Is Cardel an alternative to Outseta or Stan Store?

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

Can I use Cardel with Outseta or Stan Store?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Outseta and Stan Store?

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

How do I switch from Outseta or Stan Store 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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OutsetavsStan Store

Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Outseta and Stan Store 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.

Stan Store makes selling from your bio link almost effortless. Digital downloads, courses, coaching calls with booking, memberships, and lead magnets sit on one mobile-first page with checkout, plus email marketing and funnels on the higher plan. For a creator selling to social followers on their phone, it removes nearly every step.

Where they are different

Outseta

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

Stan Store

Stan is a page at stan.store/you.
Stan emails from its platform.
Stan books calls with payment.

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

Choose Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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What's on Outseta and Stan Store

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

Public content

Shop pages
Outseta: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Included
Campaign workflows
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Messaging Center
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Outseta: Included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Outseta: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Outseta: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Outseta and Stan Store
Feature	Outseta	Stan Store
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Not included	Included

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