How to integrate Shopify with Squarespace

hey, and thanks so much for checking out our bijou template. we're so excited about it, um, and it's perfect for online shops. a quick note before we dive in on how to integrate it into squarespace. if you already have a shopify, you do not have to do all of the product creation stuff that we're going through, but we're just covering everything from a to z. so today we're going to be showing you all about how to integrate shopify and squarespace, and we're going to be doing that using the shopify buy button. so, although the styled square doesn't offer shopify templates, we do offer squarespace templates that you can go ahead and integrate shopify with, which is such a great option. this is great if you want the beautiful design and all of the cool content creation options that squarespace offers, but you are heavy on selling products, you are a product-based store, and you want to have all of the capabilities of shopify and the user experience of shopify, especially when dealing with shipping, adding inventory, keeping track of orders, everything like that. what you need in order to do this is you will need a shopify subscription, shopify lite, which is 9.99, and a squarespace subscription. you don't need a squarespace commerce subscription. so, with the normal business, um, squarespace and the shopify lite. it actually ends up being the same price as a shopify subscription for actually selling products, which is really great. there are a couple different ways to utilize the buy button. one is by product and what is by collection. my collection is a lot faster and a lot easier by product is a lot slower and a little bit more tedious, but we're going to go over both just in case. so here is how you use the buy button with collection. if you already have a collection within shopify, it makes this so much easier. you click collection buy button, click on the collection you want to insert into squarespace and then, voila, here it is. so, um, you can change a couple of different of the options. you can have the person view the product, buy now, add to cart. however you want to change the button, you can also change a lot of the different options, like the colors, the typography and everything like that. right now it's pulling something i did later in this video and i did that within the part where we toked about how to integrate individual products. um, so it saves all that, which is amazing. so that's why it's pulling typography that's already matching what we have going on on our um squarespace sites, but later in the video i'll cover how to do all of that um. so there's a lot of different options, as you can see, but how it looks in the shopify page is how it will look plugged into your squarespace page, which is amazing. so now you can see those options and here i'm just playing around with how to utilize it and what it will look like when the user actually clicks on it, which is always good to see. so now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and click next and then the code populates: copy code. go over to your squarespace site. i have an earrings page made, um, and what you would do is- you can see this from later in the video i'll actually show how i did these two. those were the individual products and some different options with individual products, but you would just click the little arrow. you would search for the code block at the top. once you find it, click on it and then just go ahead and paste in the code apply and then just click done and save. once you're out of preview mode, um, you'll see how it looks like on the page and voila, that's it. so this next part i'm going to be toking about how to do it if you don't have products yet in shopify and if you're going to choose to do the individual product method. so the first thing you're going to need to do is you're going to need to create your products and shopify. so, like you would with a normal shopify website, you go go ahead and do the description, the price, the variance, the inventory, all of the photos, all of the collections, everything like that. so now we're going to go ahead and create the button, the buy button, that we're going to be putting into squarespace. following what's going on along with screen, you are going to select the product you want that buy button to apply to, and then what you're going to do is you're going to customize actual button so you can customize what it looks like, how big it is, how small it is, the colors, the shape and everything like that. after you're finished, you're going to go ahead and click next. once you click next, copy code. so now we're in squarespace, you're going to select the code block. so what you're going to do is click the little arrow thing, search code, click code, and then just go ahead and copy and paste in that code and now you'll see the button populated. one of two ways that you can do this: you can add the product into shopify with all the information and then it will populate once you paste in the code. or you can do that in squarespace and then just the button will populate once you do the code. totally up to you. i would recommend actually doing all of the information in shopify and then just pasting in the code, so that everything populates easily and you're not doing double the work. [Music]. so here's how it looks with the products information already inserted. as you can see, i put the photos and all of the information in here. now i'm going to go to the buy button again and you'll see that it's already saved all of our settings. so we just have to create the buy button for that product and click select and then, when we do it, um, you'll see that the cart is already done. but that's the basic. so if you go to the classic, you have the one photo. full view has the multiple photos and takes up more space. so it's totally up to you how you want to do it and how you want everything to look. i'm going to go ahead and change all of this so that it matches the branding on the squarespace template, and you can go ahead and find that by going into the back of the squarespace template and clicking into the editable version of squarespace, going to home, clicking design and then going into fonts, and then you'll see all of the fonts that you use. so squarespace does have a lot more fonts than shopify does, so i would recommend just going in and picking something similar if they don't have the exact fonts. so i'm gonna go ahead and look through all of these and find the one that best matches the others, so that it's kind of indistinguishable, and just going along with the same vibe. