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

Can I use Cardel with Memberful or Zenpage?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Memberful and Zenpage?

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

How do I switch from Memberful 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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MemberfulvsZenpage

Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Memberful and Zenpage 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.

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

Memberful

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

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

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 Memberful and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Memberful: Included
Zenpage: Included
Custom domain
Memberful: Included
Zenpage: Included

Public content

Blog
Memberful: Not included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Memberful: Included
Zenpage: Included

Feature comparison for Memberful and Zenpage
Feature	Memberful	Zenpage
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	Not included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included

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