domain transfer cost and result

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  leadsprojectmanager · Member · Feb 3, 2021 at 4:07 pm

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  hello! I am hoping to transfer a domain to squarespace. It was previously hosted by a third party company on wordpress. I went through the steps of transfer domain, and after I enter my credit card information, the price is 20 USD for the domain purchase. I would like to know if this is a yearly price, and if additional cost is needed for my website to be up and running, hosted by squarespace. Will my website change in anyway due to the domain transfer?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 3, 2021 at 5:56 pm

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  Hi,

  What is the URL of the site you are trying to transfer? We’ll be happy to take a look and see if we can help.

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  leadsprojectmanager · Member · Feb 3, 2021 at 6:04 pm

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  Thanks so much. The website is: leadspartnership.com.
  It is currently hosted by a third party company, which will no longer offer hosting after this month. So I am trying to transfer the website and domain. Sorry if any of my language is inaccurate, I am inexperienced in building websites. Preferably I could keep this website currently built on WordPress in the end without having to reconstruct everything from scratch. Could you please advise what I should do?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 3, 2021 at 7:02 pm

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  If you want to host the site with us, you can following the steps at https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

  And, if you want to transfer the domain to us, you can following the steps at https://wordpress.com/support/move-domain/incoming-domain-transfer/

  You can find our prices at https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  With all that said though, it sounds like you want to move the site and transfer the domain to Squarespace? If so, you’ll need to check Squarespace’s documentation on that.

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  leadsprojectmanager · Member · Feb 3, 2021 at 7:05 pm

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  Thanks a lot. I haven’t decided to transfer to squarespace, but I was looking at it as an option and got to this forum from a link they provided. I will look at the instructions you sent carefully to see if I can move to wordpress. Thanks again!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 3, 2021 at 7:17 pm

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  In that case, you might want to take a look at https://wordpress.com/compare/squarespace/ before deciding. :)

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  leadsprojectmanager · Member · Feb 3, 2021 at 7:24 pm

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  Thanks so much! I have one more quick question, could you please give a quick yes no answer? If I transfer hosting and domain, will my website be kept as is, or do I need to reconstruct it from scratch?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 3, 2021 at 7:28 pm

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  Your content will be kept as-is.

  If you’re using any plugins, you’ll need to either upgrade to a Business or eCommerce plan to use them, or find alternatives from our built-in features: https://wordpress.com/support/plugins/#using-other-plugins

  Your theme is also a third-party theme, so you would need a Business or eCommerce plan to continue using it as well: https://wordpress.com/support/themes/uploading-setting-up-custom-themes/

  With that said though, we do have hundreds of themes available, no paid plan required: https://wordpress.com/themes