Squarespace Adds New Features for Service-Based Sellers

Website builder Squarespace has introduced tools for service-based sellers, such as photographers or event planners. The company said the new toolkit will help service-based entrepreneurs, which comprise a “good portion” of its customer base, “expand their product offerings and streamline project management.”

The new features include branded proposals, contracts, invoices, and more flexible client forms. The tools for creating proposals and contracts are only available in English on the Business and Commerce plans. The other features are available globally on all Squarespace plans.

For proposals and contracts, users can now create branded summaries of their services, which showcase their scope of work, terms, fees, and estimated deadlines and costs.

Similarly, Squarespace’s invoicing toolkit has been revamped to allow service providers to create custom, branded invoices. Sellers can track the status of their invoices from their Squarespace dashboard. The invoicing tool comes as an extension of the company’s proprietary payment solution, Squarespace Payments.

Furthermore, the tool for creating client intake forms has now improved the ability to obtain important project information. Clients can upload documents, images, presentations, audio, videos, and other types of content to these forms for added clarity on the project objectives.

Service providers can securely store all the contracts, invoices, client intake forms, project notes, and other materials on Squarespace.

The improved service-based selling tools come a few months after Squarespace introduced content monetization tools for subscription-based businesses. These include paywalls, the ability to create tiered and bundled plans, and more, giving content creators better ways to charge for their content.

In addition to the new tools, Squarespace users can access many other features for blogging, marketing, bookkeeping, scheduling, selling courses, and more.