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Cvent Event Management

Overview

What is Cvent Event Management?

Cvent is a cloud-based enterprise event management company with nearly 4,000 employees and over 300,000 users worldwide. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event management and marketing, onsite solutions, email marketing,…

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Recent Reviews

Cvent Event Management

10 out of 10
April 05, 2024
Incentivized
Cvent Event Management is a one stop shop for all our event needs. We have used it to get contracts for venues, build registration sites …
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Cvent new user

10 out of 10
March 26, 2024
I use Cvent Event Management for creating event builds. I appreciate the 24/7 customer service phone line. The build templates help to …
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Great management tool!

10 out of 10
February 23, 2024
We use Cvent Event Management for all of our events (in-person, hybrid, and virtual). The tool has provided us with across the board …
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Cvent Event Management for the win

9 out of 10
February 21, 2024
Cvent Event Management is an excellent tool for our registration builds, targeted email content pre and post event, registration check-in …
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It's works!

7 out of 10
December 19, 2023
Incentivized
We are 3rd party service that builds events on behalf of clients. Sometimes we are building in our account and sometimes in the …
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TrustRadius Insights

Extensive and Customizable Reporting: Users have praised Cvent for its extensive and customizable reporting capabilities, allowing them to …
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Excellent event management tool

8 out of 10
December 06, 2023
It helps streamline all of our events. We use primarily for our virtual events. It makes event management super easy, and is openly …
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Cvent is for all orgs

9 out of 10
November 07, 2023
Incentivized
We use Cvent to capture upstream data for event creation, registration configuration and push data downstream for business analytics. Our …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Attendee list export (41)
    8.6
    86%
  • Registration, RSVP, and ticketing (42)
    8.6
    86%
  • Event analytics (42)
    8.1
    81%
  • Email marketing (43)
    7.8
    78%

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Pricing

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What is Cvent Event Management?

Cvent is a cloud-based enterprise event management company with nearly 4,000 employees and over 300,000 users worldwide. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event management and marketing, onsite solutions, email…

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  • Setup fee required

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.2
Avg 8.3

Online Meetings / Events

Features related to hosting and attending meetings and events online.

8.2
Avg 8.2

Online Events Collaboration

Features related to collaboration between attendees during web conferences, webinars, and other online events.

8.3
Avg 8.0

Online Events Security

Features related to the security of meetings and other events held via web conferencing/webinar software.

8
Avg 8.6

Online Events Marketing

Features related to the marketing and branding of online events, and use of online events for marketing purposes.

8.4
Avg 8.3

Virtual Event

These are features for Virtual Event software.

7.9
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Cvent Event Management?

Cvent is a cloud-based enterprise event management company with nearly 4,000 employees and over 300,000 users worldwide. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event management and marketing, onsite solutions, email marketing, and attendee engagement. Cvent's suite of products automate and simplify the planning process to maximize the impact of events. Cvent provides hoteliers with an integrated platform, enabling properties to increase business demand through targeted advertising and improve conversion through proprietary demand management and business intelligence solutions.

Cvent solutions aim to optimize the entire event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage hundreds of thousands of meetings and events.

Cvent Event Management Features

  • Supported: Designed to help meeting and event planners more easily navigate every aspect of the event process.
  • Supported: Increase attendance and engagement by using Cvent event management software to create multifaceted marketing campaigns surrounding your events.
  • Supported: Create organization-wide event success with powerful reporting, strategic integrations, and award-winning, 24/7 customer service.

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Cvent Event Management Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Frequently Asked Questions

Eventbrite, Certain Event Automation Software, and Aventri are common alternatives for Cvent Event Management.

Reviewers rate Record meetings / events highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Cvent Event Management are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Extensive and Customizable Reporting: Users have praised Cvent for its extensive and customizable reporting capabilities, allowing them to access the data they need for informed decision-making. Several reviewers have mentioned that this feature has been crucial in analyzing event metrics and making strategic improvements.

User-Friendly Design Options: The design options provided by Cvent have received positive feedback from users for being easy to learn and navigate. This aspect of the platform enhances the overall user experience by ensuring a smooth workflow. Many reviewers appreciated how intuitive the interface is, as it allows them to quickly adapt to using Cvent.

All-in-One Event Management: Cvent's all-in-one nature has been highly appreciated by users, saving them time and effort in managing different aspects of an event. Numerous reviewers have expressed their satisfaction with being able to handle everything related to an event within one system. This integrated approach streamlines processes and promotes efficiency in event management tasks.

Confusing and Clunky User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with Cvent's user interface, describing it as confusing, not intuitive, and clunky. They have mentioned a steep learning curve and difficulties in navigating the system.

Challenges with Customization Options: Several reviewers have reported challenges with customization options in Cvent. Users have mentioned limitations in HTML editing, limited flexibility, and a lack of customization options for their specific needs.

