AttendZen vs. Cvent
Looking for a less expensive, more intuitive alternative to Cvent?
AttendZen has everything you need and none of the complexity. Find out how you could save time and money while making more beautiful events.
AttendZen is an all-purpose event management and marketing platform, designed to support established corporations as well as growth-minded event managers who need a way to scale effectively. With AttendZen, you get access to the features you need and don’t need an IT degree to figure them out.
Cvent is legacy event software designed for large businesses with many powerful features. However, when software is designed with big clients in mind, other organisations can often find it over-complicated, hard to set up, tough to access support and customisation – as well as prohibitively expensive.
Events are complicated. Your event platform shouldn’t be.
It may be the market leader, but plenty of event professionals are turning away from Cvent in favour of more modern, intuitive platforms like AttendZen.
Our cutting-edge software can make life easier for your team and give your attendees the beautiful, digital-first experience they expect today. All while saving you money.
Old and clunky
You’re due an upgrade.
Cvent’s a big beast but it’s starting to look a bit long-in-the-tooth. It’s not exactly cutting-edge in terms of design flexibility and it’s not very intuitive either. It’s been acquiring various bits of other companies’ technology and bolting it on for decades now – leading to an often disjointed and patchy user experience. A clunky platform makes your event seem less appealing to attendees and it causes frustration within your team.
AttendZen is engineered on a single code-base using the latest cloud technologies for more human in-person and virtual experiences in one modern, integrated, hassle-free platform.
Hard to learn
Beautiful events. No PhD required.
There is a Cvent University. Seriously. We wonder if that’s because there are so many buried features and confusing options, with several user interfaces for different parts of the platform? Is it because your data is siloed, forcing you to spend time learning how to do things that should be easy? Maybe they just added too many bells and whistles on over the years.
AttendZen was built to be user-friendly, beautiful, and easily adaptable to your processes and workflows. It’s so simple and intuitive, your team can jump right in and start running events immediately. With us, day one is graduation day.
Inflexible
Sorry. It doesn’t work that way.
Not a great bumper sticker, is it? But Cvent is a huge company running a vast, legacy platform. There are lots of managers and lots of bureaucracy. So when you ask them for something a little different, to suit your unique way of working, they usually can’t do it. It would involve too many people, too many meetings, PowerPoints etc.
As a smaller, more nimble team using the latest modular software architecture, our developers can (and do) customise and tweak our clients’ individual configurations to get them exactly the results they want. Fast.
Limited branding
Your event should look like your event.
Cvent’s limited branding and personalisation options are a no-no in today’s business environment. Strong branding is critical, helping to create a unique and memorable experience for your attendees – while personalisation is key to driving deeper engagement with them.
AttendZen is a true whitelabel solution. There is no trace of our name or branding on your event assets. Your customers won’t even know we exist. We make it easy to reinforce your identity across every touchpoint including your event website, virtual event space, marketing and transactional emails, badging, attendee app, check-in app, invoices and more.
Costly clunky apps
Get ready to be appy.
Cvent’s mobile app solution (which they acquired rather than building in-house) is well known to not integrate brilliantly with the rest of their product, leading to extra work and increased complexity. Not great when you consider that Cvent charges thousands of dollars for a single attendee app – on top of registration and everything else.
AttendZen’s white-label, fully brandable app gives you your programme, live chat, networking, polls, Q&A, notifications and more – all seamlessly synchronised with your existing platform data and decisions. Oh, and you can have as many apps as you need during the year at no extra cost.
Sketchy support
Talk to a developer. Not a salesperson. Not a call centre.
Cvent has plenty of great salespeople. But the support team is outsourced and not quite as easy to reach, which can be a problem because Cvent is pretty complicated, and they have a lot of users. When you do get through, you’re unlikely ever to speak with someone who’s run an actual event with Cvent, still less an engineer from the development team who built it. You’ll get an agent looking up answers on a screen.
Our clients tell us the best thing about working with AttendZen is that they always speak with real experts who know how to use our tech. Not salespeople or customer service agents; but developers who can present options, make decisions and solve their problem fast.
Expensive
Much. Better. Value.
Speaking of extra costs, to be fair this is one area where Cvent truly excels. Not only do you pay a set-up fee for each event, plus a fee per attendee, and maybe a percentage of your registration sales – there’s all the extras too. Want to use your own domain? That’ll be $1000. Want to remove the Cvent branding from you pages? $1,500. Need an app? That will be another $5,000 per event.
AttendZen gives you unlimited events with unlimited registrations for a whole year for one fixed price. That includes unlimited event websites, emails, apps, check-in and badging, integrations – the whole nine yards – plus all the support you need. No extras. No catch. Just a great platform at a fair price.
If you’re looking for an event platform your team will love using, you’ve found it.
Our team has direct experience of running business events, so we learned the hard way what a platform needs to do to help you perform at your best.
AttendZen’s clean and logical design minimises the learning curve, allowing you to focus on building content and relationships.
No more compromises
Cvent users turn to AttendZen because:
Easier to use
All the power you need with none of the complexity. No confusing or hard to find functionality. No jargon. No feature-creep.
Leading-edge platform
Cloud-native and mobile-first, AttendZen is engineered on microservice architecture making it fast, responsive, robust and secure.
Unified UI/UX
Built on a single codebase, everything in AttendZen looks and behaves in the same way, saving time and simplifying daily routines.
Better visual outcomes
Customise stunning layout options with our effortless drag&drop builders and get results usually reserved for expensive agency projects.
One fixed price, all your events
Unlimited events, unlimited registrations, unlimited marketing emails – no commissions, no extra fees.
Smaller = more flexible
We can spend time really getting to know your events and give you an instance of our platform that matches your team’s unique needs and workflows.
Better engagement
Keep attendees involved and engaged with real-time polling, Q&A and live chat all perfectly synced between in-person apps and the virtual environment.
Expert service
Talk directly to the product experts and developers who build AttendZen and deploy it every day. Get answers and solutions fast.
100% white label
An exclusive online presence for your event where the only brand your registrants ever see is YOURS.
Free, fully integrated attendee app
Our attendee app is an integral part of our platform, making it easy to give your attendees class-leading content, interactions and networking.
Integrated CRM
AttendZen’s built-in CRM lets you organise contacts, manage follow-ups; track and nurture every registration sales journey from start to finish.
Ready to (c)vent your frustration?
