Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Circle?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Circle?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Circle 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 SchedulingvsCircle

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Circle runs member communities with spaces, events, courses, and paywalls.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Circle 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.

Circle is where serious community hosts go when the community is the business. Spaces for discussion and chat, courses and events in the same place, paid memberships with branded checkout, gamification, workflows, Circle AI, and on Circle Plus your own branded iOS and Android apps. It has grown into an all-in-one for membership businesses, and the Website Builder and Email Hub mean many hosts no longer need a second tool for the front door. If your members log in every week to talk to each other, Circle is built for exactly that.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Circle

Circle's pages are the front door to a members-only space.
Circle's Email Hub is an add-on priced per contact on top of the plan.
Circle's DMs live between members inside the community.
Circle has courses, live streams, paid tiers for users, and gamification.

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

Choose Circle when a paid, private community with courses and events is the product, and you want members in a branded app.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Circle

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

Site and brand

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

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Circle: Included
Per-admin permissions
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Circle: Included
AI Assistant
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Circle: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Circle
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Circle
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	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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