How to Move Your Squarespace Domain & Plan Between Sites in Minutes

You’ve got a fresh Squarespace site, it’s clean, on-brand, built with a template that finally makes you look like you know what you’re doing. But your domain and paid plan? Still chained to your old site.

Visitors are still seeing the old home page, your subscription is funding the wrong project, and you’re over it.

Here’s how to move your Squarespace or Third Party domain to another site, switch your plan where it belongs, and keep your SEO intact while you do it, all in less time than it takes to make your coffee.

Note: This only works for existing Squarespace users, if you’re totally new, you’ll want to follow a different procedure! 

1. Can You Transfer a Squarespace Plan Between Sites?

Here’s the real deal: Squarespace subscriptions are attached to the site they were bought for. Unfortunately, there’s no magic sparkly “move plan” button.

Instead, you’ll:

1. Upgrade the correct site to the plan you need.

2. Cancel the plan on the wrong site.

3. Request a prorated refund (Squarespace will usually do this within 14 days for monthly, and partially for annual. It isn’t guaranteed, but I have never seen them not do it!). You can reach out to them here. 

💡 Pro Tip: If your new site is replacing the old one, export or manually copy anything you want to keep. Receiving a template creates a brand-new year long trial, but it won’t bring over your commerce data, analytics, or email campaigns.

2. How to Move Your Squarespace Domain to Another Site

Moving your Squarespace domain takes about 60 seconds and, if done right, won’t mess up your SEO. This only pertains to domains owned by Squarespace. If you have a third party domain, like from GoDaddy ect, read on!

Here’s how to move your Squarespace domain to another site:

1. Log in to Squarespace and open the site currently hosting your domain.

2. Go to: Settings → Domains → select your domain.

3. Click Move to Another Site.

4. Pick your shiny new site from the list.

5. Confirm, sip coffee, done.

🔍 SEO Tip: After the transfer:

• Make sure all pages on the new site have proper SEO titles and meta descriptions.

• Redirect any old URLs that changed.

3. How to Move a Third Party Domain Between Squarespace Sites

If your domain is registered outside Squarespace (GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc.), you don’t “transfer” it inside Squarespace. You’ll want to disconnect it from the old site and connect it to the new one. Your registrar stays the same the whole time.

Do this:

1. Disconnect from the old site

   • Open the site that currently uses the domain → Settings → Domains → select the third‑party domain → Disconnect (or Remove).

   • If you try to add the domain on the new site and see “This domain is already connected to another Squarespace site,” that’s your cue to go find and disconnect it from the other site first. 

2. Connect it to the new site

   • On your new site: Settings → Domains → Use a domain I own → enter the domain → choose Connect from provider (not Transfer).

   • Follow the on screen check. If your DNS already points to Squarespace, you’ll just verify and finish. If not, update DNS at your registrar. 

3. If you need to update the DNS, this is the step that actually links your domain to the new Squarespace site.

   1. In Squarespace, open Settings → Domains and click your domain.

   2. Click DNS Settings.

   3. In the first line of your Squarespace DNS settings, copy the unique code shown under the Host column.

   4. Log into your domain registrar account.

   5. Find your DNS management area (often called “Zone File Settings,” “DNS Manager,” or similar).

   6. Look for the CNAME Record where the “Points To” field says verify.squarespace.com.

   7. In the Alias (or Host) field, replace the existing text with the unique code you copied from Squarespace.

   8. Do not change any other fields or records.

   9. Save your changes.

   Finish up

   • In Settings → Domains, set this domain as Primary on the new site and make sure SSL is on.

   • Give DNS a little time to propagate (often fast, up to 72 hours in some cases), then test. 

💡 Pro Tip: To ensure the connection is complete, make your old site private by going to Settings > Site Availability > Private. This will ensure viewers see the new site.

3. Keep Your SEO Intact While You Switch

This is a big one….you might rank well for specific pages…on your old site. But now, everything’s kinnnnnda changed. To protect your rankings when you move your domain and adjust your Squarespace plan:

• Avoid downtime. Keep the old site active until the new one is live and connected.

• Use 301 redirects for any page that’s moved or been renamed.

• Keep Titles and URLS the same. If you called your about page About me before, call it that again!

• Resubmit your sitemap in Squarespace (Marketing → SEO → Sitemap) and send it to Google Search Console.

4. Make the Switch Count

If you’re going to the trouble of transferring your Squarespace domain and reassigning your plan, you might as well make the new site your best yet. That means:

• Fast load speeds

• Mobile-friendly design

• A unique, professional website that looks like you paid a custom designer four figures

• Gorgeous visuals that make visitors stick around

That’s exactly why we build our gorgeous Squarespace templates, so your site looks incredible from day one without paying a developer. AND you can edit it yourself!

Final Thoughts

You can’t literally transfer a Squarespace subscription between sites, but you can upgrade the right one, cancel the wrong one, and move your domain in just a few clicks. Done right, your visitors will go from “meh” to “wow” without ever hitting a broken link.

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