Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy or Medium?

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 or Medium when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Lemon Squeezy and Medium are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or Medium?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy or Medium 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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Lemon SqueezyvsMedium

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Medium gives writers a built-in readership and Partner Program earnings without a site.

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How Lemon Squeezy and Medium compare

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.

Medium is where a good essay can find readers on its own. The editor is calm, publications curate, the algorithm and topics surface work to members, and the Partner Program pays writers from member reading time. You bring words; Medium brings the audience and the distribution.

Where they are different

Lemon Squeezy

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

Medium

Medium owns the reader relationship.
Medium is one publication format.
Medium claps and responses stay on Medium.

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

Choose Medium when you want readers and modest earnings without owning a site or a list.

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and Medium

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included
Custom domain
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included
Theme and fonts
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included

Public content

Blog
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Medium: Included
Reader engagement
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Medium: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included
Marketing emails
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Not included

Team

Admin users
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Included
Per-admin permissions
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Medium: Included

Feature comparison for Lemon Squeezy and Medium
Feature	Lemon Squeezy	Medium
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Not included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Reader engagement	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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