Who Has Access to Your Squarespace Website? Here's How to Check
A quick but important habit worth building into your business routine: check who actually has access to the back end of your website every now and then.
It's easy to add someone for a quick job, a developer, a freelancer, or a friend who offered to help, and then completely forget they're still sitting in your contributors list months, or even years, later. Most business owners genuinely have no idea who still has access to their site until they go and look.
How to check who has contributor access
In Squarespace, a quick look under Permissions in your site settings will show you exactly who can get in. From there you can see every contributor attached to your site and what level of access they have. Anyone who's finished what they needed to do can be removed in a couple of clicks, no awkward conversation required, no need to wait for them to remember to remove themselves.
It's worth making this a regular check rather than a one-off. A website tends to accumulate contributors over time, a developer who fixed something two years ago, a VA who helped with a product launch, a friend who added a blog post once. None of that is a problem in itself, but it's easy to lose track of who's still actively there.
You never need to share your login details
This is the part that surprises people most: you should never need to give anyone your actual Squarespace login details to let them work on your site, not a developer, not a freelancer, not even someone you trust completely.
Adding someone as a contributor gives them exactly the access they need to do their job, while you stay fully in control of that access the entire time. You can change what they're able to see or edit, and you can remove them entirely, whenever you like, in a couple of clicks. There's no password to change afterwards, no awkward request to ask for your login back, and no risk of someone still being able to get into your account long after they've stopped working with you.
If anyone ever asks for your login details directly rather than being added as a contributor, that's worth treating as a flag rather than a formality.
Why this matters more than it seems
A website often ends up being one of the more sensitive parts of a small business's digital setup. It can hold customer details, payment information, booking systems, and the public face of the business itself. Knowing exactly who can access and change it isn't just good admin, it's a genuine part of keeping your business secure.
It only takes a few minutes to check, and it's the kind of task that's easy to keep putting off simply because nothing has gone wrong yet. Pop a reminder in your diary to have a look, and if you know another business owner who might have the same blind spot, it's worth passing on the nudge.
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