Is Cardel an alternative to ThriveCart or WordPress?

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

Can I use Cardel with ThriveCart or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with ThriveCart and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from ThriveCart or WordPress 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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ThriveCartvsWordPress

ThriveCart is a lifetime-priced checkout with bumps, upsells, affiliates, and courses. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How ThriveCart and WordPress compare

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.

WordPress powers a huge share of the web for good reason. This page compares WordPress.com hosted plans. You get the block editor, thousands of themes, comments and likes, Jetpack newsletters, and on higher plans the full plugin ecosystem and WooCommerce. Nothing else offers this much freedom to extend, and your content is exportable and yours.

Where they are different

ThriveCart

ThriveCart is the cart, not the site.
ThriveCart hands buyers to your email tool.
ThriveCart has no inbox or bookings.

WordPress

WordPress extends by plugin: a form plugin, a booking plugin, an email plugin, each with its own settings.
WordPress email is Jetpack newsletters or a plugin.
WordPress accessibility and SEO depend on your theme and plugins.

Choose ThriveCart when checkout conversion, bumps, and affiliates matter and you want to pay once.

Choose WordPress when you want maximum control, plugins for anything, and the option to self-host.

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What's on ThriveCart and WordPress

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
ThriveCart: Not included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included
Theme and fonts
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
ThriveCart: Not included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
ThriveCart: Not included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

Audience
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included
Marketing emails
ThriveCart: Not included
WordPress: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included
Orders and fulfillment
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included

Team

Admin users
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included
AI Assistant
ThriveCart: Included
WordPress: Included

Feature comparison for ThriveCart and WordPress
Feature	ThriveCart	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Orders and fulfillment	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

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