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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bizzabo

    Score3.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bizzabo’s event management platform powers immersive in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences for brands. The Bizzabo Event Experience OS is an open platform for Event Experience Leaders to manage events, engage audiences, and activate communities. Bizzabo was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York and Tel-Aviv.

    $5,988

    per year per user

    RingCentral Events

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Events (formerly Hopin) is an online events platform that provides tools for virtual events, or hybrid events, like ticketing and registration, limitless event rooms, an expo hall, chat, and networking, as well as event branding and attendee engagement tools. Integrations with online registration tools - such as Cvent, Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua, and Eventbrite.

    $119

    per month per seat

    Ticketing 4 Schools

    N/AN/ATicketing 4 Schools is an event management and ticketing / registration software solution for schools, from Software 4 Schools. The application can be used for the sale of event tickets, and facilitate the check-in process for almost any kind of event.N/A
    Pricing
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Editions & Modules
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    Events Free Trial
    $0
    per month
    Events Pro
    $119
    per month per seat
    Events Pro+
    $239
    per month per seat
    Events Enterprise
    $359
    per year per seat
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBizzabo's seat-based pricing model includes out-of-the-box functionality and a range of premium add-ons.Each event license comes with unlimited registrations for all of events, and can run unlimited webinars and events with an annual plan. A discount is available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Considered Multiple Products
    Bizzabo
    Chose Bizzabo
    The biggest differentiator for Bizzabo is that it could handle all of our use cases, where the competitors that we talked to all seemed to be missing one key piece or more - whether that was an integrated mobile app, physical solutions for in-person events, or support for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    Bizzabo lacks good networking interactions, but has a much better setup for back end event maintenance. It's easier to incorporate Bizzabo into the rest of your event tech stack and track the interaction data needed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    Scalable, costumizable and less expensive
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    We chose Bizzabo over Hopin based on some capabilities, but mainly because we had team members who were already familiar with the system.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    We have enjoyed our experience with Bizzabo better than the other platforms we have used. The website capability and easy of setting up a stream is great. The only thing that I thought PheedLoop did better was their integration of Zoom. Outside of that Bizzabo has a better …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    Price model at the time
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    Many platforms offer different features but for us it went down to cost, efficiency, and an easy to use for our team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizzabo
    Bizzabo is a clear leader and more sophisticated than other event management platforms out in the marketplace right now. Unlike others, they continue to invest in the tool and have pretty good support. They have a decent amount of turnover within their sales and CSM …
    Incentivized
    RingCentral
    Chose RingCentral Events
    Different use cases really - Hopin was more suited to what we wanted to do
    Incentivized
    Software 4 Schools
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
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    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
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    Features
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.2
    35 Ratings
    5% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    Responsive Design for Web Access8.330 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.830 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.428 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    7.3
    32 Ratings
    14% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    Calendar integration7.424 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.419 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.414 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.819 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows8.215 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event registration5.630 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.2
    22 Ratings
    2% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    Live chat7.920 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling8.417 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A8.321 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.4
    32 Ratings
    2% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    User authentication8.429 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.529 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list8.323 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.1
    37 Ratings
    4% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    Branding options6.433 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation8.824 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attendee list export9.136 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of Bizzabo and RingCentral Events and Ticketing 4 Schools
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    7.4
    41 Ratings
    8% below category average
    RingCentral Events
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    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing5.940 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing5.036 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Livestreaming7.626 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience engagement8.531 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event recording8.425 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual booths7.913 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Networking7.829 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event analytics8.138 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    BigMarker
    Score6 out of 10
    SignUpGenius
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Zoom Events & Webinars
    Score8.7 out of 10
    CheckPoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Zoom Events & Webinars
    Score8.7 out of 10
    CheckPoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.2
    (82 ratings)
    8.4
    (35 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    4.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.7
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    Availability
    9.1
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    Performance
    9.1
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    Support Rating
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
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    Configurability
    7.3
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.2
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    BizzaboRingCentral EventsTicketing 4 Schools
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bizzabo
    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!
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    RingCentral
