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Squarespace’s Corey Zettler on building a financial services suite for small businesses

Squarespace has expanded beyond website building to offer a growing suite of financial tools for small businesses, including payments, capital, and a new integrated balance account with a Visa debit card.
On the Tearsheet Podcast, director of product Corey Zettler explains the company's build-vs-partner approach, what it's learned from three product launches, and how it plans to deepen its financial services offering for service.

Zack Miller | April 08, 2026

Squarespace’s Corey Zettler on building a financial services suite for small businesses

For two decades, Squarespace has been the platform entrepreneurs turn to when they want to build something that looks like they hired a designer. But over the past few years, something has changed. Squarespace has been building a financial stack. Payments launched in 2023. Capital followed in 2025, offering merchants flexible financing based on their sales history. And just two weeks ago, Squarespace launched Balance, a native business financial account integrated directly with Squarespace Payments, giving merchants a business Visa card, cash rewards, and faster access to their funds, all without leaving the platform.

It’s a familiar playbook, Shopify has run it, Stripe has run it, but Squarespace is doing it for a specific kind of entrepreneur: the creative, the maker, the small business owner who wants to run their whole business from one place.

Today I’m joined by the person architecting that vision. Corey Zettler is Director of Product, Financial Solutions at Squarespace, where he leads strategy across Payments, Capital, and Checkout. Before Squarespace, Corey spent more than 15 years at companies like Shutterstock, MakerBot, and Chief, and before that, he was a wealth planner, which means he came into product from the money side, not the tech side, which makes him an interesting person to think about what financial services actually need to do for real people.