Squarespace and Elementor are almost opposites in terms of CMS platforms. Squarespace follows a template-based approach, while Elementor follows a drag-and-drop approach that also includes customizing themes based on business needs. However, both make sure websites are mobile responsive. We’ll compare Elementor and Squarespace to make it easier for you to choose between them.
According to user reviews, Elementor is often beaten by Squarespace because Elementor is a popular WordPress plugin and site builder. At the same time, Squarespace is a website builder offering every feature and is known as an all-in-one solution for users. Let’s see how Squarespace and Elementor are compared.
Elementor, with over 12 million users, somehow beats its competitors in number of users but also gets beaten because of its simple user interface and limited widgets. Sometimes, when you need a widget not in Elementor, you must install another plugin in WordPress.
Elementor is a popular drag-and-drop tool that supports easy integration with WordPress and is fully compatible with others. It also fully supports the integration of external tools like Calendly and many others; you can even add HTML code to the website using an HTML Widget.
Elementor offers WooCommerce features, using WooCommerce WordPress plugins with advanced features, widgets, and customization options. It is a powerful plugin that sometimes feels like a learning curve for beginners.
Overview of Squarespace CMS Website Builder
With its no-complex user interface and unlimited features, Squarespace rules the no-code development race. More than 60% of Squarespace’s websites are for small businesses and startups.
Squarespace helps users by providing them with a starter website and complete control over customization. With its vast features, Squarespace also stands out as an eCommerce site builder, giving all the features for selling online and marketing campaigns, SEO features, and support for other tools that need to be integrated.
Squarespace allows you to create eCommerce websites and online stores. You have complete control over customizing product pages, category pages, and others.
Elementor and Squarespace: Ease of Use
Squarespace offers templates tailored to your needs, whereas Elementor doesn’t provide any but offers various widgets that support WordPress’s templates and themes.
Squarespace and WordPress templates are available for almost every type of site you want to build, whether it’s a portfolio site, landing pages, blogs, eCommerce, or websites for small and large businesses.
Elementor and Squarespace also support SEO tools, where you can add SEO meta titles, descriptions, and more to help you rank your site better.
Squarespace: User-Friendly Websites for Your Businesses
Squarespace provides professional templates with appealing designs and looks, allowing users to create visually appealing sites that drive business results.
Squarespace templates are simple. You don’t need to drag and drop; you can select any section you want to remove. If you’re going to add something, add a new section, and in the section, add anything that you want, like text, newsletter, image, or anything else.
Elementor: A Plugin for WordPress
Elementor is a plugin and WordPress page builder that doesn’t have templates. It supports WordPress themes and templates and allows you to customize templates easily and smoothly.
Elementor’s user interface is user-friendly and straightforward, without any complex features. It gives you more control over customization, even though you can provide a class or ID to any element and add CSS to customize the specific one. Elementor also provides some widgets that can show data dynamically with changes.
Elementor vs Squarespace: Built-In SEO Tools
Squarespace has built-in SEO support, but Elementor doesn’t. Instead, WordPress offers SEO support. Let’s see what they offer to help users rank websites better.
Squarespace
Squarespace is an all-in-one hosted platform and CMS for building a website. It offers built-in SEO and marketing features, auto-generated sitemaps, essential meta titles, and mobile optimization. The Squarespace CMS platform offers ready-to-go promotional layouts and support for marketing tools like MailChimp and product tagging on eCommerce websites.
Elementor
Elementor won’t give you any support for SEO, as you know that Elementor is just a plugin. Still, WordPress will provide full support for SEO plugins, including customizing titles, descriptions, and more, to make your website rank higher. If someone searches for something relevant, the search engines will show your website on the first page, and a website without SEO is like a bee without wings.
If you want your website to have better SEO, you can also select keywords on which you want to rank it and add content around those keywords so that if someone searches for those keywords, your website will appear on the first page.
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Squarespace: Pricing Plans
Squarespace offers plans and pricing compared to Elementor: Personal, business, commerce basic, and commerce advanced. The personal pricing plan is for relatively simple, static sites, doesn’t provide any functionality, and costs $16/mo. It offers a custom domain, an optimized website, and templates for across devices; you can also send free invoices.
Squarespace’s next plan, business, is the most popular and costs $23/mo. It offers all the features mentioned above in the personal plan, along with the additional features of advanced web analytics, selling products, and easy checkout of one’s domain.
