Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Tertulia?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Tertulia?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Tertulia 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 SchedulingvsTertulia

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Tertulia builds an author website from an ISBN, with a list, events, and direct book sales.

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How Acuity Scheduling and Tertulia 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.

Tertulia for Authors is a website built around the books. Enter an ISBN or ASIN and it imports the covers, descriptions, reviews, and buy links, then adds a blog, an events calendar, and a mailing list. Pro adds direct sales and newsletters. That is real strength. If the site should come from the catalog instead of a blank page, Tertulia is built for exactly that.

Where they are different

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

Choose Tertulia when the center of the work is the book catalog: imported pages, retailer links, events, a reader magnet, and direct ebook, audiobook, print, and merchandise sales with no Tertulia commission.

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What's on Acuity Scheduling and Tertulia

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Tertulia: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Tertulia: Not included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Tertulia
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Tertulia
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
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Not included

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