The 20 Best Squarespace Template Shops in 2026 (Compared)
The short answer: Premium Squarespace templates cluster between $95 and $400, and the shops separate on three things — catalogue size, whether they install the template for you, and how long support lasts. Big Cat Creative and GoLive have the largest catalogues. Station Seven and Squareko carry Circle partner status. Below $150 you are usually buying a single template with a PDF guide.
Disclosure, up front: Squareko sells Squarespace templates. It appears in this list on the same criteria as every other shop, and it is not ranked first. If a comparison written by a participant is not something you want to read, Site Builder Report and SQSPThemes both maintain independent directories.
How these Squarespace template shops were compared
Five criteria, checked against each shop's own live pages in August 2026. Prices and counts change; verify before buying.
What was deliberately not scored: star ratings, "trusted by X,000 business owners" figures and review counts. Almost every shop in this market publishes one, almost none name a review platform or a methodology, and several publish an identical aggregate across every product page. An unverifiable number is not a comparison criterion.
Also not scored: template quality. Twenty shops means several hundred templates, and nobody has built with all of them. Anyone claiming to rank shops by design quality across a catalogue that size is guessing. Judge design yourself, from the demos — that is the one part of this decision you are better placed to make than any reviewer.
The comparison table
Ordered alphabetically, not by preference. Prices as listed in August 2026.
"Not published" means exactly that — the shop does not advertise an installation service on its public pages. Several of them will do one if you ask. It is not a criticism, it is a statement about what you can rely on before you pay.
What actually separates these shops
Twenty names is a lot to hold. In practice they cluster into four groups.
Large catalogues, DIY delivery
GoLive (40+ templates at a flat $299) and Kseniia Design Studio (50+ templates, $99–$229) are the volume plays. If you want to browse until something clicks, these are the deepest shelves in the market. GoLive publishes a free 5-day course and unlimited support, and sells a paid 1-Day Site Setup if you would rather not do it yourself. Kseniia's catalogue is broad across real estate, spa, coaching and interiors, and is discounted often enough that the list price is close to notional.
Big Cat Creative sits just below on count (~16) but is the most widely recommended shop in this category across independent directories, and is unusual in offering delivery either as a new site or installed into your existing website. Its published support commitment is lifetime, which is longer than anyone else in this list.
Niche specialists
Several shops are worth more than their size suggests because they know one audience deeply. Hold Space Creative builds for therapists and mental-health practitioners and ships copywriting prompts written for that field, which is a meaningful head start when the copy is the hard part. The Coast Kit builds for wedding professionals and small local businesses with matching branding kits. Launch Out Loud, formerly Kate Scott Studio, builds for course creators and sells sales-page templates separately from full sites — a distinction that matters, because a $195 sales page is not a website.
If your business is one of these, a specialist beats a generalist. You are buying the structure of someone who has already worked out which pages that industry sells from.
Budget entries
Blooming Design Co (from $47), Oslo Design Lab (from $94), The Square Genius (from $95) and Studio Mesa (from $95) all have genuine entry-level pricing. What you generally give up below $150 is scale — fewer pages, shorter support windows, and no installation. That is a fair trade if you are comfortable in Squarespace 7.1 and Fluid Engine. It is a bad trade if you are not, because a cheap template you cannot finish costs more than an expensive one that gets launched.
Studio Mesa deserves a specific mention for its unlimited-use licence, which is the right structure for a freelance designer building for multiple clients. Most licences in this market are single-site.
Circle partners
Station Seven and Squareko both hold Squarespace Circle partner status, which is relevant for one practical reason: Circle partners can pass on an extended trial and a discount on your first year of Squarespace. Station Seven publishes an extended 365-day trial and 25% off the first year. Squareko passes on 20% off the first year. Neither discount should decide the purchase, but on a Business plan it is a real offset against the template price.
Where Squareko fits, honestly
Squareko sells 24 templates at a flat $249 each, spanning interiors, construction, food, fitness, law, cleaning, real estate, photography, education and coaching. Templates run 9 to 15 real pages — not a homepage and placeholders — and every one includes a Style Guide page and a 404 page. Two shops in this list are meaningfully larger and several are meaningfully cheaper.
What Squareko does better than most of this list: delivery. There are no files. The template arrives as a Squarespace contributor invitation, either on a new 12-month trial site that Squareko builds and then transfers to you — your existing site stays live throughout — or installed onto your existing site as a paid add-on, a fully manual process that typically takes around 48 hours. Most shops in this table send you files or a demo-site link and a PDF. Big Cat Creative and GoLive are the notable exceptions with comparable install options.
What Squareko does worse: catalogue depth against GoLive and Kseniia, entry price against the sub-$150 shops, and support duration against Big Cat Creative's lifetime commitment. Squareko's support window is 60 days of email support plus a 5-day course, a private community and video tutorials. Customisation work is not included in the template price.
The thing you should hold against every shop here, including this one: digital products in this market are almost universally non-refundable, and Squareko is no exception — its policy states that digital products cannot be returned, exchanged or refunded under any circumstances. That makes the demo the entire purchase decision. Open it on a phone. Count the pages. Check that the pages you need exist before you pay, because you will not get a second chance.
