Why choose systeme.io over Squarespace?

For selling courses and digital products, systeme.io is significantly stronger than Squarespace. systeme.io has a built-in course builder with modules, video lessons, drip content, and student tracking, connected directly to your sales funnels and email automations. Squarespace doesn't include a native course builder — you would need to integrate a third-party platform like Teachable or Thinkific and handle the connection manually. If you plan to sell digital products, coaching programs, or online courses, systeme.io is the more complete platform for that use case.

systeme.io includes a sales funnel builder with A/B testing, one-click upsells, and order bumps; email marketing with unlimited sends and automation; online course hosting with student management; affiliate program management; marketing automation workflows; a booking calendar; CRM pipelines; SMS marketing; online communities; and evergreen webinar automation. Squarespace is a website builder and it does that very well, but it doesn't include funnels, course hosting, affiliate management, or marketing automation natively. Email marketing on Squarespace requires a paid add-on starting at $9/month, and transaction fees apply on lower-tier plans.

Yes. Your email list from Squarespace Email Campaigns can be exported as a CSV and imported into systeme.io's Contacts. Your Squarespace website pages need to be rebuilt in systeme.io's page builder — most pages take 30–60 minutes using systeme.io templates as a starting point. Blog posts can be recreated in systeme.io's blog editor. For users on systeme.io paid plans, the free migration service handles the move for you, including setting up your site, funnels, and email list in systeme.io.

systeme.io's free plan is permanently free — no trial, no credit card required. It includes a website with unlimited pages, a blog, 2,000 contacts, unlimited email sends, 3 sales funnels, 1 online course with unlimited students, 1 custom domain, and 0% transaction fees. Squarespace has no free plan — it offers a 14-day trial and then requires a minimum of $19/month. Squarespace's $19/month Personal plan also charges 0% transaction fees only on physical products, and doesn't include email marketing, courses, or funnels. systeme.io's free plan provides more features than Squarespace's paid plans for online sellers.

No. systeme.io charges 0% transaction fees on every plan, including the free plan. You keep 100% of your revenue beyond standard payment processor fees (Stripe takes 2.9% + 30 cents, PayPal similarly). Squarespace's Personal plan previously charged a 3% transaction fee on physical product sales. Even on higher plans that remove the Squarespace fee, you still pay standard payment processor fees. systeme.io does not add any additional fee on top of your payment processor — what your customer pays is what you receive, minus the processor's standard rate.