Piggles or Squarespace: a beautiful site, or the business behind it?
Squarespace makes some of the most polished websites a small business can get, and for a portfolio or a studio that often matters most. Piggles puts the site beside the bookings, email, stock, team and customers, on one bill, with nothing sold separately. Here is the fair comparison.
- Free for 14 days
- No card needed
- All sixteen apps included
Where Squarespace is the better choice
Squarespace is a design-led website builder for creative and service businesses. These are the things it does better than Piggles, said plainly, because the right answer for your business matters more than this page.
Design polish
Squarespace templates are known for looking good out of the box, and its design tools can build a whole site from a few answers. If the site is your shop window and your portfolio, that polish is worth a lot.
Members and paid content
Squarespace has member areas and paid digital content built in. Piggles does not sell memberships or gate content behind a login.
A well-known scheduling tool
Acuity, the scheduling product Squarespace owns, is widely used and has deep options. It is sold separately from the website.
Squarespace sells a website, and then sells scheduling and email next to it. Piggles is one product where those were never separate.
Where Piggles fits better
Bookings and email are not extra products
On Squarespace, scheduling and email campaigns are separate products with their own billing. In Piggles, Bookings and Messages are included, and they share one customer list with your orders.
Stock in more than one place
Counts per location, transfers between them, reorder points and orders to suppliers. For a business that makes or buys what it sells, that is the part a website builder does not reach.
Your team
Clock-ins, timesheets you approve, a published schedule, time off, and licenses that warn you before they lapse. Squarespace does not list staff scheduling.
No fee on your sales
Squarespace’s entry plan charges a transaction fee on online sales, and every plan charges one on digital content. Piggles adds no fee to any sale.
Piggles and Squarespace, one need at a time
What each one offers for the things a small business looks for, read from Squarespace’s own website on September 30, 2026. Where we could not confirm a feature on their site, the table says so rather than guessing.
| What you need | Piggles | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| A website | Built in Finished sections you arrange, on your own domain. | Built in Templates known for their design. |
| An online shop | Built in Products, services, checkout and trade accounts. | Built in Online store. A sales fee applies on the entry plan. |
| Selling in person | Partly A counter sale is recorded as an order. There is no card reader or till app. | Partly Through its app, in the US only, with a Square account and reader. |
| Appointments | Built in Services, staff calendars, email reminders and booking online. | Sold separately Acuity Scheduling, a separate product. |
| Quotes and invoices | Built in Quotes that become jobs, then invoices, with a payment link. | Built in Invoices and proposals. |
| A customer list | Built in One record per customer with orders, bookings and messages. | Built in Contacts and customer lists. |
| Customer requests | Built in Requests with an owner and a time to answer by. | No Not on its feature list. |
| Email to your customers | Built in Emails to a list, from your own address. | Sold separately Email Campaigns, billed separately. |
| Text messages | No Piggles does not send text messages. | Partly Appointment reminders through Acuity. |
| Posting to social media | Built in Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, TikTok, YouTube and Threads. | Not confirmed Not found on its feature list. |
| Stock in more than one place | Built in Counts per location, reorder points and transfers. One location included. | Partly One stock count. More locations not confirmed. |
| Ordering from suppliers | Built in Write, approve, print and receive orders, with supplier prices and scorecards. | No Not on its feature list. |
| Staff hours and shifts | Built in Clock in and out, timesheets, a published schedule and time off. | No Not on its feature list. |
| Payroll | No Approved hours download as a file for whoever runs your payroll. | No Not on its feature list. |
| Automations | Built in Routine steps that run on their own when something happens. | Built in Automations are listed. |
| An AI assistant | Partly Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI account, or connect Claude or ChatGPT. | Built in AI site and content tools. |
| Bookkeeping and accounts | Partly Profit and loss, spending, bills and money owed, with a spreadsheet for your accountant. No ledger, bank matching or tax returns. | Another company’s app Through finance extensions from other companies. |
How each bill is put together
No Squarespace prices here: they are theirs to publish and they change. This is the shape of each bill, which decides what happens to it as your business grows.
Piggles
- One plan, $99 a month, with every app included.
- Three team members, one location, one website and 10,000 customer records included.
- More room costs a fixed amount: another location, another person, more storage.
- No fee on your sales. Your payment company charges its own card fee.
- Fourteen days free, with no card needed to start.
Squarespace
- Several plans. The entry plan charges a transaction fee on online sales.
- Every plan charges a transaction fee on digital content and memberships.
- Acuity Scheduling and Email Campaigns are separate products, each with its own billing.
- Selling in person needs a Square account and reader.
Moving from Squarespace
Squarespace lets you export your products, orders and contacts, and your pages and blog posts as a WordPress-style file. Drop them into “Move in from somewhere else” and Piggles shows what will happen to every row before anything is written.
How moving to Piggles worksWhat comes across
- Products with their images
- Past orders
- Contacts, with email subscription status kept as it was
- Pages and blog posts, from Squarespace’s WordPress export file
What stays behind
- Your template design: you set the look again with Piggles sections, colors and fonts
- Acuity bookings: add upcoming ones by hand, or run both for a week
- Member areas and paid content: Piggles does not offer these
So which one?
Choose Squarespace if
- The site is the business: a portfolio, a studio, a gallery.
- You sell memberships or paid content behind a login.
- You are happy paying for scheduling and email as separate products.
Choose Piggles if
- You want bookings, email and the website included in one price.
- You carry stock, buy from suppliers or have a team to schedule.
- You want quotes, invoices and customer requests alongside the site.
- You want no fee taken from your sales.
Questions about Piggles and Squarespace
Where these facts come from
Everything this page says about Squarespace was read from Squarespace’s own website and help pages on September 30, 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will check it again.
Try Piggles beside Squarespace for fourteen days, for free.
No card needed. Nothing to cancel if you decide not to carry on.
