Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or Shopify?

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

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Shopify?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Cal.com or Shopify 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.comvsShopify

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. Shopify is the commerce platform: storefront, checkout, inventory, POS, email, and inbox.

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How Cal.com and Shopify 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.

Shopify is what you use when the store is the business. World-class checkout, inventory and shipping, taxes, POS, thousands of apps, Shopify Email, Shopify Inbox, and a theme store make it the standard for merchants of every size. It scales from one product to a warehouse without changing platforms.

Where they are different

Cal.com

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

Shopify

Shopify's blog and pages serve the store.
Shopify Inbox handles chat.
Shopify doesn't manage scheduling natively.

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

Choose Shopify when you sell products at volume and need inventory, shipping, tax, and apps.

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What's on Cal.com and Shopify

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Cal.com: Not included
Shopify: Included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Cal.com: Not included
Shopify: Included

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Cal.com and Shopify
Feature	Cal.com	Shopify
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	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	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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