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

Can I use Cardel with Squarespace or Stan Store?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Squarespace 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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SquarespacevsStan Store

Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships.

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How Squarespace and Stan Store compare

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.

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

Squarespace

Squarespace sells pieces separately: commerce tiers, scheduling seats, email campaign plans.
Squarespace email is outbound.
Squarespace has comments on the blog.

Stan Store

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

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

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 Squarespace and Stan Store

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

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

Reach and quality

SEO
Squarespace: Included
Stan Store: Not included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Squarespace: Included
Stan Store: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Squarespace: Included
Stan Store: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Squarespace: Included
Stan Store: Included

Team

AI Assistant
Squarespace: Included
Stan Store: Included

Feature comparison for Squarespace and Stan Store
Feature	Squarespace	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
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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