Event Registration & Ticketing
Cvent
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Cvent at a glance
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- Panel verdict
- The AI panel rates Cvent 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Cvent, a US-based enterprise event platform, is strongest at the door: check-in and on-site scores range 8 to 9, covering QR self-check-in, guest lists searchable by name, email or company, on-demand badge printing, session scans with capacity control, on-site card payments and continuing-education signature tracking. how scores are made
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- Vendor pages captured 29 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 30 Oct 2026. all sources
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The panel's verdict
Cvent, a US-based enterprise event platform, is strongest at the door: check-in and on-site scores range 8 to 9, covering QR self-check-in, guest lists searchable by name, email or company, on-demand badge printing, session scans with capacity control, on-site card payments and continuing-education signature tracking. Invoicing and tax is the weakest product area at 2-3 — the pages show a tax-collection mention, consolidated billing statements and an SAP Concur FAQ, and no public information on VAT rates per ticket, organiser-name invoices or accounting exports. Registration, payments and fees and attendee data ownership cluster at 4-6, sovereignty at 5-6, with no meaningful split; within payments, scores ranged from judges crediting the documented pipeline — 130+ currencies, weekly payouts in six currencies, automated refund handling — to those penalising the unstated fee. The German pages claim European datacenter infrastructure keeping customer data within the EU, but the agreement runs with Cvent, Inc. and its affiliates and the subprocessor list gives names without locations. Public pricing consists of a 14-day free trial and a 'One Flat Fee with no hidden costs' statement with no amount.
Speaks for it
- Check-in and on-site scores range 8 to 9, with QR self-check-in on desktop, phone or tablet, guest lists searchable by name, email, company or confirmation, on-demand badge printing with edits on the fly, session scans with capacity control and on-site card payments through the OnArrival reader
- A full-service package supplies kiosks, printers and scanners with onsite setup, support and take-down led by a dedicated project manager, alongside a published self-service badging option
- Cvent Payments collects on the organiser's behalf in 130+ currencies, pays out weekly in six currencies and handles refund balances and reserves automatically
- Registration builds drag-and-drop event websites in the organiser's branding with early-bird pricing, reminder automation and abandoned-registration follow-up, with an independent WCAG audit and 18 accessibility templates
- A published data processing agreement includes a subprocessor list with change notifications and a ten-business-day objection window, and the vendor states attendee data is never sold or used to train external models
Held against it
- Invoicing and tax scores sit at 2-3 — beyond a tax-collection mention, consolidated billing statements and an SAP Concur FAQ we found no public information on VAT rates per ticket, organiser-name invoices or exports to a named accounting system
- We found no public information on discount codes, quotas with waiting lists, reserved seating or per-attendee custom questions in the ticket shop
- The agreement runs with Cvent, Inc. and its affiliates, the trust pages rely on the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks, and the published subprocessor list gives entity names without locations
- We found no public information on offline scanning limits or failover behaviour at the door
Best for
- You run multi-session conferences or congresses needing badge scans with admit-or-deny verification, session capacity control and continuing-education credit tracking — check-in and on-site scores range 8 to 9
- You want on-site execution handled for you, with kiosks, printers and scanners supplied and a dedicated project manager running setup, support and take-down
- You collect across borders and plan around a stated cadence, with 130+ currencies accepted and weekly payouts in six published currencies
- You are an association or non-profit, with membership authentication, CE-credit tracking across all events and a stated 4.2K+ association and non-profit customer base on the pages
Avoid if
- Your finance team needs invoices in your organisation's name with consecutive numbers and VAT-ID capture — invoicing and tax scores sit at 2-3
- Your ticket shop depends on discount codes, waiting lists or per-attendee questions — shop and registration scores sit at 4-6, with no public information on those mechanics
- You must evidence an EU-based processing chain end to end before signing — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You need to compute an event's cost from public pages — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
The scores
| Criterion | Panel median |
|---|---|
| Ticket shop, checkout & registration | 2.5 of 5 |
| Payments, payouts, fees & refunds | 2.5 of 5 |
| VAT, invoices & accounting handoff | 1.5 of 5 |
| Check-in, badges & on-site sales | 4 of 5 |
| Attendee data & the customer relationship | 2.5 of 5 |
| European sovereignty | 2.5 of 5 |
Ticket shop, checkout & registration
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How this is scored
How a ticket or a registration is sold: ticket types and categories, member and early-bird prices, discount codes, bundles and add-ons, a shop embeddable on the organiser's own website or under its own domain, custom questions per ticket and per attendee, group and company bookings, capacity limits and waiting lists, reserved seating with a seating plan, recurring dates and course series, several languages, and an accessible mobile checkout.
