Scale with Templates

What it covers

Scale with Templates is Kate Scott's course on turning Squarespace design skills into a template shop. Kate built her first template over five months in 2019 and 2020, had her first big month two months after launch, and later dropped client work altogether when a wrist injury forced the issue. The course is that process turned into a five stage framework, and more than 400 designers have been through it.

Module one, The Build, covers choosing a niche and ideal customer, designing a template rather than a client site, using CSS in templates and building a value ladder of related products. Module two, The Delivery, covers delivering templates and graphics, recording a template course, post-purchase emails and customer support. Module three, The Sale, covers pricing, making the shop legal, sales page design and setting up the sales system, with tech tutorials for the platforms you might choose. Module four, The Launch, covers beta launches, launch planning, where to get templates listed, affiliate programmes and sales funnels. Module five, The Growth, is a marketing module taught by five guest experts on Pinterest, YouTube, blogging, LinkedIn and Instagram.

The bonuses are substantial: Figma shop mockups, a ThriveCart checkout template, Canva launch graphics, email sequences, launch roadmap templates for Asana, ClickUp and Notion, a shop blueprint workbook, a live call replay library and a private community. At the time of writing Kate also offers one to one template feedback if you submit within six months of joining.

Who it is for

Designers already confident on Squarespace who want a product line alongside, or instead of, client work. Kate is clear it is not for people new to Squarespace and does not teach design principles or the platform.

Format and access

Self-study video with lifetime access, subtitles and searchable transcripts. The core four modules run about two and a half hours, the marketing module about 90 minutes, the tech tutorials another 90 minutes. A 14 day money back guarantee applies, which is unusual among the courses I list here.

Where it falls short

This is the most expensive course in our collection, and you need to sell a handful of templates to cover it. The live calls are a replay library rather than a guaranteed schedule. And the market in 2026 is far busier than when Kate launched; she argues it is not saturated, and I half agree, but a niche and a distinctive style matter more than systems, and no course supplies those.

Related guide: browse every course we list in the Squarespace courses collection, and read my round-up of the best Squarespace template shops in 2026 to see the standard you would be competing with. It is also the template shop pick in our best Squarespace courses in 2026 roundup.