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

Can I use Cardel with Stan Store or Zenpage?

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

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

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

How do I switch from Stan Store 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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Stan StorevsZenpage

Stan Store is a link-in-bio store for courses, downloads, calls, and memberships. Zenpage gives authors a free site that sells ebooks and signed copies with no commission.

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How Stan Store and Zenpage compare

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.

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

Stan Store

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

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 Stan Store when you sell downloads, courses, and calls to a social audience and want one link that does it all.

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 Stan Store and Zenpage

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

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

Reach and quality

SEO
Stan Store: Not included
Zenpage: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Stan Store: Included
Zenpage: Included
Marketing emails
Stan Store: Included
Zenpage: Not included
Campaign workflows
Stan Store: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

AI Assistant
Stan Store: Included
Zenpage: Not included

Feature comparison for Stan Store and Zenpage
Feature	Stan Store	Zenpage
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Not 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 Stan Store or Zenpage, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Stan Store or Zenpage may add or remove features that are not shown here.