As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates Converia 3/5 and Cvent 2.5/5 in Event Registration & Ticketing. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick Converia and 0 pick Cvent. Converia scores higher on 5 of 6 criteria (VAT, invoices & accounting handoff, Payments, payouts, fees & refunds, European sovereignty, plus 2 more). Cvent scores higher on 1 of 6 criteria (Check-in, badges & on-site sales). Provenance — Converia: EU-Made; Cvent: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The bench splits by criterion rather than by product. Converia's means lead on invoicing and tax (6.2 versus 2.8), payments and fees (6.2 versus 4.7), sovereignty (6.8 versus 5.3), shop and registration (5.8 versus 4.7) and attendee data ownership (5.3 versus 4.7). Cvent leads on check-in and on-site (8.2 versus 7.0, a 6-0 lean toward Cvent) and edges pricing transparency (2.2 versus 2.0, one lean Cvent, five ties). Converia's payments and invoicing scores rest on the BaFin-certified secupay AG and data flowing to DATEV and SAP; Cvent's on-site scores cover badge printing, session scans with capacity control and on-site card payments. The captured sovereignty attributes show Converia's data residency as EU-only and Cvent's as EU-optional, with legal entity, ownership and subprocessor exposure unknown for both. Weighted totals span 6.0 to 6.5 for Converia and 4.2 to 5.8 for Cvent; neither vendor publishes price figures, and pricing was not weighted.
Choose Converia if
You need invoices and payment data to flow to DATEV or SAP.
You want gross payouts, without fee deduction, on the first working day of the following month.
Your data protection officer requires EU-only data residency.
Your procurement asks for a vendor-stated ISO-27001-certified European data center and a sector-tailored data processing agreement.
You must hand over attendee data in a documented person export.
Choose Cvent if
You run large on-site operations and need on-demand badge printing.
Your sessions need session scans with capacity control.
You take card payments at the door.
Your front-of-house staff need guest lists searchable by name, email or company.
You want to evaluate before committing and value a published 14-day free trial.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Revenue Accountant
Keeps the books for a concert promoter and two conference organisers and gets a payout statement each month that nets ticket sales, refunds and platform fees into one number. Wants to know who sold the ticket in whose name, which VAT rate applied to each ticket, a fee invoice kept apart from the revenue, credit notes for every refund, and an export that reaches DATEV without a spreadsheet in between.
Converia
This judge's pick
Cvent
Criterion by criterion
Ticket shop, checkout & registration
Converia
The booking process is documented step by step — category, ticket, add-ons, personal data, special requests, review and payment — with discount codes in four documented variants, custom form fields set as required or optional, group registrations, automated early-bird tiers and workshops bookable only with the matching ticket. We found no public information on embedding the shop on the organiser's own website, capacity limits and waiting lists, reserved seating, or the checkout's languages, mobile use and accessibility.
Cvent
The German registration pages show complete event websites with drag-and-drop widgets, templates and organiser branding, early-bird pricing, automated reminder and abandoned-registration follow-up, and registration forms pre-populated from Salesforce, with checkout offering Apple Pay and Google Pay and the core products carrying an independent WCAG audit plus 18 Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates. What the captured pages do not show is the ticket-shop mechanics I need to sell concerts — discount codes, custom questions per attendee, ticket quotas with waiting lists and reserved seating — so I hold it at the mid level.
Payments, payouts, fees & refunds
Converia
Money moves through Converia Pay: the BaFin-certified secupay AG holds collected funds in trust on separate accounts and pays out gross, with no fee deduction, on the first working day of the following month — the fee never disappears silently out of the payout statement. Bank transfer, Visa/Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay are offered, PayPal and a long list of card interfaces are supported, payment at the counter is a standard type, and refunds of overpaid invoices can be triggered in the product since version 9.4; we found no public information on per-ticket fee amounts, passing fees to the buyer, chargeback handling, or buyer-side transfer and resale.
Cvent
Cvent Payments collects on the organiser's behalf with all major credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay in 130+ currencies, payouts run weekly (monthly in the legacy managed set-up) in six currencies, refund balances and reserves are handled automatically in-app, and the OnArrival reader takes card payments on site. But the fee side stays dark: the pages say only "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" with no figure, and I found no public information on PayPal or SEPA, on passing fees to the buyer, or on chargeback handling.
VAT, invoices & accounting handoff
Converia
Tax rates with name and percentage are created in the system and attached to service types, which can be flagged reverse-charge capable and reused in offer packages and sub-packages, so different rates can sit on different items in one order. Invoices and payment data are generated in the conference process and flow to the house's finance system through ready interfaces to DATEV and SAP — the export my accountants want without a spreadsheet in between. We found no public information on invoice numbering, the organiser's name on buyer invoices, credit notes for refunds, e-invoice formats, a fee invoice kept apart from revenue, or agent versus own-name selling.
