Squarespace Circle referral payments

Squarespace Circle referral payments

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Last updated August 20, 2026 19:15

Receive commission payments for eligible Squarespace subscriptions.

As a Circle Partner, you can earn money for bringing your clients to Squarespace with Circle referral payments. This guide is a summary for this benefit and explains eligibility, how to sign up, and how to qualify for referral payments. For full details, visit the Circle Referral Payment Terms.

Tip: Referral payments appear on your Circle dashboard. There, you can view your year-to-date (YTD) and next payout totals, and recent qualifying subscriptions. To view all of your qualifying subscriptions and payments, log in to Impact.

Eligibility

To participate in referral payments, and generate qualifying subscriptions, you need to meet these eligibility requirements:

Be a Circle Partner.
Be at least 18 years of age.
Not be an employee, family member of an employee, or an entity directly or indirectly owned or controlled by an employee or family member of an employee of Squarespace or its affiliates or subsidiaries.

Note: You’re not eligible to receive referral payments if you’re a Squarespace Enterprise customer, or if you've purchased a website through our website reseller program. For full details, read the Circle Referral Payments Terms.

Tip: The Squarespace Affiliate Program has its own requirements and eligible Circle partners are welcome to apply and participate in both.

Earn and receive Circle referral payments

Step 1 - Register with Impact

Note: You need to use your Squarespace Circle account email address to register your Impact account. This should be the email where you receive Circle newsletters and weekly updates. If you're not sure what email you used, visit Recovering your account email address. If you have an existing Impact account using a different email address, you need to sign up for a new account using your Squarespace Circle email address.

You need an Impact account to join this benefit and receive commission payments. Register using the correct registration page for your location, as defined in the Squarespace Terms of Service:

In the US
Outside the US
Go to the US user Impact sign-up page and click Sign up.
Review the contract terms, then click Accept.
If you don’t have an existing Impact account connected to your Squarespace Circle email address, click Sign up with email:
Enter your first and last name, username, email address, phone number, and password, then click Get started.
Select the category that best represents your audience, then click Continue.
Select Add Website, click Continue.
Enter your website name and URL, then click Submit.
Click Continue, then enter your business's information and click Submit to finish your application.
If you have an existing Impact account connected to your Squarespace Circle email address, click Sign in with impact.com.
You'll get a welcome email after your application is approved.
Go to the Non-US user Impact sign-up page and click Sign up.
Review the contract terms, then click Accept.
If you don’t have an existing Impact account connected to your Squarespace Circle email address, click Sign up with email:
Enter your first and last name, username, email address, phone number, and password, then click Get started.
Select the category that best represents your audience, then click Continue.
Select Add Website, click Continue.
Enter your website name and URL, then click Submit.
Click Continue, then enter your business's information and click Submit to finish your application.
If you have an existing Impact account connected to your Squarespace Circle email address, click Sign in with impact.com.
You'll get a welcome email after your application is approved.

Step 2 - Generate qualifying subscriptions

Here's how to generate qualifying subscriptions for earning commissions:


Products	Steps to generate a qualifying subscription
Websites Acuity Scheduling	1. Start a website or Acuity Scheduling trial using your Circle email account. 2. Upgrade to an annual subscription. 3. The subscription will count as a qualifying subscription and automatically appear in Impact after it's active for 15 days.
Email Campaigns	1. Start a website trial using your Circle email account, then upgrade to a paid site. 2. Purchase an annual Email Campaigns subscription for that site. 3. The subscription will count as a qualifying subscription and automatically appear in Impact after it's active for 15 days.
Squarespace Payments	1. Enable Squarespace Payments on a client’s website, and ensure the website subscription is on an annual plan. 2. Your client then needs to complete a successful order with Squarespace Payments to have Squarespace Payments count as a qualifying subscription.

Step 3 - Receive your commissions

You’ll receive payment for commission subscriptions about 40 days after the end of the month when they become commission subscriptions. For example, if you had a commission subscription in January 2026, you’d receive payment for it in March 2026.

Access your Impact account to find details about your qualifying subscriptions, commissions you earned, and payment timing. Subscriptions won't appear until they've been active for 15 days.

To learn more, visit Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts.

Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts

For a subscription to qualify, it needs to be:

Upgraded after joining Impact
On an annual plan at time of first subscription payment
Active 15 days after the first subscription payment, and remain on an annual plan in those first 15 days

To learn how to access information about your qualifying subscriptions, visit Reviewing your qualifying subscriptions in Impact.

The commission amount depends on the subscription product, plan, and your Circle status at the time of the referral. For website, Acuity Scheduling, and Email Campaigns subscriptions, commissions are percentages of the annual plan’s USD list price at the beginning of the qualifying period.

For Squarespace Payments, the commissions start at $20 USD for Circle Silver Partners.


	Silver	Gold	Platinum
All Acuity, Email Campaigns, and Website referrals	20%	30%	40%
Squarespace Payments	$20	$30	$40

Referral codes or links aren’t needed for this benefit. Here’s how referral credits are awarded:


Plan Type	Referral credit goes to
Acuity / Email Campaigns	The Circle partner who completed the checkout process for the add-on subscription. If a non-Circle partner completed the checkout process for the add-on subscription, credit goes to the Circle partner who started the website trial to which the subscription is attached.
Squarespace Payments / Websites	The Circle partner who started the website trial.

Receiving credit FAQs

Here are common scenarios related to receiving referral credits.

Why didn’t I get referral credit for a website, Acuity Scheduling, or Email Campaigns subscription?

You can't receive referral credit for the following:

A site that started on a monthly subscription, then upgraded to an annual subscription. The subscription needs to start as an annual subscription.
Unfold Pro subscriptions.
Website, Acuity Scheduling, or Email Campaigns subscriptions started before registering for an Impact account. You’ll only receive credit for qualifying subscriptions after you register with Impact.
Website or Acuity Scheduling subscriptions started prior to when the payment benefit began in October 2021.
Email Campaigns subscriptions started prior to October 12, 2022.

Why didn’t I get referral credit for Squarespace Payments?

A Squarespace Payments qualifying subscription only counts if the following criteria have been met:

The Squarespace Payments account was enabled between September 10, 2024 and December 31, 2026.
There's been one successful transaction between September 10, 2024 and December 31, 2026.
The transaction is made after joining Circle.
The website is on an annual billing plan.

You'll only receive credit the first time Squarespace Payments is enabled, so if the client re-enables Squarespace Payments, it won't count as a new qualifying subscription.

Can I get credit for subscriptions that someone else pays for?

Please review the crediting rules above to determine if the person who pays for the subscription affects which Circle partner gets credit.

What if someone else started a subscription trial?

To receive credit for a website subscription, you need to start the trial with your Squarespace account connected to your Circle email address.

Can I receive credit for subscriptions attached to an existing website that I didn’t start a trial for?

You can receive referral credit for a new Acuity Scheduling or Email Campaigns subscription that’s attached to an existing Squarespace website, even if you didn’t start the website trial. To learn more, visit Qualifying subscriptions and commission amounts.

What about multiple subscriptions on a single Squarespace project?

You can receive referral credit for multiple qualifying subscriptions associated with a single Squarespace project.

What if the trial was started through the Squarespace Affiliate Program?

If a Circle partner starts a trial for a client who first visited squarespace.com via an affiliate partner’s affiliate link, the Circle partner receives credit for a subsequent qualifying subscription, not the affiliate partner.

The Squarespace Affiliate Program and Circle referral payments are separate programs with their own eligibility requirements and commission structures. Participating in one doesn't automatically make you a participant in the other, though eligible Circle partners are welcome to apply and participate in both. To learn more about the programs, visit Squarespace Affiliate Program vs. Squarespace Circle referral payments.

What if I move from the US to outside the US?

If you’ve moved from the US to outside the US, follow these steps to receive credit for your referrals:

Update your residence or principal place of business in Impact.
Go to the Non-US user Impact sign-up page.
Click Sign up and review the contract terms.
After clicking Accept, click Sign in with Impact.com.

What if I’m not the site owner for the qualifying website subscription?

You can receive referral credit if you’re the Circle partner who started the trial.

Promotions

Squarespace may occasionally run promotions related to referral payments. For full details, visit the Circle Referral Payment Terms.

More help

To keep track of your qualifying subscriptions, visit Reviewing your qualifying subscriptions in Impact.
If you have questions about Circle referral payments, contact us.
For help with your Impact account, contact Impact.

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