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

Can I use Cardel with ClickFunnels or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with ClickFunnels and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from ClickFunnels 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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ClickFunnelsvsWordPress

ClickFunnels is the funnel builder: pages, upsells, email, and courses built for launches. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How ClickFunnels and WordPress 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.

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

ClickFunnels

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

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

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What's on ClickFunnels and WordPress

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Editor Mode
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Theme and fonts
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Reader engagement
ClickFunnels: Not included
WordPress: Included
Showcase pages
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

Audience
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Email on your domain
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Not included
Marketing emails
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Campaign workflows
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Not included

Messaging

Built-in chat
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Not included
Messaging Center
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
Per-admin permissions
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included
AI Assistant
ClickFunnels: Included
WordPress: Included

Feature comparison for ClickFunnels and WordPress
Feature	ClickFunnels	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Reader engagement	Not included	Included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email on your domain	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
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	Included

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