Is Cardel an alternative to Memberful 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 Memberful or WordPress when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Memberful and WordPress are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Memberful or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from Memberful 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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MemberfulvsWordPress

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Memberful and WordPress 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.

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

Memberful

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

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

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

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What's on Memberful and WordPress

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Memberful: Included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
Memberful: Included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
Memberful: Not included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Memberful: Included
WordPress: Included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Memberful and WordPress
Feature	Memberful	WordPress
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	Included
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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