SendOutCards Alternatives (2026): No Membership Needed
If you are looking at SendOutCards in 2026, two things have changed that no page currently ranking for this search mentions. The platform is now branded Promptings, and sendoutcards.com/pricing returns a 404 — the only public price list lives on the app subdomain.
Here is what it actually costs, and what each alternative asks you to commit to before it will mail anything.
TL;DR
- SendOutCards sells cards two ways: a Gratitude Membership at $27, $47 or $112 a month (5, 15 or 50 cards), or a one-off Gratitude Pack — $290 for 100 cards with US stamps included, which is $2.90 a card
- The membership is the product; the card allowance is the meter. Unused cards roll over while the membership is active
- The platform is Promptings;
promptings.comis the same business, and the trainings and consultant tiers are on the same price list - If you just want thank-you cards mailed without joining anything, ShipNote is $1.99 a card on ten or more, postage included, no subscription and no account
- Every figure here was read off each vendor's own live page and is dated. Card pricing moves fast in this category
What happened to SendOutCards?
It rebranded. The product is called Promptings, the plans are Gratitude Memberships, and the pitch on the vendor's own homepage is a "gratitude sharing platform" rather than a card-mailing service.
That matters for a practical reason: most of what you will read about SendOutCards pricing predates the change. On the day this post was written, the first page of Google for sendoutcards alternatives carried competitor comparison pages dated 2021 and a forum thread from 2019. Those describe a product and a price list that have moved.
It also matters because the vendor publishes two different price lists:
- The app subdomain's pricing page,
app.sendoutcards.com— the consumer-facing one: memberships, Gratitude Packs, expert packages, add-ons. This is the one quoted throughout this post. - A product pricing points page under
sendoutcards.com/resources— a different tier set entirely, sitting beside journals, seminars and business tools, each carrying "points". That is a distributor schedule, not a card price list.
They disagree, so this post uses the app subdomain's numbers and says which page each figure came from. Do not average them.
What does SendOutCards cost in 2026?
All figures read from app.sendoutcards.com/pricing on 18 August 2026.
Memberships — ongoing access, with a monthly card allowance:
| Membership | Monthly | One-time purchase | Cards included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casual | $27 | $30 | 5, with rollover |
| Advanced | $47 | $60 | 15, with rollover |
| Pro | $112 | $145 | 50, with rollover |
Gratitude Packs — printed cards bought outright, US stamps included:
| Pack | Price | Cards | Per card |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gratitude Pack 100 | $290 | 100 | $2.90 |
| Gratitude Pack 200 | $520 | 200 | $2.60 |
| Gratitude Pack 450 | $1,045 | 450 | $2.32 |
| Gratitude Pack 700 | $1,575 | 700 | $2.25 |
The packs carry an asterisk on "US Stamps Included" — check the pack inclusions for what it covers before you budget on it.
There is also a Full Impact Package at $349, an add-on bundling 50 card credits with setup support and 30 days of membership access, plus Gratitude Expert packages at $137, $237 and $337, and Promptings Academy courses at $117, $197 and $1,997.
What does the membership actually commit you to?
This is the part a per-card comparison misses, and it is the real difference between SendOutCards and most of its alternatives.
You are not buying cards. You are buying a monthly allowance — 5, 15 or 50 cards — attached to a CRM, reminders and campaign tools. Cards roll over, but the roll-over is a feature of an active membership. Stop paying and the meter stops mattering.
That is a good deal if your sending is steady and year-round: a Pro membership at $112 for 50 cards works out at $2.24 a card, better than the 100-pack rate, and you get the relationship tooling on top.
It is a poor deal if your sending is lumpy — which is what thank-you cards usually are. A wedding, a client-appreciation push, a holiday batch, a conference follow-up: these arrive in bursts, and a monthly allowance either sits unused between them or is too small when one lands. For lumpy sending the honest comparison is the Gratitude Pack — $2.90 a card at 100 — not the membership's headline.
