Managing domain permissions

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Managing domain permissions

Last updated August 06, 2026 14:05

Enable domain managers to edit your domain, update billing, and more.

After you register your Squarespace domain, you can invite collaborators to log in and manage it as a team. Each domain manager needs their own Squarespace account. When they accept an invitation, they can create an account for free or add the domain to an existing account.

If your domain shares billing information and contributor permissions with a Squarespace website, follow these steps to invite a contributor to your website and domain. When you move a domain to a Squarespace website, all domain permissions are automatically removed and the domain shares the same contributor permissions as the website.

Before you begin

• Domain managers can remove themselves from the domain.
• There's no limit to how many domain managers you can add to a domain.
• When you start with a new parked domain, you automatically become the domain owner, also known as the registered name holder, with owner-level permissions.
• If your domain is grouped, adding a domain manager to your domain doesn't affect other domains in that group.
• It's not possible to add new Domain managers with billing access to a domain.
• While collaborators with any domain permission level can initiate a domain's transfer away from Squarespace, only the domain's Owner contact if the domain's registrar is Squarespace Domains LLC, or the Admin contact if the domain's domain's registrar is Tucows, will receive the email with the transfer authentication code.

Domain permission levels

Use the table below to understand what each role can and can't do.

Domain managers with billing access

Domain managers with billing access can do anything a domain owner can, except reactivate an expired domain. It's not possible to add new Domain managers with billing access to a domain, or upgrade Domain managers to Domain managers with billing access.

This permission level only applies to users who were previously:

• Contributors with Admin permissions on a parked domain.
• Contributors on a migrated domain with an attached Google Workspace account

Invite a domain manager to your domain

To invite a domain manager to your domain:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click your domain.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click Invite domain manager.
5. Enter the domain manager's name and email address.
6. Your domain manager will receive an email invitation asking them to log into their existing Squarespace account or create a new one.

Note: If your domain shares billing and contributor information with a Squarespace website, follow these steps to invite a contributor to your website and domain.

Manually send an invitation link

If the invited domain manager isn't receiving your invitation email, have them check their spam folder or search no-reply@squarespace.com. If they still aren't receiving the email, you can manually send an invite link:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click your domain.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click … next to the domain manager's name in the Invites sent section of your Permissions panel.
5. Select Copy invite link.
6. Share the link with your domain manager.

Accept a domain manager invitation

When someone invites you as a domain manager, you'll receive an email invitation with the subject line “Domain Manager Invitation from [inviter name].” Open the email and click Accept invitation.

If you already have a Squarespace account

If you already have an account, you'll be prompted to log in. Enter your account email address and password, or log in using a social account. If you enabled two-factor authentication, you'll be prompted to enter an authentication code.

If you don't have a Squarespace account

If you don't have a Squarespace account, sign up by clicking Create account. When you create an account, you’ll pick your login information. You can either:

• Use an email address and password to log in. We recommend using an email address you can easily access.
• Use your Apple, Facebook, or Google account to save time and log in with one click. You’ll be prompted to log into that account and make the connection to Squarespace.

Troubleshooting

If you try to accept an invitation while logged in to the incorrect Squarespace account, you'll receive the following error message: “Your account email doesn’t match the invite email. Ask the domain owner for a new invite that matches your email.”

To add permissions on a different account, we recommend accepting the domain manager invitation in Incognito mode. That way, you can log into the correct account after clicking Accept invitation.

Remove another domain manager or yourself from the domain

If a domain manager doesn't need access to the domain, or if they leave your business, you might want to remove them. This blocks them from logging in and making any changes. Domain owners and Domain managers can remove other Domain managers, including themselves.

To remove a domain manager from a domain:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click your domain.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click … next to the domain manager you want to remove, or next to your own name.
5. Click Remove domain manager if you're removing another domain manager, or Remove if you're removing yourself.
6. If you're removing yourself, click Remove again to confirm.

Remove billing permissions from a domain manager

To remove billing access from a Domain manager with billing access and convert them to a Domain manager:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click your domain.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click … next to the domain manager you want to edit.
5. Select Remove billing permissions to remove billing access from a Domain manager.

Update the domain owner

Tip: If your domain shares billing information with a Squarespace website, visit Changing site ownership to transfer ownership of your site and domain at the same time.

If you're the current owner of a domain, you can transfer ownership of your domain to one of your domain managers. After you transfer ownership, the former owner, along with any other domain managers, will no longer have access to the domain. To learn how change the owner of a domain, visit Changing domain ownership.

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