Cvent
For the books I get tax collection, consolidated reporting and consolidated billing statements directly in the platform, plus a finance-and-budget integration category, and that is where it stops. The captured pages give me nothing on VAT rates per ticket, invoices in the organiser's name with consecutive numbers, VAT-ID capture or reverse charge, credit notes on refund, a fee invoice kept apart from ticket revenue, or an export to DATEV or any other named accounting system.
Check-in, badges & on-site sales
Converia
A web-based check-in app with no installation scans QR codes on tickets and print-at-home badges with a phone or tablet camera, gates govern access by event day, ticket option and payment status, and check-in/check-out timestamps are stored for attendance documentation such as CME points. Badges and QR codes are generated directly from the person database, and a counter or self-service terminal checks people in without a separate reception list. The stated prerequisites are browser, camera and an active internet connection, and we found no public information on offline scanning, searchable guest lists, live check-in figures, named card terminals or dedicated scanner hardware.
Cvent
OnArrival is documented end to end for the door: QR self-check-in on desktop, phone or tablet, kiosks and mobile scanners, searchable check-in by name, email, company or confirmation, wireless on-demand badge printing with on-brand design and edit-on-the-fly attendee details, session scans with admit/deny verification and capacity control, walk-in registration, signature tracking for continuing-education credits, on-site card payments through the OnArrival payment reader, real-time stats every 15 minutes, and hardware plus a full-service package with kiosks, printers and scanners. Offline limits and failover behaviour are not documented on the captured pages, which keeps it below the top level.
Attendee data & the customer relationship
Converia
A documented person export delivers every person record of the event into an Excel file — master, contact, address, organisation, membership, profile and custom fields, filterable beforehand — and a data processing agreement tailored to scientific, medical and public-sector clients is offered, with feedback from university data protection officers built in. We found no public information naming the controller of attendee data, on platform marketing to organisers' buyers or marketplace listing, on newsletter consent in the checkout, or on retention and deletion configured per event.
Cvent
The service agreement includes a data processing agreement, attendee data syncs into named CRMs such as Salesforce, marketing emails and reminder campaigns go out from the product, and the vendor states it never sells organiser or attendee data, with rights to correction, deletion and blocking of personal data. What the captured pages do not show is who is named controller for each data flow, whether buyers must create a platform account, newsletter consent collected in the checkout, and a complete export of orders and answers at the organiser's command.
European sovereignty
Converia
Converia GmbH of Weimar, registered at Amtsgericht Jena (HRB 505418) and run by its managing partners, states that conference data sits in an ISO-27001-certified European data center explicitly not in the European data centers of American providers, with the BaFin-certified German secupay AG behind the payments. The privacy policy lists processors with locations and safeguards — Intercom support confined to EU data centers, US transfers covered by standard contractual clauses or the Data Privacy Framework — and a VdS 10000 certification is in preparation. We found no public information naming the data center operator or a certification covering Converia's own systems.
Cvent
The vendor's own German pages claim top-tier European data-centre infrastructure securing customer data within the EU, a Cvent Deutschland GmbH appears as operator of the German site alongside Cvent Europe Ltd. in the affiliates list, and ISO 27001 and 27701, SOC 1 and 2 Type II and PCI DSS Level 1 are stated, with EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification. But parent ownership is not stated, the published agreement runs with Cvent, Inc. and its affiliates rather than a clearly named EU contracting entity, and the subprocessor page lists group affiliates without locations for hosting, payment or email providers, so the chain is not proven end to end.
Pricing transparency
Converia
The pricing page names the model — packages with fixed monthly prices, a Pro plan for the single conference and a variant for organisers running several events a year, monthly subscription within an annual contract, upgrades at any time — but gives no figure for any of it. We found no public information on per-ticket fees, payment processing fees or who pays them, so the cost of an event is not computable from public pages; the gross monthly payout on the first working day is the only money term documented.
Cvent
The only public pricing facts are a 14-day free trial and the claim "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" with no amount attached. No per-ticket or payment-processing fee, no statement of who pays it, and no add-on, hardware, box-office, payout or refund fee figures appear on the captured pages, so I cannot compute the cost of a single event from public information alone.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Converia
Cvent
Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates Converia higher: 3/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick Converia and 0 pick Cvent. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Converia or Cvent European?
Converia is European (EU-Made). Cvent is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.