BigMarker vs. Planned

Planned

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BigMarker	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	BigMarker is a cloud-based webinar platform that provides webinar hosting for up to 1,000 attendees, with no downloads required, featuring HD audio and video conferencing, screen sharing, and recording. It is also can integrate a Twitter chat into a webinar. BigMarker provides hosts with tools to promote webinars, and a channel to build a community around their content. Hosts can choose between free webinars or selling tickets to monetize their content. For learners and knowledge seekers,…	N/A
Planned	Score 8.7 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Planned, from the company in Montreal, is an event planning platform for corporations offering tools for discovery, booking, invoicing and reporting.	$0.03 per booking

Pricing

BigMarker

Planned

Editions & Modules

Basic Webinar Software: Custom Quote
Enterprise Webinar Software: Custom Quote
Event Packages: Custom Quote

Basic account: 3%
per booking
Enterprise account: 3%
per booking

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BigMarker	Planned
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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With the basic account, any planner can sign in, browse the marketplace, contact suppliers and use all of Planned's features. We only charge at booking time: 3% of the total booking cost. Enterprise accounts have the same terms as basic accounts, but can also include SSO integrations and reporting, for a fixed implementation fee cost.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	BigMarker	Planned

Features

BigMarker

Planned

Online Events Marketing

Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	BigMarker 9.2 4 Ratings 4% above category average	Planned - Ratings
Branding options	9.43 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	BigMarker	Planned
Small Businesses	Whova Score 9.4 out of 10	Whova Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Whova Score 9.4 out of 10	Cvent Event Diagramming Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Whova Score 9.4 out of 10	Cvent Event Diagramming Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	BigMarker	Planned
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (4 ratings)	8.6 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BigMarker	Planned
Likelihood to Recommend	BigMarker Being a user of BigMarker I am fully satisfied with their program and the features they are offering to me. Clear UI with easy to use interface helping me a lot to set up everything in minutes. Definitely recommend this masterpiece to other business to use it for effective virtual collaborations. Incentivized Kate Woodward Marketing Project Manager Read full review	Planned Planned is well suited when you are stuck for ideas and require creative collaboration from a network of unique vendors. Greg Bognar, CCPM Executive Creative Producer Read full review
Pros	BigMarker Live streamed events Webinar style training Marketing and Automated webinars Ticketing for Digital events and training Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Planned Hands-on oversight of execution of a virtual event and client success management Connecting event industry professionals with companies in need of their services Highlighting services that an event industry professional or company offers Incentivized Madison Back Partner/COO Read full review
Cons	BigMarker Really need BigMarker to create a white label offering so I can embed it into my website without hassle for members to sign up. Would love to be able to stream my webinars to Facebook and other social platforms. Need picture resizing to be working well because a lot of my pictures are not resized automatically. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Planned The platform can use some tweaking (i.e.: when reserving hotels, adding guest rooms, including meeting rooms - instead of just spaces, which can be confusing when searching). Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	BigMarker The dashboard is very easy to use, I have been using this as a go-to platform in the pandemic days and still using it for online webinars and virtual screening. All features and functions are well organized. I have been very much impressed by their support staff. Incentivized Kate Woodward Marketing Project Manager Read full review	Planned No answers on this topic
Support Rating	BigMarker There have been occasions that we needed to get in touch with support to help get a template design to look a specific way. They are always quick to reply on their chat and have had their design team fix issues for us in no time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Planned No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	BigMarker I've been using this for so long I honestly don't know what else is out there. I am THAT satisfied! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Planned Planned is the only event planning software company we have worked with, and plan to work with. The team behind the platform is constantly innovating to enhance features and the overall experience for both vendors and users. Greg Bognar, CCPM Executive Creative Producer Read full review
Return on Investment	BigMarker Haven't seen a tangible ROI yet, but I can say it's made communication easier. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Planned We were able to get repeat business from a new client brought to us by Planned We were able to learn more about what types of virtual event services we'd like to grow as a business, as a result of working with Planned We have not seen a financial ROI for our business yet because we have only worked with one client on the platform and it has been costly for us to accommodate this client Incentivized Madison Back Partner/COO Read full review
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