Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Teachable?

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

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Teachable?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Teachable?

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

How do I switch from Beacons or Teachable 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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BeaconsvsTeachable

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

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How Beacons and Teachable 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.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Beacons

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

Teachable

Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
Teachable emails students.

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

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Beacons and Teachable

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included
Brand kit
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Not included

Public content

Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Teachable: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Beacons and Teachable
Feature	Beacons	Teachable
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	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	Not 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	Included

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