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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.

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

* 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.

Lemon Squeezy vs Thinkific pricing

Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.

Cardel: An alternative to
Lemon Squeezy and Thinkific

You don't pay until you publish.

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.

Common questions

  • 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.