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CardelvsAcuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Cardel is a site, audience, email, shop, bookings, and inbox on your domain.
Acuity Scheduling is built for businesses that live by the appointment. Client self-booking, calendar sync, intake forms, automated reminders, packages and memberships, gift certificates, payments at booking, and multiple staff calendars keep a salon, clinic, or coach running. It is part of Squarespace and works with or without a Squarespace site.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel scheduling is simpler: one person's calendar with a sync to their Google or Outlook calendars, and a public page, no reminders, intake forms, or payment at booking.
Acuity is the appointment system. Cardel is the whole home: blog, Showcase, Shop, Videos, Schedule, with reader comments and SEO.
Acuity keeps a client list with notes. Cardel keeps an audience with tags, campaign workflows, and email on your own domain.
Acuity sends confirmations. Cardel also answers replies, chat, and contact form in one Messaging Center.
Choose Acuity Scheduling when appointments are the business and you need reminders, intake, packages, and staff calendars.
Choose Cardel when a booking page belongs inside your site, audience, shop, and inbox on one domain.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Acuity Scheduling when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
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Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Acuity Scheduling
See what Acuity Scheduling charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for an Acuity Scheduling alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
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Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Acuity Scheduling for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. Acuity Scheduling sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or Acuity Scheduling, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Acuity Scheduling may add or remove features that are not shown here.
