RingCentral Events vs. Spark Hire

RingCentral Events

Spark Hire

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
RingCentral Events	Score 8.4 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.	$0 per month
Spark Hire	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Spark Hire is a video interviewing platform. Some key features include: One-Way Interview, Live Interview, Collaboration and Shared Interview.	N/A

Pricing

RingCentral Events

Spark Hire

Editions & Modules

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
RingCentral Events	Spark Hire
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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
	RingCentral Events	Spark Hire
Considered Both Products	RingCentral Events Fahmida Nisa Online Event Manager Chose RingCentral Events GoTo Meeting has its own merits but does lack on the functionality side of things as it can host a basic meeting and allow video/ screen sharing. Whereas on Hopin we can host multiple sessions at once in various 'rooms', allowing for networking, exhibition, and all … Incentivized Helpful? J Mendes Co-Organizer 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 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events Hopin allows the creation of much more detailed and professional events vs zoom or Google meet. It really allows you to build out each event fully with custom landing pages, info about guests, and more. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events More robust options than GoTo Webinar. Perceived to have better security features than Zoom. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events Hopin aligns more closely with the community feel we were wanting. Incentivized Helpful? Carl Myers Chief Technology Officer Chose RingCentral Events Different use cases really - Hopin was more suited to what we wanted to do Incentivized Helpful? Melissa Emler Owner Chose RingCentral Events I actually have a bone to pick about this. I want Hopin to incorporate or copy Bevy's community feature. Bevy's conference feature SUCKS. And Bevy is really expensive for the value. BUT...I love the analytics, the built-in email service provider, and a few other things in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events Hopin has more spaces to host concurrent sessions (vs creating multiple Zoom links) Incentivized Helpful? MW Matt Wasowski New Business and Product Development, Events Chose RingCentral Events Hopin stacks up against the others with better studio and better analytics. Incentivized Helpful? JR Jerry Roberts owner Chose RingCentral Events I checked into GoToWebinar, Webex, Webinar Jam, and others. I have used two of those in the past, with varying degrees of success. With my current products, I needed to upgrade into a more full-fledged conferencing platform, one where I wasn't on the tech support line every … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events We did use events like Expo-IP and MEETYOO and some other not-listed options. We opted for Hopin because of its customer support and scalability, as well as its ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Samantha Rosen Event Manager Chose RingCentral Events The needs of the clients are of utmost importance to us, so we take their "must-haves" and "nice to haves" and most times they align with Hopins features. Incentivized Helpful? John Fitzgerald Creative Director Chose RingCentral Events Hopin's single-stage and closed environment work well for our needs. Incentivized Helpful? Will Miller Chief Growth Officer Chose RingCentral Events Hopin has always topped our evaluations as the best platform providing the most complete range of desired features for the price they offer. For us, they lead the way in events platforms, and unless the group of people is small, we will use them as our first option for events … Incentivized Helpful? John Lawson Founder Chose RingCentral Events Airmeet has many worthwhile features, but ultimately I go with Hopin because of its rapid expansion. As for all the webinar platforms I've used, like EverWebinar, they're not in the same league. Not even close to the quality and functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Tamra Simons Coach Chose RingCentral Events Hopin is zoom on steroids. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nathan Spencer Director Chose RingCentral Events 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Tracey Major Event Manager Chose RingCentral Events Hopin's feature list and integrations were far superior to Bizzibo. Hopin's support team also blew Bizzibo out of the water - and not just during the contracting and onboarding process but also a year later, we are still seeing the same levels of excellent customer service. Incentivized Helpful? Margaret Shaeffer Head of Field Marketing & Events Chose RingCentral Events Hopin has the easiest user interface for both customers and internally, replicates the in-person environment for engagement as close as possible, and sets up very easily. It doesn't take a huge team or months to implement. You can get up and running quickly, and the platform … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose RingCentral Events Definitely better suited than the others for conference-type events. We prefer to use zoom for others because of the breakout feature. And AnyMeeting works well for us for webinars. Incentivized Helpful? Crystal Segura Senior Advertising Manager, Diversity Campaigns Chose RingCentral Events I've used Bizzabo for larger-scale events compared to Hopin, but they both are competitive and comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Linkon Senior Software Engineer Chose RingCentral Events It has a very responsive customer service unlike many other famous and popular platforms so it is a great sigh of relief because as a user I am confident that whenever I come across any hurdles and discrepancies in the software the team will be there to sort it out. Moreover, … Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas Kouvatsos Marketing Director Chose RingCentral Events Airmeet was the most comparable to Hopin. It had a very similar interface. The networking feature was a little better in my opinion because it offered "round tables" where you could see the table and see how many were already seated at the table and join the table if you wish. … Incentivized Helpful? CO Clinton O'Brien COO (Chief Operating Officer) Chose RingCentral Events We selected Hopin after shopping around for similar tools (it seemed like a fairly short list at the time). Hopin seemed to have the best reviews from people who had used the platform. Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Jenkins Event Coordinator Chose RingCentral Events Hopin is an all in one platform, that requires little integration. They are building and updating the product more and more each day so that it's the platform has all the features that you need. From registration to hosting the event, to post-event reporting, Hopin has it all. … Incentivized Helpful?	