Owner vs Squarespace
We give Owner a 2.0 GPA and Squarespace a 2.6, out of 4.0. Owner grades higher on ease of use. Squarespace grades higher on value for money, the free plan and features. They get the same grade on platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Owner
Restaurant websites with online ordering, a branded app and marketing
Squarespace
Template-based website builder with an online store and invoicing
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAOwnerFair | 2.6GPASquarespaceGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DGraded against its own alternatives, as it's a done-for-you restaurant service: $249 a month plus a 5% fee per order, or $499 flat, over ten times Wix's $17 or Squarespace's $19. Guests pay a 5% fee on each order too. The branded app and marketing are what the extra buys. | CBasic is $19 a month for one site on yearly billing ($25 monthly), and it's the plan a small business would buy, since the store comes with it. That's the ordinary middle of this category ($9 to $22). Core at $29 drops the 2% store fee. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free: no free plan, no trial and no self-serve sign-up, just a demo. It's month to month with no contract or cancellation fee, which helps, but you're paying from the start. | CNo free plan. There's a 14-day trial with no card needed, which is long enough to build the thing and see if you like it, but after that every site needs a paid plan. |
| Features | CFor a restaurant it does the lot: a site with SEO pages, ordering, catering, a branded app, loyalty, email and text campaigns, delivery and POS links. But it's a smaller job than this category's, and Owner says you give up control over how the site looks. | BTemplates, a drag-and-drop editor, a store on every plan, invoicing, memberships, forms, newsletters and SEO tools. That's the whole job of a small business site. Custom code and pop-ups wait for Core, but nothing core is missing. |
| Ease of use | A4.78 from 1,544 App Store ratings for Owner's app. Owner's team builds the site and moves your restaurant over, so there's very little for you to set up. | B4.6 from about 18,800 App Store ratings for its phone app. Templates do most of the design work, so you're mostly swapping in your own words and photos. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with Clover built in and Toast, Square and Lightspeed connecting, so orders reach the kitchen. There's no desktop app, which keeps it off an A. | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with Google Workspace, Mailchimp, Zapier, Stripe, PayPal and Printful, plus commerce APIs on Core and up. There's no desktop app, which keeps it off an A. |
| Best for | restaurants taking orders off the delivery apps | polished template sites with a shop built in |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Owner and Squarespace. How we grade
Price against what you get
Owner starts at $249 a month and scores 3.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Squarespace starts at $19 a month and scores 3.0.
They score the same, and Squarespace starts $230 a month lower. Of the other website and landing page builders on the chart, 2 score higher than Owner for less, and 2 score higher than Squarespace for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Owner starts at $249 per month, plus a 5% restaurant fee per order. Squarespace starts at $19 per site / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly).
- Owner also covers email campaigns, sMS marketing, online store and review collection.
- Squarespace also covers templates, forms and invoicing.
At a glance
| Owner | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | $249 per month, plus a 5% restaurant fee per order | $19 per site / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Owner.com | Squarespace, Inc. |
| Price read from | owner.com | squarespace.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Owner
- Independent restaurants that want to move orders off delivery apps
- Owners who want the website, ordering, app and marketing set up for them
- Restaurants with growing online sales weighing a flat fee against a per-order fee
Squarespace
- Creatives and small businesses who want a polished site from a template
- Service businesses that also invoice clients and take payments
- Small shops that want the store and the website in one subscription
Worth knowing
Owner
- Guests pay a 5% order support fee on every order on both plans, and Flexible adds a 5% restaurant fee per order.
- It is built only for restaurants, and Owner says plainly that you give up some control over how the site looks in return for its standard system.
- There is no free trial or self-serve sign-up: it starts with a demo. Billing is month to month, with no contract or cancellation fee.
- Third-party delivery costs a flat fee per order; Owner suggests letting guests pay delivery under $30 and covering about $3 on larger orders.
Squarespace
- There is no free plan; after the 14-day trial every site needs a paid plan.
- Basic takes a 2% fee on online store sales and allows only 2 contributors; Core removes both limits.
- Custom JavaScript, code injection, pop-ups and shipping labels all need Core or higher.
- The free domain covers the first year of an annual plan only and then renews at Squarespace's standard rate.
Key features
Owner
- AI-optimized website and SEO pages
- Owner builds the restaurant's website and automatically adds SEO pages meant to rank in Google and bring in direct orders.
- Online ordering and catering
- Commission-free ordering with smart upsells, plus catering menus and catering pages for local businesses.
- Branded app and loyalty
- Each restaurant gets its own mobile app for guests, with push notifications and a rewards program for repeat orders.
- Automated email and text marketing
- Ready-made email and SMS campaigns go out on their own to bring guests back, alongside a reviews engine and listings management.
- Delivery
- Use in-house drivers, third-party drivers at one flat fee with no markup from Owner, or both.
- POS integrations and Owner POS
- A native Clover integration and connections to Toast, Square and Lightspeed are included; Owner can supply a kitchen tablet or printer, or its own POS.
Squarespace
- Templates and drag-and-drop editing
- Sites start from a designer template and are laid out in the Fluid Engine drag-and-drop editor. Every site is adjusted for phones automatically.
- AI site builder and AI credits
- Blueprint builds a starting site from a few answers, and built-in AI writes content. Credits run from 10 one-time on Basic to 120 a month on Advanced.
- Online store on every plan
- Sell unlimited physical products, services, digital goods, gift cards and subscriptions, with abandoned-cart emails on all plans. Basic adds a 2% fee on store sales.
- Invoicing, memberships and paid content
- Branded invoices and pay links are free on every plan. Courses, memberships and paywalled content carry a fee of 7% on Basic, falling to 0% on Advanced.
- Hosting, SSL and unlimited bandwidth
- Managed hosting, free SSL certificates and uncapped bandwidth and storage come with every plan. Video hosting runs from 30 minutes on Basic to unlimited on Advanced.
- Forms, newsletters and SEO tools
- Form and newsletter blocks feed a contacts panel, and SEO guidance and keyword reports come built in. Pop-ups and the announcement bar need Core or higher.
Plans
Owner
Flexible$249
per month, plus a 5% restaurant fee per order
Every feature, with a lower subscription and a fee on each order, so costs rise with sales. Special rates for multi-location groups.
Flat Rate$499
per month
Every feature with no restaurant fee on orders; Owner suggests it from about $5,000 a month in online sales.
Squarespace
Basic$19
per site / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)
A full website and store with up to 2 contributors, 30 minutes of video, a 2% fee on online sales and 7% on paid memberships.
Core$29
per site / month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
Unlimited contributors, no fee on store sales, custom CSS and JavaScript, shipping labels, commerce APIs and 20 AI credits a month.
Plus$49
per site / month, billed annually ($65 billed monthly)
Lower card rates (2.7% + $0.30), a 1% fee on paid memberships, 50 hours of video and 40 AI credits a month.
Advanced$99
per site / month, billed annually ($139 billed monthly)
The lowest card rates (2.5% + $0.30), no fee on memberships, unlimited video and 120 AI credits a month.
Ways to pay less
Owner
No public discounts listed.
Squarespace
- Annual discount
Pay yearly to save about 24% to 29%
Basic costs $19 a month billed yearly against $25 billed monthly, and Advanced $99 against $139. Squarespace's page advertises savings of up to 36%.
- Other savings
Free domain for a year with an annual plan
Annual website plans include one year of free registration for one domain on Squarespace's cheapest pricing tier; it then renews at the standard rate.
- Education
Students get 50% off the first year
Students who verify their status through Student Beans get 50% off their first full year on a new annual website plan.
