Website & CMS Migration
Migrate From Squarespace.
A site you can actually extend, without leaving the visual editor.
Flight Check
Why Teams Move Off Squarespace.
These are the reasons people actually give us — not every one will be yours, and if none of them are, Squarespace is probably still the right tool.
- You have outgrown the template and cannot extend past it
- Client work needs multiple sites under one roof, not one account per site
- Bookings, email and CRM are separate products with separate bills
- Exporting your own content turns out to be harder than expected
We Set It Up On Your Hosting. No Forever Fees.
SimplerDevelopment is Apache-2.0 and self-hostable, so a migration does not have to end with you renting your own business back. We stand the platform up on your hosting and your database, move your data into it, hand over the keys, and leave. After that you pay your infrastructure provider — not a per-seat licence to us, and not a fee that climbs every time your list or your team grows.
If you would rather not run it yourself, we offer managed hosting too. That is a choice you can reverse — the code is yours either way, and so is the data.
You own the deployment
Your host, your Postgres, your domain.
You own the code
Apache-2.0 — fork it, extend it, keep it.
You can leave
Export the data and go. No exit fee, no hostage.
Cargo Manifest
What Moves, And Where It Lands.
Every row below is something we actually move out of Squarespace, and how it gets there.
Most sites: 1–2 weeks. Scope and price are fixed before we start.
Honest Log Entry
What Doesn’t Come Across.
Every migration loses something. Here is what, so you hear it from us now rather than discover it in week three.
- Squarespace's export is partial by design — it omits product pages, album and event pages, custom CSS and some page types, so those are rebuilt from the live site rather than imported
- Only one blog page comes across in an export; additional ones are handled by hand
- Squarespace-specific blocks have no direct equivalent and are rebuilt with the closest native block
Stay on Squarespace if one person edits one small site, you are happy inside the template, and you do not need a CRM or multiple sites.
Destination
What You Land In.
A migration is only worth it if the destination is better. These are the modules your data ends up inside — all sharing one database, one login, one bill.
Website Builder
Scheduling
Online Store
Open A Channel
Get A Squarespace Migration Quote.
Tell us roughly how big the Squarespace account is and what matters most to keep. You will get a fixed scope and a fixed price back, usually within one working day.
Transmissions In
Squarespace Migration, Answered.
- How do I migrate from Squarespace to SimplerDevelopment?
- We do it for you. You export from Squarespace (or give us access), we import and rebuild inside SimplerDevelopment, you review it on a staging URL, and we cut over with redirects in place. Most sites: 1–2 weeks. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price before any work starts.
- What does a Squarespace migration cost?
- It depends on size — page count, record count, and how much custom behaviour has to be rebuilt rather than moved. We quote each migration against its own scope after looking at your actual Squarespace account, and that price does not move once agreed. Send the details through the form on this page and you will normally have a number back within one working day.
- Will I lose my search rankings moving off Squarespace?
- That is the risk we plan around first. Slugs are preserved wherever possible, everything else is mapped to a redirect, and metadata and structured data move with the content. Rankings normally settle within a few weeks; a migration that skips the redirect map is the one that loses traffic.
- What does not transfer from Squarespace?
- Squarespace's export is partial by design — it omits product pages, album and event pages, custom CSS and some page types, so those are rebuilt from the live site rather than imported. We tell you this before you commit rather than after, and anything that has to be rebuilt is priced in the quote instead of appearing as a surprise mid-project.
- Do I have to keep paying you after the migration?
- No. SimplerDevelopment is Apache-2.0 and self-hostable, so we can stand it up on your own hosting and your own database and hand over the keys. After that you pay your infrastructure provider, not a licence fee to us. If you would rather we ran it, managed hosting is available — but it is a choice, not a condition.
Coming From Something Else?
Not Sure It’s Worth The Move?
Tell us what you have. If staying put is the right call, we’ll say so.