Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy or WordPress?

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

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or WordPress?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy or WordPress 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 SqueezyvsWordPress

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Lemon Squeezy and WordPress 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.

WordPress powers a huge share of the web for good reason. This page compares WordPress.com hosted plans. You get the block editor, thousands of themes, comments and likes, Jetpack newsletters, and on higher plans the full plugin ecosystem and WooCommerce. Nothing else offers this much freedom to extend, and your content is exportable and yours.

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.

WordPress

WordPress extends by plugin: a form plugin, a booking plugin, an email plugin, each with its own settings.
WordPress email is Jetpack newsletters or a plugin.
WordPress accessibility and SEO depend on your theme and plugins.

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

Choose WordPress when you want maximum control, plugins for anything, and the option to self-host.

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and WordPress

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
WordPress: Included
Reader engagement
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
Lemon Squeezy: Included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

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

Feature comparison for Lemon Squeezy and WordPress
Feature	Lemon Squeezy	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Reader engagement	Not included	Included
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 WordPress, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Lemon Squeezy or WordPress may add or remove features that are not shown here.