How to Add a Contributor to a Squarespace Website

There are loads of reasons why you might want to add a contributor to your Squarespace website.

Perhaps you have a large team who will all be contributing to the website upkeep or you may be like me, and need to transfer ownership to your client once the website is complete.

I’m going to take you through how to add a contributor, the permissions you can grant them, and how to transfer ownership to your client once your work is done.

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Head to Settings > Permissions & Ownership > Permissions and here you’ll have a button to invite a contributor.

Clicking this will bring up various fields for you to fill in such as the contributors name and email as well as the permissions you want to grant them.

These permissions include roles such as full website administrator, website editor, comment moderator and store manager. 

This is great as it means you can give different people different permissions depending on what they are going to be doing on the website.

Once you’ve filled in the fields, hit invite and that will send a contributor invite to the email you inputted.

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Once you’ve added a contributor to the website, you can also transfer ownership to them. This is important if you build websites on behalf of clients, they will need to be a contributor on the website in order for you to transfer ownership to them.

Back in the Settings > Permissions & Ownership > Permissions dashboard, your contributors will appear in a list and next to their names with an option to “transfer ownership”. 

Click this and you’ll be able to transfer ownership of the Squarespace website to them. Nice and simple.

Hopefully you found this useful, if you did, be sure to check out the rest of my Squarespace tutorials.

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