Is Cardel an alternative to Squarespace or Webflow?

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

Can I use Cardel with Squarespace or Webflow?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Squarespace and Webflow?

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

How do I switch from Squarespace or Webflow 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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SquarespacevsWebflow

Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Webflow gives designers production-grade control, a CMS, and ecommerce without code.

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How Squarespace and Webflow 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.

Webflow is where designers build real websites without writing code. Pixel-level layout, a proper CMS with collections, interactions and animations, ecommerce, localization, and clean hosting make it the choice of marketing teams and agencies who need control and speed. What you can express in Webflow is remarkable.

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.

Webflow

Webflow stops at the site.
Webflow readers cannot comment or like natively.
Webflow ecommerce is a full store plan.

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

Choose Webflow when you need design control, a CMS, and a site that a team will build and maintain.

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What's on Squarespace and Webflow

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Custom domain
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Editor Mode
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Theme and fonts
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Brand kit
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Not included

Public content

Blog
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Reader engagement
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Not included
Showcase pages
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Shop pages
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

Shop payments
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Orders and fulfillment
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Squarespace: Included
Webflow: Not included

Team

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

Feature comparison for Squarespace and Webflow
Feature	Squarespace	Webflow
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Not included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Reader engagement	Included	Not included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Not included
Marketing emails	Included	Not 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	Not 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 Webflow, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Squarespace or Webflow may add or remove features that are not shown here.