Move your Squarespace site
to a headless stack.
We migrate Squarespace sites to a real codebase with a proper headless CMS. Your design comes with you, your URLs stay intact, and your team gets out from under the template ceiling. No more code-injection workarounds, no more middling performance scores, no more multi-language patched together with widgets.
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Squarespace was the easy start. Until the brand grew.
Squarespace is excellent at the first website. Pick a template, plug in content, ship. It works until the brand asks for something the template cannot do, until the marketing team needs proper components, until SEO requires more control than the platform exposes. The editor that was a feature becomes the ceiling.
The template you picked is now the ceiling for everything the design team wants to do next.
Custom code injection is the only way to extend anything, and it has turned into a graveyard nobody touches.
Performance scores stay middling no matter what you change, because most of the runtime is not yours.
Editors copy and paste blocks between pages because there is no proper component reuse.
SEO controls are minimal and structured data has to be hand-injected page by page.
Multi-language is patched together with third-party widgets that fight the routing model.
The Reality
The export option will give you content, not a site. A real migration is the way out. It preserves the URLs, the design, and the SEO equity you have already earned.
What Survives the Move
Your design and SEO come along.
A Squarespace migration done properly preserves the work that already earned its keep. Visual design, content structure, and URL equity all carry over. The migration is in the plumbing underneath, not in what your visitors see.
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Your visual design
rebuilt in code, faithful to the Squarespace version. We use the live site as the source of truth for layout while we replatform underneath.
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Your content
exported through the Squarespace XML export and a structured crawl of the live site. Pages, posts, and collection items move into the new content model.
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All your URLs
every page slug, every blog post, every collection item URL. We catch the gotchas Squarespace auto-generates and ship a redirect map covering everything indexed.
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Your media
moved off Squarespace's CDN, properly resized, and served as modern formats. No more 4 MB hero images.
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Your forms and signups
rebuilt to submit somewhere you control. You stop paying Squarespace per submission and you stop being limited to their integrations.
What Changes
The template ceiling is gone.
Some Squarespace concepts do not survive the move, and that is the point. Templates, code injection, and the visual editor are platform-shaped solutions to platform-shaped problems. They go away, and proper code-based equivalents take their place.
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Templates and blocks
become real components. They take props, accept variants, and live in source control. A change ships everywhere it is used.
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Code injection
is gone. Custom JS and CSS live alongside the rest of the codebase, in proper files, version-controlled, and reviewable.
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The Squarespace editor
is gone. Layout changes happen in code, content changes happen in a real CMS. The two stop fighting each other.
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Hosting and CDN
you choose. Most clients land on Bunny, Cloudflare, or Vercel. Costs drop, performance improves, you stop paying per contributor.
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Lock-in
ends. The site is yours. If you want to change agency, hosting, or CMS later, nothing physical is preventing it.
How It Works
The migration process
Audit and content model
We crawl the live site, run the Squarespace export, and review your blog posts, collection items, custom code, and any third-party widgets in the mix. Then we design the content model for the new CMS, including which Squarespace concepts to translate and which to drop. You approve the model before any code is written.
Rebuild in code, migrate the data
We rebuild the design in Astro, faithful to the Squarespace version. Components replace template blocks, real CSS replaces the theme system. Content is imported into Storyblok or DatoCMS through their API. We test every page against the existing Squarespace site before cutover.
Cutover and 30 days of watching
We launch on a low-traffic window, swap DNS, and monitor Search Console, Analytics, and Core Web Vitals for 30 days. Squarespace stays live as a fallback during the watch window. After 30 days you decide whether to keep us on with a subscription or take it from here.
A note on the export
The Squarespace export is a starting point, not a migration.
It gives you a WordPress-formatted XML of pages and posts and that is most of it. Collection items, gallery layouts, custom CSS, and any code injection have to be reconstructed from a live crawl of the site. We do that work in the audit, so the migration project starts with a complete picture.
Start with an auditPricing
Fixed price, no scope creep
Squarespace migrations vary in scope. A 30-page brand site with a handful of blog posts and one collection is one thing. A 200-page editorial site with deep custom code, multiple collections, and complex gallery layouts is another. The ranges below are where typical projects land. Once we scope yours, you get a fixed quote.
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Full audit of your Squarespace site, collections, and custom code
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Content model rebuilt for a real headless CMS
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Redirect map for every page and collection item
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Faithful rebuild in Astro
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Frontend in Astro, CMS in Storyblok or DatoCMS
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Forms and submissions migrated to a system you own
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30 days of post-launch monitoring with Squarespace as fallback
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Same team stays accountable for the system
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Performance and uptime monitored continuously
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Content and component changes handled monthly
All prices are net, excluding applicable VAT.
Who This Is For
Who this is for
This works well if you
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Outgrew the template-and-block model and need real customization
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Run a content-led brand site on Squarespace and care about Core Web Vitals
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Care about organic traffic and need every URL preserved through the move
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Want a design system with proper components, not blocks duplicated across pages
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Need multi-language done properly, not bolted on with a widget
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Want to own your hosting and not depend on a single SaaS vendor
This is not a fit if you
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Run Squarespace Commerce as the core of the business and need a commerce-first replatform. Different scope. Talk to us first
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Use Squarespace as a small portfolio or marketing-only site that rarely changes. Migration is overkill
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Need a designer-first DIY workflow with no developer involvement. That is what Squarespace is good at
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Are not sure yet what is wrong. Start with a Headless Audit
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Need a new build from scratch with no legacy to preserve. See Headless Website