Is Cardel an alternative to Acuity Scheduling or Zenpage?

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

Can I use Cardel with Acuity Scheduling or Zenpage?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Acuity Scheduling or Zenpage 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.

Compare

Acuity SchedulingvsZenpage

Acuity Scheduling runs appointment businesses with intake forms, reminders, and payments. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

Compare Pricing Compare Features

How Acuity Scheduling and Zenpage 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.

Zenpage turns one Amazon link or ISBN into a finished author site. It finds the rest of your books with their covers and buy links, picks a template that suits your genre, and sets up search data, share previews, and a sitemap before you touch a setting. Ebooks, audiobooks, and signed print copies sell straight from the book page through your own Stripe account, files reach the buyer by email within seconds, and Zenpage takes no commission. Every reader confirms by email, a free first chapter can go out on signup, and the whole thing is free, built by one person who answers every message personally.

Where they are different

Acuity Scheduling

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

Zenpage

Zenpage collects readers and hands them to Mailchimp, Kit, Beehiiv, Brevo, MailerLite, or Substack, and it does not send newsletters itself.
Zenpage sells files and print copies with no Zenpage fee and delivers downloads automatically.
Zenpage's contact page shows your email address and its blog has no comments.
Zenpage templates have fixed layouts and font pairings, with no custom pages.

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

Choose Zenpage when you want a free site that sells your ebooks and signed copies directly, and you already have an email service you like.

Compare features

What's on Acuity Scheduling and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Acuity Scheduling: Not included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Zenpage: Included

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Acuity Scheduling: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Feature comparison for Acuity Scheduling and Zenpage
Feature	Acuity Scheduling	Zenpage
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
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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