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Square Online
4.2
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(Formerly Weebly)
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Square Online Reviews & Product Details

Square Online Overview
What is Square Online?

While Square Online (formerly Weebly) is often seen as an entry-level website and CMS for businesses, marketers, and content publishers, its revamped and robust features offer so much more. Offering a free version and paid options, Weebly enables its users to build the websites and the content properties that they want, the way they want it. Responsive themes ensure mobile compatibility and optimized user experience across all screen sizes while powerful design capabilities pave the way for engaging, visually enticing, and on-brand content. In addition, native e-commerce functionalities such as order and inventory management, secure checkout and payment processing, and sales analytics make it a viable option among merchants to sell physical products, services, and digital goods.

Company Square, Inc.
Year founded 2009
Company size 5001-10,000 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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What are the pros and cons of Square Online?
Square Online Product Details
Capabilities
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Square Online Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Excellent value for beginners in the ecommerce industry
  • Low price for marketing automation
  • Powerful range of email marketing tools
  • Convenient backend environment is easy to use
  • Helpful mobile app for tracking your store
Cons
  • Not the best at SEO
  • Inventory management isn’t great
  • Lower plans include Weebly ads and branding
  • Phone support only available on high-tier plans
  • Fewer feature launches
Square Online Features
24/7 Customer Support
A/B Testing
Analytics and Reporting
Blog Integration
Contact Management
Custom CSS and HTML Editing
Custom Domain Support
Customizable Templates
Drag-and-Drop Editor
E-commerce Functionality
Email Marketing Tools
Event Management
Form Builder
GDPR Compliance
Hosting Services
Image and Video Galleries
Live Chat Support
Membership Sites
Mobile Optimization
Multi-language Support
One-Click Publishing
Online Booking Tools
Responsive Design
SEO Tools
SSL Certification
Social Media Integration
Template Selection
Third-Party App Integrations
User Permissions
Website Backup
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Disclaimer
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Last updated: November 16, 2024
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458 Square Online Reviews
4.2 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 15, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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Founder
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"Weebly for My Website"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Speed plus design, font, color, layout options

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Difficulty placing text and images and sizing images

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating website. Ability to show work, skills, interests.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 23, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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Founder
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"Works for this newbie"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Was able to build my first two websites using Weebly. Easy to understand, even for a newbie. Great customer support when I needed it. Fast response.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Navigating the store and ecommerce integration has been difficult.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Promoting my online business and private practice.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 21, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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Founder
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"Square Online was a big covid pivot"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Square online gave us a convenient way to pivot to online sales during the start of the pandemic

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Inventory management and inability to fit around some of our order scheduling needs

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Square online allowed us to easily transfer our in-store sales to an online pickup based platform

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 30, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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"Great for building your own business or personal website and widgets therein!"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Easy to use platform for building and maintaining websites and correlating e-mail addresses.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

I wish there was an option to change the theme on a singular page without it affecting all the other pages setup.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a simple website to host information, domain-specific e-mail addresses, YouTube videos, newsletters, and sign-ups. Weebly offers all that (often with the help of additional widgets)

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 20, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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Founder
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"Review of Square E-Commerce"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I liked how user-friendly the website is for building something that typically requires an expert web designer or computer specialist.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

I disliked many of layouts that were provided.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving web design. I also like how it solves the payment portion of an e-commerce shop. It makes it easy to get a website design started.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 17, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great!"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I love Weebly, it's so easy to use if you have no web design experience.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

I dislike that there are not many customization options, like leading and kerning, but for ease of use it's fine.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a professional looking website that was fast and easy to make and user friendly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 02, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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Founder
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"An easy platform to create websites on"
What do you like best about Square Online?

It's very simple and easy to use, keeping web design drag and drop to simplicity

What do you dislike about Square Online?

It's sometimes too simple - functions can be limited as you can't customize or edit a lot of the actions

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Create websites quickly and easily.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 13, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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"Good for some things, not for all."
What do you like best about Square Online?

I like that Weebly makes it fairly easy for non-coders to create websites with their WYSIWYG builder. If you have coding skills, it is even more customizable. I also like the ease with which you can build forms and databases.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

The builder can sometimes be frustrating to use, since it's not always precise. It's also fairly expensive--I tell my clients that you pay more for the convenience, but I'm not sure it's always worth it.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

It definitely makes it easy for clients who are overwhelmed by the prospect of creating a website to tackle it.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 11, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Weebly makes student voices heard."
What do you like best about Square Online?

