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CardelvsClickFunnels is the funnel builder: pages, upsells, email, and courses built for launches. Cardel is a site, audience, shop, bookings, and inbox on your domain.
ClickFunnels wrote the playbook on the sales funnel, and the 2.0 platform still does that job better than most: unlimited funnels on every plan, one-click upsells and order bumps, Smart Checkout, A/B tests, countdown timers, and templates built by people who sell for a living. Around the funnel it has grown a site and blog, courses, a store, email, automations, a CRM with pipelines, and MessageHub for conversations.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel is not a funnel builder or a course platform, and it does not run A/B tests, affiliates, or SMS.
ClickFunnels starts from the offer and works backward to the page. Cardel starts from the site: blog, Showcase, Shop, and Schedule pages on your domain that search engines can find.
Both give you an inbox. MessageHub pulls in chat, email, SMS, and social with a set number of agents per plan. Cardel's Messaging Center hosts mail on your domain itself, so there is no forwarding or IMAP to set up, and AI Suggest drafts the reply.
ClickFunnels appointments begin on the Scale plan. Cardel bookings with Google or Outlook sync begin on Pro, next to the shop and the blog.
Choose ClickFunnels when the offer is the business: you launch funnels, split-test them, stack upsells, sell courses and memberships, and want affiliates and SMS in the same account.
Choose Cardel when you would rather build a site people return to than a funnel people pass through: a blog with readers, a newsletter from your own address, a shop or bookings, and every reply in one place on your domain.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace ClickFunnels when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
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A check means that capability is available. ClickFunnels is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
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Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
ClickFunnels
See what ClickFunnels charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a ClickFunnels alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
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Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep ClickFunnels for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. ClickFunnels sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or ClickFunnels, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or ClickFunnels may add or remove features that are not shown here.
