Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Stan Store?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Acuity Scheduling and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Stan Store 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 SchedulingvsStan Store

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Stan Store 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.

Stan Store makes selling from your bio link almost effortless. Digital downloads, courses, coaching calls with booking, memberships, and lead magnets sit on one mobile-first page with checkout, plus email marketing and funnels on the higher plan. For a creator selling to social followers on their phone, it removes nearly every step.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Stan Store

Stan is a page at stan.store/you.
Stan emails from its platform.
Stan books calls with payment.

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

Choose Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Stan Store: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Stan Store
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Stan Store
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not 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	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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