Is Cardel an alternative to Lemon Squeezy or Zenpage?

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

Can I use Cardel with Lemon Squeezy or Zenpage?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Lemon Squeezy or Zenpage 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 SqueezyvsZenpage

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for software and digital goods with tax handled. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Lemon Squeezy and Zenpage 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.

Zenpage turns one Amazon link or ISBN into a finished author site. It finds the rest of your books with their covers and buy links, picks a template that suits your genre, and sets up search data, share previews, and a sitemap before you touch a setting. Ebooks, audiobooks, and signed print copies sell straight from the book page through your own Stripe account, files reach the buyer by email within seconds, and Zenpage takes no commission. Every reader confirms by email, a free first chapter can go out on signup, and the whole thing is free, built by one person who answers every message personally.

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.

Zenpage

Zenpage collects readers and hands them to Mailchimp, Kit, Beehiiv, Brevo, MailerLite, or Substack, and it does not send newsletters itself.
Zenpage sells files and print copies with no Zenpage fee and delivers downloads automatically.
Zenpage's contact page shows your email address and its blog has no comments.
Zenpage templates have fixed layouts and font pairings, with no custom pages.

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

Choose Zenpage when you want a free site that sells your ebooks and signed copies directly, and you already have an email service you like.

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What's on Lemon Squeezy and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Lemon Squeezy: Not included
Zenpage: Included
Shop pages
Lemon Squeezy: Included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Feature comparison for Lemon Squeezy and Zenpage
Feature	Lemon Squeezy	Zenpage
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Not included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included

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