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, as many people do, double-check you're clicking into the correct one before touching payment settings, since a processor connected to the wrong site won't help the store you actually 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 rather than trying to connect a processor from inside the notifications editor.

Once inside Payments, Squarespace lists the processors available for your region — typically Stripe, PayPal, and in some markets Square. Which one to pick depends on where your business operates and what your customers expect to see at checkout; Stripe and PayPal are supported broadly, while Square's availability varies more by country. You're not limited to just one, so most stores end up connecting at least two for flexibility.

Selecting Stripe walks you through authorizing your existing Stripe account or creating a new one, which becomes the processor handling credit and debit card payments directly at your Squarespace checkout. This is usually the primary processor for most stores since it covers the majority of card transactions without the customer needing an account with anything beyond their own card.

Adding PayPal alongside Stripe gives customers who prefer to check out with an existing PayPal balance or linked account another option, rather than forcing everyone through a card form. Once both are connected, enable any additional currencies your customers need and run an actual test transaction — a small real or sandbox purchase — before considering the store live, since 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.