Cvent Event Management vs RegOnline by Cvent (Discontinued)

• Registration Options - There are many ways to guide attendees down certain registration paths.
• Registration Design - You can customize each and every detail on the registration website to your liking.
• Reports - With our clients, reporting is very important and there are many reports to choose from as well as custom reports that can be created.

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• RegOnline is able to handle credit card payments, cashing out once per month by sending a check to me (paid to the university) via mail. This was the main reason that we needed the site, and it is it's best feature.
• Customizable options were added this year, and though a little confusing at first they have been great at adding additional details in headers on pages (on pages that I formerly was unable to provide additional instructions).
• The registration system itself has been useful for managing registrants, and being able to easily update those who still chose to pay 'offline' via check or wire transfer (allowing me to still easily see all paid participants).

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• The badge designer is a little clunky and difficult to use.
• I’d love to see their add-on modules priced differently (flat fees vs. per registration)
• They’re membership module is only for individual memberships, we have organization based memberships, so we’re not able to use it.

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• You can't easily access a registration unless you click on the edit pencil. It appears that the title of the event is linked but if you click on it you always get an error message. This appearance of being linked should be removed because it causes frustration. Same with the event number. It appears to be a link that can be opened but it goes to the same error message.
• RegOnline did a big change about 18 months ago which wreaked havoc with registrations. A lot of functionality was lost and it took about a year for them to recover from that. At that time, our education and conferences department got so frustrated, we starting using another registration platform which was not a good experience either and then in early 2018 switched to Cvent.
• It isn't easy to get in touch with support.

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• I can't speak to actual ROI, but as a department, we are running much more efficiently and have streamlined event planning processes across 3 business units. This saves time and money. We have nearly doubled the number of events that we manage over the past 5 years and have not added any headcount due to Cvent.
• Managing over 80 events per year, with multiple invitation lists, was incredibly difficult, inefficient, and impossible to track. Using Cvent has been crucial to know who is being invited, why they decline, why they cancel, and why they attend. The metrics are dynamic.

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• Everyone has been incredibly happy being able to pay on credit card! Prior to RegOnline, our only payment options were by check, money order, or wire transfer. I personally had to deposit many, many more personal checks to the university on behalf of participants. So participants have been happy with the credit card option (it was requested by many every year until the switch to RegOnline), but it also has been very helpful at saving me time as well.
• The negative impact has been that we had a free registration page set up prior to RegOnline, that we dropped fully. So while some participants still pay by check or wire transfer, we still must pay the 'per participant' fee even for participants not paying through RegOnline.

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