Open-source alternative  ·  CMS / Website Builder

Replace Squarespace with WordPress.

WordPress: self-hosted

The world's most popular CMS powering 40%+ of websites. Thousands of themes, 60,000+ plugins, full ecommerce with WooCommerce. Self-hosted, no platform fees.

You'd keep~R6 660 to ~R8 880/year

Current licence  ·  CMS / Website Builder

Squarespace

~R6 660 – ~R8 880/yr

10-user estimate

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WordPress

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R8 880/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Squarespace's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Business

R6 660/yr

R555/month

Flat rate

With WordPress

Keep R6 660/yr

Commerce Basic

R8 880/yr

R740/month

Flat rate

With WordPress

Keep R8 880/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Squarespace grows around 10% per year on average. WordPress hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR4kR8kR12kR16kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R14kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R-0.00M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

SquarespaceWordPress (self-hosted), in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other cms / website builder migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Squarespace.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.