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

Can I use Cardel with Ghost or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Ghost 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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GhostvsStan Store

Ghost is open-source publishing with a fast site, newsletters, and fee-free paid subscriptions. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Ghost and Stan Store compare

Ghost is what serious independent publishing looks like. A fast, beautifully themed site, newsletters sent from your own domain, paid memberships with zero platform fees, comments, and a clean editor, all open source and portable. Ghost(Pro) hosting removes the ops, and the whole thing respects the writer and the reader.

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

Ghost

Ghost monetises by membership.
Ghost sends email and stops.
Ghost is publishing-first.

Stan Store

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

Choose Ghost when writing is the business and you want paid subscriptions with no platform cut, on open-source software.

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 Ghost and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Ghost: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Custom domain
Ghost: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Ghost: Included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Blog
Ghost: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Shop pages
Ghost: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Ghost: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Ghost: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Ghost and Stan Store
Feature	Ghost	Stan Store
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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