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. now that i've found the fonts, i'm going to go ahead and change the color so that it's black and not gray again. shopify will save this, so you won't have to do that every time, this every time. it'll save it for all future products that you want to use the buy button for. so that's the good part: you don't have to repeat it a million times. so once you're done with that, you're going to go ahead and click next. once you click next, copy code again back into the back end and then, when you put in the code here, you'll see that it's going to populate all of the product so that you don't have to do double the work that it's already all done in there again. if you did want to do all of the product stuff within squarespace, you do have that option. and then just the buy button in shopify: [Music], [Music]. let's say you wanted two products side by side. all you would do is go ahead and put it in the code again and then what you would do is you would move it, drag the little box that populates after you save next to the little box that populates from the other code. so here you can see them stacked and in the different views and then when we go back into editing um, you will see what it looks like side by side just by dragging like that and then clicking save. and then you can see what it looks like [Music]. and here is both desktop and mobile view. and if you do like that side-by-side option, i would recommend doing the buy button for the collections instead of the products. lik.

How to integrate Shopify with Squarespace

hey, what's going on? this is Russell Mari, founder of sq SP themes. calm, today I'm going to show you how to integrate Shopify with your Squarespace site. now, why would you want to do this? a few years ago, I had a client who needed an alternative payment gateway. so nope, PayPal, no stripe. it had to be a third-party payment gateway, and so what we did? we didn't want to abandon our Squarespace site, so what we did was we used Shopify light, which allows us to embed a Buy button, and that's how we were able to still keep our Squarespace front-end and have a completely different checkout experience for customers. so you know, that's one of the reasons why you might want to do this. right, let's say, you want to use after pay. you can't do that with Squarespace. so you know you would want to use something like Shopify, but again, Squarespace is superior, I think, in my opinion, when it comes to blogging and content and layout design, and so if you've got a website or a brand that's heavy on the content side, but you also sell products that have, you know, special requirements like maybe, maybe you don't want to do you know your taxes manually, and Squarespace Shopify is- is probably ideal for that. so, that said, let me show you really quickly how this works. so what I have here is a Shopify light plan. now, Shopify delight is nine dollars a month and it allows you to sell on facebook Messenger and to use this- by now I mean this Buy button functionality which I'm going to show you- and you can also use a little point-of-sale device as well. all, right, now for reference. if cost is a concern, you can use this $9 a month Shopify Lite plan with either a personal or business plan, and you actually end up saving some money, especially if you pay annually. all right. so here, right, you can get a personal plan for 16 bucks a month, the Shopify light for nine bucks a month, and that's basically twenty-five dollars a month and you've got, you know, the the benefits of score space and Shopify all-in-one, all right. so the next step here is: I uploaded a couple just sample products here. we've got hat, pants and a shirt- just to simulate some products, and I added all of these products to a single homepage collection, right here. okay, and so now, if I go to buy button and hit create buy button, okay, I got two options. I can select, you know, an individual product here, or I can select the entire collection. so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select a single product for now whole do the pants, and you can see the the different kind of layouts here that you can use. so you can just have a simple button right and Add to Cart button. you can have a, you know, image title button or you can have the full kind of enhanced view which includes the description, other images if they're available, and then you can style it right. so you know you can show the quantity feel, let's say you want two pence, so you don't want any corners. you know you could change the button color and width, you can change the font style and the shopping cart, alright. so once you've kind of tweaked that to your liking, you simply hit generate code, copy this to your clipboard and then what I have here is a just a simple page and I'm going to add a code block and I'm gonna paste, paste that here, boom, alright, hit save, and so this is what it looks like on the other end. so I'll refresh this for you, just so you can see that the Pens that we added. so the good thing about this is it gives you a little bit of a little bit more flexibility when it comes to your product page layouts, in a sense, because you're not restricted to, you know, the usual Squarespace product interface. and so here you see, we've got our, you've have product right here, pence, and then below, what I did was I embedded the entire collection, alright, so with this I could probably- you know, I can create a different page for each product- maybe embed some type of review widget and and really just create your own store. now what does it look like when you add to cart? this is pretty important, I think. so you add to cart there, so you're going to add some pence, cool, all right. now, notike, how, you know how seamless this, this is your, your, your customers aren't going to be like, hey, what happened to the Squarespace checkout? they're just gonna think, oh, this is convenient, alright. so then you hit checkout, and one thing you might want to make note of and take note of is the domain name here that you use. so this is just a sample shop that I set up called Tiger egg, but you would want to maintain some brand consistency between your, your Squarespace store and your Shopify checkout, and then someone could just check out: alright, real simple, nothing crazy, and so if add something like auto-pay setup right, then your customers would be able to use that. see if there's anything else. I think the next video I'll do is I will show how you can actually, let's say, you've got a bunch of products on score space. I'm going to show you how you can export and import and basically migrate those products over the Shopify so that you can, you know, more easily leverage this. alright, if you got any questions, you can always reach out to me. Omari, oh ma RI. @sq SP themes calm. or you can just jump into our Facebook group called Squarespace entrepreneurs on Facebook and throw a question out there and you know, if I don't see it, and get back to you someone who can help, probably. well, alright, take care, peace.

