Is Cardel an alternative to Medium or Stan Store?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Medium or Stan Store when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Medium and Stan Store are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Medium or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Medium and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Medium or Stan Store 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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MediumvsStan Store

Medium gives writers a built-in readership and Partner Program earnings without a site. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Medium and Stan Store compare

Medium is where a good essay can find readers on its own. The editor is calm, publications curate, the algorithm and topics surface work to members, and the Partner Program pays writers from member reading time. You bring words; Medium brings the audience and the distribution.

Stan Store makes selling from your bio link almost effortless. Digital downloads, courses, coaching calls with booking, memberships, and lead magnets sit on one mobile-first page with checkout, plus email marketing and funnels on the higher plan. For a creator selling to social followers on their phone, it removes nearly every step.

Where they are different

Medium

Medium owns the reader relationship.
Medium is one publication format.
Medium claps and responses stay on Medium.

Stan Store

Stan is a page at stan.store/you.
Stan emails from its platform.
Stan books calls with payment.

Choose Medium when you want readers and modest earnings without owning a site or a list.

Choose Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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What's on Medium and Stan Store

A check means that capability is available. Medium and Stan Store are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Theme and fonts
Medium: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Blog
Medium: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Reach and quality

SEO
Medium: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Medium: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Medium: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Medium: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Medium: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Medium and Stan Store
Feature	Medium	Stan Store
Site and brand
Theme and fonts	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included

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