Is Cardel an alternative to Skool or Squarespace?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Skool or Squarespace when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Skool and Squarespace are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Skool or Squarespace?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Skool and Squarespace?

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

How do I switch from Skool or Squarespace 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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SkoolvsSquarespace

Skool is a focused on a community, courses, and events. Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons.

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How Skool and Squarespace compare

Skool does one thing with unusual discipline: a paid community with a feed, a classroom, a calendar, and gamification that keeps members coming back. The pricing is plain, the app is quick, and Discovery can send you members you did not have to find yourself. If your work is a group people join and show up to every week, Skool is shaped for that.

Squarespace makes sites that look finished. Award-winning templates, a fluid editor, commerce, scheduling through Acuity, email campaigns, and member areas mean a designer or small business can build almost anything in one account. It is polished, dependable, and deservedly popular with people who care how things look.

Where they are different

Choose Skool when the membership is the product, and a feed, courses, and leaderboards are how you deliver it.

Choose Squarespace when design flexibility and a huge template library matter most and you are happy adding modules as you grow.

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What's on Skool and Squarespace

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Custom domain
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Theme and fonts
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Brand kit
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Public content

Blog
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Reader engagement
Skool: Included
Squarespace: Included
Shop pages
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Skool: Not included
Squarespace: Included
Marketing emails
Skool: Included
Squarespace: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Skool: Included
Squarespace: Not included

Team

Admin users
Skool: Included
Squarespace: Included
Per-admin permissions
Skool: Included
Squarespace: Included

Feature comparison for Skool and Squarespace
Feature	Skool	Squarespace
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Theme and fonts	Not included	Included
Brand kit	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Reader engagement	Included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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