Is Cardel an alternative to ClickFunnels or Lemon Squeezy?

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 or Lemon Squeezy when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where ClickFunnels and Lemon Squeezy are marked.

Can I use Cardel with ClickFunnels or Lemon Squeezy?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with ClickFunnels and Lemon Squeezy?

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

How do I switch from ClickFunnels or Lemon Squeezy 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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ClickFunnelsvsLemon Squeezy

ClickFunnels is the funnel builder: pages, upsells, email, and courses built for launches. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled.

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How ClickFunnels and Lemon Squeezy compare

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.

Lemon Squeezy takes the hard parts of selling software off your plate. As merchant of record it handles global tax, fraud, and compliance, while you get hosted checkout, subscriptions, license keys, a storefront, customer email, affiliates, and a clean API. Developers and digital product makers choose it so they can ship instead of file returns.

Where they are different

ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels starts from the offer and works backward to the page.
Both give you an inbox.
ClickFunnels appointments begin on the Scale plan.

Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is the checkout behind your product.
Lemon Squeezy emails customers.
Lemon Squeezy has no inbox or bookings.

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 Lemon Squeezy when you sell software or digital goods globally and want tax and licensing handled.

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What's on ClickFunnels and Lemon Squeezy

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Custom domain
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Theme and fonts
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Public content

Blog
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Shop pages
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Audience and email

Audience
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Marketing emails
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Campaign workflows
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Messaging

Messaging Center
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Orders and fulfillment
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Team

Admin users
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Per-admin permissions
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
AI Assistant
ClickFunnels: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Feature comparison for ClickFunnels and Lemon Squeezy
Feature	ClickFunnels	Lemon Squeezy
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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