Cardel is a website builder for authors, professionals, and creators.
Forge your community with Cardel. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own.
Build a home for your craft:
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Each workspace is a public website you control, on a Cardel subdomain or your own custom domain. Choose a theme, create a brand kit, add your pages, and publish when you are ready. Guided Mode helps you get started. Editor Mode lets you change copy, images, and layout on the live pages. You can build before you subscribe and pay when you are ready to publish.
Your site includes SEO metadata, a sitemap, RSS, and pages designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA. Custom domains can also send and receive email, so the website and the mail share the same identity.
Publish, engage, and grow:
Publish Blog, Videos, Newsletter, About, and Contact. Add Showcase or Shop pages from Page Builder. On Starter, Shop items can link out. Pro and Business add Stripe checkout, orders, and Cardel bookings.
Readers can comment on and like posts. On-site chat reaches you in Messaging Center.
Audience organizes contacts with groups, tags, and import. Send newsletters, Bulk Email workflows, and transactional emails from your domain, with templates and send history. Pro and Business add Campaign workflows.
Manage conversations:
Messaging Center brings email threads and on-site chat together, with AI Suggest to help draft replies.
An in-product AI Assistant can suggest a theme, draft email, and answer how-to questions while you work in Admin. Answers draw from Cardel’s Documentation, which is also in Admin.
What you build is yours:
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is the forge: the place and tools to shape your craft. Cardel is hosted in the cloud. One account can own or join more than one workspace. What you build is yours: your site, your brand, and your audience.
Cardel includes:
- Custom domains, themes, brand kits, Guided Mode, and Editor Mode
- Blog, Videos, Newsletter, and Showcase or Shop pages
- Comments and likes on posts, plus on-site chat
- Audience, newsletters, Bulk Email, and email on your domain
- Messaging Center, AI Suggest, and, on Pro and Business, bookings and Stripe payments
- AI Theme Suggest, AI Email Template Builder, and an in-product Assistant
