How to Cash Out & Withdraw Money on Squarespace with Stripe, Paypal & Square 2026

Log in at squarespace.com and open the site you're selling from. Payment processors are configured per site, not per account, so a second site needs its own setup.

Inside the site dashboard, open Settings, then Selling, then Payments. Typing "payments" into the dashboard search box jumps you straight there if you'd rather not hunt through the menu.

The page opens on Connect a payment processor. Squarespace notes that connecting a processor is free and takes roughly five minutes, which is accurate for the connection itself; verification on the processor's side can take longer.

Scrolling the Payments page shows the processor cards for your account. Stripe accepts all major credit cards plus Apple Pay and Afterpay/Clearpay, and Squarespace's documentation lists it as supported worldwide.

PayPal Business accepts PayPal and Venmo payments and is also supported worldwide. Square sits in its own Point of sale section marked US only; it's for taking payments in person with cash and cards, not for your online checkout.

Depending on your site's region and when your account was set up, you may also see a fourth card for Squarespace Payments, Squarespace's own native processor. Unlike the three above, it holds funds directly instead of only forwarding them; the steps below cover what changes if you use it. None of these are mutually exclusive: connecting Stripe and PayPal together is common and simply gives shoppers two buttons at checkout.

Clicking Connect hands you off to the processor's own signup (or, for Squarespace Payments, an in-dashboard setup flow), where you log into an existing account or create one. Expect to supply business details, a tax identifier, and the bank account that will receive money.

This is where the actual withdrawal path gets defined, and for Stripe, PayPal, and Square it happens on that company's servers, not Squarespace's. All of them ask for identity verification before releasing funds, typically a government ID and proof of the business address. Finish this in the same session as connecting: an unverified processor will happily take payments while holding every payout, which is the single most common reason a seller thinks Squarespace is withholding their money.

At the bottom of the Payments page is Store Currency. Check it deliberately: currency determines what customers are charged in, and it can't be changed freely once your store has processed orders.

It also has to be a currency your chosen processor supports for your country, so a mismatch here surfaces later as declined payments, not as an obvious error message on this page. Confirm it matches the bank account you connected so you're not paying conversion fees on every payout.

Once a customer pays through Stripe, PayPal, or Square, the funds sit with that processor and transfer to your bank on its own payout schedule. Stripe typically pays out on a rolling basis after an initial holding period for new accounts, commonly a week or two on the first payout and shorter afterwards.

PayPal keeps the balance in your PayPal account until you transfer it out, which makes it feel more manual. Squarespace Payments works differently again: because it's native, payouts go straight from your Squarespace dashboard to a connected bank account, or, for US sellers, into a Squarespace Balance account you can spend from directly. Squarespace's Orders panel always shows what you sold; whichever processor's own dashboard shows what you've been paid, and those two numbers won't match at any given moment because of timing and fees.