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

Can I use Cardel with Calendly or Tertulia?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Calendly and Tertulia?

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

How do I switch from Calendly 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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CalendlyvsTertulia

Calendly is the standard for booking meetings. Tertulia builds an author website from an ISBN, with a list, events, and direct book sales.

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How Calendly and Tertulia 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.

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

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 Calendly and Tertulia

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

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

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Calendly: Included
Tertulia: Not included

Feature comparison for Calendly and Tertulia
Feature	Calendly	Tertulia
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	Not included

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