0 — Not a ticketing or registration tool; tickets cannot be sold and registrations cannot be taken in the product.
3 — An event page on the platform with a few ticket types and a fixed sign-up form; embedding, custom questions, capacity rules or seating are basic or not described.
5 — Several ticket types with prices, quotas and sale periods, discount codes, custom questions per attendee, a shop embeddable on the organiser's website as a widget or link, capacity limits with a waiting list, and a checkout that works on a phone.
8 — A white-label shop under the organiser's own domain and design, reserved seating with a seating-plan editor, add-ons and bundles, group and company bookings with several attendees per order, conditional questions, member prices by code or login, recurring dates and course series, several languages, and the checkout's accessibility stated.
10 — A shop that fits any event: multi-event and season tickets, timed entry and seat holds, a checkout that the organiser can extend (API, custom fields synced to a CRM), an accessibility conformance statement (WCAG level named), and the conversion and drop-off of the checkout reported to the organiser.
The Conference Organiser
The registration pages show complete event websites with drag-and-drop design and branding, early-bird pricing, automated reminder emails and abandoned-registration follow-up, and the association pages offer membership authentication for member handling, with an independently audited WCAG statement and eighteen accessibility templates on the trust pages. I found no public information on discount codes, capacity limits with waiting lists, seating plans or group bookings with several attendees per order — the last being exactly what my assistants do when booking three colleagues at once — so I cannot place the shop at the fully flexible level. 8 4 7 14
The Venue Promoter
Registration is clearly a full product: drag-and-drop event websites with my branding, early-bird pricing, automated reminders and abandoned-registration follow-up, and a checkout that stays on the platform and takes Apple Pay and Google Pay. We found no public information on discount codes, quotas and waiting lists, custom questions per attendee, or selling under my own domain. At least the checkout's accessibility is independently audited against WCAG. 8 10 7
The Course Provider
The registration product is real and grown-up: event websites I build myself with drag-and-drop widgets, my own branding and templates, early-bird prices for prompt registrants, automated reminder emails, follow-up to people who abandoned their registration, and event sites that can be replicated for the next course round. But the questions each of my courses needs asked at sign-up, a waiting list that fills a cancelled seat by itself, quotas and discount codes — on all of that I found no public information, and for a course business that is the heart of registration. 1 4 5 8
The Revenue Accountant
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. 8 5 10 7 4
The Data Protection Officer
Event websites are built with drag-and-drop widgets under the organiser's own branding, with early-bird pricing, automated reminder emails and abandoned-registration follow-up, and a checkout offering Apple Pay and Google Pay. We found no public information on discount codes, per-attendee custom questions, capacity limits with waiting lists, or reserved seating with a seating plan. 8 1 10 7
The Skeptic
Registration is well marketed: complete event websites built with drag-and-drop widgets in the organiser's branding, early-bird pricing, email campaigns with abandoned-registration follow-up, and a WCAG audit with eighteen accessibility templates claimed for core products. But we found no public information on discount codes, custom questions per attendee, quotas and waiting lists, reserved seating, or a shop embeddable in the organiser's own website. 8 7 10 4
Payments, payouts, fees & refunds
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How this is scored
How the money moves: payment methods offered to buyers (cards, PayPal, SEPA direct debit, invoice, local methods), whether the organiser connects its own payment account or the platform collects as merchant of record, when the revenue is paid out (continuously, before the event, or after it), the per-ticket and payment fees and whether they can be passed on to the buyer, refunds of single tickets and of a cancelled event, ticket transfer and resale, and chargebacks.
0 — No payment of any kind; the product only collects free registrations.
