How to Move Your Website Off Squarespace, Step by Step

Most people who type "how to leave Squarespace" into Google have hit the same three walls. The site looks like every other site in their industry. Small design changes fight back. And the subscription keeps billing whether or not anyone touches the site.

Figment works differently: your website is a design file in Figma, Figment publishes that file as a real site, and you own the look completely. If you can drag boxes around a canvas, you can maintain your own website without ever calling a developer or picking a theme again.

Here is the whole move, in the order I'd do it.

1. Take Inventory of What You Have

Before touching anything, list what your Squarespace site actually contains:

• Pages. Home, about, services, contact, plus anything hiding in your navigation menus.
• Copy. Open each page and paste the text into a doc. This is also the moment to trim the paragraphs you've been meaning to rewrite since 2023.
• Images. Use your originals if you have them. If Squarespace has the only copy, open each image in a new tab and save it.
• Your domain. Note where it's registered. Bought it through Squarespace? It can stay registered there. You'll change one DNS record later and that's it.

Squarespace does have an export tool under Settings → Advanced, but it's built for WordPress and drops most design elements. Treat it as a text backup, nothing more.

2. Rebuild the Design in Figma

Figma is free, and it's where your new site will live.

If you liked your Squarespace look, recreate it. Screenshots of your old pages make perfect tracing paper, and tracing goes fast.

If the template was the reason you're leaving, don't recreate anything. There are thousands of free website templates in the Figma Community. Pick one that actually fits your business and make it yours.

One tip that saves pain later: make a desktop frame and a mobile frame for each page. Figment serves the right one to the right visitor.

3. Drop In Your Content

Paste the copy from step 1 into your frames and place your images. Because Figma is a canvas rather than a page editor, nothing snaps back and nothing fights you. Text sits where you put it. After years of Squarespace that feels almost suspicious.

4. Publish

Install the Figment plugin inside Figma, select your frames, and hit publish. Your design becomes a live website on a figment.so address within a minute or two, links and all. Click through every page before you change anything at your registrar.

5. Point Your Domain

This single step is the migration:

1. In Figment, add your custom domain to the published site.
2. At your registrar (Squarespace, GoDaddy, Namecheap, wherever), update the DNS record to the value Figment shows you.

DNS changes usually land in minutes, and your old Squarespace site keeps serving right up until the switch completes, so there's no window where visitors hit nothing.

6. Cancel Squarespace

Two checks first. If your email runs through Google Workspace via Squarespace, move that billing before you cancel so your inbox survives. And if your domain is registered at Squarespace, either leave it registered there (fine!) or transfer it, but don't let it lapse.

Cancel only after every feature you use works on the new site. Test contact forms, payments, bookings, and member access separately; copying public pages does not transfer those services.

What Changes After the Move

Your site becomes a file you own. Edit the design, hit publish, done. No template ceiling, no theme marketplace, no developer. And since your whole site is an open canvas now, AI tools can actually work on it, which is exactly where we're taking Figment next.

If you get stuck mid-migration, the fastest help is our Discord.

Want a hand doing it, or a look at the AI builder we're building? Book a demo.

Service note: Squarespace's export tool is a content export, not a complete working website package. A Figment page copy does not retain Squarespace's hosted forms, checkout, or member accounts automatically. Keep the original services active until any required replacements are tested.