    Hopin is very suitable for large events involving 100+ people where there are only a couple of people speaking. You can have a bunch of features such as networking and all in all, is quite a professional experience to use. For smaller groups, It takes too much effort to set up and isn't worth using over Google Meet or Zoom.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Pros
    Bizzabo
    • 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.)
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    RingCentral
    • Awesome for managing several sets of panelists
    • Very easy to manage event attendees
    • Love the chat functionality during the events, enabling the audience to connect with each other
    • Hugely simple for anyone with little tech knowledge to design and run an event
    • Cost effective for the volume of events we run, where we need scale and quality
    • Live streaming an event is also very well catered for
    • Branding across the platform is simple to implement
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Cons
    Bizzabo
    • 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.
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    RingCentral
    • The biggest hangup we've encountered is from guest speakers who need to join us on either tablets or smartphones. Hopin doesn't play well with mobile devices for onscreen guests.
    • I'd like to see the broadcasts in vendor booths be recordable in the way broadcasts in the sessions or on the stage are.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bizzabo
    Bizzabo has become integral to our ability to support and run events, so we will continue to renew as long as Bizzabo continues to run a great product.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    We most likely will, but with such a high annual renewal rate, we are forced to look at alternative solutions yearly when that license fee comes due
    Incentivized
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Usability
    Bizzabo
    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).
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    RingCentral
    I'm a pretty tech-savvy person but I still feel that Hopin was pretty user-friendly even for those of you who are less tech-savvy. Great thing is, you can play around and test the platform with the free version which allows you to get familiar with it before committing to the paid. I learned most of it on the free version which then made me more confident when deciding to use the paid version. Not only did it help me on the setup side, but it also proved to me that this was what we needed to do what we needed to do.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bizzabo
    We have always gotten prompt responses from the Bizzabo team when reaching out. Additionally, in the 2 years we've been working with them, we've never had any kind of platform outage that impacted us.
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    RingCentral
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Performance
    Bizzabo
    We've never had any complaints from users about access to the platform or load times. From and admin portal perspective, no issues there either.
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    RingCentral
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Support Rating
    Bizzabo
    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.
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    RingCentral
    For the most part you're able to get a response from a support person within a few minutes, but there was a stretch when Hopin was reshuffling its staff that it sometimes took 24-48 hours, which is too long. However, as long as the staff remains stable - which seems likely - then its Support team is usually quite responsive.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Implementation Rating
    Bizzabo
    I say this to everyone I talk about Bizzabo with - it was the best platform onboarding experience I've had with a vendor in 25 years in the industry. They were extremely thorough in the onboarding, ensuring that we were successful throughout the process. They had a frequent meeting cadence and the customer success manager was extremely prompt in answering any questions we had, jumping on calls when necessary.
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    RingCentral
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bizzabo
    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.
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    RingCentral
    We were with a company before Hopin - we explored elsewhere due to cost. Pros were design and custom look. We moved to Hopin, it was innovative at the time, although the design wasn't strong the features were. The majority now have the same features. So we did leave Hopin for another platform again because we wanted a custom look, and we were preparing for hybrid. Hopin wasn't ready. We soon realised other platforms we came across are complex, difficult to use. We left and came back to Hopin.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Bizzabo
    The terms and pricing were very clear and understandable upfront. The ability to understand the drivers and levers that can be changed and the impact on the pricing really drove a high level of trust in the process.
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    RingCentral
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Scalability
    Bizzabo
    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.
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    RingCentral
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    Software 4 Schools
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    Return on Investment
    Bizzabo
    • 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.
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    RingCentral
    • Without Hopin, it would have been impossible to host an event at the scale and user interface that we did, with the staff limitations we have. Hopin enabled us to execute a very high standard with limited resources. For example, before Hopin, we could only attract about 100-200 attendees. With Hopin, we 3x our registrations and attendees.
    • The data collected from their system on attendees allows us to more accurately speak to our target market based on their tracked habits during the event.
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    Software 4 Schools
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    ScreenShots

    Bizzabo Screenshots

    Product screenshotScreenshot of event data from engagement metrics like check-ins, session attendance and ratings, to adoption insights like mobile app usage.Screenshot of the customized VIP portal that has information about the event.Screenshot of embedded audience reactions  where attendees can share their own reaction and sense everyone else’s. Attendees can share their excitement with the rest of the audience with clapping sounds, whistles, and audience buzzScreenshot of built-in networking tools to foster meaningful interactions

    RingCentral Events Screenshots

    Screenshot of a session of RingCentral Events - with company branding, logo, and colors throughout.Screenshot of the event venue of RingCentral Events. This page is the reception, that displays the event description, speakers, and schedule. Attendees can navigate throughout the event by clicking on the tabs on the left.Screenshot of an example of event analytics available with each event. Organizers can see how the event performed but seeing live view of attendance, and see how each attendee engaged.Screenshot of the production studio available within RingCentral Events. This offers the ability to customize speaker layouts, preupload videos/slides, add or remove speakers from stage, and add branding to the video streams.Screenshot of the lead retrieval capability that allows for scanning for leads for on-site events.