Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy 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 Lemon Squeezy or Thinkific when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Lemon Squeezy and Thinkific are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or Thinkific?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy 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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Lemon SqueezyvsThinkific

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Lemon Squeezy and Thinkific 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.

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

Lemon Squeezy

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

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

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

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Shop pages
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Thinkific: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Thinkific: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Thinkific: Included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Lemon Squeezy and Thinkific
Feature	Lemon Squeezy	Thinkific
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
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not 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 Thinkific, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Lemon Squeezy or Thinkific may add or remove features that are not shown here.