Spark Hire Nafisha Labiba Business Development Manager Chose Spark Hire We used to use Microsoft Teams for video interview and right now we moved to Spark Hire. The application is giving us extreme benefits of shortlisting the best suitable candidates. Recorded video interview sharing with the relevant hiring manager ensures proper transparency and … Incentivized Helpful? KD Katherine Deighan Design Coordinator Chose Spark Hire This was my first time using any sort of video interview platform. It was a great first experience! Incentivized Helpful? Vicki Floyd Director, Administration Chose Spark Hire We have not used other products like Spark Hire. This is the only one, so it would be very difficult for us to compare Spark Hire with other products. We can say that we have never felt the need to look elsewhere for a product of this nature, and don't intend to do so at this … Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Sexton Recruiting Manager Chose Spark Hire SmartRecruiters also has a self-scheduling feature for interviews that we got some exposure to. Spark Hire you're able to customize more of your options with the type of interview and also customizing the length of the interview. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Spark Hire Spark Hire is easier to use and has better customer service. Incentivized Helpful? Bree Gurin Director of Client Services Chose Spark Hire I can't remember the names of the other companies I reviewed but I chose Spark Hire because I could purchase the service on a monthly basis. This is an important feature for us since we're a small business. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	RingCentral Events	Spark Hire
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	RingCentral Events	Spark Hire
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is great for first round interviews, or if you have a ton of candidates that need to be narrowed down quickly. However it is not great further along in the interview process as it lacks that personalized touch and the conversation is one sided. But overall, for the initial beginning stages of an intense recruiting process, it is a great way to learn more about candidates apart from just their resume. Incentivized KD Katherine Deighan Design Coordinator Read full review
Pros	Hopin constantly is iterating to create a really user-friendly back-end system. As a company, it recognizes that event managers are being faced with the challenge of becoming virtual production technicians and mak[ing] that change easier to manage. Hopin's back-end studio broadcast system makes it easy to create a seamless stream between pre-recorded and live presentations, with additional branding assets to make the overall stream look more professional and put together. Hopin's networking and polling functionalities create great engagement within the platform that is measurable. Hopin's ability to integrate with Salesforce and Marketo makes the lead flow process automatic and saves Event Managers from having to transfer that data manually. Incentivized Tracey Major Event Manager Read full review	Easy to use both for recruiters and candidates Greater candidate profile screening capability Transparency in recruitment Multilayer engagement helps better collaboration in recruitment Central data storage Incentivized Nafisha Labiba Business Development Manager Read full review
Cons	The customizing capability of their landing pages and event is extensive but difficult to do without a background in design. Although designed to be user-friendly, it still takes a large investment of time and learning to do well. The registrant join flow for their embedded registration form is lengthy and clunky. Thankfully if you utilize one of their many automation integrations, this isn't a necessary function. Incentivized Margaret Shaeffer Head of Field Marketing & Events Read full review	I don't think the site is particularly user friendly. Since I use it so infrequently, I never remember where things are hidden and I do mean hidden. Secondly, I had a wonderful sales representative the second year I used the service, Jacob Hall, who was always available to help me. Happily for him, he got promoted and this year I found the customer service lacking. If I had a problem, I either had to email your support team or leave a message in the general mail box. I found that very frustrating because I'm extremely busy when I'm staffing this event and I don't have the luxury of the time to take extra steps to resolve a problem. Incentivized Bree Gurin Director of Client Services Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 Nicholas Kouvatsos Marketing Director Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	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. Incentivized Brian Burge Creative Media and Ideation Read full review	Spark Hire is easy to use for both us and the candidate/interviewee. There is not a huge learning curve to being able to implement the program. Additionally, our clients (who are given access to the interviews) don't find it difficult to use, and our candidates have very few problems when recording their video interviews Incentivized Vicki Floyd Director, Administration Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized MW Matt Wasowski New Business and Product Development, Events Read full review	I have not used the support that much with Spark Hire but it seems that there are a lot of features available for support and different resources that are provided on Spark Hire's website. For the most part, the system is very user-friendly and it's easy to navigate and figure out things on your own. Incentivized Michelle Sexton Recruiting Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Hopin has always topped our evaluations as the best platform providing the most complete range of desired features for the price they offer. For us, they lead the way in events platforms, and unless the group of people is small, we will use them as our first option for events at scale. Incentivized Will Miller Chief Growth Officer Read full review	We used to use Microsoft Teams for video interview and right now we moved to Spark Hire. The application is giving us extreme benefits of shortlisting the best suitable candidates. Recorded video interview sharing with the relevant hiring manager ensures proper transparency and 100% unbiased recruitment. Organization has got the central database with Spark Hire. Incentivized Nafisha Labiba Business Development Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Hopin has allowed us to extend our reach and become a go-to option for event organizers in the genre fiction space. We are able to host multiple events per month, some of which would require a mix of paid staff and volunteers with 10 times (or more! I've been on those teams in the past!) the number of people we need using the tools and automation in Hopin. The immersive experience converts 87% of attendees--either future event registrations or other products and services from us/our event partners. Incentivized John Lawson Founder Read full review	We're not spending valuable time conducting phone interviews for many candidates. Our hiring managers can get visually acquainted with many different candidates in our industry. It's not overly expensive to add more team members as users on the plan. Incentivized Vicki Floyd Director, Administration Read full review
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