Is Cardel an alternative to Cal.com or WordPress?

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

Can I use Cardel with Cal.com or WordPress?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Cal.com or WordPress 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.comvsWordPress

Cal.com is open-source scheduling with team routing, workflows, and payments you can self-host. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Cal.com and WordPress 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.

WordPress powers a huge share of the web for good reason. This page compares WordPress.com hosted plans. You get the block editor, thousands of themes, comments and likes, Jetpack newsletters, and on higher plans the full plugin ecosystem and WooCommerce. Nothing else offers this much freedom to extend, and your content is exportable and yours.

Where they are different

Cal.com

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

WordPress

WordPress extends by plugin: a form plugin, a booking plugin, an email plugin, each with its own settings.
WordPress email is Jetpack newsletters or a plugin.
WordPress accessibility and SEO depend on your theme and plugins.

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

Choose WordPress when you want maximum control, plugins for anything, and the option to self-host.

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What's on Cal.com and WordPress

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Cal.com: Not included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Cal.com and WordPress
Feature	Cal.com	WordPress
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	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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