The amazing potential of your Squarespace shop - learn how to earn more money as a visual artist

There are some really amazing and untapped ways you can use your Squarespace store as a visual artist to make more money. Ready? Let’s get stuck into it.

The different types of items to add to your store

The secret of utilizing your Squarespace store is to deeply understand how each of the kinds of items works in your store. The 5 categories to choose from are: Physical, Digital, Service and Gift Card.

How To Use Squarespace Physical Products As A Visual Artist

Physical products are probably the first one you might use as a visual artist to sell canvases, original artworks and signed limited edition prints. But did you know there are other ways to utilize this?

Commission Artwork

If you have a particular type of artwork that you create for people, for example, portraits that are 30x30cm large, and they are always the same price, you can setup your commission artwork as a physical product. Once someone buys this commission as a physical product, you will then create it for them, and also have the option to input shipping information once its shipped to your customer. Why bother doing this? Because it’s really important to make it easy for people to buy our artwork, as people are so distracted and busy nowadays. A contact form can be a long back and forth process, so if you have a repeatable type of commission artwork, this can be great to increase bookings.

Subscription Box For Prints, Cards Etc

A subscription is a great way to make more ongoing income - month after month. For all business owners, (but especially for artists and creatives) this is an important base income you can rely on. Examples of an art subscription box could be a card, art print or another small item they could receive every month.

A subscription box will require you to upgrade to the Commerce Advanced Squarespace website plan, but if you’re going to fully use this, would be a great idea to invest in.