Cvent Event Management vs Event Espresso

• Tracking the client journey from invitation through participation and payment.
• Accepts, tracks, and reports on transactions.
• Has flexible and attractive event design features.
• Offers standard and customizable reporting.
• Gives ways to communicate effectively with a few, some, or all of invited, attended, or canceled event pools.

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• Highly customizable to allow for a variety of event types and event scenarios.
• Accepts payments through a wide range of payment solutions.
• Really easy to learn and extremely well documented. I don't believe I've ever had to contact support to understand how to accomplish a task because I've always been able to find the answer online.
• They have thought of almost everything--the software is extremely well executed and feature rich. Just be aware that a lot of that functionality is available through add-ons at an additional cost.

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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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• Integrating account creation with WordPress should be included in the core product, not an add-on. It's extremely frustrating to have to pay extra for that, especially when that add-on is not as flexible as it needs to be (for example, if someone is enrolling for a class on behalf of someone else).
• The data visualization is a mess. That feature doesn't seem to ever work and it should be left out until it does.
• The ability to show participant data on the front end is extremely limited. Event Espresso does provide a few hooks and some limited documentation on this feature, but I feel it should be more robust. Perhaps that can be a focus of future releases.

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• It allows us to be ahead of our competitors who do not use Cvent - we have a lot more capabilities using Cvent Event Management.
• It allows for a more streamlined internal planning process with little room for variations from planner to planner.

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• Event Espresso has literally changed the lives of our volunteer organization, saving hundreds of hours of time and eliminating the frustration of paper enrollment.
• The add-ons allow you to accomplish just about any event registration goals you might have. It's an extremely powerful product.
• Integrating the plugin into our website was a breeze, and it's approachable enough where volunteers can create the classes and conduct the online enrollment all in a web browser.

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