Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Kartra?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Kartra?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Kartra?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Kartra 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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BeaconsvsKartra

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system.

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How Beacons and Kartra 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.

Kartra is the operator's all-in-one. Checkouts with one-time, recurring, or installment pricing, email and SMS campaigns that react to what a lead does, membership portals for courses, calendars with paid bookings, a helpdesk with tickets and a wiki, and split tests on up to four page versions. If you run offers, sequences, and a member area as one machine and want the analytics to match, Kartra was built for exactly that.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Kartra

Kartra pages are campaign pages first.
Kartra has blog page templates and a WordPress push, not a blog engine.
Kartra's helpdesk takes tickets from a forwarded support address on Growth and up.

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

Choose Kartra when you sell through checkouts and sequences, deliver inside memberships, and want a helpdesk, affiliates, SMS, and split testing wired to the same lead record.

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What's on Beacons and Kartra

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Editor Mode
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Brand kit
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Not included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Beacons: Not included
Kartra: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included
Per-admin permissions
Beacons: Not included
Kartra: Included
AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Kartra: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Kartra
Feature	Beacons	Kartra
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Not included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Not included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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