Is Cardel an alternative to Kartra or Outseta?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kartra or Outseta?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kartra and Outseta?

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

How do I switch from Kartra or Outseta 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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KartravsOutseta

Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system. Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool.

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How Kartra and Outseta 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.

Outseta is the quiet workhorse behind many paid memberships and small SaaS products. Subscription billing, authentication and gated content, a CRM, email marketing, and a support desk come together so a founder can add a paying membership to any site they already have. It is well designed, honest, and built by people who use it.

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.

Outseta

Outseta attaches to a site you build elsewhere.
Outseta bills subscriptions.
Outseta's support desk handles tickets.

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 Outseta when you sell a subscription and need billing, logins, CRM, and support in one place behind your own site.

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What's on Kartra and Outseta

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Not included
Custom domain
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Not included

Public content

Shop pages
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Email templates and From addresses
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Email on your domain
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Marketing emails
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Campaign workflows
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Messaging Center
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Kartra: Included
Outseta: Not included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Kartra and Outseta
Feature	Kartra	Outseta
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email templates and From addresses	Included	Included
Email on your domain	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Included
Messaging Center	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	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 Outseta, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Kartra or Outseta may add or remove features that are not shown here.