Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Teachable?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Teachable?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Teachable 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 SchedulingvsTeachable

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Teachable 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.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Teachable

Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
Teachable emails students.

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

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Teachable

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

Site and brand

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

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Teachable
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Teachable
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
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	Included

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