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Add Shopify To Wordpress, Wix or Squarespace

hey guys, I wanted to revisit a video that I made a few months back about the Buy button inside Shopify. now, one of the things that I realized after I made that video is having a little bit of context around where this buy button would be used could be quite helpful. so what I wanted to do is I first wanted to go over what are sales channels and how they are used on the Internet. so when you're thinking about a sales channel, what is a sales channel? well, a sales channel is anywhere where you find customers. so an example of a sales channel is Facebook, Instagram, Amazon. these are all places that you would be able to obtain a customer, and when a customer comes through one of these channels, they will be recorded separately so that you can individually market to each individual one. now Shopify maintains support for a number of channels. they have plug-ins for all sorts of the big-name marketplaces that are out there. however, there are some competitors that they don't have native integrations for. some of these competitors would be other CMS's, so something like WordPress, wicks or Squarespace. you might want to use the power of Shopify to do your fulfillment and your order management and your inventory control, but you might want to keep your website on another platform that you're more used to using, or maybe you don't want to fit the expense of moving everything over to Shopify and you want to continue to grow on the platform- your width- but you want to take advantage of all the power of using a system that is designed specifically for taking orders. so in this video, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over how to use the Buy button, how to create it inside Shopify, and then I'm gonna show you how to install it into the three most common platforms that are used for websites. so I'm going to show you how to install it into WordPress, I'm going to show you how to add it to Wix and then I'm going to show you how to add it to Squarespace. okay, before we get started, you're gonna need a few materials in order to do this. so the first thing you're gonna need is you're obviously gonna need a Shopify store, so I've left a link down below where you can sign up for a 14-day trial and get going on that side of things. the other thing that you're gonna need is you're gonna need a product installed on that Shopify store. I have a tutorial, which I'll link up above here that will let you go and see how to add a product properly into Shopify. then the other thing that you're going to need is you're going to need access whatever sales channel that you want to add this buy button to. so if you're doing it on Wix or you do any WordPress, you're gonna need those logins, okay, so we're on our dashboard here and we want to have a look on the left hand side and we've got this menu item. this is sales channels. right next to it there's a plus sign. so if we click on the plus sign, it's going to ask us to add which sales channels that are available. now. these are the sales channels that are approved by Shopify and they do a seamless integration with these services. what we're gonna look for is we're gonna look for the one that says buy button. so if we go down to buy button, we're gonna hit the big giant plus and we're gonna add that to our store. now what Shopify is going to do is it's going to take that button, add it to the store, it's going to refresh the dashboard and then it will come back and allow us to start configuring a Buy button. so now that it's gone and installed the Buy button app. we can go create a Buy button. all right, now we've got to create Buy button. now we need to decide on which product we're going to include in our store. now we can have products or we can have collections. for the sake of this demo, I'm gonna go and pick a product that has stok and that is set to visible. okay, now we're on the configure the product button. we're going to configure the look and the feel of our buy button. so when we start off, the first thing we want to do is we want to choose a template. now a template comes in basic, a button or enhanced. you see, on the right-hand side, things are going to be changing depending on what template you choose. now, each individual template is going to be used in different situations and I'll get more into which situations these are going to be used on down below. but for the purpose of this demo, let's start off with the basic. okay, so we have a basic and we the show, and it shows our product, our project title, our price and our Add to Cart. the next thing we need to do is we need to choose an action. now, under the action, you have three options. you can either direct shoppers directly to a checkout, so that when they click the checkout button, it will take just that one product image. take them over to a checkout page, which will actually show up in a modal message, and let them check out. the second option is add products to a cart, and then the third option shows the product detail. now, depending on what your use case is, you want to change the action to be conducive to the environment that you're going to be using in it. in the sake of this demo, I'm going to select add product to a cart, because I want to show you guys what it looks like to have the cart on another site, so that you can get a full experience of the whole checkout process. alright, moving