Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Skool?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Skool?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Skool 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 SchedulingvsSkool

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Skool is a focused on a community, courses, and events.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Skool 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.

Skool does one thing with unusual discipline: a paid community with a feed, a classroom, a calendar, and gamification that keeps members coming back. The pricing is plain, the app is quick, and Discovery can send you members you did not have to find yourself. If your work is a group people join and show up to every week, Skool is shaped for that.

Where they are different

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

Choose Skool when the membership is the product, and a feed, courses, and leaderboards are how you deliver it.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Skool

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Skool: Not included
Theme and fonts
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Skool: Not included

Audience and email

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

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Skool: Included
Per-admin permissions
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Skool: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Skool
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Skool
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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