KitCommerce vs Squarespace

Squarespace alternative: GoCommerce vs Squarespace

Squarespace builds the website. In India, the checkout is the hard part.

Squarespace Commerce is a hosted website builder with a shop inside it: templates, an editor, hosting and support for a monthly plan. For a merchant in India the question is payment — Squarespace Payments is not offered here, PayPal cannot take rupees on Squarespace, and Stripe lists India only as a preview country. GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce are MIT source, free to run yourself or hosted on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order, with Razorpay as a module and cash on delivery in the core.

2% Squarespace’s fee on store sales on its Basic plan
No UPI and no cash on delivery among Squarespace’s payment methods
Free GoCommerce licence, with a Razorpay module and cash on delivery

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KitCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform. Its packages are GoCommerce, the backend and admin, and Svelte Commerce, the storefront — MIT licensed, used together or either one on its own. Run them yourself for free, or start a store hosted on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee. On this page, each claim names the package it is about.

Squarespace Commerce and GoCommerce, side by side

Squarespace’s side is checked against its pricing page, help centre and developer docs, and Stripe’s country list, all linked at the foot of this page; ours against the GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce pages on this site and their repositories.

Squarespace Commerce compared with GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, checked 26 October 2026
Aspect	Squarespace Commerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
What it is	A hosted website builder with a shop inside it — alongside blogs, scheduling and email campaigns — run by Squarespace.	An open-source platform you run, in two MIT packages: a Go backend with its admin compiled in, and a SvelteKit storefront.
Software price	Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced plans. Squarespace prices by location and does not bill in rupees; its US prices run from US$19€12 to US$99€69 a month, billed yearly.	Nothing. Both packages are MIT licensed.
Fee on each order	2% of online store sales on Basic; none on Core, Plus or Advanced.	None when you run it yourself. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Payments from India	Squarespace Payments is not offered in India, and PayPal cannot take rupees on Squarespace. An Indian bank account can take rupees through Stripe, which lists India as a preview country.	Razorpay, Stripe, Cashfree, Adyen, Hyperswitch and six more as modules; cash on delivery is the core’s default.
Payment methods	Cards, Apple Pay, Afterpay or Clearpay, Klarna, PayPal and Venmo, depending on processor and country. No UPI and no cash on delivery on the list.	Whatever your gateway module’s provider supports, plus cash on delivery.
Shipping	Real-time carrier rates and label printing, from the Core plan up.	11 fulfilment modules, Shiprocket, Delhivery, NimbusPost and India Post among them; manual fulfilment built in.
Design	Designer templates and a drag-and-drop editor; custom CSS and JavaScript from Core up.	Svelte Commerce: server-rendered SvelteKit with 79 live demo themes, every component yours to edit.
API	Commerce APIs for products, orders, inventory, discounts, contacts and webhooks; API integrations are listed from Core up.	550 documented REST operations, published as OpenAPI — the same API the admin uses.
Extensions	Squarespace Extensions: third-party tools that connect to your site.	54 modules — payments, shipping, messaging, search, feeds, MCP — each compiled in when you import it. No app store.
Your data	Products export to CSV, up to 10,000 at a time, without reviews, featured images or variant images.	Rows in your own PostgreSQL, which you can query, back up and move.
Help when it breaks	Squarespace’s own customer support, included in every plan.	GitHub issues, discussions and Discord. No support contract.

What each side costs

Squarespace’s plan buys the website, the hosting and the support in one bill. Ours has no bill for software. Run it yourself and the server and the developer are where the money goes; host a store on kitcommerce.store and it pays 1% of every successful order.

Recurring costs, Squarespace Commerce against GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce
Cost	Squarespace Commerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Plan	US$19€12, US$29€18, US$49€32 or US$99€69 a month billed yearly; US$25€17, US$39€24, US$65€42 or US$139€79 month to month, at Squarespace’s US prices	No plan
Fee on store sales	2% on Basic; none on Core and above	None when you run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Payment processing	Stripe’s or PayPal’s own rate from India; Squarespace Payments, 2.5% to 2.9% + US$0.30 a card payment in the US, is not offered here	Your gateway’s rate
Billing currency	26 currencies, and the rupee is not one of them	No subscription to bill
Hosting	Included	Run yourself: a server and a PostgreSQL database, from a small VPS upward. Or hosted on kitcommerce.store
People	None needed to launch	A developer to deploy, maintain and extend it

Squarespace shows plan prices by the visitor’s location, and its help centre says where you are at your first payment decides which currencies you can be billed in. Each price here is from its own list for that currency, read on the date shown. A worked example from the fee above, in US dollars: US$10,000 a month in sales on the Basic plan pays Squarespace US$200 a month, before the processor’s own charge.