down, we can then go down to the size of the image that we want to put on our Buy button. typically, I like the small image. it keeps everything come packed and, especially when you're placing it on another site, you don't want it to be too big. alignment tells you where you want it- left, center or right- and then you can hit the option which is going to show additional product images, so if someone clicks on another product image, they can see the different images that you have set up on the product. okay, now we have a button style and next sew on button style text. this is toking about the button that we've got down here. we can go and change the text size because use the color. we can change the padding so how wide the the button is. we can also turn on the quantity field and change the button text. now, if we come back, we're gonna get down to the next piece, which is the font styles. now I want to spend a couple seconds toking about fonts here. hunts on the internet have been traditionally a very difficult thing to reproduce and mostly its be based on a little bit on tiknology, but also on copywriting, so there are different fonts that are available for print advertising as well as web advertising. the fonts that are getting pulled up in this directory are fonts that are coming from the Google font library. they have been fonts that have been purchased by Google and they have been placed on the the Google font library that are free for you to use. now, if you're using systems like wicks or Squarespace, they are going to be using the same font library so that you'll be able to match the font with the part that you're looking for. however, if you have a custom font, you are not going to be able to use the Buy button in this editor to use that custom font. you can only choose from the fonts that are on this list. so just a small important note to make. so, now that we're on shopping cart, this is a shopping cart that slides up from the side. now, if you had selected option a back when we were choosing what kind of button we wanted the action for it to click on, you're not going to need to configure this, because that's going to take you directly to the checkout page. however, if you selected option B or C- I in this case- and select an option D, then we are going to need to configure the look and feel of this, this mobile message, so we can go in, change some of the shipping information. we could change a couple of fields and we can change the button text. okay, so now that we've finished configuring the button to look and feel the way that we want, we can go up and generate the code. so we can go up to the right here. I'm gonna hit generate code and it's going to give us a modal window which will have some code tha.

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Shopify vs. Squarespace | BEST eCommerce Platform?

so you're ready to tap into the world of ecommerce. which online store platform should you use? in this video, i'm going to be comparing shopify with squarespace to help you make the right decision for your business. this video is sponsored by porkbundcom. get your first domain free at the link in the description below. ecommerce: it's an evolving industry. you need to pick a sustainable website platform that can keep you running for years to come. a robust platform is going to have strong inventory management tools, shipping integrations and connections that work together to keep your site running smoothly. so what are the differences between shopify and squarespace? squarespace is a fully functioning website builder, first, and e-commerce platform second. they're a huge leader in the website space, with great tools and tons of users. shopify is a dedicated ecommerce store solution. countless brands trust and rely on shopify to run their online store- they're so popular. even amazon uses shopify to run the ringcom store. so shopify is an e-commerce platform, but it's not a great platform to build a website, and i think that's why squarespace is an attractive choice. many business owners start out using squarespace as their website platform and later utilize it as their ecommerce platform of choice. let's take a look at the back end management experience for both platforms. squarespace is refreshingly intuitive from an ecommerce perspective. management is carefree. it's crazy simple to add products, fulfill orders and manage customers. i can't tell you how many ecommerce platforms have an atrocious back end that's difficult to navigate and confusing to understand, but squarespace is not one of them. there's virtually no learning curve. you open the dashboard and everything just makes sense. in many ways squarespace is too simple. i immediately notiked limitations that could become troublesome for ecommerce users. you can't manually add an order to the system, you can't manually enter customers and you can't make any changes to an order once it's been placed. with shopify, things are the polar opposite. the backend interface is still intuitive, but not as simple as squarespace. the added power and features naturally come with an elevated learning curve. you have more control over little details, like the ability to modify orders after they're placed, and a bulk editor with a spreadsheet view to change pricing, stok and all details on items. if a customer wants to place an order over the phone, shopify lets you add orders manually from the back end. squarespace doesn't offer this. order fulfillment