Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Outseta?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Outseta?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Outseta 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 SchedulingvsOutseta

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Outseta 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.

Outseta is the quiet workhorse behind many paid memberships and small SaaS products. Subscription billing, authentication and gated content, a CRM, email marketing, and a support desk come together so a founder can add a paying membership to any site they already have. It is well designed, honest, and built by people who use it.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Outseta

Outseta attaches to a site you build elsewhere.
Outseta bills subscriptions.
Outseta's support desk handles tickets.

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

Choose Outseta when you sell a subscription and need billing, logins, CRM, and support in one place behind your own site.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Outseta

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Outseta: Not included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Outseta: Included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Outseta
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Outseta
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not 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	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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