Create Stunning Websites with Squarespace
Scale Your Business with Squarespace
We build and optimise powerful Squarespace websites that convert. As your local Squarespace expert in New Zealand, Spiral Compute delivers custom e-commerce solutions that drive sales and scale with your business.
Why Build with Squarespace?
Our Custom Squarespace Development Services
We provide end-to-end Squarespace solutions, from initial strategy and design to custom development, migration, and ongoing technical support.
Custom Squarespace Themes & UX Design
Your Squarespace website is your digital flagship, and an off-the-shelf template can often feel generic and limiting. A custom-built Squarespace design is the key to differentiating your brand, creating a unique online experience, and gaining a real competitive advantage. We go beyond templates to craft a digital presence that is exclusively yours. Our design philosophy is mobile-first, ensuring that the 70%+ of customers who browse on their phones enjoy a flawless, intuitive, and engaging experience that inspires them to take action.
Our process is collaborative and user-centric, starting with a deep dive into your brand, goals, and target audience. From there, we move into wireframing and high-fidelity mockups, carefully mapping out every user journey and optimising each touchpoint for conversion. Once the design is perfected, our team builds it into a fast, scalable, and fully optimised Squarespace site using modern best practices. The end result is a stunning, high-performance website that not only captures your brand’s essence but is also engineered to drive growth, sales, and customer loyalty.
Squarespace App Integration & Development
The Squarespace Extensions marketplace offers powerful tools, but your business has unique processes and workflows that off-the-shelf solutions can’t always accommodate. That’s where we come in. We design and build custom integrations and tailored solutions for Squarespace—crafted to meet your exact needs. Whether you require an advanced product customizer, bespoke subscription logic, or an internal dashboard to manage complex operations, we’ll create a solution that fits your business, not the other way around.
Our development process starts with a thorough discovery of your goals and challenges. We then architect a secure, scalable integration and implement it using modern best practices on Squarespace. Beyond building from scratch, we specialise in complex API connections—linking your Squarespace site or store with the tools you rely on, such as CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce), accounting software (e.g., Xero), inventory/ERP systems, and local New Zealand shipping providers. The result is a seamless, automated ecosystem that keeps data in sync, reduces manual work, and frees your team to focus on growth.
Migration to Squarespace
Moving your online store to a new platform can feel daunting, but staying on a platform that’s slow, outdated, or ill-suited to your business can be far more costly in the long run. We specialise in seamless, stress-free migrations to Squarespace from platforms like WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, or Wix. We treat migration as a strategic opportunity—not just to transfer your data, but to enhance functionality, improve user experience, and lay a stronger foundation for growth.
Our team manages the entire migration with a meticulous, proven methodology designed for near-zero downtime. We start by mapping your complete data structure to ensure every critical detail—products, variants, customer profiles, and order histories—is accounted for. We then complete a secure transfer and implement a comprehensive URL redirect strategy to preserve your hard-earned SEO. You can be confident your business keeps running without interruption—and you’ll launch on Squarespace ready for a new era of e-commerce success.
Squarespace Performance & SEO
In e-commerce, speed directly impacts sales. Even a one-second delay in page load time can significantly reduce conversion rates. We conduct in-depth performance audits that go beyond basic checks, analysing everything from template efficiency and image optimisation to extensions, scripts, and server response times on Squarespace. Our goal is to make your site lightning-fast, delivering an exceptional user experience that meets and exceeds Google’s Core Web Vitals standards.
A fast site is only valuable if customers can find it. That’s where technical SEO comes in—providing the essential foundation for all your digital marketing efforts. We implement a complete suite of SEO best practices on Squarespace, including optimising site structure, applying structured data for rich snippets, fixing broken links, and refining URL hierarchies. As your Squarespace e-commerce specialists in New Zealand, we ensure your site is technically flawless to achieve strong visibility and top Google rankings.
Ongoing Squarespace Support & Maintenance
Launching your Squarespace website is just the beginning of your online journey. A website is a dynamic asset that requires continuous attention to stay secure, efficient, and competitive. As a business owner, you need a reliable technical partner to handle the complexities of the platform while you focus on your customers and products. We provide ongoing Squarespace support and maintenance retainers to give you exactly that—proactive, expert care for your most important digital asset.
Our retainer packages are designed to give you complete peace of mind. Each month, you’ll have a dedicated block of our team’s time for essential tasks such as Squarespace updates, security monitoring, bug fixes, performance checks, and rolling out new feature enhancements. More than just a helpdesk, we act as your strategic partner, offering proactive advice on new Squarespace features and industry best practices. With our expert Wellington-based team on call, you can be confident your site is always in safe hands and positioned for sustainable growth.