3 — Online card payment through the platform; payout timing, fee model, refunds or buyer-paid fees are basic or not described.
5 — Several payment methods including cards and PayPal or SEPA, the fee per ticket stated with the option to pass it to the buyer, the payout schedule stated, and refunds of single orders and of a cancelled event issued from the product.
8 — A choice between the organiser's own payment account (Stripe, PayPal, Mollie or similar) and platform collection, payouts before the event stated with their conditions, invoice and bank transfer for business buyers, partial refunds and refund policies set per event, ticket transfer or resale by buyers, and chargeback handling explained.
10 — Full control of the money: the merchant of record named for each set-up, payout timing and any reserve held published, every fee itemised per order, refunds, transfers and resale with the organiser's rules enforced, and the cancellation process for an event documented end to end.
The Conference Organiser
Cvent Payments is described as collecting money on my behalf with all major cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay in 130+ currencies, weekly payouts in six named currencies including the euro, automated refund balances updated twice daily, automated reserve handling, and an OnArrival reader for on-site card sales. The captured pages state "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" without any amount, and I found no public information on PayPal, SEPA direct debit or invoice payment for business buyers, on the per-ticket fee, or on whether fees can be passed to the buyer. 10 11 3
The Venue Promoter
Major cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, 130-plus currencies, weekly payouts in euros under Cvent Payments with an older monthly option, and refund balances managed automatically twice a day — a pipeline I could plan around, though we found no public information on payouts landing before the event; the stated cadence is weekly. The fee is announced as "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs", and we found no public information on the fee amount or on passing it to the buyer. Onsite card taking exists through the named OnArrival payment reader. 10 11
The Course Provider
Cvent Payments is documented collecting money on my behalf in all major credit cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, paying out weekly in the newer service or monthly in the older one, across six payout currencies, with refund balances managed automatically and a reader for taking payment at the door. What I cannot see is what any of it costs: the payments pages promise 'One Flat Fee with no hidden costs' without stating the fee, and I found no public information on invoice or bank transfer payment for the employers who book my seminars, on partial refunds, or on chargebacks. 3 10 11
The Revenue Accountant
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. 10 11 3
The Data Protection Officer
Payout timing is stated (monthly under the legacy service, weekly with Cvent Payments) in six currencies, processing supports 130+ currencies with Apple Pay and Google Pay, refund balances and reserves are handled automatically, and on-site card payments run through the OnArrival payment reader at a PCI Level 1 service provider. The only fee statement is "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" with no amount, and we found no public information on passing fees to buyers, ticket transfer or resale, or chargebacks. 10 11 7
The Skeptic
Cvent Payments is described collecting on the organiser's behalf for all major cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay in 130+ currencies, with weekly payouts in six currencies (monthly under the legacy service), automated refund balances and reserve handling, and onsite card payments through the OnArrival reader. The fee itself appears only as 'One Flat Fee with no hidden costs' without a figure, and we found no public information on who bears the fee, refund and chargeback processes, or methods such as PayPal, SEPA or invoice. 10 11
VAT, invoices & accounting handoff
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How this is scored
How ticket revenue reaches the books correctly: the VAT rate set per ticket or product (reduced rates for concerts and culture, exemptions for education and seminars), gross and net prices shown, invoices to buyers in the organiser's name with consecutive numbers, business buyers with company name and VAT ID, reverse charge for cross-border events, cancellation invoices and credit notes, the platform's own fee invoice, e-invoicing, and exports to DATEV or named accounting systems.
0 — No receipts or invoices; the organiser has to produce every invoice outside the product.
3 — An order confirmation or simple receipt per booking; VAT rates, invoices in the organiser's name, business buyers or accounting exports are basic or not described.
5 — VAT rate configurable per ticket, invoices generated in the organiser's name with its tax details and consecutive numbers, company name and address captured for business buyers, cancellation invoices on refund, and a sales export as CSV or to at least one named accounting system.
8 — Several VAT rates in one order, net prices for business buyers, VAT IDs validated and reverse charge applied, e-invoices (XRechnung or ZUGFeRD) for public and business buyers, a DATEV export with booking data, the platform's fee invoice separated from ticket revenue, and whether the platform sells as agent or in its own name stated.
