Is Cardel an alternative to Flodesk or Memberful?

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

Can I use Cardel with Flodesk or Memberful?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Flodesk and Memberful?

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

How do I switch from Flodesk or Memberful 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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FlodeskvsMemberful

Flodesk is design-first email with unlimited sends and workflows, priced by list size. Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run.

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How Flodesk and Memberful compare

Flodesk made email marketing pretty and easy to stay in. Gorgeous templates, an editor designers enjoy, workflows, forms and link-in-bio pages, and unlimited sends on every paid plan. Pricing now scales with active subscribers; anyone on the old unlimited plan keeps it. Flodesk Checkout adds simple sales pages. Small brands with taste pick it and stay.

Memberful is a clean way to charge for membership. Stripe billing, plans and gifts, gated WordPress content, Discord and podcast access, member newsletters, and now a landing-page and newsletter builder on your own domain. Publishers who want a paywall without rebuilding their whole site have trusted it for years.

Where they are different

Flodesk

Flodesk pages capture leads.
Flodesk sends.
Flodesk Checkout sells a product page.

Memberful

Memberful assumes you have a site.
Memberful bills recurring plans.
Memberful sends member newsletters.

Choose Flodesk when email design is the job and you want unlimited sends on a list-sized plan.

Choose Memberful when you want a paywall and member billing on a WordPress or custom site you already run.

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What's on Flodesk and Memberful

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included
Custom domain
Flodesk: Not included
Memberful: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included
Marketing emails
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included
Campaign workflows
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included

Team

Admin users
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Included
AI Assistant
Flodesk: Included
Memberful: Not included

Feature comparison for Flodesk and Memberful
Feature	Flodesk	Memberful
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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