Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy or Skool?

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

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or Skool?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy or Skool 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 SqueezyvsSkool

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Skool is a focused on a community, courses, and events.

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How Lemon Squeezy and Skool 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.

Skool does one thing with unusual discipline: a paid community with a feed, a classroom, a calendar, and gamification that keeps members coming back. The pricing is plain, the app is quick, and Discovery can send you members you did not have to find yourself. If your work is a group people join and show up to every week, Skool is shaped for that.

Where they are different

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

Choose Skool when the membership is the product, and a feed, courses, and leaderboards are how you deliver it.

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and Skool

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Reader engagement
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Skool: Included
Shop pages
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Skool: Not included

Audience and email

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

Team

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

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

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