Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Flodesk?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Flodesk?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Flodesk?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Flodesk 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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BeaconsvsFlodesk

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Flodesk is design-first email with unlimited sends and workflows, priced by list size.

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How Beacons and Flodesk 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.

Flodesk made email marketing pretty and easy to stay in. Gorgeous templates, an editor designers enjoy, workflows, forms and link-in-bio pages, and unlimited sends on every paid plan. Pricing now scales with active subscribers; anyone on the old unlimited plan keeps it. Flodesk Checkout adds simple sales pages. Small brands with taste pick it and stay.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Flodesk

Flodesk pages capture leads.
Flodesk sends.
Flodesk Checkout sells a product page.

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

Choose Flodesk when email design is the job and you want unlimited sends on a list-sized plan.

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What's on Beacons and Flodesk

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Not included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included
Brand kit
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Not included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included
AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Flodesk: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Flodesk
Feature	Beacons	Flodesk
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Not included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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