Is Cardel an alternative to Squarespace or Thinkific?

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 Thinkific when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Squarespace and Thinkific are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Squarespace or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Squarespace and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Squarespace or Thinkific 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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SquarespacevsThinkific

Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

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How Squarespace and Thinkific 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.

Thinkific is a reliable place to build and sell learning. Courses, assessments, certificates, communities, memberships, and a branded mobile app option let a training business grow without moving platforms, and the site builder is good enough that many creators never need another. It is steady, well documented, and built around the student.

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.

Thinkific

Thinkific pages exist to sell courses.
Thinkific broadcasts to students and sends abandoned-cart email.
Thinkific books coaching calendars on Start and up.

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

Choose Thinkific when courses, assessments, and student communities are the business.

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What's on Squarespace and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Not included
Showcase pages
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included
Campaign workflows
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included
Per-admin permissions
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included
AI Assistant
Squarespace: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Squarespace and Thinkific
Feature	Squarespace	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Not included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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