Squarespace Website Pricing for Irish Small Businesses

Squarespace charges Irish customers in euro, and its four plans cost from €12 to €69 a month on annual billing, as shown on the Squarespace pricing page in October 2026. VAT is added on top. So the plan price is only the start. What a business really pays is the cost of owning the site for a year: VAT, the domain from year two, card fees and the owner’s own time.

To make those costs concrete, this guide follows one example from start to finish. Imagine Siobhán, who runs a small café in Galway and wants her first proper website.

Squarespace plans and prices in Ireland#

When Siobhán opens the pricing page from Ireland, she sees four plans in euro. Paying for a year up front lowers the monthly price on every plan, and every new site starts with a 14-day free trial with hosting included.

Prices shown to a visitor in Ireland in October 2026, excluding VAT. Source: Squarespace.

Basic would cover a menu, opening hours and a map. But Siobhán also wants to sell gift vouchers online, and on Basic every online sale carries a 2% transaction fee. Core removes that fee, so she picks Core on annual billing. Her account is in euro by default, though Irish customers can also choose sterling or US dollars, according to the Squarespace Help Center.

What the plan price does not include#

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At checkout, Siobhán’s total is higher than the plan price. Four costs sit outside it, and together they decide what the site really costs in a year.

VAT. Squarespace’s listed prices do not include VAT. Squarespace is required to charge VAT to Irish residents and businesses even when they have a valid VAT number, as its VAT help page explains. The standard rate in Ireland is 23%, according to Revenue. Because Siobhán’s café is VAT-registered, she may be able to reclaim that VAT through Revenue. A sole trader who is not registered pays the same total and cannot.

The domain. Her annual plan includes a free custom domain for the first year. From year two it renews at the standard rate, a separate bill that has nothing to do with the plan. Monthly plans do not include the free domain at all.

Card fees. Each voucher sold online carries a card processing fee. On Basic and Core, rates start at 2.0% plus €0.25 per payment; Plus and Advanced bring them down to 1.7% and 1.5% plus €0.25.

Her own time. Building the pages, writing the words and keeping prices and hours current all take time. If Siobhán spends an evening a month on the site, that is part of the cost too, even though it never appears on an invoice.

Note: Keep every Squarespace invoice. A VAT-registered business needs them to reclaim the VAT.

Working out the first-year cost#

Here is Siobhán’s first year on Core, using the published figures:

• Plan: €18 a month × 12 = €216
• VAT at 23%: €49.68
• First-year total: €265.68, or about €266

Two costs still depend on her business rather than the plan: the domain renewal from year two, and card fees that grow with her online sales. She can only add those once she knows her renewal price and how many vouchers she sells.

Squarespace vs Wix vs Shopify on price#

Before paying, Siobhán checks two alternatives. The comparison is harder than it looks, because the platforms do not all quote in the same currency.

Prices published in October 2026. Squarespace and Wix prices exclude VAT and other taxes. Sources: Squarespace, Wix, Shopify.

Wix shows its prices in US dollars, so an Irish buyer should check the euro amount at checkout. In euro, the Squarespace entry plan costs less than Shopify’s, and Shopify’s card rates start at 2% plus €0.25. For a café selling a few vouchers, Squarespace or Wix is simpler. A shop that ships orders every day and needs stock, shipping and tax handled properly is usually better served by Shopify, even at the higher price.

When Squarespace is enough and when a business outgrows it#

For a menu, opening hours, a gallery and gift vouchers, Squarespace does the job, and the yearly cost stays predictable. Many small sites never need more.

A year later, things change for Siobhán. The café starts taking catering orders and private bookings, and enquiries arrive through the contact form at all hours. Each one sits in her inbox until she finds time to reply, and some customers book elsewhere in the meantime. These are the usual signs that a business has outgrown a website builder:

• Enquiries need to go straight into a CRM and get an instant reply.
• The booking, email and accounting systems need to share data without anyone copying it by hand.
• The business wants an AI assistant on the site, or deeper SEO than the built-in tools allow.
• Bookings and catalogues come with rules that the standard templates do not cover.

Watch out: Moving from a website builder to another platform usually means rebuilding the design. It is worth asking at the start whether the site will still fit in two years.

How Baikou approaches a small business website#

This is the point where a website has to work for the business, not only look right. Baikou builds websites for Irish businesses that belong to the business: the site, its content and its data stay with the owner. In practice that means:

• Enquiries from the site go straight into the business’s CRM, and the customer gets an instant reply, so no message waits in an inbox.
• Where it helps, an AI assistant answers common questions on the site and passes real enquiries to a person.
• The site is connected to Google Search Console from the first day. Baikou’s own content system uses that data to find the questions customers search for and to plan the next pages and articles.
• The booking, email and accounting tools the business already uses are connected rather than replaced.
• A person in the business approves what goes live, and one member of staff is trained to make everyday changes.

The honest trade-off. A custom site costs more to set up than a builder plan, and someone has to look after updates and security. For a simple brochure site, Squarespace is often the sensible choice. A custom site is worth considering when the website has to bring in enquiries and handle them.

Putting a website to work in an Irish business#

Whichever platform a business chooses, the plan is only the start of a working website. Someone has to point the domain at the site, move the pages and images across, and connect the forms to an inbox or CRM that someone actually reads. The useful connections are the tools already in use: the booking system, email and accounting software.

It also helps to agree who can publish changes and who signs off prices, opening hours and offers. Training is usually one short session on editing pages and checking that forms still arrive.

If that set-up is more than the business wants to take on, a small business web design service can build the site and connect it. The wider web design services cover the design around it. The Local Enterprise Office Grow Digital Voucher may part-fund new off-the-shelf software subscriptions with their set-up and training, as explained in this guide to the Grow Digital Voucher.

The next step for an Irish business owner#

Choose the plan by the job the site has to do: Basic for a brochure site, Core once you take payments online. Add VAT, the domain renewal and card fees to get a yearly figure before you commit. If the site will need a CRM, automations or an AI assistant behind it, plan for that now rather than after a rebuild. Baikou helps Irish businesses with small business websites and with connecting them to the systems behind them.

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