is efficient. the system is designed to make batch order fulfillment easy. squarespace order fulfillment assumes you're only shipping out one order at a time. the shopify mobile app lets you tackle order fulfillment, edit products, view customers, view analytiks, create discounts and more. the squarespace app only lets you do order fulfillment and edit products. third-party apps for shopify unlock capabilities like using a physical scanner to scan barcodes and verify you're packing the right item in the box. for stores with a lot of skus, squarespace offers no such feature. in every way. shopify is more advanced than squarespace. however. does that make it the superior platform? we'll tok more about that soon. but regardless of the e-commerce platform you pick, you'll need a domain name. that brings us to today's sponsor, porkmancom, a refreshingly different domain name registrar with the tools you need to stake your claim online. both squarespace and shopify add significant retail markup to the domains they sell, and one easy way to save money is to register your domain at porkbun and connect it to either squarespace or shopify. right now, you can choose from hundreds of domain names free with this special offer, from dot travel to dot news, dot live to dot codes. pork bun domains give you full creative expression, backed by heightened security and comprehensive support. check out their thousands of five-star reviews from happy customers who have made the switch simple, secure and packed with personality. porkbun really is a no-brainer for anyone, whatever your field, looking for the brand building power to kickstart your next great idea: to get your first domain for free, go to the link in the description below and search your desired domain name. once you've found your favorite, apply coupon code crailer at checkout and voila, your online presence awaits. thanks to porkbun for supporting the channel. and now let's answer the question. is shopify the obvious pick for everyone? let's tok pricing. shopify plans start at 29 a month and give you everything you need to get your store up and running. squarespace offers very limited ecommerce functionality, starting with their 26 dollar a month business plan. most of the ecommerce features require the basic commerce plan for 35 dollars a month, and some features that are included in shopify's 29 a month plan requires squarespace's advanced commerce plan for 54 a month. so is squarespace worth the extra money? but wait, christian. what if i'm interested in drop shipping? you haven't mentioned this for either of these platforms. well, guess what? squarespace does not offer much dropshipping capability, aside from some print-on-demand services like printful. you're out of luck at squarespace. shopify lets you create a fully fledged drop shipping store with ease. choose from dozens of services for item sourcing. shopify is absolutely the superior platform for drop shipping. but suppose you just want to have a cart and checkout feature on your website. maybe you're a band selling merch to fans. maybe you're an author selling your book online. maybe you're a non-profit and you're selling items for fundraising. squarespace is going to give you more flexibility as a holistik website builder. the ecommerce functionality works well enough for casual use and you'll have access to a very capable website builder to help represent your brand or organization. but if your business is in retail- meaning selling goods is your business- shopify really is the better option. you can have items listed directly on ebay or google shopping from right in the dashboard. you can also deploy facebook ad campaigns. shopify even offers a physical pos system with competitive processing fees. squarespace offers an integration with square, so you could sell items from your squarespace site and a retail store. but the experience may not be as smooth, since its two platforms trying to work together to make this pos work. both shopify and squarespace allow you to offer subscription plans. squarespace offers it as a native feature included in the top plan, but the options are likely limited. just like the rest of squarespace ecommerce features, shopify takes a different approach to subscriptions and relies on third-party apps to do the job. this isn't a bad thing. there are tons of companies using shopify apps to run subscription model businesses successfully. it just means you'll likely have another expense to pay for a third-party app, but in exchange you have a lot more apps to pick from. i'm personally a fan of the modular model. you can make your store as simple or fancy as you want, and the amount you'll pay for your store will vary accordingly. so ultimately, the answer of if squarespace or shopify is right for you boils down to your needs as a business owner. the band selling merch to fans, the author selling their books, the non-profit selling items for fundraising- these business owners could roll with squarespace and enjoy a simple, carefree ecommerce solution. but the dropshipper, the lifestyle brand, the retailer looking to sell online- these businesses will appreciate the power and utility of shopify. shopify is just miles ahead of the competition, and there's a reason. it's an industry standard for online retailers. sometimes a service really does live up to the hype, and shopify opens a world of opportunities, whether you're selling your own product or aspiring to start a drop shipp.

