Ready to Switch From Squarespace?

Squarespace is a beautifully designed template builder — that is its core strength. For a growing business, it becomes a tax: slow Core Web Vitals hurt rankings, you cannot export the working site, transaction fees stack on the Business plan, AEO/schema control is limited, and updates require a paid Circle Partner. The Real Social Company builds custom React websites that load in under a second, ship with hand-tuned JSON-LD on every page, include 4 monthly SEO blogs, and cost a flat $100/month — and you own the code.

A typical Squarespace business site runs $23–$99/month for the plan, plus $20–$50/month across Acuity Scheduling, email marketing, and member areas, plus 0–3% commerce transaction fees on lower plans, plus optional Circle Partner labor. Most clients we migrate were spending $80–$220/month all-in. Our Smart Website is a flat $300 build + $100/month with hosting, AEO, SEO, 4 blogs, and unlimited updates included.

Not as a working site. Squarespace only exports a limited content file (an XML feed of blog posts, basic pages, and images) — it does not export your design, layouts, commerce, Acuity bookings, or member content in a re-deployable format. This is documented in Squarespace's Help Center. With The Real Social Company you receive the full React codebase and can host it on Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or AWS at any time.

No, if migration is done correctly. We map every existing Squarespace URL (including the /s/ slug patterns) to a 301 redirect, preserve title tags and content hierarchy, and add modern Schema.org JSON-LD that Squarespace could not. Most clients see ranking improvements within 30–60 days because of dramatically faster Core Web Vitals and stronger AEO structure.

Most businesses launch a new custom React site within 2–3 weeks. Week 1 is audit and URL mapping, Week 2 is design and rebuild on our AEO-optimized React stack, Week 3 is DNS cutover with 301 redirects and 30-day monitoring. Zero downtime to your existing Squarespace site during the rebuild.

We replace each module with a modern, faster equivalent: Calendly or our integrated booking widget for Acuity, Stripe Checkout or a full headless storefront for Commerce, and gated React routes (Supabase auth) for Member Areas. Customer, product, and order data exports cleanly in nearly all cases.

Squarespace produces clean templates and reasonable on-page SEO defaults — but two structural problems remain in 2026: slow Core Web Vitals from heavy Fluid Engine JavaScript, and very limited control over custom JSON-LD schema. For competitive local or national queries — and especially for AEO citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — a custom-built React site outperforms Squarespace in nearly every measurable metric.

Yes. We build Smart Websites for med spas, law firms, contractors, restaurants, photographers, dentists, real estate teams, consultants, B2B SaaS, and most service businesses. Columbus-based, serving clients nationwide.

No. Smart Website is month-to-month with 14 days notice to cancel. You own the website code and can take it with you — the opposite of Squarespace platform lock-in.

Hosting, SSL, daily backups, unlimited on-demand updates, monthly AEO optimization, monthly SEO optimization, 4 SEO blog posts per month, Google Analytics & Search Console setup, schema maintenance, Core Web Vitals monitoring, security patching, and a monthly performance report.