Free of Code Vs Squarespace
Free of Code Vs Squarespace
Free of Code Vs Squarespace
Choose the customer-preferred platform for scaling your web design business.
THE FREE OF CODE ADVANTAGE
In a side-by-side comparison, Free of Code beats Squarespace in these important categories.
| Free of Code | SquareSpace | |
|---|---|---|
| WHITE LABEL | White label dashboard, editor, stats, analytics, emails, and preview links to support the agency brand. | Does not offer white label tools or features. Squarespace’s brand is present. |
| CLIENT MANAGEMENT | Custom roles and permissions, Site Comments, direct content upload by clients and more. | No similar tools for client management. |
| TEAM COLLABORATION TOOLS AND APPROVAL WORKFLOWS | Custom team roles and permissions. Website sections, templates and widgets can be shared between team members, and clients can provide design feedback via Site Comments. | Limited authorization of contributors to each website, no design assets sharing, no site comments. |
| DESIGN FEATURES & FLEXIBILITY | Pre-built and custom widgets and templates to create fun-to-use, personalized websites and dynamic web pages. | Limited flexibility. Blocks and features are less customizable and must be added as whole sections. No custom blocks or dynamic pages. |
| EDITOR EASE OF USE | Free of Code’s intuitive drag-and-drop editor is fast, easy to use, and comes jam-packed with an exhaustive list of features. | Squarespace’s editor has a steeper learning curve. |
| WEBSITE TEMPLATES | Free of Code has a wide variety of thoughtfully designed templates that are made to deliver conversions and business results. | Squarespace primarily offers portfolio-type templates for bloggers, photographers, and artists. |
| BACKUP & RESTORE, SITE CLONING | Auto and manual backup features, one-click backup/restore, easy site cloning saves you time. | No native integrated backup and restore capabilities. |
| WEBSITE PERSONALIZATION | Robust Personalization Engine. Custom rules and triggers based on time of day, visitor location and more. | Personalization is limited to popups & announcement bars. |
| SEO | The Free of Code platform is designed and built to be aligned with Google’s recommended practices for speed, security, Lighthouse, and SEO. | Offers basic on-page SEO resources. |
| ONLINE STORE | eCommerce solution is easy to set up and compatible with an ever-growing number of payment processors. Product fields optimized for SEO. | eCommerce solution adequate for smaller businesses. Limited payment processors. |
| SITE EXPORT AND PORTABILITY | You are free to export site code and content anytime. | For technical users, Squarespace supports export of some site content through an XML file. |
| REVENUE STREAM CONTROL | You set the prices you charge your customers for your services; the Duda plan you pay for is not exposed to the end client. | Your clients will be shown Squarespace’s pricing and, if the account is in their name, the client will be billed by Squarespace. |
| Pricing | Free of Code has pricing plans tailored for agencies with multiple clients. | Pricing by the site. No multi-site plans. |
| SUPPORT | Top-notch customer support with a satisfaction rate of 98%. | Email, chat & online knowledge base. No phone support. |
| DATA-DRIVEN SITE CONTENT | Free of Code can connect to internal or external databases and populate site elements. | No dynamic pages feature, some 3rd-party integrations. |
| ACCESS TO CODE WHEN NEEDED | Edit any site element’s JavaScript, HTML or CSS in Developer Mode. REST API access, Custom Widgets, Webhooks. | Developer Mode for certain site elements. |
| MULTILINGUAL WEBSITES | Supports multilingual sites. | Offers manual, labor-intensive translation of pages. |
| LOCAL BUSINESS FEATURES | Local listing and reputation management apps, map widget for single / multiple locations, local business schema widgets, posting to Google & Facebook. | No local listing management available. |
Customer Quotes
“Free of Code gives us the ability to focus on providing customers with what is important to their business. Our team now completes website builds in ¼ the time it takes with WordPress.”
Dana Rosen
“A product is only as good as its support. The amazing team Free of Code directed us to has exceeded our expectations in product quality and support!”
John Taylor
“You won't be disappointed with Free of Code. The typical ‘oh no's’ associated with other CMS platforms are delightfully absent from this one.”
Jane Smith
“This is the best company I have ever worked with. I am recommending to all my friends and colleagues.”
Rina Brick
6 REASONS WHY DIGITAL AGENCIES& SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS PREFER FREEOFCODE
6 REASONS WHY DIGITAL AGENCIES
& SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS PREFER FREEOFCODE
ROIs in less time
- Reduce your total cost of ownership with hosting, templates, widgets, SSL and support bundled together at a great price.
- 86% of Free of Code customers achieve a positive return on investment in 12 months or less.
Hassle-free Web Design
- Build sites incredibly fast without compromising on design.
- Make coding an option, not a requirement
Shorter Development Times
- Increase margins by dramatically reducing development and maintenance times.
- Many agencies have reported cutting development times by 2X after moving from WordPress to Free of Code
Superior Team Collaboration
- Boost productivity with a robust suite of cross-team collaboration and your own library of shareable sections, templates and widgets.
- Experience 57% quicker client approval rates on designs with Site Comments.
Smoother Client Management
- Customize your clients’ access to our platform with specialized permissions.
- Let your clients manage their sites under your brand with Free of Code's White Label platform.
Top-rated Customer Support
- Get prompt responses to your questions from an expert support team rated #1.
- Contact us via phone, email or chat.
BUILD & DELIVER BETTER-PERFORMING SITES
On WordPress, you’d have to use site-slowing plugins in an attempt to optimize sites –– on a platform that experiences frequent security breaches and an average of 5 downtime events per month. On Free of Code, every site is automatically optimized for speed and security, and experiences monthly uptimes of 99.99%.
AWS Hosting
Free SSL Encryption
Google Lighthouse Optimization
Join the thousands of digital agencies and solutions providers who are reaching new levels of success with Free of Code.