10 — Tax handled per country: VAT rules for events in several EU countries documented with the place of supply, invoices and credit notes stated as compliant with national invoice law, a reconciliation of payouts, fees and ticket revenue per event, and a GoBD-compliant archive or audit export.
The Conference Organiser
The only facts bearing on the books are "tax collection" as part of the payment service, a finance-and-budget integration category, and an FAQ that mentions SAP Concur for budget tracking. I found no public information on VAT rates per ticket, invoices in my association's name with consecutive numbers, VAT-ID capture or reverse charge, credit notes, or an export to a named accounting system — for invoices an accounts-payable department accepts without a phone call, that is thin. 11 5 8
The Venue Promoter
Cvent Payments mentions tax collection and there are consolidated billing statements inside the platform, but the accounting trail is thin. We found no public information on VAT rates per ticket, invoices in the organiser's name, business buyers with a VAT ID, or an export to an accounting system; the nearest thing is an integration category for budget and expense tools that mentions SAP Concur. 11 5
The Course Provider
The payment pages mention automated tax collection and consolidated billing statements, and that is where the public record stops: I found no public information on setting a VAT rate per ticket, on invoices issued in my name with consecutive numbers, on capturing an employer's company name and VAT ID, on credit notes after a cancellation, or on an export to DATEV or any other named accounting system. My shop mixes exempt teaching with taxable workshops, and nothing captured shows how that distinction would reach my books. 5 10 11
The Revenue Accountant
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. 11 5 8
The Data Protection Officer
The payments pages mention automated tax collection and consolidated billing statements, and an FAQ references expense tools like SAP Concur. We found no public information on VAT rate configuration per ticket, invoices in the organiser's name with consecutive numbers, cancellation invoices, or exports to a named accounting system. 11 5
The Skeptic
The payments copy mentions 'tax collection' and consolidated billing statements, and integrations are grouped under finance and budget with an FAQ about SAP Concur. We found no public information on VAT rates per ticket, invoices in the organiser's name, VAT IDs and reverse charge, or exports to a named accounting system. 11 5
Check-in, badges & on-site sales
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What happens at the door: a check-in app that scans tickets on phones or scanners, offline scanning and several devices at once, entrances and time slots, check-in lists by name, badge printing with attendee data and QR code, box office and on-site sales with card terminals, walk-in registration, session and room check-in at conferences, attendance certificates, and live attendance figures.
0 — No check-in; tickets cannot be validated at the event.
3 — Tickets with a QR code and a guest list to tick off by hand or in a simple app; offline use, several devices, badges or on-site sales are basic or not described.
5 — A free check-in app for iOS and Android that scans tickets on several devices at once, works offline and syncs, a searchable guest list, and live check-in numbers in the dashboard.
8 — Badge printing with attendee data and QR codes, access rules per entrance, session or day, box office sales on site with a named card terminal, walk-in registration, dedicated scanner hardware supported or rented, and attendance certificates for courses.
10 — On-site operations at scale: self-service kiosks or turnstile integration, session check-in feeding continuing-education credits, cashless or on-site payments reconciled with online sales, and the hardware, offline limits and failover documented.
