Is Cardel an alternative to Memberful or Tertulia?

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

Can I use Cardel with Memberful or Tertulia?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and Tertulia?

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

How do I switch from Memberful or Tertulia 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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MemberfulvsTertulia

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. Tertulia builds an author website from an ISBN, with a list, events, and direct book sales.

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How Memberful and Tertulia 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.

Tertulia for Authors is a website built around the books. Enter an ISBN or ASIN and it imports the covers, descriptions, reviews, and buy links, then adds a blog, an events calendar, and a mailing list. Pro adds direct sales and newsletters. That is real strength. If the site should come from the catalog instead of a blank page, Tertulia is built for exactly that.

Where they are different

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

Choose Tertulia when the center of the work is the book catalog: imported pages, retailer links, events, a reader magnet, and direct ebook, audiobook, print, and merchandise sales with no Tertulia commission.

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What's on Memberful and Tertulia

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Memberful: Included
Tertulia: Included
Custom domain
Memberful: Included
Tertulia: Included

Public content

Blog
Memberful: Not included
Tertulia: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Memberful: Included
Tertulia: Included

Team

Admin users
Memberful: Included
Tertulia: Not included

Feature comparison for Memberful and Tertulia
Feature	Memberful	Tertulia
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not 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	Not included

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