I like that Weebly is a format that students get excited about using. They feel like posting their thoughts online gives them more validation.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Sometimes, Weebly web page design can get overwhelming for the kids.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have realized that when students are sharing their thoughts on a website, like Weebly, they're more likely to "say more." They dont write the bare minimum, or only write what their friends think is cool. They really give the topic some thought and write well.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 17, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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"Great webpage builder"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I love how easy it is to navigate and customize to become your own unique page!

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Not much, probably the cost associated with removing ads and Weebly watermarks.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Weebly provides a whole webpage for me to build upon with helpful templates and resources to make it look super professional and awesome

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 17, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Weebly for G Suite"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I have been an avid user for well over four years. Weebly has done at excellent job of formatting their interface and tools to fit the needs of G Suite.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

The drag and drop options that typically work when using Weebly on Chrome are much slower.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business problems consist of time management and efficiency, especially being Weebly is much faster in other settings.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 27, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy to Use Website Builder"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Weebly is a very user friendly in terms of building your own website. There are a lot of templates and features that allows you to create a professional looking website in no time at all.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Some features are standard and cannot be customizable. If you are very critical about certain aspects of your website, it may be hard to find a customizable feature.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Weebly is useful in quickly building a website for events pages. It is easy to use and it gets the job done.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"A good first-time website builder, but not really ideal for me."
What do you like best about Square Online?

Easy to navigate and create pages, nice tools to view...views. If you're code savvy, you used to be able to edit things out (like the weebly logo). The majority of their templates are mobile responsive. Images loaded quickly, it had nice gallery options. It was easy to set up a domain you own to it, without giving up any of your ownership or being locked down to them. New templates are getting better, but still don't feel super luxe.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

I felt like there was a lack of easy customization options, especially with super silly easy things like fonts and box colors. When I used it, you weren't even able to upload custom social media icons. Old designs were SUPER cheesy, which was a factor of why I left. I visited them while writing this review and they seemed to have improved! However, as it's an unpopular platform all-and-all, it's very hard if not impossible to find templates by custom designers/etsy/etc. I didn't feel like there were many apps to use for things such as forms, etc.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

it seems like they were on the mobile-responsive train pretty early on.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 29, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great for beginners in web design"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Weebly is incredibly user-friendly. Depending on your plan, you can customize your website, or use one of their existing templates. Everything is laid out for you so there isn’t any guesswork.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

You either have to pay for the whole year up front, or basically pay double to pay monthly.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to quickly generate web pages and buy domain names all from the same place.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 23, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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"Has gotten expensive over the years "
What do you like best about Square Online?

Very easy to build a website and set up an online store

What do you dislike about Square Online?

The price keeps going up, and they have made it harder to implement my own PayPal integration system. This forces me to pay for their business plan.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Create and maintain website, sell merchandise online

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 10, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
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Founder
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"Pretty good product"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Easy to use, reliable service, super quick set up and lower cost,

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Very rigid, not easy to customize, and their site editor has huge flaws. You can’t for instance start to make a change and then undo the change. So if you make a mistake you are screwed, also SEO is hard bacuse you can’t add alt text to all images. Little things like rounding buttons and pictures is next to impossible. I guess if you want basic and easy they are in. You want a little more.. look else where

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Build a website and online presence. I got that but, when the contract is up will be looking for something else.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 02, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Good for Simple Projects"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I liked their free built-in templates. You can literally create a whole new website in a few minutes.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

It's very slow, not many options to customize. So, basically, it's not a flexible tool. I wouldn't recommend it for big projects.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it when I was working at a Non-profit. We created a couple of static websites for our events and our campus program. It's very easy-to-use although I couldn't find any decent how-to guide. It doesn't require you to know any HTML/CSS or PHP. I had colleagues who had no experience with the web at all using this platform very professionally after a quick intro.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 07, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Create a website now using weebly"
What do you like best about Square Online?

The ease of use to create a great looking website! The ease of customibility is amazing!

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Sometimes the formatting is a little difficult to manipulate.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Weebly for school and I am currently using it to create a web for my tutoring business.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 31, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great for a Simple Website"
What do you like best about Square Online?

Easy to design and pretty templates. Sleek and clean looking on mobile, too.

What do you dislike about Square Online?

Once I am logged into my account it is very difficult to find the "Build A new Website" page or link.

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Client had limited funds and only neede a 3-5 page website as well as access to make updates.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 19, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Weebly is ok"
What do you like best about Square Online?

I do like the fact that you can create a website. its a decent format, But not one of the best

What do you dislike about Square Online?

The layout is confusing,and annoying and could be better

What problems is Square Online solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not really any

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