Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Outseta?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Outseta?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Outseta?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Outseta 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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BeaconsvsOutseta

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool.

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How Beacons and Outseta 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.

Outseta is the quiet workhorse behind many paid memberships and small SaaS products. Subscription billing, authentication and gated content, a CRM, email marketing, and a support desk come together so a founder can add a paying membership to any site they already have. It is well designed, honest, and built by people who use it.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Outseta

Outseta attaches to a site you build elsewhere.
Outseta bills subscriptions.
Outseta's support desk handles tickets.

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

Choose Outseta when you sell a subscription and need billing, logins, CRM, and support in one place behind your own site.

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What's on Beacons and Outseta

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Outseta: Not included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Beacons: Not included
Outseta: Included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Beacons and Outseta
Feature	Beacons	Outseta
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
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	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 Outseta, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Beacons or Outseta may add or remove features that are not shown here.