Squarespace is known for polished, design-led templates and an all-in-one website builder with an online store, scheduling, memberships and marketing tools. Wizard Application includes a website builder too, but your website runs on the same platform as your sales, recruitment, projects and help desk, so every order, applicant and enquiry lands in the right place.
If you are choosing between them, this guide sets out how they compare, where each one is strong, and which kind of business each suits best.
At a glance
| Wizard Application | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | A website costs £25 a month on any plan, including the free Starter plan, billed from your wallet | Basic £12, Core £17, Plus £29 and Advanced £79 a month, billed yearly, or £16, £24, £36 and £89 billed monthly |
| Transaction fees | No transaction fee from us. You connect your own Stripe or PayPal account and pay only their processing fees. | A 2% online store transaction fee on Basic and none on Core and above, plus payment processing fees. Digital content and memberships carry a fee of 7% on Basic down to none on Advanced. |
| Online store | Products with options and stock, digital downloads, shipping and tax by country, discount codes, customer accounts and order emails. Every order lands in Sales. | Every plan can sell products and services, with no limit on how many |
| Building | A drag and drop canvas with a section library, edit in place, desktop, tablet and mobile views, version history and scheduled publishing | Design-led templates and a drag and drop editor |
| Domain | Buy a domain as you sign up or from Domains, registered in your name, or connect one you own. SSL and a global CDN included. Sites go public on your own domain only, with a private preview until then. | One year of free domain registration with yearly plans |
| Trial | Start on the free Starter plan and add a website when you are ready | A 14-day free trial with no credit card required |
| Beyond the website | Jobs from Recruitment, forms into your CRM, plus projects, help desk, HR, chat and invoicing in the same workspace | Scheduling, memberships and marketing tools, with professional email through Google Workspace on Core and above |
Where Squarespace is strong
Squarespace is built around design. Its templates are polished and consistent, the editor keeps pages looking good without much effort, and every plan can sell products and services. Scheduling, memberships, digital content and email marketing are available alongside the store, Core and above drop the online store transaction fee, and there is a 14-day free trial with no credit card. If a beautiful site with little effort matters most, Squarespace is a strong choice.
Where Wizard Application is different
- Your website and your business in one place. Store orders land in Sales with the customer attached, applications from your careers pages land in Recruitment, and enquiry forms create leads and tasks for your team. Nothing is copied between a website builder, a CRM and an ATS.
- Jobs on your own website. Jobs you publish in Recruitment appear on your website automatically, and candidates apply on a page styled like the rest of your site.
- No cut of your sales. You connect your own Stripe or PayPal account, and we take no transaction fee on top of their processing fees.
- Wizard AI built in. Draft whole pages from a sentence, design your menus, rewrite any block, get SEO suggestions and draft legal pages, then add an AI live chat that answers visitors from your own pages.
- Your domain, handled for you. Buy a domain as you sign up or from Domains in your workspace. We register it in your name, set up its DNS and renew it from your wallet, with SSL and a global CDN included.
- One platform and one bill. Your website sits next to projects, help desk, HR, team chat and invoicing, with one login and one set of permissions.
Where Wizard Application is behind
We would rather you choose with the full picture. Our Website Builder is new, and a dedicated website platform does more today:
- No app store. There is no marketplace of third-party apps and plugins to extend your site.
- Online only. There is no point of sale for selling in person, and no selling through marketplaces or social media.
- Fewer starting points. You build from a section library and your own theme settings rather than a large gallery of ready-made templates.
- No bookings on the website. Visitors cannot book appointments or classes through your site yet.
- Your own domain to go live. There is no free subdomain. Your site stays in private preview until you connect or buy a domain.
- Two payment providers. Checkout takes payments through Stripe and PayPal.
Which should you choose
Squarespace may suit you better if design-led templates are your priority, or you need scheduling, memberships or email marketing built into your website.
Wizard Application may suit you better if your website is part of a wider business, you want orders, customers, enquiries and job applicants in one place, and you would rather not pay a website builder, a CRM and an ATS separately.
Moving from Squarespace
Keep your Squarespace site running while you build your new one. Recreate your pages with the section library or Wizard AI, add your products and check everything in private preview. When you are ready, point your domain at your new website. If you would rather not move it yourself, our migration team can help.
When you are ready to compare the two properly, see our pricing or explore the Website Builder.
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