Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Simplero?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Simplero?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Simplero 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 SchedulingvsSimplero

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Simplero runs courses, coaching, email, CRM, and checkout from one login.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Simplero 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.

Simplero is built for coaches, course creators, and teachers who are tired of paying for a stack of tools that do not talk to each other. Courses with drip schedules, quizzes, and certificates, memberships and communities, email and a CRM that remembers every purchase and lesson, scheduling links, and a checkout with payment plans, upsells, and order bumps all share one contact record, and Simplero takes no transaction fee on sales. Its AI, Simplero Coach, can draft a course, a sales page, and the welcome sequence inside your account. For a coach whose business is a program people pay for and finish, Simplero covers the whole job.

Where they are different

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

Choose Simplero when the business is a program: courses, coaching, or a membership people pay for and work through, sold with funnels and affiliates, with an AI that builds inside the account.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Simplero

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Simplero: Included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Simplero: Included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Simplero: Included
AI Assistant
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Simplero: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Simplero
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Simplero
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not 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
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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