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

Can I use Cardel with Kartra or Lemon Squeezy?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Kartra 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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KartravsLemon Squeezy

Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled.

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How Kartra and Lemon Squeezy compare

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.

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

Kartra

Kartra pages are campaign pages first.
Kartra has blog page templates and a WordPress push, not a blog engine.
Kartra's helpdesk takes tickets from a forwarded support address on Growth and up.

Lemon Squeezy

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

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

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What's on Kartra and Lemon Squeezy

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Shop pages
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Email templates and From addresses
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Marketing emails
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Campaign workflows
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included

Messaging

Messaging Center
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Kartra: Included
Lemon Squeezy: Not included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Kartra and Lemon Squeezy
Feature	Kartra	Lemon Squeezy
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email templates and From addresses	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not 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 Kartra or Lemon Squeezy, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Kartra or Lemon Squeezy may add or remove features that are not shown here.