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

Can I use Cardel with Skool or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Skool 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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SkoolvsStan Store

Skool is a focused on a community, courses, and events. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Skool and Stan Store 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.

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

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

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 Skool and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

Theme and fonts
Skool: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Public content

Shop pages
Skool: Not included
Stan Store: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Skool: Not included
Stan Store: Included
Marketing emails
Skool: Included
Stan Store: Included

Messaging

Built-in chat
Skool: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Feature comparison for Skool and Stan Store
Feature	Skool	Stan Store
Site and brand
Theme and fonts	Not included	Included
Public content
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included

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