meeting options
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Review of Meeting and
Events Options
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Meetup
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Meetup
• Hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Easy to use and widely recognised platform more often used for regular rather than one off events
• API with a comparatively wide selection of partner and Meetup provided widgets and integrations (egWordPress, Drupal)
• Embeddable widgets for social sharing
• Comes with an inbuilt audience – useful when recruiting from general public
• Provides wait listing functionality
• Price based on subscription - $12-24 per month with fees paid regardless of whether events are scheduled.
• Meetup becomes gatekeeper– not easy to export audience to other platforms
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Eventbrite
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Eventbrite
• Hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Easy to use and widely recognised platform
• Free for free events
• API with a comparatively wide selection of partner platforms (eg MailChimp, WordPress, Attendify)
• Provides embeddable widgets for social sharing
• Ability to track sales by source (eg Facebook)
• Offer variable ticket pricing (eg early bird)
• Provide wait listing functionality
• QR code ticketing for paper and mobile tickets
• Entry manager app to scan tickets, look up names
• Price based on percentage of price rather than flat fee
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eventbee
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eventbee
• Hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Embeddable widgets and social sharing
• Entry manager app to scan tickets, look up names
• Ability to track sales by source (eg Facebook)
• QR code ticketing for paper and mobile tickets
• 25% discount given to non profits
• Flat fee pricing ($1/$1.50/$2)
• No free ticketing provided for free events
• No waitlisting functionality
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Event Espresso
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Event Espresso
• User hosted solution rather than hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Provides embeddable widgets and social sharing• Provides API although doesn’t have the range of partners that
Eventbrite does
• Waiting list functionality
• QR code ticketing for paper and mobile tickets
• Entry manager app to scan tickets, look up names
• Pricing based on licensing costs rather than ticket sales ($49.95/$89.95/$179/$499.95)
• WordPress only platform and will require more work to get up and running than hosted application.
• Ongoing support would require annual renewal of license albeit at discounted cost
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Attending.io
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Attending.io
• Hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• No frills event organiser for free events with no charge for use
• Designed for small to medium sized events without the need
for ticketing functionality
• Extremely user friendly for both organiser and participant
• Requires users to have a Twitter or Facebook account
• Lacks ticketing functionality of specialist providers (QR
codes, meeting organiser apps, embeddable widgets)
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Facebook Events
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Facebook Events
• Hosted application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Can be initiated with little or no effort and at no cost
• Provides a channel that can be used to readily publicise
across Facebook’s wider network
• User friendly for both organiser and participant
• Facebook becomes gatekeeper
• Requires user to have Facebook account to participate
• Lacks ticketing functionality specialist providers (QR codes,
tracking, meeting organiser apps, embeddable widgets)