Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Stan Store?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Stan Store 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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BeaconsvsStan Store

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Beacons and Stan Store 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.

Stan Store makes selling from your bio link almost effortless. Digital downloads, courses, coaching calls with booking, memberships, and lead magnets sit on one mobile-first page with checkout, plus email marketing and funnels on the higher plan. For a creator selling to social followers on their phone, it removes nearly every step.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Stan Store

Stan is a page at stan.store/you.
Stan emails from its platform.
Stan books calls with payment.

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

Choose Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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What's on Beacons and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Stan Store
Feature	Beacons	Stan Store
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not 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	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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