Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Kartra?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Kartra?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Kartra 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 SchedulingvsKartra

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Kartra 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.

Kartra is the operator's all-in-one. Checkouts with one-time, recurring, or installment pricing, email and SMS campaigns that react to what a lead does, membership portals for courses, calendars with paid bookings, a helpdesk with tickets and a wiki, and split tests on up to four page versions. If you run offers, sequences, and a member area as one machine and want the analytics to match, Kartra was 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.

Kartra

Kartra pages are campaign pages first.
Kartra has blog page templates and a WordPress push, not a blog engine.
Kartra's helpdesk takes tickets from a forwarded support address on Growth and up.

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

Choose Kartra when you sell through checkouts and sequences, deliver inside memberships, and want a helpdesk, affiliates, SMS, and split testing wired to the same lead record.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Kartra

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

Site and brand

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

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Kartra: Included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Kartra
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Kartra
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
Messaging
Messaging Center	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	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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