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Gumroad vs Squarespace

An in-depth head to head comparison

In this article, read a side-by-side comparison between two no-code tools: Gumroad and Squarespace. We'll compare pricing, the benefits, the drawbacks, give examples of what you can and can't build, as well as our overall recommendation.

What is Gumroad?

Sell music, comics, software, books, and films directly to your audience.
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What is Squarespace?

Easily create a website or online store.
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Pricing

Gumroad pricing

  • Free plan to list unlimited products has a 5% transaction fee with Gumroad branding
  • $10/month - $250/month based on number of customers ($10 plan includes up to 1,000 customers) to remove Gumroad branding, add your own CSS, use your own domain, HD streaming, and a lower fee (3.5% + 30 cents per transaction).

Squarespace pricing

  • Free trial, but no free version
  • $12/month - $40/month for custom domains and additional features such as e-commerce and subscriptions

Benefits

Gumroad benefits

  • Extremely easy to get started and use
  • Low fees
  • Active community

Squarespace benefits

  • Easy to create beautiful designs
  • Can build multi-page websites
  • Responsive design
  • E-commerce functionality, but more limited than Shopify or Webflow
  • Lots of templates

Drawbacks

Gumroad drawbacks

  • Less features and complexity than Shopify offers for e-commerce

Squarespace drawbacks

  • Don’t have full control over design
  • No CMS, can’t automatically create pages or dynamically insert content the way that Webflow does.

What you can build

Gumroad use-cases

  • A simple landing page to collect emails
  • Sell digital products online, with lots of customization in how you can sell
  • Sell a membership
  • Sell physical products

Squarespace use-cases

  • Business websites
  • Landing pages
  • Custom blogs
  • E-commerce sites

What you can't build

What you can't build with Gumroad

  • A marketplace (check out ShareTribe)
  • A custom web app (check out Glide or Bubble)

What you can't build with Squarespace

  • Websites with a CMS that dynamically creates pages (check out Webflow)
  • Websites with full control over the design (check out Webflow)
  • Web apps with complex logic (check out Glide or Bubble)

Overall Recommendation

Gumroad recommendation

Gumroad is the best option for selling digital products online.

For selling physical products, Gumroad is a great simple option, but if you want a scalable e-commerce solution for physical products I'd recommend Shopify.

Squarespace and Webflow also have e-commerce functionality, but it’s more limited than Shopify.

Squarespace recommendation

Squarespace is a good option for simple business websites (imagine a 5 page website for a doctor's office). It's a nice sweet spot between easy to use and functional website.

For higher quality websites with more customization and a CMS, I'd go for Webflow. The benefit of Squarespace over Webflow is Squarespace is easier to use.

For simpler websites and landing pages I'd go with Umso or Carrd because they are even easier to use.

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