Every alternative, by what it asks you to commit to
Sorted by commitment, lightest first. Each vendor's figures were read from its own page on the date shown.
| Service | What you commit to | All-in per card at 100 | Postage in the quote? | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShipNote | Nothing. No account, no plan; ten-card minimum for the batch rate | $1.99 | Yes | Our own published rate |
| SendOutCards / Promptings | A membership, or a pack bought outright | $2.90 (Gratitude Pack 100) | Yes, with an asterisk | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Simply Noted | Nothing mandatory; $497/mo for its $0.89 headline rate | $3.38 | Yes, in its credit packs | 13 Aug 2026 — full breakdown |
| Handwrytten | Nothing for retail; $449/mo Pro to reach $1.99 | $4.57 ($3.75 retail + postage) | No — postage is extra | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Postable | Account credit to approach its best rate | Above its headline at 100 | No | 3 Jul 2026 — full breakdown |
Two rows deserve reading twice. Handwrytten's $3.75 is before postage — its own pricing page says "Postage extra" in the same sentence as the retail price, and its $1.99 card rate needs the $449 a month Pro plan. Simply Noted's $0.89 is its Unlimited plan at $497 a month; pay-as-you-go lands at $3.38.
For the per-card grid across the whole category, the Simply Noted alternatives and Handwrytten alternatives posts price every service side by side. This post is about the commitment, because that is what makes SendOutCards different.
Which one fits which sender?
- Steady, year-round, relationship-led sending, and you want the CRM — a SendOutCards membership is coherent. That is what it is built for, and the tooling is real.
- A one-off batch of thank-you cards — a membership is the wrong instrument. Buy a pack, or use a service with no plan at all.
- Handwriting matters more than cost — Handwrytten and Simply Noted use real pens. ShipNote prints; it does not pretend otherwise.
- You have a list and you want it mailed this week — that is the job ShipNote was built for. Paste the list, pick a card, write one message with
[name]placeholders, confirm. We print, stamp and mail. $1.99 a card on ten or more, postage included, no subscription and no account.
Sending on behalf of a business? The business batch page covers logo cards, client lists from a CRM export, and what a run of 50-250 costs.
What ShipNote isn't
ShipNote is our product, so read the row above with that in mind — here is where it is the wrong purchase.
We print. We do not write with a pen. If a genuine handwritten note is the point, Simply Noted or Handwrytten is the correct purchase and no amount of price advantage changes that. We also do not sell a CRM, a reminder engine, campaigns or coaching — if what you actually want is the system SendOutCards is selling, a membership buys something we do not offer.
What we do is one job: a list of names and addresses becomes printed, stamped, mailed cards, at a per-card price with nothing attached to it.
A note on how this post is sourced
Every SendOutCards figure above was read from the vendor's own live pricing page on August 18, 2026 — not from a competitor's comparison table and not from a search snippet. That is deliberate: while checking this, two of the pages currently ranking for this query described a product state that no longer exists.
Card pricing in this category moves. If you are reading this well after August 2026, open the pricing page on app.sendoutcards.com and check.
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Two ways to pay, both published on the app.sendoutcards.com pricing page and both checked on 18 August 2026. Memberships are $27 a month (5 cards), $47 (15 cards) or $112 (50 cards), with one-time-purchase versions at $30, $60 and $145. Separately, Gratitude Packs sell printed cards outright with US stamps included: $290 for 100 cards, $520 for 200, $1,045 for 450 and $1,575 for 700. That makes the smallest pack $2.90 a card all-in.
Yes. The platform is branded Promptings now, the plans are called Gratitude Memberships, and promptings.com resolves to the same business. The sendoutcards.com domain still works and its page title still says SendOutCards, but sendoutcards.com/pricing returns a 404 — the only public price list sits on the app subdomain, app.sendoutcards.com/pricing.
ShipNote, at $1.99 per postcard on ten or more with postage included, no subscription, no account and no card allowance to use up. That is against SendOutCards' $2.90 a card in its smallest Gratitude Pack, and against $27-$112 a month if you take the membership route instead.
Not strictly. Gratitude Packs are sold as one-off purchases, and the memberships have one-time-purchase variants alongside the monthly ones. But the product is built around an ongoing membership with a monthly card allowance, and the site's own framing is a relationship system rather than a per-send service. If you only want a stack of thank-you cards mailed once, you are paying for a system you will not use.
It sells through independent distributors. Its own pricing page lists a Promptings Gratitude Consultant tier at $99 a year that supplies sales pages, marketing content and business tools, alongside Promptings Academy trainings at $117, $197 and $1,997. Whether that structure suits you is your call — it is the reason many people search for alternatives, so it is worth knowing it is there before you sign up.
