Cvent vs Mela

Cvent is an event registration product for web and mobile, supporting in-person, virtual, hybrid and webinar events. Registration features include branded websites, drag-and-drop design, email marketing, payments, reporting and AI workflows. The wider offering lists ticketing, onsite check-in, attendee apps and email, exhibitor tools, polls and Q&A. Attendee Hub includes a mobile event app and virtual experiences. Registration can be tried for free, but pricing is provided by quote and no plan prices are listed. Professional includes 15 user logins; Enterprise includes all user logins and lists MFA, SSO, task management, budget management and resource management. Cvent supports pricing and transactions in more than 130 global currencies and says customers receive 24/7 support from its client services team. Its stated security credentials include certification against ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701, and audits under SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II. Attendee data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2 and at rest with AES-256, and payment processing is PCI DSS compliant.

Mela is an iPhone app for B2B consumer electronics resellers who capture leads at trade shows and follow up afterward. It reads both sides of business cards, decodes QR codes, and turns the details into an editable contact form. Contacts can be grouped by event, searched or filtered by consumer electronics categories, and kept in one history across shows. Mela transcribes voice notes and suggests hashtags. It drafts personalized WhatsApp and email follow-ups for the user to review and send; it does not send messages automatically. Other listed features include QR card exchange between Mela users, inventory matching, lead temperature tracking, and contact deduplication. The free plan is free, with core features within unspecified limits. Mela Individual costs $9.99 a month; team plans range from $24.99 a month for 2 seats to $44.99 a month for 6 seats. The app requires iOS 15.1 or later. Users must be at least 16 and use it for business purposes. Captured content belongs to the user and is not used to train AI models, though service providers may process it when a feature is invoked.