Is Cardel an alternative to Outseta or Teachable?

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

Can I use Cardel with Outseta or Teachable?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Outseta and Teachable?

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

How do I switch from Outseta or Teachable 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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OutsetavsTeachable

Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool. Teachable runs courses, coaching, and downloads with checkout and tax handled.

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How Outseta and Teachable 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.

Teachable is a mature course platform. Curriculum, quizzes, certificates, coaching products, digital downloads, and a checkout that handles tax and payouts have carried a great many creators from first sale to real business. If teaching is your product, Teachable knows the job.

Where they are different

Outseta

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

Teachable

Teachable is a school with a few site pages around it.
Teachable coaching relies on a Calendly link.
Teachable emails students.

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

Choose Teachable when you sell courses or coaching and want the checkout, tax, and student experience handled.

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What's on Outseta and Teachable

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Shop pages
Outseta: Not included
Teachable: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Outseta: Included
Teachable: Included
Marketing emails
Outseta: Included
Teachable: Included
Campaign workflows
Outseta: Included
Teachable: Not included

Messaging

Messaging Center
Outseta: Included
Teachable: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Outseta: Included
Teachable: Included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Outseta and Teachable
Feature	Outseta	Teachable
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Included	Not 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 Teachable, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Outseta or Teachable may add or remove features that are not shown here.