How to Integrate Square with Shopify

hello guys, my name is matu and in today's video i'm going to show you how you can integrate square with shopify. first things first, we have to create ourselves an account at squareupcom or log into your existing account. once we are here in our workspace, we want to go to the left part of our screen, or this sidebar, and click on apps. as you can see, i already integrated zapier into into our square account and. but if you want to make integrations straight through square, click on apps and visit the marketplace. now we want to write down shopify and, as you can see, at the moment square is not supporting shopify straight through his marketplace, so let's go and uh to automate that eo. i will leave the link in the description underneath this video. once we are here, we want to go to the top side of our screen and click on integrations. once we are here, click on see all categories on the bottom left part of your screen. now we want to start with writing down the first app we want to integrate, which is square like this, and once a square is add, edit. we want to continue with shopify. as you can see, we have some popular integrations already made for us, but if you won't be able to find the one that you're looking for. keep scrolling down and, as you can see, there's option of create your own integration. just remember, on the left side, underneath the triggers, you want to start with a square, so click on one of the two options. let's go with the first one and, on the other hand, underneath the actions, you want to go with shopify. there's way more options to choose from, but let's stik with the first one. last thing we have to do is click on try it now button. we'll get a redirected to automate that eo login website and the last thing you have to do is to log in to your account and you're a few clicks away from creating this integration. now we can also use, as i said before, zapiercom, uh, where we also need to create an account. uh, once we do that, let's go to the top left corner and click on create zap. it works basically the same way as it worked at automate. first thing, we have to set up a trigger, which you probably guessed will be square trigger event. yeah, one of the two continue: [Music]. uh, now we have to pick the company. the company will be this one, oh sorry- account. we have to log into the account. so this is our account at square: continue. uh, set up a trigger as a location from which we're going to make this integration will be the m stone project- continue. and now we can test the trigger. the second action will be the app affected by a transaction in square, so will be shopify. now, also, we have to pick an action event. let's stik to the first one: continue. and the last thing is we have to sign in to shopify. and that's about it. thanks for watching and see you on the next video.

SQUARESPACE vs SHOPIFY — Which Is Better?

i currently have multiple websites on both squarespace and shopify, and here's the thing: both squarespace and shopify are excellent website builders, but they do have major differences. by the end of this video, you'll understand the right time to use squarespace and the right time to use shopify. okay, let's get into it. the year is 2010.. lost is still on television and steve jobs just unveiled the ipad. squarespace and shopify are young, upstart companies. this is shopify's homepage. it's pretty clear what they're building: a tool for building online stores. this is squarespace's homepage. pretty clear what they're building, too: a tool for building all kinds of websites for bloggers, businesses, authors, teachers, lawyers, doctors, anything. today, squarespace and shopify's homepage slogans are grander and, honestly, kind of more ambiguous. so it's helpful to remember where they came from, because at their core, it's still fundamentally who they are. squarespace is a tool for building all kinds of websites, including online stores. shopify is a tool for building just online stores. in this video, we'll see how this difference plays out in ease of use, e-commerce templates, pricing and more. my work is supported by affiliate commissions, so you can find a link to both squarespace and shopify in the video description. if you click that link, i might earn a commission. let's start with ease of use. this is squarespace and this is shopify. we're going to edit a page with both. so let's open a page in squarespace and hit edit. we can just start writing in this text element. we'll add a heading and we're editing, but we can pull back and see how everything looks because it's a visual editor. now let's edit a page in shopify- so online store pages. we'll open it and here's our page. we can add text, but shopify is not a visual editor. so, to see how things are looking, we can save and view the page. okay, now what if we want to add something cool like a photo gallery? well, with squarespace, it's pretty easy. we click add, choose a gallery and upload our photos. nice. now shopify doesn't have a gallery that we can add, at least not by default, so we need to upload each image individually. let's fast forward through this. there we go, we can save and view our page, and there we go. remember, squarespace is for all kinds of websites, so they need a flexible page editor that can build all kinds of pages: homepage, photo galleries, about us pages, blogs, contact pages, testimonials and a bunch more. shopify is just for online stores and online stores basically all have the same pages. they need