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

Can I use Cardel with Shopify or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Shopify 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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ShopifyvsStan Store

Shopify is the commerce platform: storefront, checkout, inventory, POS, email, and inbox. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Shopify and Stan Store compare

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.

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

Shopify

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

Stan Store

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

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

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 Shopify and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Custom domain
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Theme and fonts
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Blog
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Not included
Shop pages
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

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

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Shopify: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Shopify and Stan Store
Feature	Shopify	Stan Store
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Not included
Custom domain	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Not 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
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Not included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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