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

Can I use Cardel with Simplero or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Simplero and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from Simplero 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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SimplerovsWordPress

Simplero runs courses, coaching, email, CRM, and checkout from one login. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Simplero and WordPress compare

Simplero is built for coaches, course creators, and teachers who are tired of paying for a stack of tools that do not talk to each other. Courses with drip schedules, quizzes, and certificates, memberships and communities, email and a CRM that remembers every purchase and lesson, scheduling links, and a checkout with payment plans, upsells, and order bumps all share one contact record, and Simplero takes no transaction fee on sales. Its AI, Simplero Coach, can draft a course, a sales page, and the welcome sequence inside your account. For a coach whose business is a program people pay for and finish, Simplero covers the whole job.

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

Choose Simplero when the business is a program: courses, coaching, or a membership people pay for and work through, sold with funnels and affiliates, with an AI that builds inside the account.

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

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What's on Simplero and WordPress

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Editor Mode
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Theme and fonts
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Reader engagement
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Marketing emails
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Bulk email workflows
Simplero: Not included
WordPress: Included
Campaign workflows
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Not included

Messaging

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Not included

Team

Admin users
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included
AI Assistant
Simplero: Included
WordPress: Included

Feature comparison for Simplero and WordPress
Feature	Simplero	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Reader engagement	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Bulk email workflows	Not included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not 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.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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