The Conference Organiser
OnArrival covers my door end to end: QR self-check-in and search by name, email, company or confirmation, wireless on-demand badge printing with attendee details editable on the fly, kiosks and walk-in registration, session badge scans with admit-deny verification and capacity control, real-time figures every fifteen minutes, and an on-site payment reader. Signature tracking for CE credits and continuing-education credit tracking across all events match my congress duty directly, and both full-service and self-service packages with hardware, printers and scanners are published; I found no public information on offline scanning limits or failover behaviour. 3 4 12 13
The Venue Promoter
OnArrival is the door kit I would actually rent: QR scanning on phones and tablets, wireless on-demand badge printing, guest search by name or confirmation, per-session admit-or-deny with capacity control, walk-ins and self-serve kiosks, onsite payments through a named reader, and check-in numbers refreshed every fifteen minutes. There is even a full-service package with kiosks, printers and scanners led by a project manager. The hole for my basement: we found no public information on offline scanning. 3 13 10 12
The Course Provider
This is the strongest part for my kind of business: OnArrival scans QR codes, checks people in by searching name, email or company on desktop, phone or tablet, prints branded badges wirelessly on demand, takes walk-ins at self-serve kiosks, sells on the spot with the OnArrival payment reader, and controls session capacity with admit/deny checks. It also tracks signatures for continuing-education credits and can award those credits across events, which comes close to the attendance evidence my participants ask for; I found no public information on offline scanning limits or documented failover. 3 4 10 12 13
The Revenue Accountant
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. 3 13 11 4
The Data Protection Officer
OnArrival covers QR self-service check-in on desktop, phone and tablet, searchable guest lists, on-demand badge printing with on-the-fly attendee edits, session scans with admit/deny verification and capacity control, walk-in kiosks, on-site payments through the named payment reader, signature tracking for continuing-education credits, and real-time check-in statistics, with kiosks, scanners and printers available via the full-service package. We found no public information on offline scanning limits or on-site reconciliation with online sales. 3 13 10 4 12
The Skeptic
OnArrival is documented in depth: check-in by name, email, company or confirmation on desktop, phone or tablet, wireless on-demand badge printing with edits on the fly, session scans with admit-or-deny verification and capacity control, kiosks and walk-in registration, onsite payments with the OnArrival reader, CE-credit signature tracking, and stats refreshed every 15 minutes. Full-service packages supply kiosks, printers and scanners with onsite staff; we found no public information on offline limits or reconciling onsite payments with online sales. 3 10 13 4
Attendee data & the customer relationship
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Who the ticket buyer belongs to: whether the organiser is the controller of attendee data and the platform its processor, or the platform a controller in its own right; whether buyers must create an account on the platform; whether the platform markets other events to the organiser's buyers or lists the event on its own marketplace; consent for the organiser's newsletter collected in the checkout; messages to attendees; attendee data exportable at any time; and deletion and anonymisation after the event.
0 — The organiser receives no attendee data at all; the platform keeps the buyer relationship entirely.
3 — A guest list visible to the organiser; who is controller, the platform's own marketing to buyers, export or deletion are basic or not described.
5 — Attendee data exportable by the organiser at any time, the organiser named as controller with a data processing agreement offered, buyers able to book without a platform account, newsletter consent for the organiser collectable in the checkout, and messages to attendees from the product.
8 — A white-label set-up in which buyers see only the organiser, the platform stated not to market other events to the organiser's buyers (or the opt-out explained), the platform's marketplace listing optional, deletion and anonymisation of attendee data after the event configurable, and attendee data synced to a named CRM or via API and webhooks.
10 — The organiser owns the relationship and can prove it: the controller and processor roles documented for every data flow, no platform account or platform marketing by default, retention set per event and enforced, and a complete export of orders, attendees and answers that a successor tool can import.
