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    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

    webinar.net

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AWebinar.net launched in 2019, designed to be a modern alternative to the dated Meeting tools that are often used for marketing and training applications, presented as a powerful, easy-to-use online presentation platform with polished user interfaces. Webinar.net is fully hosted in the cloud. The vendor states this architecture allows users to reach very large audiences without capacity concerns, and enjoy simple, cost-effective pricing. With it, brands are fully represented when…N/A
    Pricing
    RingCentral Eventswebinar.net
    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 Eventswebinar.net
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$329 per account
    Additional DetailsEach 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 Eventswebinar.net
    Considered Both Products
    RingCentral
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    webinar.net
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
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    Features
    RingCentral Eventswebinar.net
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
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    Ratings
    webinar.net
    4.5
    1 Ratings
    52% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
    -
    Ratings
    webinar.net
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    15% below category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
    -
    Ratings
    webinar.net
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
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    Ratings
    webinar.net
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Audience polling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
    -
    Ratings
    webinar.net
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of RingCentral Events and webinar.net
    Feature
    RingCentral Events
    -
    Ratings
    webinar.net
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Branding options00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    RingCentral Eventswebinar.net
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    Score6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoom Events & Webinars
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Webex Webinars
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Zoom Events & Webinars
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score2.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RingCentral Eventswebinar.net
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (35 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RingCentral Eventswebinar.net
    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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    webinar.net
    If price is not an object, I would always prefer ON24 rather than webinar.net. However, ON24 is much more expensive. Webinar.net is owned by 6Connex, so the integration of webinar.net in 6Connex is recommended if you need to host a webinar in a 6Connex environment. Support staff is nice, but not knowledgeable enough and takes too long. When a presenter plays a video they get muted automatically, even if the video has no sound! So you then have to either unmute the speaker yourself or having him/her doing it which adds to the stress of the moment. We have had a few cases when email reminders didn't go out, even if programmed and saved correctly.
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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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    webinar.net
    • calendar tool on the registration page
    • being able to embed videos on the registration page
    • note tool for presenters
    • large number of attendees allowed
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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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    webinar.net
    • connectivity for presenters is not easy and not user friendly enough
    • you can't just choose CET time, you need to display a city in CET time
    • no blurred background
    • no virtual background
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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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    webinar.net
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    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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    webinar.net
    The audience screen doesn't adjust automatically, not even on mobile phones; connection for presenters is difficult, taking time to support them and many times leaving them a bit frustrated. For us, it is not ideal the time it takes to publish content and also the time and quality of the support team replies. However, it has great potential for improvement.
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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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    webinar.net
    They are very kind and readily available online and off-line; however they hardly know the answers and always need to check, making it very lengthy process and sometimes it feels like a bit of a waste of time too. I would suggest they are given more training to start with
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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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    webinar.net
    webinar.net was adopted by our company to replace ON24 since it is much cheaper. We use it in combination with Slido, sometimes. It serves large one-way webinars (up to 1,000 attendees) with limited interaction (polls and Q&A), while for smaller and more interactive online events we keep using Microsoft Teams Meetings or Webinars and Zoom Meetings.
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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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    webinar.net
    • higher number of attendees
    • repeating clients
    • more likelihood to create a series of events vs a standalone event
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    ScreenShots

    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.