Cardel

Cardel is a home for your craft, for authors and solo creators. Your craft, shop, audience, and community live on your own site. Publish your work, build your community, and sell what you make on a site of your own. Cardel is built for the person whose work is the business: the novelist with a manuscript and a mailing list, the painter who sells originals and teaches on the side, the photographer with a few package tiers, the consultant whose portfolio is the pitch. Your online presence shouldn't be split in five directions. Your website in one place. Your email in another. Your shop, bookings, and community somewhere else. More tools, more logins, more bills, and an audience that lives in more than one place. Cardel brings your website, content, audience, email, commerce, and community together in one place, under your brand and your domain. One home. One brand. One audience. Yours. Each site can run on its own domain, with its own session and its own email identity. Signing in on one site does not sign you in on another. Create your account and start building your online home. Guided Mode walks a new site through brand, pages, domain, and billing, one step at a time. Editor Mode changes a headline, a hero image, a button target, or the navigation directly on the live page. Themes pair colors and fonts with a live preview, so the look is on the page before you save it. A brand kit turns one logo upload into a favicon, header marks, icons, and lockups. Then you share the work. Blog posts can be scheduled, tagged, and given a cover image. Readers can comment and like. A video catalog embeds YouTube. Page Builder creates Showcase and Shop pages, and each card has its own page. Community gives the people around the work a place on your site. Your audience lives in that same home. Contacts are organized by groups and tags. Lists can be imported and exported. Newsletters and automated email workflows send in the background, not while you wait on the button. Public subscribe is double opt-in. Contacts you add yourself need a recorded consent. You can send and receive on your own domain, with DKIM and the DNS records generated for you, instead of a shared address. Transactional email is unlimited on every plan. What arrives lands in one inbox. Inbound email, contact form submissions, and on-site chat sit together, with status, channel, and sort, an online-status toggle, and a place to reply. AI can suggest a reply when you want a draft. A reader question and a commission inquiry are not spread across three apps. Pro and Studio add selling and scheduling. Shop pages take card payments through Stripe, with a 0.5% application fee on those sales. Stripe's processing fees still apply, and you keep the rest. Orders and fulfillment stay on the site, and you can enter an order by hand. Scheduling connects Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook so guests only see open times, on a public booking page. Additional admins join by invitation, with permissions set per person and seat limits by plan. Starter lists shop items as outbound links and can point scheduling somewhere else. Card payments, on-site orders, and bookings start on Pro. Every plan includes a custom domain with HTTPS, a blog, pages, messages, and community, SEO with an automatic sitemap, and public pages built to WCAG 2.2 AA: minimum target sizes, visible focus, a keyboard path, and screen reader support. AI can help with themes, email drafts, and replies. Reader pages are cached and refreshed per site, and images are sized for the device. You don't pay until you publish. Create an account, build the site, and keep up to three unpublished sites while you work. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when you are ready for people to see it. What you build stays on your site. Cardel tells sites apart by their host. Posts, audience, mail, and admin stay on that site. Admin and Editor rights come from membership there, not from a role cached at sign-in. Passwords and API keys are hashed. Stripe webhooks are verified. Sign-in, contact, subscribe, comments, likes, checkout, chat, and bulk sends are rate limited. A custom domain goes live only after DNS ownership is verified. Cardel operators can read a site by default. Anything beyond reading requires an attested, time-limited, audited grant. There is no public REST API today. API keys are issued by Cardel. Integrations are Stripe for subscriptions and Connect, Google sign-in, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Support uses the same kinds of channels you give your readers. Chat from the site, email the team, or open Documentation in the admin menu, where an AI Assistant can answer in context. Cardel is cloud-hosted and browser-based, responsive on mobile, with nothing to install and no self-hosting. The interface is English (en-US) only. Your work deserves a home of its own.