RingCentral Events vs. Slido

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
RingCentral Events
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
RingCentral 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.
$83.25
per month
Slido
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Slido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft…
$49
Pricing
RingCentral EventsSlido
Editions & Modules
Starter
$83.25
per month
Growth
$667.00
per month
Business
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Engage (one-time)
$49.00
Engage (EDU annual)
$72.00
Professional (EDU annual)
$120.00
Engage (annual)
$144.00
Professional (one-time)
$199.00
Professional (annual)
$720.00
Institution (EDU annual)
$720.00
Premium (one-time)
$999.00
Enterprise (annual)
$2400.00
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RingCentral EventsSlido
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$144 per year
Additional DetailsAdditional users are extra $100.00 - $600.00
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
RingCentral EventsSlido
Considered Both Products
RingCentral Events
Chose RingCentral Events
less reliable and professional-looking, but getting its features better really fast and for smaller events, I would prefer them to Hopin in the case of Meetyoo it has to do with its 3d capabilities that impress a lot compared with the boring although efficient Hopin look
Slido

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
RingCentral EventsSlido
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
RingCentral Events
-
Ratings
Slido
8.9
3 Ratings
7% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
RingCentral Events
-
Ratings
Slido
9.2
3 Ratings
0% below category average
Integrates with social media00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Event registration00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
RingCentral Events
-
Ratings
Slido
9.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Live chat00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
Audience polling00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Q&A00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Presentation Streaming00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
RingCentral Events
-
Ratings
Slido
9.1
3 Ratings
2% above category average
User authentication00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Audience Engagement
Comparison of Audience Engagement features of Product A and Product B
RingCentral Events
-
Ratings
Slido
8.8
3 Ratings
1% below category average
Quizzes00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
Survey Features00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
Gamification Features00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Engagement Tracking Tools00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
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User Ratings
RingCentral EventsSlido
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(35 ratings)
9.5
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(2 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
RingCentral EventsSlido
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Cisco
Slido is great to use for live meetings, whether in person or via video conference; we mostly use this for Zoom meetings. You can use the different features at different times in your meeting: I love to start our All Hands meetings with a word cloud or a poll of some kind, and as people are joining via zoom it gets people feeling excited and connected even before we've started. It also gives us something fun to talk about while we're waiting for everyone to arrive and for the meeting to start. You can do a poll halfway through to keep people engaged, and then a poll at the end to see how you did, or maybe use the Q&A to see what questions come up without having the awkward zoom silence when you ask if anyone has any questions. I don't think this is helpful in smaller meetings, where people likely feel more comfortable interacting directly and asking questions verbally.
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Pros
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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Cisco
  • Its integration with various Webex apps like Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars and leading softwares like Zoom and Google Slides
  • Its simple user interface and eye-catching graphics
  • The detailed analytics it provides of the polls and surveys conducted and the ability of exporting them
  • The ability of integrating live video into Slido so participants dont have to switch tabs
  • Participants can ask questions anonymously or with their names without having to unmute themselves and disturbing the flow of the meeting
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Cons
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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Cisco
  • Pricing Model - free version is quite limited and the package prices can be more attractive for SME companies
  • User Interface Complexity - the UX in the backend is good, but sometimes I am confused to find a specific function
  • Real time translation would be great in terms of accessibility
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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Cisco
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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Cisco
Slido has one of the most intuitive Dashboards I've ever seen. It's easy to use and easy to manage. I've extensively used Polls and Quizzes and it works like a charm, every time.
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Support Rating
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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Cisco
The communication I've had directly from Slido was very professional and sets an excellent impression for the tone of the company.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Cisco
It's as simple as just Microsoft Word Visual Basic. We used to use that. Just a lot more cumbersome with the program and setup. Can be buggy depending on the browser operating system that you're running it on. Nothing specific for surveys. This was the first one we got that's officially for a survey that I know of. I've been there for about five years.
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Return on Investment
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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Cisco
  • Slido has helped us analyze essential data from our CAB meetings, such as the participants' up or down voting in Q&A and the specified poll insights
  • Our teams have been able to collect relevant information from larger groups within our organization
  • We've seen more people interacting with us now we use Slido than before
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ScreenShots

Slido Screenshots

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