Likelihood to Recommend Bizly is well suited if you're short on headcount resources and are looking for a platform that can assist with the lift of sourcing venues and managing logistics of a venue. Bizly is also well suited when there are pre-defined agreements your organization requires a venue to sign/adhere to. I really appreciated being able to upload those agreements and attach them with any sourcing requests. Bizly is an excellent source of unique ideas and a database to get a sense of properties prior to booking. The teams functions of Bizly could have been better. Setting up people with different payment options or granting other users permission to utilize the tool was very much a growing pain when we were piloting the program. I'm not sure if those have been addressed since. Their database could be much bigger and would love to see this in international space (at least Canada and the UK for sure).
Read full review Bizzabo is really well suited for large-scale hybrid events. In this day and age, it's imperative to have a software that can successfully accommodate virtual and in-person attendees. Bizzabo blends these experiences extremely well. It is also great when event agendas are complex and need customizations - Bizzabo offers flexibility and has options for tracking session attendance. Bizzabo does not work well for smaller events with in-person only registrations. The risk of the equipment not working is high and, for smaller events, not worth the stress!
Read full review Pros Sourcing unique location ideas for events Managing numerous bookings on one platform Read full review Bizzabo makes setting up registration for an event very simple. You can make it more complex if you require that, but if you only need to capture basics and payment, it is easy to set up. Making a custom event website is also very easy. There are a lot of widgets build in with content you might need, such as Speakers. While it takes a little bit of use to figure out how it works, once you know the basics, creating a multi page website with all your event info is super easy. Creating custom ticket types and promo codes is full of options and it’s easy to allow many different options for purchasing tickets. From expiring ticket types to tracking promo codes, you can allow people to buy tickets with unlimited options (early bird, sponsor discounts, etc.) Read full review Cons Slow response rate at times (concierge service) No international presence at the time of use Read full review Our attendees complained about having to login every time to view content You cannot be in the system working on the backend while a colleague is. We have found that the work doesn't save. The email system is hard to format within Bizzabo Staff would sometimes get kicked out of interact rooms. It would be nice to add virtual backgrounds in this space. Reports were missing data and it took two weeks to get corrected When recording a session, you have to go back and download it, and then upload it. This process should be easier. Read full review Usability Bizzabo is extremely user friendly. The website builder is very simple to use and can creative some astounding looking websites, with no technical know how. The setup of the account, adding users, managing events and user access to events, as well as creating events from scratch or from existing "templates" (actually just standard events that we set a far off date from and copy as a template) is very simple, but powerful as you can pick and choose exactly what to copy over. It is also a very user friendly platform for the attendees and speakers (both for virtual events and physical events for speakers as the speaker, and partner, portal is very simple to use and can be custom created for the exact specifications you need).
Read full review Reliability and Availability It's always working as intended.
Read full review Performance It's glichy
Read full review Support Rating The Bizly team bent over backward to make sure we were taken care of. As we were one of their larger clients at the time, they listened to product feedback and implemented many of the changes we were hoping to see. They were also quick to respond when I reached out directly.
Read full review Support is always quick to respond. However, some issues are out of their hand, and in these cases, it is a laborious process to then submit a suggestion for how to improve the product. However, where they can rectify an issue, support has gone above and beyond to deliver and do so efficiently and in a friendly manner.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Bizly's concierge service was the differentiator here. The ability to simply send a message to the concierge team with a date, area, headcount, etc. and have them respond with several options was a godsend on numerous occasions
Read full review Bizzabo is definitely a great choice for your event tool. I don't find it as robust as Cvent, but I do find it more useful than an
Eventbrite . We selected Bizzabo because of our initial support team, but they eventually moved on, which started our problems with Bizzabo. It gives us more data than
Eventbrite , which we appreciate.
Read full review Scalability It's spreadsheet heavy and has to be exact. The devil is in the details and if you miss a detail you have to fix it and redo it with all the changes that need to be made manually.
Read full review Return on Investment Reduced sourcing time Saved research time in looking for locations Read full review Since we have only used Bizzabo for a year we are still learning and figuring out the nuances of it but I would say that one thing it has done is impressed our current clients which makes them want to continue to work with us. We hope to use Bizzabo as a tool to recruit more clients i the future It has cut a third party out of the system as we have our own dedicated platform to use and do not have to rely on a separate agency to use a different platform. Read full review ScreenShots