Claybench vs Squarespace
Squarespace sells anything.Claybench sells what you just unloaded.
Both take 0% of your sales. The difference is the hour after the kiln opens: on Squarespace you photograph, retype the clay, the glaze, the dimensions, and build a product page. On Claybench the listing already exists — it came out of your production data.
Side by side, for a potter
| Claybench | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee on your sales | 0% | 0% (Commerce plans) |
| Monthly price | $16 (Maker) | ≈ $23+ list (Commerce) |
| Listings auto-filled from production data | ✓ | — |
| Clay body, cone, glaze on every listing | ✓ | retype it |
| Production planning (drying, kiln loads) | ✓ | — |
| Class booking that knows kiln capacity | ✓ | calendar add-on |
| In-person POS for fairs + the studio | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom domain | ✓ | ✓ |
| General-purpose website builder | storefront + public page | ✓ |
| Email campaigns, general CMS | — | ✓ |
Squarespace list pricing as published mid-2026 — check squarespace.com for current plans.
You can keep Squarespace
This isn’t either/or. Plenty of potters keep a Squarespace site for the about page and portfolio, and point “Shop” at their Claybench storefront — where the inventory is real because it’s the production system, not a copy of it. Running classes too? See switching from Squarespace + Acuity.
When Squarespace is the better fit
If what you mainly need is a beautiful general-purpose website — long-form pages, a photo-heavy portfolio, email campaigns — a website builder is the right tool, and Squarespace is a good one. Claybench’s storefront is deliberately narrower: it exists to sell ware with zero re-entry, attached to the system that made it.