The Conference Organiser
A data processing agreement with a ten-business-day objection window and change notifications is published, the pages state that attendee data is never sold and never used to train external models, data subjects keep rights to correction, deletion and blocking, and attendee data syncs to Salesforce, Marketo or HubSpot through an open API. I found no public information on booking without a platform account, newsletter consent in the checkout, configurable retention after the event, or whether the platform markets other events to my buyers, so the relationship is supported but its ownership is not proven. 15 14 7 5
The Venue Promoter
There is a published data processing agreement with subprocessor notification and a ten-business-day objection window, a flat statement that attendee data is never sold, and attendee data syncing into Salesforce and other CRMs — so last month's buyers can end up on my list. But we found no public information on who is named controller, whether buyers can book without a platform account, or whether the platform markets other events to my buyers. 15 7 5
The Course Provider
A data processing agreement is published and entered with the customer, the pages state plainly that Cvent never sells my data or my attendees' data, users keep rights to correction, deletion and blocking, attendee records sync to named CRMs such as Salesforce, and reminder and follow-up emails to registrants go out from the registration product. What I could not find is who is controller for each data flow, whether my participants can book without an account on Cvent, whether I can export everything at any time, or how deletion after a course ends is configured. 3 5 7 8 14 15
The Revenue Accountant
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. 15 5 3 7 14
The Data Protection Officer
Services run under an agreement that includes a data processing agreement, with a published affiliates-and-subprocessors page offering change notifications and a ten-business-day objection window; attendee data syncs to Salesforce and other CRMs, marketing emails to registrants are run from the product, and the vendor states it never sells attendee data nor uses it for external model training. We found no public information naming the organiser as controller, on checkout newsletter consent, or on configurable deletion and anonymisation after the event. 15 3 5 8 14 7
The Skeptic
A data processing agreement under the service agreement, a stated promise never to sell organiser or attendee data, data-subject rights to correction, deletion and blocking, attendee messaging, and attendee-data sync into Salesforce and other CRMs are on the pages. We found no public information on controller and processor roles, whether buyers can book without a platform account, platform marketing to the organiser's buyers, export on demand, or retention and deletion after an event — so what leaving would cost is not stated. 15 7 13 5
European sovereignty
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Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where attendee, order and payment data are hosted, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, payment providers, email delivery, analytics, support). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; attendee lists show who goes where and when, and a conference list holds names, employers and dietary or accessibility answers, so the whole chain counts, not only the database.
0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.
3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.
5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (payments, email, analytics, support) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.
8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated.
10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, a self-hosted or on-premises option or data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.
The Conference Organiser
The German security page claims first-class European data-centre infrastructure that keeps customer data within the EU, a Cvent Deutschland GmbH appears in the affiliate list under the published data processing agreement, and ISO 27001 and 27701, SOC 1 and 2 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework are attested. The vendor is U.S.-based Cvent Inc., the affiliate and subprocessor list gives no per-provider locations, and data residency is flagged as unconfirmed from the vendor's own captured pages, so the chain beyond the hosting claim remains open. 14 15 7 1
The Venue Promoter
The German site runs under Cvent Deutschland GmbH and claims first-class European data-centre infrastructure that keeps customer data within the EU; the trust page carries ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and a subprocessor list is published with change notifications. The parent is Cvent Inc. of the USA and the processing agreement runs through Cvent, Inc. and its affiliates, and we found no public information on where each listed affiliate or subprocessor processes data — European at the data-centre claim, unproven for the rest of the chain. 14 1 7 15 6
The Course Provider
The German security pages describe first-class European data-centre infrastructure that keeps customer data within the EU, a Cvent Deutschland GmbH sits in the affiliates alongside Cvent Europe Ltd., a data processing agreement with a subprocessor list last updated 2026-07-15 is published, and ISO 27001 and SOC attestations are stated. On the other side, the contracting party is Cvent, Inc. of the USA, which relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for transatlantic transfers, and the chain for payments, email and analytics is not laid out on named, located infrastructure. 1 7 14 15
The Revenue Accountant
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. 14 15 7 1
The Data Protection Officer
The parent is Cvent Inc. of the USA, contracting through Cvent, Inc. and affiliates including Cvent Europe Ltd. and Cvent Deutschland GmbH, and the German privacy page claims European data-centre infrastructure securing customer data within the EU, backed by published ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC attestations. The subprocessor list gives entity names without countries, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification signals US transfers, and the website itself runs Google reCAPTCHA, so much of the chain is not evidenced as EU-based. 15 14 7 6 1
The Skeptic
German pages claim European datacenter infrastructure that keeps customer data within the EU, a Cvent Deutschland GmbH appears in the copyright and affiliates list, and a public affiliates-and-subprocessors page with a data processing agreement, change notification and objection rights is maintained alongside ISO 27001/27701, SOC 1 and 2, and PCI DSS Level 1. Against that, the services are contracted by Cvent, Inc. with its affiliates, the trust pages rely on the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks, and the site itself runs Google reCAPTCHA; hosting infrastructure is unnamed and subprocessor locations are not given. 14 15 7 6
Pricing transparency
not rated — the vendor publishes no price
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Whether an organiser can compute the real cost of an event from public pages alone: the fee per ticket or per registration (fixed, percentage or both), payment processing fees, whether fees are charged to the organiser or added to the buyer's price, free events, subscriptions or credit packs, payout and refund fees, add-ons (seating, white label, badges, box office), hardware rental, minimums and term, and VAT on the fees.
