Is Cardel an alternative to Disciple or Stan Store?

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

Can I use Cardel with Disciple or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Disciple and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Disciple or Stan Store 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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DisciplevsStan Store

Disciple gives community owners branded iOS and Android apps with subscriptions. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Disciple and Stan Store compare

Disciple does the thing most community platforms charge a premium for: every plan includes your own iOS and Android app listed under your name, a synced web version, and no Disciple branding anywhere your members look. Groups, feeds, DMs, events, native video, livestreaming, courses, push notifications to segments, and a customer success manager who helps you through the app store submission. Associations, training providers, nonprofits, and membership brands that want an icon on the member's phone are who it is built for.

Stan Store makes selling from your bio link almost effortless. Digital downloads, courses, coaching calls with booking, memberships, and lead magnets sit on one mobile-first page with checkout, plus email marketing and funnels on the higher plan. For a creator selling to social followers on their phone, it removes nearly every step.

Where they are different

Disciple

Disciple lives behind a login and a home screen icon.
Disciple reaches members with push notifications and hands email to Mailchimp or ConvertKit.
Disciple starts at $599 a month for a branded app with unlimited members.
Disciple has courses, livestreams, tiers, and in-app purchases.

Stan Store

Stan is a page at stan.store/you.
Stan emails from its platform.
Stan books calls with payment.

Choose Disciple when your members should open an app with your name on it, and a private community with groups, events, and paid tiers is the whole point.

Choose Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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What's on Disciple and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Custom domain
Disciple: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Disciple: Included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Disciple: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Disciple: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Disciple: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Campaign workflows
Disciple: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Disciple: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Disciple: Included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Disciple: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Disciple and Stan Store
Feature	Disciple	Stan Store
Site and brand
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Campaign workflows	Not included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included

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