Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Calendly?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Calendly?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Calendly 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 SchedulingvsCalendly

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Calendly is the standard for booking meetings.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Calendly 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.

Calendly is the standard for booking meetings. Calendar sync, a clean booking page, reminders, round-robin for teams, routing forms, and payment at booking, all refined over years. If the whole job is letting people pick a time with you, Calendly does that job about as well as it can be done.

Where they are different

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

Choose Calendly when you only need scheduling, or your team needs routing and round-robin.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Calendly

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Calendly: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Calendly: Included

Commerce

Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Calendly: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Calendly
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Calendly
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Commerce
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included

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