Is Cardel an alternative to Beehiiv 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 Beehiiv or Stan Store when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Beehiiv and Stan Store are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Beehiiv or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Beehiiv 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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BeehiivvsStan Store

Beehiiv is a growth engine for newsletters: referrals, ads, paid tiers, and automations. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Beehiiv and Stan Store compare

Beehiiv treats a newsletter like a media business. Referral programs, Boosts and recommendations, an ad network, paid subscriptions, automations, segmentation, a website with SEO, and deep analytics are all pointed at one thing: growing and monetising a list. Operators who think in subscriber counts and CPMs love it.

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

Beehiiv

Beehiiv's site exists to convert subscribers.
Beehiiv monetises the list.
Beehiiv sends.

Stan Store

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

Choose Beehiiv when your newsletter is the business and growth loops and ad revenue are the plan.

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 Beehiiv and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Beehiiv: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Shop pages
Beehiiv: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Beehiiv: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Beehiiv: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beehiiv: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Beehiiv: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Beehiiv and Stan Store
Feature	Beehiiv	Stan Store
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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