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

Can I use Cardel with Outseta or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Outseta and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from Outseta 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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Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Outseta and WordPress 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.

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

Outseta

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

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

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

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What's on Outseta and WordPress

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

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

Audience and email

Audience
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Included
Email on your domain
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Not included
Marketing emails
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Included
Campaign workflows
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Not included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Not included
Messaging Center
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Outseta: Included
WordPress: Included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Outseta and WordPress
Feature	Outseta	WordPress
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 on your domain	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
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 WordPress, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Outseta or WordPress may add or remove features that are not shown here.