Squarespace’s commerce basic and commerce advance plans for more significant sites that
need more flexibility; both plans offer all the features that were mentioned in the above plan and cost $28/mo and $52/mo, respectively; both offer advance shipping, zero transaction fee, and zero fees on sending invoices but in commerce basic you can give discounts and sell a subscription, whereas in commerce advance you have that freedom along with the powerful merchandising.
Elementor: Pricing Plans
Elementor is used to create WordPress websites. Compared to Squarespace, Elementor offers a variety of features that make It an easy and flexible plugin for WordPress. Elementor offers a free plan with some limitations compared to its other premium versions. Let’s see what Elementor offers unmatched in its free and pro plans.
Elementor Free Version
The free version of Elementor is best for beginners who want to create custom websites. Elementor has a few limitations. For example, you can make your theme from scratch but can upload, install, and customize themes, and it does not include WordPress hosting. It also offers high compatibility with every plugin required for your website. You can use any widget in Elementor, and if you can’t find the widget you’re looking for, you can use plugins to get that widget, even though it also allows you to integrate payment gateways.
Elementor Pro and Its Pricing
Using the Elementor pro version allows you to create your theme, and in the pro version, you can create headers and footers using the theme builder; in the free version, you have to install a plugin for it, and it also allows you to create custom WooCommerce templates
When you navigate to the Elementor Website, you’ll see different plans and pricing for Elementor Pro and WooCommerce bundles. Elementor Pro has four packages: Essential, Advanced Solo, Advanced, and Expert, and all have pricing that varies from one year to three years. WooCommerce Bundles have only three packages: Shop Core, Shop Essential, and Shop Advanced.
- Essential Package in Elementor Pro - $4.99/mo: This package allows you to create only one site with up to 57 pro widgets. You can also add dynamic content and form builder; not just that, you can also create custom themes, and you'll have 24/7 support.
- Advanced Solo in Elementor Pro—$6.99/mo: This package allows you to create only one site with up to 86 pro widgets. You can also add dynamic content and a form builder, create custom themes, add custom code and CSS, and provide eCommerce features and a popup builder.
- Advanced in Elementor Pro—$16.99 to $33.25/mo: This package allows you to create 25 to 1000 sites with up to 86 pro widgets. You can also add dynamic content and a form builder, create custom themes, and add custom code and CSS. It also provides eCommerce features and allows the creation of a popup builder. You can also use collaborative notes, and here you'll have premium support 24/7.
- Shop Core in WooCommerce—$3.99/mo: This package allows you to create only one site with up to 32 free widgets. You can also use a floating bar template and contact buttons, and you have 24/7 full support. The Shop Core package gives you a premium WooCommerce theme, store management tools, and optimized checkouts.
- Shop Essential in WooCommerce—$7.99/mo: This package provides the same features as Shop Core, but in addition, it offers 57 pro widgets, allows you to create your theme using dynamic content, and includes a form builder.
- Shop Advanced in WooCommerce—$9.99/mo: This package provides the same features that Shop Essential did, but it also gives you up to 86 pro widgets, allows you to create your theme using dynamic content, and has a form builder. You can also create popups, add custom code and CSS, and use every eCommerce feature.
Customer Support
Elementor and Squarespace both offer customer support that is active for 24 hours. By navigating to their sites, you’ll see chatbots there, which aren’t only bots but are trained regularly. As updates roll out, they train their bots to keep them updated to provide full user support.
Website Creation
Website creation is easy with both website builders. Still, some users prefer Squarespace to create a website because Squarespace provides ready-to-go templates and won’t support building from scratch. Elementor gives you full support to choose whether you want to go with the template or create a website from scratch. Anyone who wants to learn website creation with Elementor doesn’t need to be familiar with WordPress; you can start with WordPress themes.
Conclusion: Choose Squarespace or Elementor
Choosing between Elementor and Squarespace can create a battle between these CMS platforms, ultimately benefiting the user. Both CMS will keep updating their features to make development easier for their users.
Elementor somehow wins the race. Though Elementor is a WordPress plugin and page builder, it supports every feature and functionality of WordPress, which is why WordPress users love It. Elementor allows eCommerce features, including customizing product pages, category pages, and labels and adding search features with advanced filters.
Squarespace provides similar features and customizations to Elementor. However, it is an all-in-one hosted platform that allows users to create and host websites, but it also has limitations.
At some point, you have to add CSS for customizing small elements like pricing text, labels, and other elements. However, Squarespace’s approach makes beginners feel like they are on a learning curve while using Squarespace.
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