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

Can I use Cardel with Kartra or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kartra and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Kartra 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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KartravsStan Store

Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Kartra and Stan Store 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.

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

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.

Stan Store

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

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 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 Kartra and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Custom domain
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included
Campaign workflows
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included

Messaging

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Kartra: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Kartra and Stan Store
Feature	Kartra	Stan Store
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
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	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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