Can I Use Squarespace for Client Galleries?

A page password on Squarespace is one shared code for one page. Squarespace states it directly: "It's not possible to create unique passwords for different people." Every client who gets that page gets the same code.

Two practical consequences follow. First, each client needs their own page if you do not want one family to see another family's photos, because the password belongs to the page. Second, the four-hour session means a client who opens the gallery at lunch and comes back after dinner types the code again.

One trap to avoid. Squarespace also offers "Not Linked" pages, which sit outside your navigation. Its access-control article is clear that search engines and visitors can still reach such a page. Leaving a gallery unlinked is not the same as making it private. Use the password.

Squarespace offers gallery sections and gallery blocks, plus gallery pages on the older version 7.0. Its help articles put the same ceiling on both current options.

The overview article also warns that an excessive number of images can make a site load slowly. For a portrait session of forty frames, none of this matters. For a wedding of six hundred, it means splitting the set across several sections and preparing every file to a web size before upload.

We read Squarespace's help articles for gallery sections, gallery blocks and its image gallery overview. The narrow, accurate statement is this: none of those three articles describes a favourites, selection or bulk-download feature for visitors. That is a statement about the documentation we read, not a claim about every corner of the product.

Picks that come back as a list. A proofing round ends with the studio holding the client's choices in a form it can use. On clientgallery.io the client stars photos and loves the must-haves, then sends the selection. Once they have sent it, the gallery page in your studio shows an Export picks (.txt) button. It downloads a plain text file named after the gallery, with one filename per line, loved photos listed first and starred photos after. If you work in Lightroom Classic, the plugin pulls the picks back into your catalog instead, so there is no list to retype at all. If the client changes their mind, you reopen picking on the same gallery.

A signal that the client opened it. Each gallery tile in your clientgallery.io studio carries a small indicator showing whether the client has opened that gallery, with filters for all galleries, those seen by the client and those not opened yet. Your own visits are not counted. We did not look up whether Squarespace reports views of a password page, so we make no claim either way. This is only what the gallery product does.

The whole set in one click. A client on clientgallery.io downloads the entire gallery in one click, or any single image, with no account. You can switch downloads off for a gallery when you only want viewing. Squarespace's own download article points the other way: it says there is no way to completely prevent someone from copying images, advises against the right-click blocking some people add with custom code, and recommends watermarked images of 1,500 to 2,500 pixels under 500 KB, which it notes will not be suitable for printing.

The last row is the honest cost of moving. A gallery on clientgallery.io lives on your studio's subdomain of clientgallery.io, not on the domain your Squarespace site uses. The page carries your branding and none of ours, but the address is not your own domain. The own-domain guide covers exactly what that means.

Squarespace's pricing page served Canadian dollar prices on the day we fetched it, including when we asked for US dollars. We could not verify US prices, so only the Canadian figures appear here.

The same page states no caps on bandwidth or storage on any plan. It does not list page passwords or galleries as plan features; the password article is where Squarespace says passwords are on every plan.

If you want per-person access rather than one shared code, Squarespace's answer is Member Sites. Members sign up for a pricing plan, which can be free or paid, and a free member still gives an email address and creates a customer account. Squarespace says building a member site is free but selling memberships needs a website plan, and the fees in the table apply to membership sales. Page passwords cannot be used on member-site pages.

clientgallery.io is one plan at $10 a month or $100 a year, with unlimited galleries, photos and clients under fair use: 1,000 photos per gallery and 250 GB of proofs per paid account. The currencies differ, so we do not subtract one price from the other.

Stay where you are if most of these describe your studio.

• Clients look at the photos and nothing more. There is no selection round, and the final files reach them some other way.
• Sets are small, well under the 250-image ceiling per section, and a handful of galleries a year is the whole workload.
• Having the gallery on your own domain, inside your own site navigation, matters more to you than picks or downloads.
• You already sell access through Member Sites and your clients are used to logging in.

A dedicated gallery earns its place when the proofing round is real work: the client has to choose, you need the choices back as filenames or in your catalog, you want to know who has not opened their link yet, and the client expects to take everything home in one click. The own-website workload comparison puts hours against those jobs, and do I need a client gallery platform covers the threshold in general.

Every Squarespace figure and behaviour on this page comes from Squarespace's own pages, fetched on 24 September 2026. Help articles carry their own update dates, given below. clientgallery.io behaviour was checked in the product code on 24 September 2026.

• Squarespace, Pricing (plan prices in CA$, annual rates, memberships fees, no caps on bandwidth or storage). https://www.squarespace.com/pricing Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Page passwords (one shared password, 30 characters, 4-hour session, search engines, all plans, not on member-site pages). Article updated 6 June 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205814618-Page-passwords Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Controlling who can access your site's pages (Not Linked pages remain reachable). Article updated 6 June 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022365512-Controlling-who-can-access-your-site-s-pages Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Member Sites (pricing plans, free or paid members, customer accounts, website plan needed to sell). Article updated 15 September 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050832631-Member-Sites Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Gallery sections (up to 250 images). Article updated 25 June 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035636332-Gallery-sections Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Gallery blocks (up to 250 images). Article updated 28 August 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543407-Gallery-blocks Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Image galleries on Squarespace (gallery types, slow loading with many images). Article updated 10 July 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542467-Image-galleries-on-Squarespace Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Formatting images for display on the web (20 MB, 120 MP, formats, 2,500 pixels and 500 KB recommendation). Article updated 19 August 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542517-Formatting-images-for-display-on-the-web Fetched 24 September 2026.
• Squarespace Help, Preventing visitors from downloading your images, videos, and audio (no complete prevention, advice against right-click blocking, 1,500 to 2,500 pixels under 500 KB, not suitable for printing). Article updated 28 August 2026. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542457-Preventing-visitors-from-downloading-your-images-videos-and-audio Fetched 24 September 2026.