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CardelvsLemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Cardel is your site, audience, shop, bookings, and inbox on one domain.
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.
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 merchant of record and does not issue licenses, run subscriptions, or deliver files.
Lemon Squeezy is the checkout behind your product. Cardel is the home in front of it: blog, Showcase, Shop, Videos, Schedule, with reader comments and SEO.
Lemon Squeezy emails customers. Cardel runs the audience list, campaign workflows, and email on your own domain.
Lemon Squeezy has no inbox or bookings. Cardel adds a Messaging Center for customer replies and scheduling with calendar sync.
Choose Lemon Squeezy when you sell software or digital goods globally and want tax and licensing handled.
Choose Cardel when you want your site, audience, shop or bookings, and inbox on one domain and sell items you fulfill.
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 Lemon Squeezy 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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Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Lemon Squeezy
See what Lemon Squeezy charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a Lemon Squeezy alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
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Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Lemon Squeezy 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. Lemon Squeezy 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 Lemon Squeezy, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Lemon Squeezy may add or remove features that are not shown here.