Your Expert Squarespace Partner in New Zealand
Beyond the Template: Software-Powered Solutions
Unlike typical designers, Spiral Compute is a software development company. This means we bring a deeper level of technical expertise to your Squarespace project. We develop clean, efficient code and extend Squarespace’s capabilities with custom integrations and advanced features that most agencies can’t, future-proofing your investment.
As a New Zealand-based team, we understand the local e-commerce landscape. We seamlessly integrate NZ Post and other couriers, and set up local payment gateways like POLi, Afterpay, and Laybuy to meet the expectations of Kiwi shoppers.
- ✓ Local Wellington-based Experts
- ✓ Focus on Conversion & ROI
- ✓ Clean, Scalable Custom Code
- ✓ Transparent Project Management
- ✓ Post-Launch Growth Strategy
Squarespace Development FAQs
If you are considering Squarespace as your e-commerce platform, you can review the frequently asked questions about our service and support.
The cost of a custom Squarespace website depends on the scope and complexity of your project. A simple site using a customised premium template may start from a few thousand dollars, while a fully bespoke design with advanced e-commerce features, app integrations, and tailored functionality will require a larger investment.
After our discovery session, we provide a transparent, fixed quote so you’ll know exactly what’s included—no hidden surprises.
The timeline depends on the size and complexity of your store. A basic e-commerce setup can be launched in as little as 3–4 weeks, while a fully custom store with advanced design, app integrations, and automation may take 8–12 weeks. After our initial consultation, we’ll give you a project timeline tailored to your goals and requirements.
It depends on your business needs. Squarespace is an all-in-one platform that bundles hosting, design, e-commerce, and SEO tools into one easy-to-use solution—ideal for businesses that want a beautiful, functional store without dealing with technical complexity. WooCommerce, on the other hand, is a WordPress plugin that provides greater flexibility but requires separate hosting, frequent updates, and higher maintenance.
If you want a streamlined, design-focused, and low-maintenance platform, Squarespace is often the better option.
Squarespace Enterprise is built for growing brands and large organisations that require advanced performance, scalability, and dedicated support. It goes beyond standard Squarespace plans, offering premium security, robust integrations, priority customer service, and hands-on guidance from the Squarespace team.
Yes. We offer a range of ongoing support and maintenance retainers to ensure your Squarespace website remains secure, up-to-date, and continuously optimised for performance.
Yes, absolutely. You maintain 100% ownership of all your content, data, products, and customer information. When we create a custom design or functionality for you on Squarespace, you own the complete rights to that specific work. It is your asset to use, manage, and scale as you see fit. Our role is to provide the professional service to build and configure these assets on the Squarespace platform. The only ongoing fee you will have is your subscription directly to Squarespace for use of their core platform, hosting, and security. All the custom creative and technical work we deliver is entirely yours.
Squarespace templates are an excellent starting point for many businesses. However, hiring a professional developer is the difference between having a standard website and creating a high-performance, unique e-commerce experience. A developer allows you to move beyond the visual and functional constraints of a template. We can build a fully custom design that perfectly matches your brand, create unique features that address your specific business challenges, and critically, optimise performance and technical SEO—factors that are often limited in pre-built templates. Working with a developer ensures your Squarespace site is not only visually stunning but also built on a solid, scalable, and secure foundation. We solve complex problems, integrate your site seamlessly with other business systems, and provide the strategic technical guidance needed to transform your website into a powerful tool for growth, rather than just an online catalogue.
Yes, this is one of the key advantages of working with a local NZ-based development team. We have extensive experience integrating the payment gateways Kiwi customers know and trust, such as POLi, Afterpay, and Laybuy, ensuring a smooth and familiar checkout process that can significantly boost conversion rates. In addition, we can seamlessly connect your Squarespace store with local shipping carriers, including NZ Post, CourierPost, and other popular couriers. This enables real-time shipping calculations, automated label printing, and streamlined fulfilment workflows—saving you time and money while delivering a better experience for your customers.
A successful Squarespace project is always a collaborative partnership. To get started, we first need a clear understanding of your goals, target audience, and the specific challenges you’re facing. We’ll work through this together in our initial discovery sessions. Next, we’ll need your brand assets, such as your high-resolution logo and any brand style guides. The most important contribution will be your content—product photography, detailed product descriptions and pricing, and page copy for sections like “About Us” and your store policies. Providing this content on time is essential to keeping the project on schedule. Throughout the process, we’ll also rely on your active participation and feedback during key design and development review stages to ensure the final website aligns perfectly with your vision.
Ready to Build Your High-Performing Squarespace Website?
Let’s discuss your e-commerce goals. Contact our Squarespace development team today for a free, no-obligation consultation, and let’s build a website that delivers results.