Is Cardel an alternative to Heartbeat or Lemon Squeezy?

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

Can I use Cardel with Heartbeat or Lemon Squeezy?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Heartbeat and Lemon Squeezy?

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

How do I switch from Heartbeat or Lemon Squeezy 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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HeartbeatvsLemon Squeezy

Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled.

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How Heartbeat and Lemon Squeezy compare

Heartbeat is a friendly place to start a paid community without a big budget. For $49 a month you get channels, threads, chat, voice rooms, DMs, unlimited courses and events, a custom domain, checkout pages, five automation workflows, and Pulse, an AI that actually sets up channels, offers, and pages for you. Grow adds unlimited workflows, DM rules, an affiliate program, and white-label email; Scale adds a branded app. For a founder with a small group who wants courses and calls next to the conversation, Heartbeat covers a lot for the price.

Lemon Squeezy takes the hard parts of selling software off your plate. As merchant of record it handles global tax, fraud, and compliance, while you get hosted checkout, subscriptions, license keys, a storefront, customer email, affiliates, and a clean API. Developers and digital product makers choose it so they can ship instead of file returns.

Where they are different

Heartbeat

Heartbeat's landing page is the door to a private space.
Heartbeat emails members through workflows and a weekly digest.
Heartbeat's events sync to members' calendars.
Heartbeat charges 5% to 1.25% on payments.

Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is the checkout behind your product.
Lemon Squeezy emails customers.
Lemon Squeezy has no inbox or bookings.

Choose Heartbeat when a small paid community with courses, calls, and member chat is the product.

Choose Lemon Squeezy when you sell software or digital goods globally and want tax and licensing handled.

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What's on Heartbeat and Lemon Squeezy

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Custom domain
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Theme and fonts
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Heartbeat: Not included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Marketing emails
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Campaign workflows
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Team

Admin users
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Per-admin permissions
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
AI Assistant
Heartbeat: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Feature comparison for Heartbeat and Lemon Squeezy
Feature	Heartbeat	Lemon Squeezy
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	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
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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