a home page, product page and checkout page and maybe a categories page. because of that, it's just not as high of a priority for shopify to have a flexible page editor like squarespace. let's look at something else. let's look at editing our website theme. if we want to edit our theme on squarespace, we go to design site styles and let's change our font. we have a bunch of fonts we can choose from, but let's try this one. okay. let's go back and edit the colors. so we have a palette for our website and it's an easy way to add our brand colors if we edit it. so let's choose from some preset colors- interesting, okay, yep. what i like about squarespace is that if you'd like to get really specific and change exactly where and how colors and fonts are used, you can still do that too. so let's customize our theme. in shopify. we go to themes, customize and theme settings and here we can set some colors. so let's change the color of the headings- okay, and if we scroll down to typography, we can choose some different fonts. now, we do often run into some limits when customizing shopify themes. for example, we can change the text color, but what if i want a different color for the out of stok tags. well, unfortunately, in order to do that, i'd need to edit some css code, which can be frustrating if you're not comfortable with code. overall, squarespace is just easier to use. they've removed as many obstacles as possible so that anyone can build any kind of website. shopify is all about removing obstacles too, but in a different way. shopify is all about removing obstacles for creating online stores, and this is where shopify really shines. so let's tok about e-commerce. it's only when you build an online store that you really gain an appreciation for how complicated it really is. then you realize there is a lot to think about. you need a credit card processor to accept credit cards. you need to collect accurate taxes. you need to integrate with shipping services that can estimate shipping for your customers and also make it easy to print shipping labels, and a whole lot more beyond this. in my experience, shopify makes these complications much simpler and in many cases, they've made e-commerce easier than squarespace. for example, in order to accept credit cards on squarespace, you need to integrate with a credit card processor such as stripe, a payment processing company. it's just another step and hassle. by default, shopify hooks you into their own credit card processor called shopify payments. so if shopify payments works for you, you don't ever need to think further about payment processing. it just works out of the gate. setting up accurate taxes with squarespace takes some work, especially for canadians like me. i have to manually go through each province and set its tax rate. shopify automatikally has these provincial tax rates built in, so i can just quickly get up and running and not have to think too hard about it. and shopify integrates with a ton of shipping services, and you'll definitely want to integrate with a shipping service because it makes things like printing off shipping labels really easy. i've had mixed success with this on squarespace. my shipping service is canada post because i'm canadian, but squarespace only integrates with fedex or usps for automatik shipping calculations, which makes my life a lot more complicated. and then, on top of all of this is shopify's most important e-commerce feature: the app store. [Music]. online stores always need random features that you don't think about at first, and the shopify app store is here to help. there's apps for everything: restok alerts, facebook integrations, live chat, product reviews. basically, shopify's core includes everything that most stores need: products, discounts, that kind of thing. the app store includes everything else, so you can add a live chat app or a restok notification app for customers. there are thousands of apps on shopify's app store and it's growing fast. squarespace has something similar called squarespace extensions, but it's much smaller: 31 extensions currently. so you can sell physical products on both shopify and squarespace. but shopify definitely makes it easier, and if you listen to squarespace's ceo, anthony casolina, he's actually pretty frank that while squarespace enables you to sell physical products, just like shopify, they're actually trying to push their commerce into new areas like appointment scheduling and taking reservations for restaurants. squarespace is not just websites and and physical commerce. it's so much more. it's tools for the hospitality industry. it's tools for appointment booking and scheduling. um, there's new emerging business models. we want to highlight things like member areas, which we're going to expand into, and so squarespace has focused on types of commerce that shopify isn't great at, like restaurant reservations, selling memberships and courses and appointment scheduling, and for these types of commerce, squarespace is really excellent. okay, templates. templates, of course, are the look and feel of your website. let's take a look at some squarespace templates and now shopify [Music]. as you can see, there are beautiful templates available for both squarespace and shopify, though i do find squarespace templates are just a lot easier to customize and make beautiful like. one of my favorite features is the section editor. it makes it quick and easy to create pretty beautiful splash sections. you can kind of do that with shopify, but i