How to Link Payment on Squarespace 2026 Easy Guide

Sign in to Squarespace and land on the account Dashboard, which lists every site tied to your account as its own card, complete with a thumbnail, the live URL, and quick links for Website, Selling, and Domains. If you manage more than one site, double-check you're clicking into the correct one before touching payment settings. A processor connected to the wrong site won't help the store you meant to fix.

Inside your chosen site, open Settings from the site editor. The panel that opens groups everything into categories: Website, Domains & Email, Customer Notifications, Selling, Brand, Marketing, Third Party Tools, and more further down. Selling is the category that matters here; it's where Squarespace groups payment processors, shipping, taxes, and store policies, separate from the Website category that handles pages and design.

Payments sits as its own entry inside the Settings navigation, grouped near Customer Accounts under general email and account settings, distinct from Customer Notifications, which handles the transactional emails customers receive about their orders. It's easy to open Customer Notifications by mistake since it sits right next to Business Settings in the same panel. If you land there, back out one level and look for Payments specifically instead of trying to connect a processor from inside the notifications editor.

Inside Payments, Squarespace lists Squarespace Payments (its own native processor), Stripe, and PayPal, plus Square for U.S. sellers. Square is not a checkout-page option alongside the others: Squarespace's own documentation describes it as in-person processing through a physical Square Reader in the Squarespace app, available in the U.S. only, not a way to take card payments on your website. For online checkout, the real choice is between Squarespace Payments and Stripe as the card processor, with PayPal as an addable second option.

Squarespace Payments is the platform's built-in processor: transactions, payouts, and disputes are managed directly from your Squarespace dashboard instead of a separate account. If your site currently uses Stripe and you switch to Squarespace Payments, Stripe is detached from the site and replaced; the Stripe account itself stays active only to finish handling existing subscriptions, and past transaction history remains in Stripe.

Squarespace Payments can run alongside PayPal, but not alongside Stripe or Square at the same time. Stripe remains available as a separate third-party option if you'd rather keep billing there. Selecting it walks you through authorizing an existing Stripe account or creating a new one, which then becomes the processor handling credit and debit cards at checkout.

PayPal needs a PayPal Business account, not a personal one; Squarespace prompts an upgrade during setup if you only have a personal account. Once connected, customers get a "Continue with PayPal" button at checkout instead of the card form, with Venmo available on mobile in some cases.

PayPal through Squarespace has real limits worth knowing before you rely on it: no recurring or installment payments, and a $10,000 cap per transaction. After connecting your processors, enable any additional currencies your customers need and run an actual test transaction, a small real or sandbox purchase, before considering the store live. A processor that looks connected in settings can still fail silently at the actual checkout step if something in the account setup wasn't finished.