Is Cardel an alternative to Heartbeat or Zenpage?

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

Can I use Cardel with Heartbeat or Zenpage?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Heartbeat and Zenpage?

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

How do I switch from Heartbeat or Zenpage 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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HeartbeatvsZenpage

Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Heartbeat and Zenpage 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.

Zenpage turns one Amazon link or ISBN into a finished author site. It finds the rest of your books with their covers and buy links, picks a template that suits your genre, and sets up search data, share previews, and a sitemap before you touch a setting. Ebooks, audiobooks, and signed print copies sell straight from the book page through your own Stripe account, files reach the buyer by email within seconds, and Zenpage takes no commission. Every reader confirms by email, a free first chapter can go out on signup, and the whole thing is free, built by one person who answers every message personally.

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.

Zenpage

Zenpage collects readers and hands them to Mailchimp, Kit, Beehiiv, Brevo, MailerLite, or Substack, and it does not send newsletters itself.
Zenpage sells files and print copies with no Zenpage fee and delivers downloads automatically.
Zenpage's contact page shows your email address and its blog has no comments.
Zenpage templates have fixed layouts and font pairings, with no custom pages.

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

Choose Zenpage when you want a free site that sells your ebooks and signed copies directly, and you already have an email service you like.

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What's on Heartbeat and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Included
Custom domain
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Included
Theme and fonts
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Included

Public content

Blog
Heartbeat: Not included
Zenpage: Included
Showcase pages
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Not included
Shop pages
Heartbeat: Not included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Included
Marketing emails
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Not included
Campaign workflows
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Heartbeat: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Feature comparison for Heartbeat and Zenpage
Feature	Heartbeat	Zenpage
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Showcase pages	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Not included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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