Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Lemon Squeezy?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Lemon Squeezy?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Lemon Squeezy?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Lemon Squeezy 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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BeaconsvsLemon Squeezy

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled.

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How Beacons and Lemon Squeezy 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.

Lemon Squeezy takes the hard parts of selling software off your plate. As merchant of record it handles global tax, fraud, and compliance, while you get hosted checkout, subscriptions, license keys, a storefront, customer email, affiliates, and a clean API. Developers and digital product makers choose it so they can ship instead of file returns.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is the checkout behind your product.
Lemon Squeezy emails customers.
Lemon Squeezy has no inbox or bookings.

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

Choose Lemon Squeezy when you sell software or digital goods globally and want tax and licensing handled.

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What's on Beacons and Lemon Squeezy

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beacons: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Team

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

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

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