Accelevents vs Ticketbud

Accelevents brings registration, sessions, virtual booths, networking, attendee engagement, and reporting into a platform for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Organizers can stream using Accelevents or connect Zoom for live sessions, and offer recordings on demand alongside scheduled participation. Attendees can chat, request connections or meetings, join timed one-to-one networking, and take part in workshops with up to 25 people on camera. The virtual event hub supports announcements, activity-based challenges, and leaderboards. During an event, organizers can track registration, attendance, and engagement in sessions and booths. Connections with Marketo, Salesforce, and HubSpot support exchanging attendee and registration data. Attendees can join through a browser or mobile event app, depending on event setup. The platform has a free plan, and listed paid plan sizes range from one event with 500 registrants on Professional to unlimited events on White Label. Continuing education features are available on Business, Enterprise, and White Label plans. Every plan includes 24/7 support, with an average response time of 21 seconds.

Ticketbud provides event registration and online ticketing for organizers, with tools for event pages, ticket sales, and onsite check-in. It serves schools, nonprofits, charity events, live shows, venues, festivals, and online and hybrid events. Organizers can create unlimited events and ticket types, then build mobile-optimized event pages with images, video, ticket options, maps, and social links. Its free iOS and Android check-in app scans tickets or looks up attendees by name; offline check-in is available after downloading the attendee database. Attendees do not need a Ticketbud account to register or buy tickets. The service lists integrations including Zoom, Salesforce, Zapier, SSO, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and Refund Protect, as well as a beta API. Free Events is listed at free. For Paid Events, attendees pay 2% +99c per ticket sold, plus a payment processor fee of 2.9% + 30c per ticket; organizers may absorb the fees. Non-profit & Schools lists 1.75% +99c per ticket sold, plus the same processor fee. Rentable event hardware is available only to US-based customers.