Setting up your Squarespace Commerce store

No matter whether you want to sell products or services, or take donations on your website, you will need to set up your Squarespace Commerce store.

Prerequisites for Squarespace Commerce

There are a couple of prerequisites to Squarespace Commerce, so let's ensure you have them covered before we move on to setting up your store.

The physical location of your business

The main restriction of using Squarespace Commerce is the physical location of your business. In order to use Squarespace Commerce, you will need to use the Stripe payment gateway to process credit card transactions on your website. Stripe is currently fully supported for businesses located in Australia, UK, USA, Canada, or Ireland and is running in the Beta mode in 13 other countries. You can use the Squarespace/Stripe integration if you are located in any of those countries—though you might run into a few bugs if your country is still in running in the Beta mode. If you...