Yes, it’s possible to move or ‘migrate’ your website from Squarespace to another platform, such as Shopify, WordPress or Wix.
Squarespace has an import & export control panel within the user dashboard designed to make the process easy if you’re moving to WordPress.
Choose the website you want to move within your Squarespace dashboard, click the three dots on the right hand side of the row, then click settings. When your site loads, click advanced on the left-hand navigation bar, followed by import/export and then the WordPress icon.
For Wix, you’ll need to log into your account (which needs to be on a Premium Plan) and select the Connect a domain option, before entering your Squarespace website’s URL and affirming that you own it. Next you’ll need to update the ‘nameservers’ on your Squarespace dashboard with new ones provided by Wix.
Log into your Squarespace dashboard and click DNS, followed by Domain nameservers. Go back to Wix and click “I found the nameservers”. You’ll see a list of nameservers on the left to remove/replace, and a list of replacements on the right.
Back at Squarespace, click ‘Use custom nameservers’ and enter the two replacements from Wix in the two blank spaces. Then click save. On Wix, click ‘I’ve replaced my nameservers’. You’ll get a confirmation message, after which it takes up to 48 hours for the migration to complete.
For Shopify, you should create and/or log in to your Shopify account and click ‘Domains’ on the left-hand side of your dashboard. Next, click ‘Connect existing domain’ and enter the URL of the site you want to move. Next, click ‘Verify connection’.
You should expect to see a message telling you the connection is incomplete. Go back to Squarespace and click DNS Settings under DNS. You’ll need to add some custom records on the screen that follows. Using the dropdown menu under ‘Type’, select ‘CNAME’. Under the Host heading enter www and under the Data heading, enter shops.myshopify.com and click save.
Click add record and this time select ‘A’ from the Type dropdown. In the Host field type @ and then in the IP address field, enter 23.227.38.65 and click Save.
Go back to Shopify and click Verify connection to complete the migration.