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

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Cal.com 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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Cal.comvsStan Store

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Cal.com and Stan Store 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.

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

Cal.com

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

Stan Store

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

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

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 Cal.com and Stan Store

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

Audience and email

Audience
Cal.com: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Cal.com: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Commerce

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

Feature comparison for Cal.com and Stan Store
Feature	Cal.com	Stan Store
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included

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