Squarespace charges £16–£49 / month, forever, and if you ever leave you can't take your design, your blocks, or your store with you — the export is a stripped-down text dump. We do the opposite: we migrate your existing Squarespace site to a clean codebase you own outright — same look, forms and interactions still working — that loads ~3× faster, hosts for £0 / month, and never locks you in again.
Personal, Business and Commerce plans run roughly £16–£49 a month — and you pay it for as long as the site exists. Five years on a mid plan is well over £1,000, and the price only goes up. A migration is a one-off; after it, hosting is free.
Squarespace's "export" produces a partial WordPress-format XML — most pages, text and images, but none of your templates, styles, layout, or commerce. Your design and your store don't come with you. Leaving means rebuilding from scratch — unless someone rebuilds it for you.
The Squarespace runtime ships a lot of JavaScript and framework weight to render pages a plain HTML file would paint instantly. Rebuilt as a clean codebase, the same site typically drops ~85% in page weight and loads about 3× faster — which Google rewards.
Templates, blocks and data all live inside Squarespace's proprietary system. No developer outside it can pick up your site and ship a change. We rebuild on standard HTML/CSS/JS so any developer — or AI editor — can maintain it anywhere.
Three stages. You can stop after any of them. One-off pricing — no subscription, no lock-in.
We download your Squarespace site and rebuild it as a clean, structured codebase — same pages, same content, same look. Contact forms still submit, carousels still cycle, the mobile menu still opens. Page weight drops ~85%, load is ~3× faster, and you own the files.
£200–£500 one-off · quoted up front by site size
If your Squarespace template has dated, we produce a fresh redesign on top of the squashed baseline — mobile, SEO and modern layout patterns rolled in.
+£300 one-off · ~24 hours
Our designers do a polish pass so the result has real personality rather than a stock-template feel — about 2 designer hours instead of 10.
+£500 one-off · ships with the redesign
Squarespace is a bill that runs forever and owns your ability to leave. Our model: pay once, keep the site, owe us nothing.
From £200 one-off
From £1,000 one-off
At £16–£49 / month, Squarespace costs most owners £200–£600 a year, every year. Our cheapest migration pays for itself in well under a year — and then you walk away with a real codebase instead of a rental.
Only partially. Squarespace exports a limited WordPress-format file with most pages, text and images — but not your templates, styles, most blocks, or any commerce. You can't take your actual site with you. We rebuild the whole thing — look, layout and working interactions — as a clean codebase you own.
Yes. The migrated site is fully working, not a frozen snapshot. Forms are re-wired to a third-party handler (Formspree, Basin, Netlify Forms) so submissions still reach you after you leave, and carousels, galleries, lightboxes and menus are rebuilt cleanly so they keep working without the Squarespace runtime.
Simple product catalogues and Stripe Checkout links migrate cleanly and keep working. For a larger store we'll talk through the best owned-code path (a lightweight cart, Stripe, or a headless setup) before quoting — send us the URL and we'll advise.
Nothing changes about ownership. Your domain stays with your registrar; we point its DNS at free Cloudflare hosting, and you can move hosting anywhere, anytime.
It's standard HTML/CSS/JS in a normal git repo, so any developer — or an AI coding tool — can edit it. Hire a freelancer for an hour, use your own team, or send changes back to us as a paid one-off. Nothing ongoing.