hey guys in today's video I wanted to
give you an introduction to Squarespace
ecommerce Squarespace allows you to
easily set up your own online store and
sale not just physical products but all
different types of products as well so
in this video I'm going to give you an
overview of what you can do as well as
share some tips and show you some
special features if we haven't met yet
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so let's start with the different
products that you can sell in
Squarespace you can sell physical
products so this is anything that needs
to be shipped out to the customer you
can also sell digital products so this
is how you would sell something like an
e-book and then if you are a freelancer
or service based business you can
actually accept payments for your
services as well and if you're on the
Squarespace advanced commerce plan you
can sell gift cards so speaking of which
let's talk about the Squarespace pricing
plans and which one you need to be on in
order to sell products in order to sell
products you do need to be on the
business plan so this is $18 per month
if you're paying annually or $26
month-to-month what's great about this
plan is that you can sell unlimited
products the only thing is there is a
three percent transaction fee so it's
likely that you are going to want to
upgrade to one of the online store plans
otherwise known as the commerce plans so
with this one you have the basic and
advanced again you can sell unlimited
products but now there are no
transaction fees one of the main reasons
that you might want to upgrade to the
advance plan is because then you get
access to subscriptions or payment plans
I'll leave a link for this pricing page
down below so that you can go and check
out all of the features so you might be
wondering
template you need to be on in order to
sell products what I love about
Squarespace is you can sell products on
any of the templates so if you already
have a Squarespace website you are good
to go and you can add products to your
site if you are just getting started I
recommend that you use one of the
templates in the brine family because
these are the most flexible and have a
few more features that are great for
commerce so after you've picked your
pricing plan and your template it's time
to add products to your store so how do
you do that in Squarespace you're going
to click on pages and then scroll down
to the not linked section I'm going to
click on the plus sign and select
products so here you can just title this
products and this is where you will put
all of your products on your site now
when you just click right here you will
see your different options for adding
the different types of products then to
add your product you just need to click
here and then choose which type of
product you want to add to your store
when you do that you're going to click
on it and then enter all of your product
information here I also want to mention
that there is a fifth type of product
that you can add to Squarespace and that
is your online course so if you do want
to sell an online course with
Squarespace that is definitely possible
and I'll leave a link to this video in
the description below so a few more
things that I want to mention
Squarespace hooks up with a stripe and
PayPal so you can accept all different
types of credit cards as well as PayPal
and for those of you with physical
products it has an integration with
shipstation
so that you can easily and quickly print
your shipping labels so let me show you
quickly how to add a product so I'm just
going to click here to add my first
product and let's say that I'm doing a
physical product I'm going to click on
that and then here is where I would
upload my product images so let's say
that I'm going to sell my launch guide
and ship it to you guys so I'm gonna
type in the title over here and then I'm
going to add my price so I'm going to
click on that you'll see pricing just
click on this and here is where you
would enter your price another reason I
love Squarespace is because of how easy
they make putting something on sale but
for now I'm just going to show you this
and here is where you would add your SKU
the stock the weight in your dimensions
so for now I'm just going to click on
stock and change that to unlimited
alright so back to our item we would put
our product description here whoops I
can spell okay and then we have a few
other tabs you have additional info if
you want to add more information on your
products you can absolutely do that you
can add videos any type of content below
the main product image then we have
forum if you need to collect more
information from someone at checkout and
then we have options so here you need to
add your product URL so I'm going to add
launch guide and if you want you can
change the language on the buttons but
I'm happy with the default then I need
to upload my thumbnail image awesome and
the final tab is social in this tab you
can automatically share your products
that you add to your store on social
media all right so I'm going to click
Save and publish and show you what this
will look like on your website so if I
go over here as you can see we now have
our product ready for sale and if I
click on this this is what my main
product page is going to look like so it
looks pretty awesome
and as with Squarespace you can
customize this page a ton so if I go
into design and then site Styles you
will see all these different customer
options for your products page so for
example if I wanted to change the
position of this image I could
absolutely do that then you can also
customize the fonts and the colors for
your brand as well as choose what you
want to display so for example if I
didn't want to show those share buttons
I could simply turn those off okay great
so another thing I absolutely love about
Squarespace is that you can add your
product to whatever page that you want
so for example let's say you want to
write a blog post and share your most
recent product you can absolutely do
that
so on any page or blog you can add a
link for someone to purchase your
product let me show you an example on
this test page here so with my insert
point I can click on that scroll down
and add a product block if I click on
that I just need to type in the title of
my product and it will bring it up for
me great okay and so as you can see I
can add this anywhere on my site and I
can choose to show the description as
well as a button awesome so I'm going to
change this to center alignment and you
can also enable quick view which I'm
going to talk about in a second so let
me click apply and show you I'm gonna
make this a bit smaller so you can see
it okay awesome
so yet you can add this product block
here anywhere that you would like on
your site which makes it really easy for
people to purchase so now I want to go
over a few special features that I love
so the first is that quick view so let
me show you what happens when you enable
that if I click on this and then click
apply and then save as you can see when
I hover over my image I'm now going to
get this quick View button and if
someone were to click on that it's going
to bring up more information about the
product in this nice pop-up window so
this is especially convenient if you
have multiple products then people don't
need to actually leave the product page
to view more information on your product
so that's the first feature that I love
the second is the image zoom so if I
click on this you can determine that
when people hover on your image it's
going to zoom in so this is really great
if you have a physical product and you
need to show more details so my third
favorite feature is the Express Checkout
so at the moment if somebody were to
click Add to Cart this is simply going
to add a number to the cart here and
someone would need to click on that and
then see their cart page before they
check out so if you want you can bypass
this step if you go into commerce and
then checkout scroll down and enable
Express Checkout okay so I'm going to
click Save on that remove this item from
my cart and go back to my product page
so now someone is going to see a
different button and if they click on it
they are going to be instantly led to
the checkout page instead so as you can
see there is tons that you can do with
Squarespace commerce if you want to
learn more about how to do this I teach
it inside my course website that Wow's
where I share with you all the different
variations that you could possibly need
in terms of setting up your online store
so click the link below this video and
you'll see a link to the blog post that
accompanies this video in that you'll
see an option to sign up for a free
trial of my online course any important
links for you to check out as well as a
10% discount code for Squarespace
alright guys that's it for my
Squarespace ecommerce overview I hope
that you found it helpful if you have
any questions at all just leave those
for me in the
below and don't forget to check the
description because I've left a 10%
discount code for Youth Day thank you so
much for watching this video and I'll
see you in the next one
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