Squarespace Commerce vs Sylius

Squarespace Commerce is a hosted online store platform for selling products, services, subscriptions, and digital content such as music and ebooks. Customers can browse products, add them to a cart, check out, and leave reviews. Store management covers orders, payments, taxes, shipping, fulfillment, and customer engagement. Shipping supports flat-rate, weight-based, or real-time rates, and tools can automatically calculate sales tax. Businesses can schedule appointments with Acuity Scheduling, sell monthly or biweekly subscriptions, and keep inventory and customer data in sync across online and in-person sales. Digital content can be offered as direct downloads. The platform also includes abandoned-cart recovery, SEO tools, commerce integrations, connected social accounts, and an app marketplace. Its mobile app supports inventory tracking, product editing, customer connections, and shipping labels. Squarespace Commerce runs on web, iOS, and Android. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is offered. Basic costs $16 a month with annual billing; Plus is $39 a month and Advanced is $99 a month, both with annual billing. Transaction fees vary.

Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands building custom commerce solutions. Its framework supports B2C and B2B use cases and provides a customizable REST API built with API Platform for headless frontends and microservice architectures. Sylius Standard is a Symfony application with Sylius core as a dependency; it can be installed with Composer or Docker and run on a standard VPS. Docker and Kubernetes are also deployment options for cloud environments. The Addons marketplace lists plugins and third-party integrations. Sylius Plus adds commercial modules such as advanced multi-store, returns management, multi-source inventory, loyalty, partial shipment and request for quotation. Standard is offered under the MIT license with community support and no response-time guarantee; Plus lists SLA-backed support with a one-day response time. Standard has no native quotation process, so customers cannot start price inquiries online. No Standard price is listed. Sylius Plus starts from €800 per year.