Difficulty Importing Information: Importing information into Cvent has been described as difficult and cumbersome by some users. They have encountered issues when trying to import data, which has resulted in additional time and effort required for data entry.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Luciana Cis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Send invitation to huge amounts of people
  • Making reports for easy access to the data
  • Allow integration with virtual platforms such as On24, Zoom and MS Teams
  • Session emails can't have multiple customized headers and footers
  • Widgets can't be easily duplicated across several emails
  • Some functions enabled for website design are not enabled for email design
  • Virtual session links cannot be imported
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Complete histories of attendance and email traffic with all parties associated with events
  • WYSISYG Website and Email platforms that are easy to use for those not familiar with HTML
  • Stored libraries of assets like speaker information and registrations questions that can be utilized across multiple events
  • More streamlined user interface
  • More flexibility for users that have better familiarity with HTML
  • Less clunky design tools within the pre-made widgets used in the web interface
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Online Registration
  • Reporting
  • Marketing of Event
  • Emails to potential and registered attendees
  • Would like a better way to view Speaker Resource Center uploads.
  • Would like more flexibility in design of website and emails
January 24, 2023

Cvent Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integrations
  • Collecting data
  • Registrations
  • Needs to be a little easier to find your way around
  • Step by step navigation
  • Easier to follow
  • Badges and Certificates designer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Meeting Registration
  • Meeting Websites
  • Reporting
  • Don't promote products years before they are truly ready for release
  • Don't release new products until they are bug free and in parody with old versions
  • Better communicate changes to your clients
  • Integrations
Tori Anne Borden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Clear display of agenda items
  • Easy-to-use attendee reporting
  • Quick weblink customization for marketing analytics
  • It's really difficult to know if an attendee actually showed up to the session
  • Subsequent surveys that are contingent upon attending the event are not possible. Only surveys to the general attendee list are possible (so you don't ever know if they attended)
  • Exporting reports or agenda items is not easy or sometimes possible.
  • The agenda builder / editor is very tedious and not as user friendly to an inexperienced user.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Handling complex curriculum with a large number of attendees and sessions
  • Support the experience of both in-person and online attendees through the Attendee Hub and companion app
  • Reporting
  • Cvent team support is excellent
  • Waitlist management
  • Attendance management within the basic event management features (versus the need to go premium)
  • Some Cvent products aren't always well integrated with other Cvent products (appointments, speaker center)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust and flexible registration process
  • Relatively quick helpdesk
  • Updated website and registration builder is much more intuitive with a modern look
  • Robust Reporting capabilities
  • Fully Multilingual registration process (not just machine translated)
  • Expensive
  • Variable pricing structure meant to save money makes budgeting difficult
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use
  • Graphical interface
  • Reporting tools need a report builder functionality where we can build a report with any/all data points collected within Cvent and the ability to organize the data how we see fit.
  • Designer tools like badge designer need snap functionality to align fields more cleanly, also conditional text needs to include if/else conditions.
  • OnArrival needs to be more robust and capable of copying advanced logic for new registrations.
  • OnArrival needs to be able to also print tickets along with a badge
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Attendee Management reporting
  • Easy and intuitive options to build registration websites
  • Meeting requests forms, that can be used for approval or review process when determining meeting relevance or importance
  • Cvent could improve on their mass update actions. Many times when something needs to be updated to a group, it's done individually.
  • In a recent update, some of the standard reports that appeared in all events were whittled down to templates. This allows more customization, but also takes more time to recreate in each event.
  • Increase the ability to test the website, survey and all elements without completing registrations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows our team to create templates to be used repeatedly, making registration website creation much easier.
  • Existing report templates and the ability to create or modify reports to pull the information that we need for specific reasons.
  • The ability to revise the website for specific meetings is awesome. I love that we can add additional questions for attendees to answer during registration -- saving us the time of having to follow up with each one individually afterward.
  • Allowing any report to pull in any text field
  • When canceling an event, allow the planner to turn off all future communications to attendees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy event registration set-up
  • Tracks sessions well
  • Easy communication with attendees
  • Cvent Event Management has been down quite a bit in the last couple months.
  • The hotel registration feature is clunky. Needs improvement here.
  • Reporting could use some updates.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keep event details organized.
  • Lets speakers input data, relieving time and tasks off your plate.
  • User friendly.
  • Purchasing license.
  • Getting in touch with team support.
  • Language barriers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Attendee Management
  • Marketing emails
  • Ease of use
  • Hard to use sometimes.
  • Too many back-end settings.
  • Unable to move widgets around with ease.
  • Can't place widgets anywhere.
  • When building a page in another language it is very difficult as you don't have the same layout. Too much guesswork, especially with formatting.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Provides an easy way for guests to register for an event.
  • Invitation/Event Reminders Emails.
  • Being able to check attendees in/quickly pull a participant list.
  • The landing page build process could be more user friendly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy registration process
  • Easy to set up and maintain events
  • Well designed site and widgets to personalize
  • Zoom integration - more seamless and integrated with the AttendeeHub Q&A/chat for speakers
  • Closed captioning added to video
April 14, 2022

Cvent for the Win!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cvent on Arrival is easy to use and helps the onsite registration process move quickly.
  • Using the communications function of Cvent Event Management is easy to set up and use.
  • Conditional logic is an important part of my registration sites and Cvent Event Management's ease of set up removes the headache.
  • Report - The updated reporting function with Flex is at times frustrating or cumbersome.
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