Comparison

PrestaShop vs Squarespace

PrestaShop and Squarespace both land on Depends.

PrestaShop

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you have developer help and want a free, customizable, self-hosted store with full control.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you're a creative, photographer, or small business wanting a polished no-code site.

PrestaShop versus Squarespace
Compare	PrestaShop	Squarespace
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	SMBs with developer resources	Photographers and creative portfolios
Who it's not for	Non-technical first-time sellers	Anyone needing deep customization or plugins . use WordPress
Privacy	Active CVE history and a 2022 exploited zero-day; free core puts the patching burden on the store owner.^⁸	Mature platform with strong infrastructure, but 2024 domain hijacks exposed weak security defaults during domain migration.
Support quality	No direct support evidence in sources	Insufficient evidence in sources reviewed
Public sentiment	Third-party roundups praise it as a free, flexible open-source option for small-to-medium businesses, but genuine user-review data is scarce in these sources.^³	Users love the design and ease for portfolios and small business sites, but increasingly complain about price hikes, design limitations, and backend issues.¹⁴
Biggest gotcha	Patching is on you; versions before 1.7.8.10/8.0.5/8.1.1 are publicly exploitable¹²	Repeated price hikes reported up to 48%; users pay more without new features.