Is Cardel an alternative to Calendly or Squarespace?

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

Can I use Cardel with Calendly or Squarespace?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Calendly and Squarespace?

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

How do I switch from Calendly or Squarespace 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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CalendlyvsSquarespace

Calendly is the standard for booking meetings. Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons.

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How Calendly and Squarespace compare

Calendly is the standard for booking meetings. Calendar sync, a clean booking page, reminders, round-robin for teams, routing forms, and payment at booking, all refined over years. If the whole job is letting people pick a time with you, Calendly does that job about as well as it can be done.

Squarespace makes sites that look finished. Award-winning templates, a fluid editor, commerce, scheduling through Acuity, email campaigns, and member areas mean a designer or small business can build almost anything in one account. It is polished, dependable, and deservedly popular with people who care how things look.

Where they are different

Choose Calendly when you only need scheduling, or your team needs routing and round-robin.

Choose Squarespace when design flexibility and a huge template library matter most and you are happy adding modules as you grow.

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What's on Calendly and Squarespace

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Calendly: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Custom domain
Calendly: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Public content

Blog
Calendly: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Shop pages
Calendly: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Calendly: Included
Squarespace: Included
Marketing emails
Calendly: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Commerce

Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Calendly: Included
Squarespace: Included

Feature comparison for Calendly and Squarespace
Feature	Calendly	Squarespace
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included

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