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SquarespaceSquarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Cardel joins site, audience, shop, bookings, and inbox on your domain.
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.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel is not a general-purpose site builder: no template marketplace, no drag-anywhere layout, no member areas.
Squarespace sells pieces separately: commerce tiers, scheduling seats, email campaign plans. Cardel includes Shop, scheduling, audience, and email in the same workspace.
Squarespace email is outbound. Cardel sends and receives on your own domain and lands replies, reader chat, and contact form in one Messaging Center.
Squarespace has comments on the blog. Cardel adds reader accounts with likes and a private chat with you.
Choose Squarespace when design flexibility and a huge template library matter most and you are happy adding modules as you grow.
Choose Cardel when you want your site, audience, shop or bookings, and inbox in one place on your domain from day one.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Squarespace when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Squarespace for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. Squarespace sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
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A check means that capability is available. Squarespace is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or Squarespace, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Squarespace may add or remove features that are not shown here.
Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.
Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Squarespace
See what Squarespace charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a Squarespace alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
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