Is Cardel an alternative to Kartra or Thinkific?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kartra or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kartra and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Kartra or Thinkific 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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KartravsThinkific

Kartra joins checkout, email automation, memberships, and a helpdesk in one system. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Kartra and Thinkific 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.

Thinkific is a reliable place to build and sell learning. Courses, assessments, certificates, communities, memberships, and a branded mobile app option let a training business grow without moving platforms, and the site builder is good enough that many creators never need another. It is steady, well documented, and built around the student.

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.

Thinkific

Thinkific pages exist to sell courses.
Thinkific broadcasts to students and sends abandoned-cart email.
Thinkific books coaching calendars on Start and up.

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 Thinkific when courses, assessments, and student communities are the business.

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What's on Kartra and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Custom domain
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Theme and fonts
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included

Public content

Showcase pages
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Campaign workflows
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Messaging

Messaging Center
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
Per-admin permissions
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included
AI Assistant
Kartra: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Kartra and Thinkific
Feature	Kartra	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not 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	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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