One more obligation that catches people out across the whole category: demo images are not licensed for live use. Every stock photograph in every demo has to be replaced with your own before you launch. That applies to all twenty shops, and almost none of them say it on the product page.
Shops named in other lists that are not in this one
Three names appear in older roundups and could not be verified as active, publicly trading Squarespace template shops in August 2026: Paper Moon Websites, Ink and Mortar and Golden Coast Design. They may exist under different names or have closed. Rather than publish a price for a shop that could not be checked, they are excluded.
Two more are commonly listed as template shops but are not: SQSPThemes is a directory and review site that curates other shops rather than selling its own templates, and Squarestylist sells courses, code components and education rather than full site templates. Both are useful; neither is a template shop.
Six things to check on any shop's product page
These apply to every shop in the table, Squareko included. They take about five minutes and they catch most of the regret in this market.
1. The real page count, not the marketing page count. Shops frequently publish a round number that does not match the demo. Open the demo's navigation and count. Across the Squareko range, for instance, templates run from 9 pages to 15 despite a repeated "10 pages" line on the product pages — the demos are the accurate source, and the same is true elsewhere.
2. Which Squarespace version it is built on. A template built for Squarespace 7.0 will not behave like one built for 7.1 with Fluid Engine, and a 7.0 site cannot be converted to 7.1 in place. Some long-trading shops still list 7.0 stock.
3. Whether the demo actually loads. A surprising number of demo links in this category are password-gated and return a 401 when the password parameter is missing from the published link. If you cannot see the demo, do not buy the template — and that is worth saying about Squareko too, which currently has six demo links that fail this way.
4. What "support" means and how long it lasts. Support windows in this table range from 30 days to lifetime, and support almost never includes customisation. Read the definition, not the headline.
5. The licence. Most licences are single-site. If you are a designer buying a template to use on a client project, or on several, you need an extended or unlimited-use licence, and only a few shops sell one.
6. Whether the demo images are yours to keep. They are not, essentially anywhere. Budget for photography or stock before you launch, not after.
Should you buy a premium template at all?
Squarespace includes roughly 200 of its own templates free with any subscription, and they are genuinely good. For a five-page brochure site with light content needs, a free template plus an afternoon of Site Styles work will get you most of the way there, and every shop in this list is selling against that baseline.
Premium is worth it when you need a page architecture you would otherwise have to design — a services-and-packages structure, a portfolio with detail pages, a menu, a course, a booking flow — or when you need it finished by a date and would rather buy someone else's decisions than make several hundred of your own. That is the real product. The design is the visible part; the structure is the part that saves the fortnight.
How to choose in ten minutes
Filter on the two things that are objectively checkable: does the shop build for your industry, and will it install the template or leave you to it. That eliminates most of this table. Then open three demos on a phone, count the pages, and check the two or three pages your business actually sells from actually exist.
If installation and a handover are the parts you would rather not own, that is what the premium Squarespace templates at Squareko are built around — contributor-invite delivery, installation onto an existing site in around 48 hours, and 60 days of email support afterwards. If you are comfortable in Fluid Engine and want the widest possible choice, GoLive or Kseniia will serve you better, and that is a straightforward recommendation rather than a hedge.
FAQ
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Most sit between $95 and $400, with the common band around $200 to $300. Entry-level templates start near $47 and designer-focused licences reach $495. The template price never includes the Squarespace subscription, which is separate and required regardless of which shop you buy from.
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Kseniia Design Studio and GoLive publish the largest catalogues, at roughly 50 and 40 full website templates respectively. Catalogue size is not a quality measure — several of the strongest shops in this market carry fewer than ten templates and specialise deeply in one industry instead.
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Some do. Big Cat Creative, GoLive, Applet Studio, Station Seven and Squareko all publish an installation or setup option, though whether it is included or paid varies. Most other shops send a demo-site link or files and a written guide. Check before buying if you do not want to do the install yourself.
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Almost never. Digital products in this category are typically non-refundable, and several shops state explicitly that templates cannot be returned, exchanged or refunded under any circumstances. Treat the live demo as the entire purchase decision, and open it on a phone before you pay.
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Current templates from the shops in this list are built on Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine. Older templates originally built for Squarespace 7.0 are not, and 7.0 sites cannot be converted to 7.1 in place. Check which version a template targets, particularly on shops that have been trading for several years.
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Not for a simple brochure site. Squarespace includes around 200 templates free with a subscription and they handle a five-page site well. Premium is worth paying for when you need an industry-specific page architecture — services and packages, portfolio detail pages, menus, courses — that you would otherwise design from scratch.
Author Bio
I'm Walid Hasan, a Certified Squarespace Expert and Squarespace Circle Platinum Partner with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing high-performing websites. Over the years, I've had the privilege of building more than 2,000 Squarespace websites for clients around the world, always focusing on clean design, strong user experience, and conversion-driven results.
