Is Cardel an alternative to Squarespace or Zenpage?

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

Can I use Cardel with Squarespace or Zenpage?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Squarespace and Zenpage?

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

How do I switch from Squarespace or Zenpage 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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SquarespacevsZenpage

Squarespace builds sites with commerce, scheduling, and email as add-ons. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Squarespace and Zenpage 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.

Zenpage turns one Amazon link or ISBN into a finished author site. It finds the rest of your books with their covers and buy links, picks a template that suits your genre, and sets up search data, share previews, and a sitemap before you touch a setting. Ebooks, audiobooks, and signed print copies sell straight from the book page through your own Stripe account, files reach the buyer by email within seconds, and Zenpage takes no commission. Every reader confirms by email, a free first chapter can go out on signup, and the whole thing is free, built by one person who answers every message personally.

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.

Zenpage

Zenpage collects readers and hands them to Mailchimp, Kit, Beehiiv, Brevo, MailerLite, or Substack, and it does not send newsletters itself.
Zenpage sells files and print copies with no Zenpage fee and delivers downloads automatically.
Zenpage's contact page shows your email address and its blog has no comments.
Zenpage templates have fixed layouts and font pairings, with no custom pages.

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

Choose Zenpage when you want a free site that sells your ebooks and signed copies directly, and you already have an email service you like.

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What's on Squarespace and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Included
Custom domain
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Included
Editor Mode
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Not included
Theme and fonts
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Included
AI Theme Suggest
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Public content

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

Reach and quality

SEO
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Squarespace: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Feature comparison for Squarespace and Zenpage
Feature	Squarespace	Zenpage
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Not included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
AI Theme Suggest	Included	Not included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Reader engagement	Included	Not included
Showcase pages	Included	Not included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	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
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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