Shopify vs Squarespace

Shopify can be understood as an e-commerce platform which is used to provide customers services to sell their products online without creating their own store. It is a paid platform where users can make their accounts and choose from a number of templates and can build their e-commerce website to sell their products. Shopify provides all the necessary tools and equipment needed to build an online store.

Squarespace can be understood as a website building company founded by Anthony Casalena in 2004. It is an American company which provides its software as a service. It has a large number of pre-designed templates which can be used for making interactive websites. It also provides hosting services along with domain names and other features. It is used due to its drag and drop capabilities.

Below is a table of differentiation between Shopify and Squarespace:

	Shopify	Squarespace
1.	It is an e-commerce platform which provides services to make an online store to sell goods	It is a website building company which provides software as a service.
2.	It was founded by Tobias Lutke, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake.	It was founded by Anthony Casalena in New York.
3.	It does not charge any transaction fee on payment by its own gateway.	It charges a transaction fee of up to 3%
4.	It is a good choice for building large e-commerce stores for selling products.	It is a good choice for building small and medium-sized applications.
5.	It provides better SEO functionalities than any other platform.	It provides SEO features with limited functionalities.
6.	It provides only 17 pre-built free templates.	It provides more than 100 templates to start website building.
7.	It provides more marketing and analytic tools for tracking business performance.	It provides basic analytic and marketing tools.
8.	Its subscription plan starts at $29 per month.	Its subscription plan starts at just $16 per month.