Install Consentics on Squarespace

Squarespace supports pasting code directly into your site's header, so installing Consentics takes one paste and a save. No plugin, no app.

Before you start

Code Injection is available on Squarespace's Core, Plus and Advanced plans (Squarespace's current plan names as of this writing; older accounts on legacy billing tiers may see different names but the same feature). It is not available on Squarespace's entry-level Personal-equivalent tier. Check your plan under Settings, Billing if you're not sure which tier you're on.

You'll need to be signed in as a site owner or an admin-level contributor to edit Code Injection.

Steps

Go to your Consentics install page (Account, Properties, your site, Install) and copy your snippet. See the install basics for what the snippet looks like and why you should always copy it from there rather than typing one out.
In Squarespace, open Settings, Advanced, Code Injection.
Paste your Consentics snippet into the Header field. The Header field injects into every page's <head>, which is what the snippet needs.
Click Save.
Squarespace applies Code Injection changes without a separate publish step, but if you don't see the banner immediately, do a hard refresh (the change can take a minute to propagate through Squarespace's CDN).
Go back to your Consentics install page and check the waiting-for-first-event status. It turns green once Consentics receives your first page view.

Caveat: turn off Squarespace's native cookie banner

Squarespace ships its own cookie banner (Settings, Cookie Banner, or Settings, Privacy depending on your template). In its "Opt in & out" mode, it blocks Squarespace's own and Google Analytics cookies until a visitor responds, but it does not send Google Consent Mode v2 signals, and it has no concept of consent categories beyond that single toggle.

Running Squarespace's native banner alongside Consentics means two banners competing for the same decision, which is confusing for visitors and can produce conflicting consent records. Turn Squarespace's native banner off and let Consentics handle the consent decision, the category choices, and Consent Mode v2 signalling for the whole site.

FAQ

Will this slow my site down? The snippet loads asynchronously (the async attribute), so it doesn't block your page from rendering while it loads.

Do I need to touch the Footer or Order Confirmation Page fields? No. The snippet only needs the Header field. Leave Footer and Order Confirmation Page as they are unless a separate Consentics guide tells you otherwise (for example, commerce event tracking on order confirmation, which is a separate setup step, not part of this install).

I installed it but the banner isn't showing. Confirm you pasted into Header, not Footer. Then check you're not still running Squarespace's native banner in blocking mode, which can sit on top of the page and make it look like nothing else loaded. Turning off the native banner (see caveat above) usually resolves this.