fanamarinan'izy ireo momba ny fanodinana ny fandoavam-bola sy ny fampahalalana ho an'ny mpanjifa, izay toa tena mahafinaritra mandra-pahafatanao fa maneho fenitra izy io (mifanohitra amin'ny zavatra ambony noho ny fenitra).

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

Manoro hevitra aho hanamarina ny pejy 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 manome SSL ho an'ny kaonty rehetra.

Ankehitriny, raha mandeha ny fanaovana fampisehoana dia tsy nanana traikefa nahafinaritra tamin'ny orinasa tsirairay ihany aho. Tafiditra ao anatin'izany ny haingam-pandeha fotsiny sy ny hafainganan'ny toerana, fa ny fampiasana isan'andro ny rindrambaiko. Izaho tsy niatrika pejy bevohoka, lozam-pifamoivoizana, na izay mety hitebiteby be.

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.

Ataovy ao an-tsaina foana izany Shopify serivisy sasany amin'ireo orinasa lehibe indrindra eto an-tany (ary eny, ny avo indrindra amin'ny fiarovana amin'ny orinasa dia mazava ho ambony noho ny kaonty mahazatra, na izany aza, ny teboka) ary nanamora an'arivony tapitrisa ny fifanakalozana an-tsokosoko, azo antoka fa matanjaka ny fiarovana.

Shopify vs SquareSpace: Which do I Recommend?

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

Fantatsika rehetra fa tsy misy habe iray mifanaraka amin'ny rehetra, ary Shopify and Squarespace clearly have some different pros and cons.

Izy ireo dia samy milamina ary manatanteraka azo itokisana. Samy manana ny fanohanan'ny mpanjifa tena tsara izy ireo na dia mieritreritra aza aho Shopify mandray ny lalana.

Raha ny halehiben'ny fampiasana dia samy tsara avokoa, saingy 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.

Raha ny alàlan'ny modely, 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, na izany aza.

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 ShopifyNy fivarotana app dia manana safidy fanamboarana hafahafa sy safidy (na dia mety lafo aza indraindray).

As far as price and overall go features go, things get dicey. Squarespace is of course much cheaper, and ShopifyNy isan-karazany dia sarobidy kokoa (na dia manomboka amin'ny toerana ekena tsara aza izany raha ny hevitro).

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

Plus, 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 lafo kokoa noho ny tokony ho izy, toy ny fametrahana endri-javatra fototra amin'ny ambaratonga avo kokoa sy ny fiampangana ny saram-barotra fiakarana, Shopify dia safidy ecommerce matanjaka kokoa hatrany.

Te hiteny aho amin'ny ankapobeny Shopify mahazo ny torohevitra nataoko. Ho an'ireo mivarotra vokatra nomerika 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 dia mampihatra faran'izay masiaka tokoa raha maniry izany.

Fa hey, raha tsy matoky ianao, afaka manandrana azy ireo foana! Shopify manana 14 andro Andrana maimaim-poana sy Squarespace mamela anao hijanona eo amin'ny fitsarana andrana raha tsy efa vonona ianao. Mandrosoa ary mivoaha, ry mpiara-miangona eo!