How to add business Gmail addresses to signup forms on Squarespace

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A problem we had to fix on our Squarespace website was adding multiple Gmail address to our forms.  How do you add multiple Gmail addresses when you are the only Gmail user on Google Apps for Work?  It took us a while to find the solution and it was a really simple. 

If you have the personal Squarespace service, then you need to connect Google Apps for Work before you even attempt the solution.  You will need to follow the steps suggested in our article ‘How we were able to solve the problem of connecting Gmail to Squarespace’. 

Once you have connected Gmail to Squarespace, you need to complete the following steps:

• Login to your Google Apps for Work account and go straight to Admin section
• Click on ‘User’ and then click on the name of the ‘Active User’ that you want to set up the Gmail address for
• When their profile comes up click on ‘Account’
• Go to the section that says ‘Aliases’ and click on ‘Add an alias’
• Type in the Gmail alias or Gmail aliases that you want the person to have e.g. Sales@ABCcompany.com and/or Info@ABCcompany.com

Then head back to your Squarespace account

• Go to the form that you want to add the Gmail account and go to ‘Settings’ and add the Gmail address that you want the form to go to e.g. Sales@ABCcompany.com
• Save your changes
• Test your form by filling it in and then sending it

The form should appear in your Gmail address - Sales@ABCcompany.com

For better emailing campaigns you should connect the form to your MailChimp account.  When you add MailChimp to the form, it sends the information to the emailing list that you have set up for it.  (MailChimp is the partner of choice for your Squarespace website).

We hope this solution makes setting up multiple Gmail addresses for your business simple for you.  Do you use multiple email addresses for your business?  Is this the way you setup multiple Gmail addresses for your website?

Is Squarespace the right website builder for your business?

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When you are starting out to build your business, most people will either hire someone to build a website or build it themselves due to fact that they do not have enough money to hire a designer.  There are several website builders such as Wix, Webydo, Weebly, Light CMS and Wordpress.  We tried Squarespace’s trail period as a website builder for our startup business.

Squarespace was launched in 2004 by Anthony Casalena.  It is a content management system that was originally composed of a website builder, blogging platform and hosting site.  Since then it has evolved to include ecommerce with Stripe, Google Business apps (optional) and it contains several analytic reports that is very handy for a startup business.

We decided to do it ourselves as we didn't have the money to hire a designer.  Our designated designer found the drag and drop feature very responsive after a while.  The use of blocks and images made the layout of the pages easy to manage and manipulate.  The ability to add our social media channels also gave us more scope to broaden the design of the website.  What we liked most about the system is the ability to see what it looks like on desktop, tablets and smartphones in real time due to the responsive screen feature. 

After a week in to the trial period, we decided to use Squarespace.  Although Wix and WordPress are free to use to design a website.  When we reviewed some of the products out there, we found Squarespace had more features and value for our business.  We decided to take advantage of the service and paid the annual fee. 

We would recommend any business that is starting out and looking for a platform to build their website to use Squarespace.  What website platform builder did you use when you started your business?  Would you use Squarespace after this recommendation?