Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Beacons?

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 or Beacons when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Acuity Scheduling and Beacons are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Beacons?

Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Acuity Scheduling or Beacons for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

How much does Cardel cost compared with Acuity Scheduling and Beacons?

You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Acuity Scheduling and Beacons set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Beacons to Cardel?

Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.

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Acuity SchedulingvsBeacons

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Beacons compare

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.

Beacons is more than a link page. A link-in-bio, digital product store, email marketing, media kit, brand-deal invoicing, and AI tools give a creator a mini back office without leaving the app. For someone monetizing social attention with sponsors and downloads, it is a clever, generous bundle.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

Acuity is the appointment system.
Acuity keeps a client list with notes.
Acuity sends confirmations.

Beacons

Beacons is a profile with tools.
Beacons emails from its platform.
Beacons sells downloads and links.

Choose Acuity Scheduling when appointments are the business and you need reminders, intake, packages, and staff calendars.

Choose Beacons when you are monetizing a social audience with sponsors, downloads, and a bio link.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Beacons

A check means that capability is available. Acuity Scheduling and Beacons are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Workspace site
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Beacons: Included
Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included
Theme and fonts
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included
Marketing emails
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Beacons: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included
Per-admin permissions
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Not included
AI Assistant
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Beacons: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Beacons
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Beacons
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Not included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Acuity Scheduling or Beacons, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Acuity Scheduling or Beacons may add or remove features that are not shown here.