How to cancel Squarespace

Online:

1. Sign in at squarespace.com → click your site name → Settings (left sidebar) → Billing
2. Click your subscription → Cancel Subscription
3. Squarespace walks through retention offers (often 50% off for a year)
4. Click Continue Cancellation through each → confirm. Site stays live until end of billing period.

Your site goes offline at billing end — pages aren't accessible, the URL serves a "site unavailable" page. Squarespace keeps your content in storage for 30 days after cancellation, so you can reactivate. After 30 days, deleted.

Export your content first:

1. Settings → Advanced → Import & Export
2. Click Export → choose WordPress export (.xml file). This includes posts, pages, images, comments. Doesn't include Commerce data or fonts/styles.
3. Save the file. Even if you don't import to WordPress, the .xml is human-readable backup.

Domain renews separately. If you registered a domain through Squarespace, that's a separate subscription that auto-renews even if you cancel the site. Either:

• Cancel the domain too (Settings → Domains → manage → Cancel/Disable Auto-renew), OR
• Transfer the domain to a cheaper registrar (Cloudflare, Porkbun) before it renews

Annual refund: Squarespace refunds annual plans within 14 days of payment, full refund. Outside that window, no refund.

Cheaper alternatives: Webflow (free tier), Carrd ($19/year), Framer (free tier), GitHub Pages (free, static sites only), Notion sites + a domain ($5/mo total).