Squarespace will happily sell you Google Workspace for every person on your domain. It is not your only option. A domain registered at Squarespace, or one you moved there when Google Domains closed, can send its mail to any provider you like. There is no button for it, so this is a copy-and-paste job in the DNS panel, and it takes about fifteen minutes.
What Squarespace offers, and what it costs
Squarespace's built-in email is Google Workspace, bought through your Squarespace account. On its help page (support.squarespace.com, "Google Workspace pricing, billing, and invoices", checked 6 October 2026) Business Starter is $84 per user per year on annual billing or $8.40 per user per month, Standard $168 a year or $16.80 a month, Plus $264 or $26.40. New Starter signups through Squarespace may get a free first year.
If you want Gmail, Docs and Meet for everyone on the team, that is the smooth route: the DNS is handled, the billing is on one invoice. If you want three or four addresses on the domain and nothing else, it is a seat for each. Any other provider gives you its DNS records and leaves the panel work to you. Squarespace has presets for a few hosts (Fastmail, iCloud, Neo, Proton, Titan, Zoho), but not for most, so the steps below are the general path.
How Squarespace's DNS panel wants things entered
Squarespace's editor is one row per record, with its own names for the fields. Go to Domains, choose the domain, then DNS Settings. Under Custom Records, Add record opens a row with a Type dropdown. The Name field is the host; type @ for the root of the domain and a bare prefix like _dmarc for a subdomain. For an MX record you get a Priority field and a Mail Server field. For a TXT record the value field is called Text. For a CNAME it is called Data. The default TTL is four hours and does not need changing. Squarespace may ask for your password or a two-factor code again when you save.
Two things catch people. First, Squarespace adds default SPF, DKIM and DMARC records to a newly registered domain and removes them when you add your own email records; you will not be able to add them back by hand, and you do not need to, because your mail host's records replace them. Second, Squarespace has no bulk import, so each record is entered on its own. Count them before you start so you know when you are done.
The steps
- Add the domain at your mail host. Sign up, add the domain, and keep the host's record list open in another tab. Faivelo recognises a Squarespace domain and shows the list in Squarespace's own field order, with a Check button beside each record.
- Open DNS Settings at Squarespace. Domains, the domain, DNS Settings, Custom Records, Add record.
- Enter the MX record. Type MX. Name @. Priority as the host gives it. Mail Server as the host gives it, without a trailing dot. Save.
- Enter the TXT records. One for SPF (Name @), one per DKIM selector (Name is the selector label the host gives you, like something._domainkey), one for DMARC (Name _dmarc). The value goes in Text, exactly as given, quotes and all.
- Enter any CNAME or SRV records. These are for device auto-setup and are optional for delivery. CNAME values go in Data. For SRV, Squarespace wants the Name as _service._protocol, a Priority, and the Data as weight, port and target separated by spaces.
- Check, then create your mailboxes. Press the check at the host. Most records show within minutes; a record you edited can take up to the four-hour TTL. Once the MX is seen, create the mailboxes and send yourself a test from an outside address.
If you already have Google Workspace through Squarespace
Copy your mail out first. Any IMAP migration tool reads a Workspace mailbox with an app password while it keeps working; Faivelo's does this in the background and creates the matching mailbox for you. Then replace Google's MX records with the new host's in the Squarespace panel, wait for a test message to land at the new home, and cancel the Workspace subscription in Squarespace. The order in how to set up a business email address applies here too: copy, cut over, cancel.
What you lose is what Workspace bundles: Docs, Drive and Meet under the same login. Most small teams keep a free Google account for those and move only the mail.
FAQs
Can I use a mail provider other than Google Workspace with a Squarespace domain?
Yes. Any provider works by adding its MX and TXT records under Custom Records in the domain's DNS Settings. There is no integration button for hosts outside Squarespace's preset list, so the records are entered by hand.
Why did my SPF and DMARC records disappear from Squarespace?
Squarespace adds default SPF, DKIM and DMARC records to a new domain and removes them when you add custom email records. Your mail host's own records take their place, so nothing needs restoring.
How long do DNS changes take at Squarespace?
New records are usually visible within minutes. The default TTL is four hours, so a record you changed rather than added can take up to that to update everywhere.
Does my Squarespace website keep working?
Yes. Email records are additions; the A and CNAME records that serve the site are untouched. Do not delete anything you did not add.
Fifteen minutes in the DNS panel, then unlimited mailboxes
Add your Squarespace domain to Faivelo and it shows every record in Squarespace's own field order with a Check button for each. $6 a month for all the addresses on the domain, free for fourteen days, no card.