Is Cardel an alternative to Flodesk or Shopify?

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 Shopify when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Flodesk and Shopify are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Flodesk or Shopify?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Flodesk and Shopify?

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

How do I switch from Flodesk or Shopify 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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FlodeskvsShopify

Flodesk is design-first email with unlimited sends and workflows, priced by list size. Shopify is the commerce platform: storefront, checkout, inventory, POS, email, and inbox.

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How Flodesk and Shopify 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.

Shopify is what you use when the store is the business. World-class checkout, inventory and shipping, taxes, POS, thousands of apps, Shopify Email, Shopify Inbox, and a theme store make it the standard for merchants of every size. It scales from one product to a warehouse without changing platforms.

Where they are different

Flodesk

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

Shopify

Shopify's blog and pages serve the store.
Shopify Inbox handles chat.
Shopify doesn't manage scheduling natively.

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

Choose Shopify when you sell products at volume and need inventory, shipping, tax, and apps.

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What's on Flodesk and Shopify

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included
Custom domain
Flodesk: Not included
Shopify: Included
Theme and fonts
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included

Public content

Blog
Flodesk: Not included
Shopify: Included
Shop pages
Flodesk: Not included
Shopify: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included
Email templates and From addresses
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included
Marketing emails
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included
Campaign workflows
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included

Messaging

Messaging Center
Flodesk: Not included
Shopify: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included

Team

Admin users
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included
AI Assistant
Flodesk: Included
Shopify: Included

Feature comparison for Flodesk and Shopify
Feature	Flodesk	Shopify
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email templates and From addresses	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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