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

Can I use Cardel with Outseta or Zenpage?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Outseta and Zenpage?

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

How do I switch from Outseta 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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OutsetavsZenpage

Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Outseta and Zenpage 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.

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

Outseta

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

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

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 Outseta and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

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

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Outseta: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Commerce

Shop payments
Outseta: Included
Zenpage: Included

Feature comparison for Outseta and Zenpage
Feature	Outseta	Zenpage
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	Not included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included

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