When comparing Squarespace vs WooCommerce, the Slant community recommends Squarespace for most people. In the question“What are the best e-commerce website builders for a small businesses?” Squarespace is ranked 2nd while WooCommerce is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Squarespace is:
Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.
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Pros
Pro Easy to customize & update
Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.
Pro Responsive templates
Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.
Pro Lots of flexibility
Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.
Pro Extensive styling options
Pro Detailed real-time metrics
Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.
Pro Attention to detail
Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.
Pro Lots of good example projects
Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.
Pro Great support
Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.
Pro Based on Wordpress which is very popular
Wordpress is used by 25% of the entire web since it is well known by a lot of people, they won't get lost using WooCommerce. Wordpress is a solid CMS, it's important that the base of WooCommerce is not some amateur CMS. Wordpress evolves often.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Easy to customize
Pro A lot of extensions
Cons
Con Dependent on a third-party host
This is dependent on a third-party host, instead of creating a site that you can deploy on your own server.
Con Slow Slow Slow
Self explanatory. Does not scale.
Con Poorly customizable
Woocommerce is great for a quick launch without customization. But as soon as you need to add some new features, it really becomes a pain. WooCommerce is really slow, even if you get only a few products.
Con Horrible documentation
From a developer's standpoint. Documentation is snake oil. It looks pretty and gives confidence that you are able to work on woocommerce easily to make plugins that you need. Try using it. It is outdated and breaks.
Con Runs on Wordpress
Not a dedicated out of the box solution.