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CardelvsThriveCart is a lifetime-priced checkout with bumps, upsells, affiliates, and courses. Cardel is your site, audience, shop, bookings, and inbox on a site or domain of your own.
ThriveCart is a cart that pays for itself once. A one-time price buys high-converting checkout pages, order bumps, one-click upsells, subscriptions, coupons, affiliate management, and a course platform through ThriveCart Learn. Digital sellers who hate monthly fees and love conversion rates have made it a cult favorite.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel is not a checkout optimizer or a course host; the Shop is a simple Stripe-backed way to sell your work.
ThriveCart is the cart, not the site. Cardel is the site: blog, Showcase, Shop, Videos, Schedule, with SEO and reader comments.
ThriveCart hands buyers to your email tool. Cardel keeps the audience, campaign workflows, and email on your domain in one place.
ThriveCart has no inbox or bookings. Cardel includes a Messaging Center and bookings with Google and Outlook sync.
Choose ThriveCart when checkout conversion, bumps, and affiliates matter and you want to pay once.
Choose Cardel when you want your site, audience, shop or bookings, and inbox on one domain and simple selling is enough.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace ThriveCart when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep ThriveCart for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
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A check means that capability is available. ThriveCart is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
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Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
ThriveCart
See what ThriveCart charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a ThriveCart alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
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You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. ThriveCart sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or ThriveCart, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or ThriveCart may add or remove features that are not shown here.