Which one fits

Choose Squarespace Commerce when

The website is the point — a portfolio, a blog, bookings — and the shop is one part of it.
There is no developer on the team, and a template and an editor are how you want to work.
You sell from a country where Squarespace Payments runs, or already hold a Stripe account that takes rupees.
You want hosting, security certificates and support handled for one monthly fee.

Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when

You sell in India and want Razorpay and cash on delivery at the checkout.
Your parcels go through Shiprocket, Delhivery or NimbusPost, and you want that wired into fulfilment.
The store is the business: inventory per location, price lists, several channels.
You want the checkout’s code, not a setting in someone else’s.

What you take on

Run it yourself and you host it: a server, a PostgreSQL database, backups and upgrades are yours, or a developer’s you pay. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead.
No app store. What a module does not cover, somebody writes.
GoCommerce has over 2,000 tests, but no store we know of runs it in production yet.
Svelte Commerce reaches GoCommerce through an early connector, version 0.16.0: catalogue, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout and order lookup work; shopper sign-in, the address book and order history need GoCommerce’s identity module.
Squarespace’s blog and scheduling have no counterpart here: GoCommerce is a store backend, and its cms module adds content pages, not a blog.

Moving from Squarespace

One path, through a spreadsheet and a script.

GoCommerce has no Squarespace importer — its import modules cover Shopify and Amazon only. Squarespace exports products to CSV, up to 10,000 at a time, and GoCommerce’s core imports product CSV in its own column layout, so the catalogue becomes a column-mapping job. The export leaves out featured and variant images; those come from Squarespace’s Products API.

Orders and customers need a script that reads Squarespace’s Commerce APIs — which it lists from the Core plan up — and writes to GoCommerce’s documented REST API. There is no keep-Squarespace option: Svelte Commerce has no Squarespace connector among its 26 backends.

FAQ

Questions about Squarespace Commerce and GoCommerce

Can I sell on Squarespace from India?

You can build the store, but the payment options are thin. Squarespace Payments is not offered in India, an Indian bank account takes rupees only, and PayPal cannot take rupees on Squarespace. That leaves Stripe, which lists India as a preview country. Squarespace’s list of payment methods has no UPI and no cash on delivery.

Does Squarespace charge a fee on each sale?

On the Basic plan, 2% of online store sales. Core, Plus and Advanced charge no transaction fee on store sales. On every plan the payment processor charges its own rate on top.

How much is Squarespace in rupees?

Squarespace does not bill in rupees: the rupee is not among the 26 currencies it accepts for subscriptions, and plan prices are shown by location. At its US prices, the four plans run from US$19€12 to US$99€69 a month, billed yearly.

Is GoCommerce a website builder like Squarespace?

No. GoCommerce is a store backend with its admin compiled in, and Svelte Commerce is a storefront written in SvelteKit. If the site is mostly pages, a blog or bookings with a few products for sale, Squarespace is the better tool.

How do I move my products from Squarespace?

Export them to CSV from Squarespace, map the columns to GoCommerce’s own CSV layout and import them; images come separately through Squarespace’s Products API. Orders and customers need a script against Squarespace’s Commerce APIs and GoCommerce’s REST API. There is no one-click importer.

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Sources

Squarespace Commerce’s prices and features were checked on 26 October 2026 against the pages below. Prices change; when one here disagrees with the source, the source is right and this page is out of date. Squarespace Commerce is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare; no endorsement or affiliation is implied — see trademarks.

Run it before you decide

The backend + admin quick start runs GoCommerce’s API and admin on your own machine, without a storefront. Load a catalogue and judge it against Squarespace Commerce yourself.

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