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

Can I use Cardel with Help Scout or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Help Scout and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Help Scout 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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Help ScoutvsStan Store

Help Scout is a human-feeling help desk: shared inbox, Docs, Beacon chat, and AI drafts. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Help Scout and Stan Store compare

Help Scout is support that feels like email from a person. A shared inbox with assignments and saved replies, Docs for a knowledge base, Beacon for chat and self-service, customer profiles, workflows, reports, and AI drafts and summaries help small teams deliver warm, organized support. Nothing about it feels like a ticket number.

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

Help Scout

Help Scout is the support tool beside your site.
Help Scout handles email and Beacon chat for anyone.
Help Scout has no marketing email.

Stan Store

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

Choose Help Scout when a small team needs a warm, organized help desk with a knowledge base.

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 Help Scout and Stan Store

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

Audience and email

Audience
Help Scout: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Help Scout: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Campaign workflows
Help Scout: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Help Scout: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Messaging Center
Help Scout: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Help Scout: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Help Scout: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Help Scout: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Help Scout and Stan Store
Feature	Help Scout	Stan Store
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Campaign workflows	Not included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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