对比
Art.industries vs Squarespace
Squarespace excels at beautiful gallery websites—but the site does not know your inventory. Art.industries publishes from the same records your team uses for deals, consignments, and commerce, so sold works do not linger online after Monday-morning copy-paste fails.
概览
| 能力 | Art.industries | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | 有Per-workspace, no per-seat tax | 有Per-site subscription (Basic from ~$16/mo annual) |
| Free plan (no card) | 有Core, no card required | 无14-day trial only; no permanent free tier |
| Artwork cataloguing | 有 | 无Product pages; not artwork inventory model |
| Editions & print runs | 有Edition runs; commit on sale | 部分Variants and qty; not numbered edition copies (e.g. 4/50) |
| CRM with activity history | 有Timeline, custom fields | 部分Customer profiles and Email Campaigns |
| Private viewing rooms | 有Per-recipient grants, analytics; redacted when confidential | 无Not in Squarespace feature set |
| Real-time viewing room alerts | 有Live alerts on opens and artwork views | 无Not in Squarespace feature set |
| Stripe-direct payments | 有Your Stripe account; credit notes | 部分Squarespace Payments (Stripe-backed) |
| Multi-currency invoicing | 有Deposits, instalments, refunds | 部分Commerce checkout; not deposit/instalment art invoices |
| Consignment splits + statements | 有Multi-party splits, sub-consignment, three-way; statements; confidential; portal | 无Not in Squarespace feature set |
| Consignor portal | 有Share-link portal | 无Not in Squarespace feature set |
| Sales pipeline / offer tracking | 有Board, holds, offer emails | 无Orders only; no deal pipeline or holds |
| Public website on own domain | 有Website Studio on custom domain | 有Core product; custom domain on paid plans |
| Web storefront | 有Cart, checkout; print-on-demand on Advanced | 部分Commerce on all paid plans; transaction fees on Basic |
| Built-in events & ticketing | 有Free RSVP, waitlist, paid tickets via Stripe on your site | 无Scheduling add-on; not native gallery events/RSVP |
| Multilingual app & publishing | 有7-language app; multilingual sites, rooms, and PDF exports | 部分Weglot integration; not gallery workspace app |
| Email campaigns + segments | 有Broadcasts, contact filter segments | 有Email Campaigns included |
| AI workspace agent | 有Playbooks, tool-calling actions | 部分Blueprint AI for site content; not art-inventory aware |
| Collector client portal | 有Owned works, installments | 无Customer accounts only |
| Native iPhone + iPad app | 无Coming soon | 部分Squarespace app for site management |
来源： www.squarespace.com/pricing (核实于 2026-06-17).
Where Squarespace fits
Squarespace is the right tool when you need a polished five-page site: artist roster, exhibition press, about, contact, and maybe a small Commerce section for fixed-price prints or books. Templates, hosting, and custom domains are mature. For a gallery that accepts maintaining inventory in a spreadsheet or Artlogic-style system separately, it can work—until show season scales past hand-built product pages.
Where galleries and artists pick Art.industries over Squarespace alone
Galleries on Squarespace plus a back-office tool maintain two catalogues. Art.industries Website Studio reads live inventory—artist pages, exhibitions, and availability update when you mark a work sold. Deals run through viewing rooms and Stripe invoicing; commerce runs through storefront checkout on the same records—including print-on-demand on Advanced. Core is free for the operational loop; Advanced is $30/month per workspace.
Deals and commerce: what each platform actually covers
Galleries sell in two modes that most software conflates. Deals are coordinated private sales—viewing rooms, holds, negotiated offers, consignor splits, deposits, and invoices. Commerce is self-serve public checkout for editions, books, and multiples at fixed prices.
Art.industries runs both modes on shared inventory records: mark a work room-only, storefront-eligible, or both; either path updates availability when a sale closes. Many competitors skew toward one mode—gallery CRMs handle deals but force a second catalogue for the website; Shopify-style tools handle commerce but miss holds, consignments, and confidential rooms.
Use the matrix below to see which side each product actually covers, not which checkout widget they advertise.
When Squarespace is enough—and when it is not
Squarespace alone is enough if your only job is publishing: a portfolio, a fair booth landing page, or a small shop where every SKU is a simple product variant you update by hand.
It is not enough when you also run private viewing rooms, consignor settlements, numbered editions with live availability, or a CRM tied to who opened which work. Those workflows need inventory semantics Squarespace was never built to hold—and you end up duplicating every price change across systems.
Migrating from Squarespace
Export works and contacts to CSV (or pull from the spreadsheet you were syncing manually), import into Art.industries with the validation preview, and rebuild public pages in Website Studio from the same catalogue. Keep Squarespace live until one exhibition proves artist pages, sold states, and consignment statements agree. Many teams move deals to Core first while the old site stays up for a few weeks.
常见问题
- Can we keep Squarespace for the public site and use Art.industries for inventory?
- You can, but you will maintain two catalogues—the problem most galleries hire a junior to patch on Mondays. Art.industries publishes from the same records you use internally; see gallery website builder.
- We are on Wix, not Squarespace—is this the same comparison?
- Mostly yes: both are site builders without an art-inventory graph. See the Wix comparison for Wix-specific pricing (including the free tier) and artist portfolio positioning.
- Does Art.industries replace Squarespace Commerce for edition sales?
- Yes, if you want commerce on the same catalogue as deals. Storefront checkout on Advanced handles cart orders and live edition counts without maintaining parallel product pages on Squarespace.
- Which is cheaper for a solo artist?
- Squarespace has no permanent free tier; Art.industries Core is free for inventory, CRM, rooms, and Stripe invoicing. Compare your real workflow on the pricing matrix—especially if you also need private sales, not just a public portfolio.
- Does Art.industries take a percentage of sales?
- No. You connect your own Stripe account; funds settle directly to you. Stripe takes its standard processing fee.
- Does Art.industries work in languages other than English?
- Yes. The app runs in seven languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese), and the same records publish multilingual public sites, viewing rooms, and PDF exports. If your collectors or your team work across languages, check this against any platform on your shortlist.
- How do we know the comparison is honest?
- Every competitor cell links to a public source on their own site, with the date we last verified the claim. Anything we cannot verify is marked N/A, never asserted.
See if Art.industries fits your practice
Start on free Core—import works, send a viewing room, invoice through Stripe. Rebuild your public site from the same catalogue when you are ready to retire the Squarespace duplicate.