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title: "Squarespace alternative for small businesses"
url: "https://miow.me/squarespace-alternative"
updated: 2026-10-15
description: "miow compared with Squarespace for a small-business website: price, sales fees, sign-in, leaving, and moving a Squarespace site across."
---

# miow, a Squarespace alternative for small businesses

miow builds and hosts small-business websites, and moves a Squarespace site's pages across word for word.

## What is a good alternative to Squarespace?

miow is one, for a business that wants its website written for it rather than built up from a template. You describe the business, or give the address of the Squarespace site you have now, and the pages appear at the site's own address on miow.me.

From there you say what should change and a model changes it, or you edit the page yourself. Every change is recorded and can be undone.

## How is miow different from Squarespace?

Squarespace's figures are from its pricing page and help centre in October 2026.

|  | miow | Squarespace |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Building costs nothing, and so does hosting unless miow sets a monthly price for the site, shown under Money in its Settings before anything is taken | £16 to £89 a month, or £12 to £79 a month paid yearly; no free plan, and a 14-day trial |
| Fee on a sale | None from miow; cards are paid into the site's own Stripe account, which charges its own card fees | 2% on the Basic plan's online store, none on Core and above |
| Signing in | A passkey your phone keeps; no password and no email sign-in | A Squarespace account |
| Leaving | One zip of the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture | An XML file in WordPress's format, which leaves out store pages, product and video blocks, style settings and custom CSS |

## Can I move my Squarespace site to miow?

Yes. Give miow the address of the Squarespace site, and its pages, pictures, layout, colours and shop come across at the same addresses, so links to the old site keep working once its domain points at miow.

[Moving a Squarespace website](/move-from-squarespace) says what comes across, what stays behind, and how to point a Squarespace domain at the new site.

## What does miow leave out?

miow takes no bookings, sends no newsletters and sells no domains. Each product is one item at one price, marked sold once it is paid for, which suits one-off pieces more than stock in sizes and colours.

A business that relies on bookings or a newsletter keeps that service where it is and links to it from its miow site.

## How does miow compare with other website builders?

[miow compared with other website builders](/compare) lists every comparison, Wix and Shopify among them.

## Move your Squarespace site

Give its address, or describe the business, and miow makes the pages.

[Start a site](/#start)