Eventact vs Indico

Eventact is an event management system for conferences, exhibitions, and in-person or hybrid events. Its tools span registration forms, ticketing, attendee communications, exhibitor support, and onsite check-in. