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SquarespacevsTeachable

Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

How Squarespace and Teachable compare

Squarespace makes sites that look finished. Award-winning templates, a fluid editor, commerce, scheduling through Acuity, email campaigns, and member areas mean a designer or small business can build almost anything in one account. It is polished, dependable, and deservedly popular with people who care how things look.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Squarespace

  • Squarespace sells pieces separately: commerce tiers, scheduling seats, email campaign plans.
  • Squarespace email is outbound.
  • Squarespace has comments on the blog.

Teachable

  • Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
  • Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
  • Teachable emails students.

Choose Squarespace when design flexibility and a huge template library matter most and you are happy adding modules as you grow.

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Squarespace and Teachable

A check means that capability is available. Squarespace and Teachable are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

  • Workspace site
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Custom domain
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Theme and fonts
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Brand kit
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Not included

Public content

  • Blog
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Not included
  • Showcase pages
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Shop pages
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included

Reach and quality

  • SEO
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included

Audience and email

  • Audience
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Marketing emails
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Campaign workflows
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Not included

Commerce

  • Shop payments
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Orders and fulfillment
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Not included

Team

  • Admin users
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • Per-admin permissions
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included
  • AI Assistant
    Squarespace: Included
    Teachable: Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Squarespace or Teachable, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Squarespace or Teachable may add or remove features that are not shown here.

Squarespace vs Teachable pricing

Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.

Cardel: An alternative to
Squarespace and Teachable

You don't pay until you publish.

Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own.

Common questions

  • Is Cardel an alternative to Squarespace or Teachable?

    Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Squarespace or Teachable when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Squarespace and Teachable are marked.

  • Can I use Cardel with Squarespace or Teachable?

    Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Squarespace or Teachable for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

  • How much does Cardel cost compared with Squarespace and Teachable?

    You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Squarespace and Teachable set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

  • How do I switch from Squarespace or Teachable to Cardel?

    Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.