Kardow - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Kardow is job board software for associations, media and news organizations, recruitment agencies, and newsletter operators who want to run a branded board on their own domain.

Architecture: each Kardow board is provisioned as its own application rather than a tenant on a shared template. This is what allows unrestricted customization of layout, fields, and workflows. Design and structural changes are made through an AI editor that accepts plain-language instructions and applies them to the live board. On Pro and Scale, the board's source code can be pulled locally with the Kardow CLI, edited against live data, and redeployed.

Job management: posting with configurable approval workflows, automatic expiry, bulk CSV import with AI column mapping, XML feed ingestion, and custom fields on any form. Scheduled backfill imports pull listings from public careers sites and job feeds, filtered by industry, keyword and location, across 100+ countries and any language.

Candidate and employer experience: separate account types, candidate profiles with resume upload, saved jobs, job alerts, application tracking, AI screening questions, and search with keyword, category, location, type and salary filters. Google and passwordless login supported. Multi-language boards.

Monetization: per-post charges, bundles, monthly and annual employer subscriptions, and candidate paywalls. Stripe and PayPal integrations, plus invoicing and custom payment links. No platform fee on revenue. Unlimited jobs, job seekers and employer accounts on every plan — import credits are the only metered resource.

SEO and distribution: JobPosting structured data on every listing for Google for Jobs, XML sitemaps, generated location and category pages, an Indexing API for fast crawl notification, and a jobs widget to embed live listings on any external site. Real-time analytics with no cookie banner.

Integrations and API: REST API covering jobs, applications, users, pages, analytics, CMS collections and members. Webhooks on any event, an automations engine with triggers and branching, Zapier for 7,000+ apps, and a hosted MCP server for managing the board from Claude or ChatGPT. Encrypted secrets vault for integration keys.

Security and hosting: managed hosting, SSL, backups and updates included on every plan. Custom domain and custom email domain support. Pricing: $79, $179 and $379 per month, 14-day trial, no setup fee.