Squarespace for your home services business, or Pragte?
Choose Squarespace if you want invoices, estimates and card payments on the same platform as your website, from $19 a month billed yearly. Choose Pragte if you want to start free and stay free, a quote form that leads with your services, reviews from a sheet without code, and a price paid once a year, without invoicing or payments.
Pragte is independent and not affiliated with Squarespace.
Squarespace and Pragte, side by side
Squarespace’s side as its own pages describe it, checked October 2026. Features and prices change, so check them there too.
| What | Squarespace | Pragte |
|---|---|---|
| To start | No free plan: a 14-day trial | Free to build and publish, with no expiry date |
| Templates | A home services collection: contractors, cleaning, landscapers, auto repair | Fieldline: services with their details, reviews, Instagram posts and a quote request |
| Design | Fluid Engine: blocks on a grid, placed freely and overlapping | A free canvas: place anything anywhere |
| On phones | A mobile layout you arrange separately; the blocks’ content is shared | A phone layout you arrange separately, with the same words and photos |
| Quote requests | A form with 20 field types, file uploads among them, sent to email, Google Drive or a CSV | A quote form that starts with a dropdown of your services, in one list you can download, with an email for each on a paid plan. No file uploads |
| Quotes, invoices and payments | Invoices, proposals and estimates on every plan, and card payments from 2.5% to 2.9% plus 30¢ | None: invoice from your own tools |
| Bookings | Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription from $16 a month, billed yearly | Embed your Calendly page |
| Reviews | Built-in reviews are for products only. A Google reviews widget needs a code block, from the Core plan | Reviews kept in a sheet, as cards with stars and a page with a search box |
| Changes by date | Blog posts, products and events can be scheduled. Pages are turned on and off by hand | A seasonal version of the whole site switches on its date, every year if you want |
| Local search | Local business markup added for you | Listed in search engines on a paid plan, with a description you write. No local business markup yet |
| Price | From $19 a month billed yearly ($228 a year), or $25 billed monthly, with a domain free for the first year on yearly plans | Free with a small badge. $49.99 once for 12 months, or $29.99 for 3 months, and connect your own domain |
| When paying stops | 15 days after a missed payment, the site goes offline | The site stays online at its address, on the Free plan |
Sources: pricing, home services, a past-due site, mobile layouts in Fluid Engine, form fields, invoicing, Acuity pricing, customer reviews, code blocks, scheduling posts, what Squarespace does for SEO.
Why Pragte
- Free to start, and to keep
- No trial clock. Build and publish free, and if you stop paying, the site stays online.
- Paid once a year
- $49.99 for 12 months, paid once, against $228 a year for Squarespace’s cheapest plan.
- Reviews without code
- Paste your reviews into a sheet and they show as cards with stars, with no widget to install.
- A version for each season
- Winter’s heating checks, summer’s air conditioning: a version of the site that switches on its date.
- Close the form from your phone
- Booked up for a month? Close the quote request and post a notice, without opening the editor.
Why Squarespace
- Invoices, proposals and estimates built in, with card payments.
- Forms that take file uploads, such as photos of the job, and send to Google Drive.
- Local business markup added for you.
- Bookings through Acuity Scheduling, at an extra monthly cost.
- A domain free for the first year on yearly plans.
Squarespace or Pragte, answered
Is Pragte part of Squarespace?
No. Pragte is an independent website builder and is not affiliated with Squarespace.
Is there a free Squarespace plan?
No. Squarespace has a 14-day trial, then plans from $19 a month billed yearly. A Pragte site is free to publish, with no expiry date.
Can customers send photos of the job?
On Squarespace, a form can take up to five files of 10 MB each. Pragte’s forms don’t take files. A separate photo upload can take pictures, but they aren’t attached to the quote request.
Which costs less?
Squarespace starts at $228 a year billed yearly, with invoicing and payments included and bookings extra. Pragte is free with a badge, or $49.99 once for 12 months, without invoicing or payments.
Can I move my Squarespace site to Pragte?
Not by importing it. Show the AI in Pragte’s editor a screenshot of each page and it rebuilds it as a design you can edit. That costs a few AI credits, and every account starts with 100.
More about home services websites on Pragte, and the Fieldline template.
More quote requests, from a site you made.
Pragte is in early access. Leave your email and tell us about your business, and we will help you set it up.