how's it going everybody welcome back and today a quick video to kind of teach you a little bit uh
about squarespace's e-commerce so uh just to help you get started with your online shop i'm gonna
just show you guys around real quick before we get if you guys are interested in squarespace you'll
find links to discounts in the description down below let's save you a little bit more cash when
getting started with squarespace and speaking of getting started let's go ahead and click
this button or you can just click templates so anyways the get started button will take you to
the templates if you're completely new and you just started your uh account or
you just logged in let's say and you're new it might ask you a little bit more questions
but uh yeah so you can start with a blank slate which is definitely going to look more original
or you can save a little bit more time and you can just select whichever one to maybe get you
going a little bit quicker than uh usual okay so let's just start for example if you're going with
a store you can select this one but it doesn't really matter which one you choose so let's just
select i like this one so i like the nature like the theme let's just go ahead and select that one
because at the end of the day whichever one you choose you can just turn it into whatever you want
in the end because you know you have that level of customization at the end of the day you can
use the assistant if you're completely new but i assume you already know a thing or two
about squarespace if you're here for e-commerce okay so you know like any other template you can
just edit it you can you know kind of move the blocks around add sections and whatnot so we're
not going to mess with that we're here to talk about e-commerce so let's start with page let's
get your e-commerce going or let's get your store going so let's go ahead and link a store here
just select store under collections select store and it will give you a couple of examples here
so let's just wait for it a little bit and i think it'll give you a couple of examples to choose from
and uh you know you can choose whichever kind of looks um or make sense uh to you so uh if if
that's how you want your store obviously you can add more blocks later but let's say you have um
more than three products or you want to show more than three products or maybe you don't really care
about uh kind of showing an entire description here or pictures or whatever you just want to get
straight to the product let's just go with this one i do like one like that one a little bit more
and then you have your store so here is your main page and here is your store page you can even edit
these just like any other store and you can follow the steps by the way uh which will really help you
uh so i do recommend uh if you would like to just kind of go through the steps but i'm just gonna
so i'm just gonna hide that actually all right so um let's just follow along here and see what we
can do so uh you can select one of these all right and you if you just want to go straight with uh
select the detail page here you can select uh kind of the detail page once you click the uh item so
uh maybe you want a big picture of your product or maybe kind of full picture or half picture so
let's just go with half i think it makes more sense here and right here if you want to
edit you can just edit and you can change the product name under details the description
you can add new images and it's the same thing by the way so right here i'm editing a product that
is already there so it's a physical product but you can come up with your own page so let's say
let's just go with uh store here you can add store let's just add another store right just to show
you guys and uh you can create a new store or a new category within uh your already existing store
so let's just assume you don't have a store and you're creating a new store so let's just click
that and again you know you can either go with this or that let's just go with this for now and
there you have it uh again it's the same thing you know you can edit your store you can um create uh
new categories okay so let's just go back to store two for now and uh see what happens here now i'll
get into the settings in just a little bit but let's just go to edit right here on the uh product
all right so again product name description uh you have some additional information
if you would like to add it and just like the website editor you can actually add blogs you can
add spacers you can add text images whatever it is which is a very uh easy way really to just kind of
customize how your details page looks for your uh for your product okay and here you can add images
the featured image is the thumbnail pretty much the thumbnail of the image which you can also
edit very easily if you would like okay so all right down here you can adjust your prices
if it's on sale you can add a sale price down here you can adjust the quantities um or
if it's an if it's a limited quantity if it's unlimited quantity maybe it's a digital kind of
product if it's a digital product then it can be unlimited quantity uh you can add your sku
variance is a very important one so you know if you have if you're selling shirts for example
you can add different variants so you know let's say you have a black version of this
and just click ok maybe you have a white version of this and just click enter maybe you have a red
version click enter you want to add more options of different sizes you know you can add small
medium large x large and just you know type and click enter and you should be good to go
and just save and you'll have these variants here 12 variants and of course you can edit
every single one of them adjust the price um how many units do you have adjust the sku
uh you know so on and so forth so very very self-explanatory when it comes to editing all
of that and here on shipping you can just kind of um adjust the shipping settings depending on
the size of the small or medium if you are interested in uh let's say listing the precise
width and in sizes and height and weight of every single um product it really depends so if you're
selling shirts i don't think it's going to matter that much but if you're selling let's say products
that with a little bit more weight into them in size then you might want to put that there
because it matters to some people especially when it comes to shipping companies because they take
that into account okay so here you have categories which you can add so let's say you have shirts
you can even add sub categories so maybe t-shirts and then you want to add shirts and you want to
add t-shirts and t-shirts undershirts so you can make a t-shirt into a subcategory undershirts so
uh yeah that can be a thing if you are interested in here you can add tags depending on what kind
of product it is so you know add shirts clothing whatever um and that's visibility where you can uh
just you know you can even schedule the visibility so let's say you can set a release date for your
product and you can launch whenever you want it to be launched uh featured products obviously if you
turn that on you can um so let's say here you have a hoodie uh and you can just add feature products
such as other hoodies if they are interested which can um really boost your sales if you know what
you're doing seo to kind of make things easier for people to find and with social share you can
add some social media and right here you have your checkout options which is of course uh going to uh
vary from person to person depending on uh what you're selling and you don't have to edit the
already existing uh products within the template by the way you can just come up with your own
let's say you're still selling a physical but you also have obviously different options here which
is you know digital products if it's a service if it's a gift card it's a schedule or membership so
let's just go with physical for now and again you can just use the same it's the same template it's
exactly what i showed you earlier but it's just a an empty draft where you can uh put everything
on your own okay now let's go to settings and this is a very important one obviously this is going to
uh this is your store let's say i don't know call your store um you know cool shirts
whatever it is i'm i'm just stuck on shirts for now uh your navigation title um your url
you can just you know edit everything here that you want and then categories you'll find your
categories and subcategories here which you can create and add as many as you would like seo to
help your store be found much easier and then here you have your social image and in advanced
you will find some uh options for quick view you can adjust the quick view if you enable it of
course and manage tags you can add some tags and whatnot all right so once you have all of that set
up and you have your store you have your pages and categories and subcategories and products
and once you have everything set up you want to go to commerce so let's go back to home and uh
home there we go and hit commerce and here is where you can just uh if you are selling let's
say stuff on facebook or instagram and whatnot so yeah just keep all of that in mind i'm just going
to go ahead and skip all of that i just want to get you guys to commerce so this is where you can
set up uh your payment so you want to go to commerce payments and this is where you can get
paid okay so you know set up a stripe account or a paypal account uh and this is obviously only
for the us so unless you're in the us you're not able to use this uh and you can select
your um currency here depending on your location and that would be pretty much it and once you're
done with setting up your payment information just go to shipping because obviously if you're
that's if it's a physical uh product you can add your shipping options and uh yeah you can adjust
obviously depending on weight flat rate then all these rates will vary from one shipping company
to another and if there are any pickup options obviously you just have to adjust all of that and
set yourself up again you know getting set up with your online store with squarespace is incredibly
easy and as you can tell uh if you have i would obviously recommend that you get everything
ready when it comes to the photos of your product your prices if it's a membership whatever it is
you want to have everything ready uh on your computer so that you can just drag and drop your
photos put in your prices put in your sale prices put in your sizes your quantity and
everything so you want to make sure all of that is organized before you move on to making the
website that way you can get your website going within just a few hours
and it will look as professional as it can be so that'll be it for this video if you
guys have any questions please post them in the comments down below i'll be happy
to answer all of them and be sure to check the description for links to pricing and discounts
thank you guys very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day