Is Cardel an alternative to Memberful or Teachable?

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

Can I use Cardel with Memberful or Teachable?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and Teachable?

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

How do I switch from Memberful or Teachable 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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MemberfulvsTeachable

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

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How Memberful and Teachable compare

Memberful is a clean way to charge for membership. Stripe billing, plans and gifts, gated WordPress content, Discord and podcast access, member newsletters, and now a landing-page and newsletter builder on your own domain. Publishers who want a paywall without rebuilding their whole site have trusted it for years.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Memberful

Memberful assumes you have a site.
Memberful bills recurring plans.
Memberful sends member newsletters.

Teachable

Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
Teachable emails students.

Choose Memberful when you want a paywall and member billing on a WordPress or custom site you already run.

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Memberful and Teachable

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included
Custom domain
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included
Marketing emails
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included
Campaign workflows
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included

Team

Admin users
Memberful: Included
Teachable: Included
AI Assistant
Memberful: Not included
Teachable: Included

Feature comparison for Memberful and Teachable
Feature	Memberful	Teachable
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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