Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Cal.com?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Beacons or Cal.com when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Beacons and Cal.com are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Cal.com?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Cal.com?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Cal.com 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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BeaconsvsCal.com

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host.

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How Beacons and Cal.com compare

Beacons is more than a link page. A link-in-bio, digital product store, email marketing, media kit, brand-deal invoicing, and AI tools give a creator a mini back office without leaving the app. For someone monetizing social attention with sponsors and downloads, it is a clever, generous bundle.

Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure you can own. Open source and self-hostable, with calendar sync across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, event types, round-robin and collective team booking, routing forms, workflows for reminders, payments at booking, and an API and embeds developers actually like. Individuals get a generous free plan.

Where they are different

Beacons

Beacons is a profile with tools.
Beacons emails from its platform.
Beacons sells downloads and links.

Cal.com

Cal.com is a booking page and API.
Cal.com confirms by email.
Cal.com charges at booking.

Choose Beacons when you are monetizing a social audience with sponsors, downloads, and a bio link.

Choose Cal.com when scheduling is the whole need, especially for teams or developers who want control.

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What's on Beacons and Cal.com

A check means that capability is available. Beacons and Cal.com are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Not included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Included

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Cal.com: Included
Per-admin permissions
Beacons: Not included
Cal.com: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Cal.com
Feature	Beacons	Cal.com
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Not included	Included

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