Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Cal.com?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Cal.com?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Acuity Scheduling and Cal.com?

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Cal.com 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 SchedulingvsCal.com

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Cal.com 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.

Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure you can own. Open source and self-hostable, with calendar sync across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, event types, round-robin and collective team booking, routing forms, workflows for reminders, payments at booking, and an API and embeds developers actually like. Individuals get a generous free plan.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Cal.com

Cal.com is a booking page and API.
Cal.com confirms by email.
Cal.com charges at booking.

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

Choose Cal.com when scheduling is the whole need, especially for teams or developers who want control.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Cal.com

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Included

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Included
Per-admin permissions
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Cal.com: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Cal.com
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Cal.com
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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