Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy or Teachable?

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

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or Teachable?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy or Teachable 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 SqueezyvsTeachable

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

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How Lemon Squeezy and Teachable 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.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

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.

Teachable

Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
Teachable emails students.

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

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and Teachable

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Custom domain
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Theme and fonts
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Marketing emails
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Campaign workflows
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included

Team

Admin users
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
Per-admin permissions
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Teachable: Included
AI Assistant
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Teachable: Included

Feature comparison for Lemon Squeezy and Teachable
Feature	Lemon Squeezy	Teachable
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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