Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or Kartra?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Cal.com or Kartra when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Cal.com and Kartra are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Kartra?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Cal.com and Kartra?

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

How do I switch from Cal.com or Kartra 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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Cal.comvsKartra

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system.

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How Cal.com and Kartra compare

Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure you can own. Open source and self-hostable, with calendar sync across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, event types, round-robin and collective team booking, routing forms, workflows for reminders, payments at booking, and an API and embeds developers actually like. Individuals get a generous free plan.

Kartra is the operator's all-in-one. Checkouts with one-time, recurring, or installment pricing, email and SMS campaigns that react to what a lead does, membership portals for courses, calendars with paid bookings, a helpdesk with tickets and a wiki, and split tests on up to four page versions. If you run offers, sequences, and a member area as one machine and want the analytics to match, Kartra was built for exactly that.

Where they are different

Cal.com

Cal.com is a booking page and API.
Cal.com confirms by email.
Cal.com charges at booking.

Kartra

Kartra pages are campaign pages first.
Kartra has blog page templates and a WordPress push, not a blog engine.
Kartra's helpdesk takes tickets from a forwarded support address on Growth and up.

Choose Cal.com when scheduling is the whole need, especially for teams or developers who want control.

Choose Kartra when you sell through checkouts and sequences, deliver inside memberships, and want a helpdesk, affiliates, SMS, and split testing wired to the same lead record.

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What's on Cal.com and Kartra

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Cal.com: Not included
Kartra: Included
Custom domain
Cal.com: Not included
Kartra: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Cal.com: Included
Kartra: Included
Marketing emails
Cal.com: Not included
Kartra: Included

Messaging

Messaging Center
Cal.com: Not included
Kartra: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Cal.com: Not included
Kartra: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Cal.com: Included
Kartra: Included

Team

Admin users
Cal.com: Included
Kartra: Included
Per-admin permissions
Cal.com: Included
Kartra: Included

Feature comparison for Cal.com and Kartra
Feature	Cal.com	Kartra
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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

Cal.com vs Kartra pricing

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Cal.com
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Kartra
Current plans and prices
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Cardel: An alternative to
Cal.com and Kartra

You don't pay until you publish.

Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own.

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Common questions

Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or Kartra?
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Cal.com or Kartra when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Cal.com and Kartra are marked.
Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Kartra?
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Cal.com or Kartra for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
How much does Cardel cost compared with Cal.com and Kartra?
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Cal.com and Kartra set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.
How do I switch from Cal.com or Kartra 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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