Integrating Google Workspace with Squarespace allows you to access your custom domain along with complete Google productivity tools using a professional email address. Therefore, in this blog, I am going to explain how to connect Google Workspace to Squarespace with proper steps.

Table of Contents
  1. Benefits of Linking Google Workspace to Squarespace
  2. Preparations Before Adding Google Workspace to Squarespace
  3. Integrate Purchase Google Workspace Directly Through Squarespace
  4. Connect Existing Google Workspace Account to Squarespace
  5. Transfer Emails to Squarespace Connected Google Workspace
  6. Final Words

Squarespace does not directly host emails. Instead, it is partnering with Google Workspace as an authorized reseller of Google’s custom email services. You can connect Google Workspace to Squarespace infrastructure. Google is hosting and managing the emails like Gmail for businesses.

All the productivity and email services are done in Google. Managing the subscription and billing process by Squarespace when you purchase Google Workspace through them. Hence, from a single platform, users can manage their website and the subscription together.

Benefits of Linking Google Workspace to Squarespace

Combining the power of Google business apps with the web design of Squarespace provides you with several advantages, such as.

  • With a custom domain name, you can easily send and receive emails from Gmail.
  • It becomes easier to manage the domain, website hosting, and Google Workspace email subscription from one platform.
  • Accessing tools like Google Drive, Docs, and Google Calendar that are under your business account.
  • Some connect their new custom email address to Squarespace contact forms and automated site notifications.

Before connecting your domain, you have to first follow the prerequisites for a smooth process.

Preparations Before Adding Google Workspace to Squarespace

  • Use Squarespace 7.0 or 7.1 version, but Squarespace 5 sites do not support it.
  • At least one custom domain must be attached to your site. Also, the domain does not contain any special characters like ü, é, or ñ.
  • The homepage of your site must be published and enabled so that Google can verify it.
  • The site location matches Google’s supported countries.
  • Add a unique or new custom domain that has not been linked to any previous Google Workspace account.
  • If you are using a domain for personal Gmail. Make sure you are not logged into it during the initial setup.
  • You must be the Owner or Administrator of your site. If you are purchasing or connecting from a domain parking page. You should be the domain owner.
  • Clear the old settings of the email domain that you previously used in another email provider. Here’s how you are going to do that.
  • Sign in to the Squarespace DNS panel.
  • Find and delete any MX, DKIM, or SPF records from previous hosts.
  • Remove any old email forwarding rules that might conflict with the new mailbox.

Now, it’s time to follow the steps of the method to connect Google Workspace to Squarespace. There are two different scenarios that you can use to link your account. I will explain them with proper steps.

If you are not able to purchase a Google Workspace subscription during the promotion. Some Squarespace plans offer a one-year subscription to Google Workspace Business Starter for free. You can use this to create a professional email address using their custom domain to get access to Google’s tools. To get this benefit, you must fulfill these factors.

  • Buy or maintain a qualified Squarespace subscription plan.
  • Create a new Google Workspace account using Squarespace.
  • Use a domain that meets the Google Workspace setup requirements.
  • Make sure there is no existing Google subscription associated with the same domain.

Integrate Purchase Google Workspace Directly Through Squarespace

  1. Go to Squarespace and log in to the dashboard. Click the settings app and select Domains & Email.
  2. Click Google Workspace and then the Get Started button.
  3. Choose your plan and monthly or annual subscription options.
  4. Type your custom email address and name to create an account.
  5. Complete the purchase checkout. After creating the account, Squarespace sends an email with a temporary password.
  6. Log in to the Google Admin Console and accept the terms. Create a new password.
  7. Domain verification and add MX records to the DNX settings.

Connect Existing Google Workspace Account to Squarespace

Users can connect their existing Google Workspace account. But it depends on how your Google account was originally created. If you have already purchased the subscription from Google or another provider. Just update the required DNS records in Squarespace domain settings. Here’s how you can do it.

  1. Open your site and log in to your Squarespace account.
  2. Navigate to the Website option and then Domain & Email.
  3. Click the Domain that you want to connect to Google Workspace.
  4. Select DNS, in DNS settings, find the Add Preset menu.
  5. Choose Google Workspace MX. Squarespace automatically provides the required MX records.
  6. Press the Save button. If the domain is newly added, verify the domain ownership.
  7. Sign in to Google Admin Console with Workspace admin account details.
  8. Follow the setup to verify the ownership. You can add a TXT record for verification.
  9. Go back to Squarespace DNS settings, click Add Record, and enter the details provided by Google.

Wait for 2 to 48 hours to take the changes fully effect. Once it happens, log in to Gmail. If the domain is already connected to an existing Google Workspace, avoid linking the same domain to Squarespace.

Transfer Emails to Squarespace Connected Google Workspace

There are some users who also want to move existing emails from Gmail to the new connected account. The reasons behind this are to keep your important business communication, preserve your past emails, continue your conversations, or simply manage the emails from one account.

Whatever the reasons, if you want to transfer your emails, try SysTools IMAP Migration Tool, a software that can move your data without any issues.

These are the types of domains that you can’t connect to

  • Domains with special characters.
  • Domains that are already linked to the Google Workspace account.
  • Legacy G Suite domains.
  • Domains that are purchased from Google Workspace Reseller Programs.

After connecting Google Workspace to Squarespace, update your reply-to addresses, forms, email campaigns, and contact pages.

Final Words

In this blog, I have explained how to connect Google Workspace to Squarespace. Here, I have explained two scenarios to link my account, which are if you purchase the account directly through Squarespace. And connecting to the existing account. Along with it, I also provide a way to move existing emails to Squarespace-connected Google Workspace. So, properly follow the steps of the methods with the prerequisites.