Kartra is the operator's all-in-one. Checkouts with one-time, recurring, or installment pricing, email and SMS campaigns that react to what a lead does, membership portals for courses, calendars with paid bookings, a helpdesk with tickets and a wiki, and split tests on up to four page versions. If you run offers, sequences, and a member area as one machine and want the analytics to match, Kartra was built for exactly that.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel is not a membership site builder, a course platform, or a funnel builder, and it does not send SMS or run affiliates.
Kartra pages are campaign pages first; a website is a group of them with shared menus. Cardel is a website first: blog posts with SEO URLs, Showcase and Shop pages, and a Schedule page, all indexed on your domain.
Kartra has blog page templates and a WordPress push, not a blog engine. Cardel's blog has posts, feeds, reader accounts, comments, and post-to-email built in.
Kartra's helpdesk takes tickets from a forwarded support address on Growth and up. Cardel hosts email on your domain for every plan and puts mail, contact form, and reader chat in one Messaging Center.
Choose Kartra when you sell through checkouts and sequences, deliver inside memberships, and want a helpdesk, affiliates, SMS, and split testing wired to the same lead record.
Choose Cardel when the work is a site people read and return to: a blog, a newsletter from your own address, a shop or bookings, and a single inbox, without a funnel stack to maintain.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Kartra when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
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A check means that capability is available. Kartra is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.
Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Kartra
See what Kartra charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a Kartra alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
See how Cardel compares with other products.
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Kartra for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. Kartra sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or Kartra, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Kartra may add or remove features that are not shown here.