0 — No public prices at all; every organiser is a sales call.
3 — A starting price or "free for free events" exists, but the fee for paid tickets, payment fees or who pays them is unclear.
5 — The fee per ticket and the payment processing fees are public with the main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (refund fees, white label, seating, box office, hardware) is unpriced or "on request".
8 — Every fee published with its rule (per ticket, percentage, cap), the share paid by buyer and organiser stated, add-ons and hardware priced, payout and refund fees listed, and VAT treatment of the fees stated.
10 — Complete price computability: the cost of an event derivable for a given ticket price, ticket count and payment mix, with every add-on, hardware, support and payout fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.
The Conference Organiser
Beyond a 14-day free trial of the registration software, the only pricing statements I found are "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" and "no hidden fees", both without any amount attached. I found no public information on the per-ticket or payment-processing fee, on who pays it, on refund or payout fees, on hardware rental, or on term and minimums; registration runs through a demo request form, so the real cost of my 900-delegate congress is a sales conversation. 11 14 8
The Venue Promoter
Everything public about price fits in two lines: a fourteen-day free trial for the registration software and the phrase "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs". We found no public information on the fee amount, payment processing fees, who pays them, or what the badge hardware and the full-service crew cost — on a twelve-euro ticket I cannot work out one euro of cost from the public pages, and the demo form and the sales line say the rest is a conversation. 11 1 14
The Course Provider
Everything public on price fits in one sentence: a 14-day free trial of the registration product, the phrase 'One Flat Fee with no hidden costs' with no amount attached, and 'no hidden fees' on the payments pages. No euro, dollar or percentage is printed anywhere, and the path to a figure is a demo form asking for my company and phone number, so I cannot begin to compute what an eight-week evening course would cost me. 1 8 11 14
The Revenue Accountant
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. 11 1 14
The Data Protection Officer
Public pricing amounts to a 14-day free trial and a "One Flat Fee with no hidden costs" claim with no amount stated. We found no public information on the per-ticket or payment processing fees, who pays them, or the price of on-site hardware and service packages. 11 1 14
The Skeptic
Only a 14-day free trial and the claim 'One Flat Fee with no hidden costs' are published; we found no public information on fee amounts per ticket or registration, payment processing fees, whether the organiser or the buyer pays, or prices for onsite hardware, badging packages and the full-service option. An organiser cannot compute the cost of an event from these pages. 11 14
European sovereignty — proven facts
0 of 6 dimensions provenBuilt only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting location | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
| Open source | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
Questions about Cvent
Is Cvent European?
No. whats-best.ai classifies Cvent as Rest of world.
Where does Cvent store data?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.
Does Cvent have a free plan?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Cvent?
As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates pretix (3/5), Converia (3/5) and doo (3/5) highest among the other 13 Event Registration & Ticketing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is pretix (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Cvent alternatives.
Where this could be wrong
- Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 29 Oct 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
- Weak sourcing — Hosting location. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
- AI can misread a source. Extraction and judgement are automated; a citation guarantees traceability, not infallibility. If something here is wrong, say so — no account needed, every report is decided within 5 business days, and accepted corrections are published.
What we left out
A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.
- 5 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 2 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. Know more? Tell us
Sources (16)
The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.
- 1 Vendor homepage www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 2 Features page (event registration) www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 3 Features page (check-in and badging) www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 4 Features page (associations) www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 5 Integrations page www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 6 Privacy policy www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 7 Security / trust page www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 8 Ticket shop, checkout & registration — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 9 Ticket shop, checkout & registration — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 10 Payments, payouts, fees & refunds — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 11 Payments, payouts, fees & refunds — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 12 Check-in, badges & on-site sales — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 13 Check-in, badges & on-site sales — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 14 Attendee data & the customer relationship — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 15 Attendee data & the customer relationship — found from sitemap www.cvent.com Checked 29 Oct 2026 Details →
- 16 Imprint — found from the homepage www.cvent.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →