Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Memberstack?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Memberstack?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Memberstack?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Memberstack 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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BeaconsvsMemberstack

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Memberstack adds logins, gated content, and Stripe subscriptions to no-code sites.

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How Beacons and Memberstack 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.

Memberstack gives no-code sites real members. Signup and login, gated pages, member profiles, Stripe plans and one-time payments, and a clean API drop into Webflow and other builders in an afternoon. For a designer turning a site into a members-only product, it is the least painful route.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Memberstack

Memberstack needs a site to attach to.
Memberstack bills plans.
Memberstack stores members and can email them.

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

Choose Memberstack when you already build in Webflow and need members and subscriptions on it.

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What's on Beacons and Memberstack

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Not included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Not included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Included
AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Memberstack: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Memberstack
Feature	Beacons	Memberstack
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	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 Memberstack, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Beacons or Memberstack may add or remove features that are not shown here.