Your site's main menu

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Your site's main menu

Last updated October 26, 2026 17:33

An introduction to the main menu and its panels.

The main menu is the first list of links that appears in the left-side panel when you log into your Squarespace site.

Your main menu may be organized or appear differently depending on custom settings, your signup date, and your billing plan.

You'll use the main menu to access all admin areas of your site, called panels. Use these panels to find everything you need to manage and build your site.

By default, the main menu shows links to these panels:

Note: Click the the gear icon at the bottom of the main menu to open the Settings panel, which holds Permissions, Billing, Domains, Connected Accounts, and more. If you sell products on Squarespace, you'll also find store setup options like Payments, Shipping, and Taxes.

Find the main menu

The main menu is usually open when you log in and hidden when you're in full site preview. If you can't find the main menu:

  • Ensure you're logged into your site.
  • Review your browser's address bar to confirm your direct login URL ends only with /config. For example, https://your-site.squarespace.com/config appears if you're on the main menu.
  • If the site displays fullscreen, click the expand arrow to open the side panel.
  • If the side panel doesn't display the main menu, click the backarrow in the top-left corner of the panel.

Getting around from the main menu

To open any panel in the main menu, follow the example steps for popular panels below. The exact location of some panels differs depending on your site, but they all follow the same general path. The main menu may also look different if you're on other plans, like a Parking Page or Cover Page plan.

Website

Click Website to choose between these panels:

Products & Services

The Products & Services panel is where you take important actions for running your online store, like fulfilling orders and managing customers.

Content & Memberships

The Content & Memberships panel is where you can add digital products and review digital product orders.

Scheduling

The Scheduling panel is where you can use Acuity Scheduling for booking appointments or classes.

Donations

The Donations panel is where you can review your total donations revenue and manage individual contributions.

Invoicing

The Invoicing panel is where you can create projects, invoice clients, and send proposals, estimates, and contracts.

Campaigns

The Campaigns panel is where you can create sender details for yourself, build Squarespace Email and SMS Campaigns, and set up automations.

Contacts

The Contacts panel is where you can review and manage your relationships with your customers, mailing list subscribers, members, and donors.

Analytics

The Analytics panel holds your site's data reporting for measuring site performance and visitor information.

Finance

The Finance panel is where you can review all orders and donations your site has received, and manage payments and payouts.

Account icon

Your account icon displays as a circle with your initials, or a profile picture if you've added one to your account. Clicking this icon opens your account dashboard.

Home

Some sites include a home dashboard at the top of the main menu to walk you through website basics and connect you to useful resources and features. We're rolling this feature out in waves, so it may not be available on your site yet.

Options in the dashboard vary depending on your site. Click Customize Home to customize what displays. Owners, Admins, and Store Managers can use everything in the dashboard, but some options may not appear for other permission types.

To hide this link, customize your main menu.

Site notifications

Click the notifications icon in top-right corner of your site’s main menu to review time-sensitive information and other recent activity on your site, like upcoming website trial expiration or billing failures.

These notifications are visible to the site owner and contributors with Admin permissions on English-language sites. Notifications remain visible for 90 days.

Search shortcut

To quickly search for a panel, press the / or ? key and type the panel name. Use this shortcut to navigate between panels without clicking through the main menu.

For example, to open the Colors panel, press / or ? and search colors.

Customize the main menu

You can customize the main menu for your site by hiding and rearranging some menu links. This is useful if your site doesn't use a certain feature, or if you want to prioritize some features over others in your site management.

To edit the main menu:

  1. Click the Customize Sidebar icon at the bottom of the main menu.
  2. To hide or show a link, click the toggle beside the link.
  3. To rearrange a link, click and hold the ::: icon beside the link, then drag it up or down in the list.
  4. After making your changes, click X.

The links you can hide or rearrange are:

  • Products & Services
  • Content & Memberships
  • Scheduling
  • Donations
  • Invoicing

Note: Only owners and contributors with administrator permissions can edit the main menu, but any changes display for all contributors. It's not possible to have different main menus for different contributors. Other contributors should contact an owner or administrator if any necessary links aren't appearing in the main menu, but even when links are hidden, they can still be accessed by searching.

Depending on your subscriptions, your main menu may have different options.

Parking page

If you started with a Squarespace domain, it may appear on a parking page. Parking pages have a unique main menu.

Cover Page plan (discontinued)

If you're on the Squarespace Cover Page plan, your main menu looks like this:

Cover page plan main menu shows a thumbnail of the cover page, the option to change the layout, branding and text button, media button, action button, social icons button, style button, and links to domains, analytics, settings, and add more pages.

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