Is Cardel an alternative to Outseta or Shopify?

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

Can I use Cardel with Outseta or Shopify?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Outseta and Shopify?

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

How do I switch from Outseta or Shopify 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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OutsetavsShopify

Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool. Shopify is the commerce platform: storefront, checkout, inventory, POS, email, and inbox.

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How Outseta and Shopify compare

Outseta is the quiet workhorse behind many paid memberships and small SaaS products. Subscription billing, authentication and gated content, a CRM, email marketing, and a support desk come together so a founder can add a paying membership to any site they already have. It is well designed, honest, and built by people who use it.

Shopify is what you use when the store is the business. World-class checkout, inventory and shipping, taxes, POS, thousands of apps, Shopify Email, Shopify Inbox, and a theme store make it the standard for merchants of every size. It scales from one product to a warehouse without changing platforms.

Where they are different

Outseta

Outseta attaches to a site you build elsewhere.
Outseta bills subscriptions.
Outseta's support desk handles tickets.

Shopify

Shopify's blog and pages serve the store.
Shopify Inbox handles chat.
Shopify doesn't manage scheduling natively.

Choose Outseta when you sell a subscription and need billing, logins, CRM, and support in one place behind your own site.

Choose Shopify when you sell products at volume and need inventory, shipping, tax, and apps.

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What's on Outseta and Shopify

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Outseta: Not included
Shopify: Included
Custom domain
Outseta: Not included
Shopify: Included

Public content

Blog
Outseta: Not included
Shopify: Included
Shop pages
Outseta: Not included
Shopify: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
Email templates and From addresses
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
Email on your domain
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Not included
Marketing emails
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
Campaign workflows
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
Messaging Center
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included

Team

Admin users
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
Per-admin permissions
Outseta: Included
Shopify: Included
AI Assistant
Outseta: Not included
Shopify: Included

Feature comparison for Outseta and Shopify
Feature	Outseta	Shopify
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Email templates and From addresses	Included	Included
Email on your domain	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Included
Messaging Center	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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