Comparison

Throughput vs Squarespace / Wix

Squarespace and Wix will host your site but refuse to sell your product. We build a site that does both.

What it replaces: Premium Website + Custom Compliant E-Commerce and Payments

Dimension	Squarespace / Wix	Throughput
Selling hemp/CBD	Wix Payments cannot process hemp-derived CBD. Squarespace's Stripe and PayPal do not allow CBD sales.	Compliant e-commerce built to carry federally-legal-hemp SKUs through a hemp-approved processor.
Payment setup	You must bolt a separate high-risk processor onto a site that was not built for it	Checkout, SKU bright-line rules, and the processor designed together from the start
Site quality	Template builder shared with millions of generic sites	A premium custom website built as a proof-grade asset for your brand
Ownership and portability	Rented platform; your store lives inside their builder	You own the codebase and data, built on your stack with Level C isolation
Compliance fit	Generic terms that prohibit your category outright	Built for regulated retail, with compliance and age verification handled in the build

The receipts

Wix Payments explicitly does not support the sale of products containing CBD or THC and cannot process hemp-derived CBD transactions, per its official Restricted and Prohibited Businesses list. Squarespace's built-in payment options (Stripe and PayPal) do not allow CBD sales, so hemp merchants must connect a separate high-risk processor. (Sources: Wix Help Center, Restricted and Prohibited Businesses, https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-payments-restricted-and-prohibited-businesses ; Tasker Payment Gateways, Squarespace and CBD, https://taskerpaymentgateways.com/cbd-credit-card-processing-squarespace/ )

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