Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or Tertulia?

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

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or Tertulia?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Cal.com or Tertulia 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.comvsTertulia

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. Tertulia builds an author website from an ISBN, with a list, events, and direct book sales.

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How Cal.com and Tertulia 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.

Tertulia for Authors is a website built around the books. Enter an ISBN or ASIN and it imports the covers, descriptions, reviews, and buy links, then adds a blog, an events calendar, and a mailing list. Pro adds direct sales and newsletters. That is real strength. If the site should come from the catalog instead of a blank page, Tertulia is built for exactly that.

Where they are different

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

Choose Tertulia when the center of the work is the book catalog: imported pages, retailer links, events, a reader magnet, and direct ebook, audiobook, print, and merchandise sales with no Tertulia commission.

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What's on Cal.com and Tertulia

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Cal.com: Not included
Tertulia: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Cal.com: Included
Tertulia: Not included

Feature comparison for Cal.com and Tertulia
Feature	Cal.com	Tertulia
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
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Not included

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