Squarespace vs Alastor Global.
Squarespace gives you a template and an editor, and you build the site yourself over a weekend. We build the site from your business, with the form that texts customers back, the booking, and the tracking already working when it goes live. Here is when the template is enough and when it quietly costs you jobs.
If you need a clean page with your hours and your photos, and you have a weekend, Squarespace is enough. If the site has to make the phone ring and book jobs, a template does not do that part, and it is the part that pays.
A template is a layout. It looks fine. What it does not know is that your customers arrive on a phone at 7 AM with a problem, that a contact form nobody answers for two days is worse than no form, and that a booking link that sends people to another site loses half of them. Those are the pieces that turn a website into booked work, and on a template every one of them is your job to figure out and wire up. We build them in: a form that texts the customer back within a minute, booking with real openings, the call button and the form tracked so you know what the site did this month.
Side by side.
What each one costs, who does the work, and what you have on day one.
| Squarespace | Alastor Global | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | A monthly plan, free for 14 days, up to 36% less paid annually. Scheduling is a separate product. | A number after a ten-minute call. You own the domain, the hosting and the files. |
| Who builds it | You, from a template. | We do, from your business: your photos, your services, your hours, how your customers call. |
| The form | A form that emails you. | A form that texts the customer back within a minute and sends you the card. |
| Booking or ordering | An add-on or an embed. | Built in. Real calendar openings, or a menu with ordering. |
| Speed on a phone | Depends on the template and what you add to it. | Built to pass Google's 2.5-second test. 94% of contractor sites we measured do not. |
| Tracking | Basic analytics. | Google, Meta, Microsoft and Clarity on every page, with the call button and the form as events. |
| Being found | You write the pages. | Service pages that answer what people search, structured data, sitemap, privacy and terms. |
| Two sites alike | Same template, same look. | No two of ours share a layout. |
Squarespace does not publish plan prices on its pricing page without a session; see squarespace.com/pricing. Checked 2026-09-21.
When Squarespace is enough
A portfolio, a photographer, a restaurant that only needs hours and a menu photo, a business that gets all its work from referrals. Pick a template, add your photos, done.
When it costs you
A trade or a service business that runs ads or relies on Google. The visitor arrives on a phone, needs to call or book in ten seconds, and leaves if the page is slow or the form goes nowhere. On a template every one of those pieces is your job to wire up.
What is built into every site of ours
The list on the websites page: phone first, a form that texts back, booking or ordering built in, every visit tracked, built to be found, and you own it. It is one piece of the system, and it is built so it does its piece.
Questions about this.
Can you fix my Squarespace site instead of rebuilding it?
Sometimes. We can add the form that texts back and the tracking to a site that is otherwise fine. If it is slow on a phone and the layout hides the number, a rebuild costs less than the patches.
Do I own the site you build?
Yes. The domain, the hosting and the files. If we part ways the site stays with you.
How long does a build take?
Days for most local business sites. You get a date before we start and you approve every screen.
Start with a ten-minute call.
917-414-4476Call or text. Tell us what you pay for now and what it is not doing.