What Squarespace Member Areas Can and Can’t Do
In this article I am going to go over the features and limitations of Squarespace Member Areas to help you decide if it is right for you. At the end, I’ve got an exciting announcement. Check it out!
What can Squarespace Member Areas do?
House paid content
Handle monthly, yearly or one time subscriptions
House your online course
Password protect your content
Provide users with individual logins
Be accessed through your Squarespace website
Have different navigation from your main website
Integrate with Squarespace’s email system
Stream audio
House embedded video (hosted on YouTube or Vimeo)
House downloadable PDFs
Have a seamless look and feel with your website
Pages in the Member Area have the same functionality as any other pages on Squarespace
House up to 10 Members Areas on the same website
Be easily built
What can’t Squarespace Member Areas do?
Offer multiple payment options for the same course or membership
For example, you could not offer a one-time payment or split payment option on the same course or membership. Everyone would have to pay either as a one-time payment or recurring payment on the same schedule.
Provide a space for interaction among members (you can do this with Circle).
Drip content (there is a partial workaround for this)
Drip content is the way some courses are set up so that the next unit shows up after the learner has finished the previous unit, or it can be on a time schedule. Member Areas does not have that feature, but you could set up your course using the Blog feature and schedule each unit to release at a certain time. This would work well for courses where all learners start at the same time. For courses with rolling enrollment, the blog workaround would not work.
Why Choose Squarespace for Your Members Area?
Simple: Squarespace has everything you need to create, share, manage and house your exclusive content. Squarespace is an all-in-one-tool. With Squarespace, you can have your domain, your website, your products or services, payment processing, scheduling, newsletter and now, your members are all in one place.
Squarespace allows users to easily integrate with Email Campaigns so you can send emails, get insights and choose where visitors sign up.
One login. One platform.
Is Squarespace Member Areas Right for You?
Member Areas are great for you if you have a Squarespace website and want to protect or monetize your content while allowing certain people to have access. Each person gets their own login to your site.
You can also host a simple course on Member Areas.
In summary, Member Areas can be a great way to get started with online course or to build your community.
Learn more about hosting your membership on Squarespace.
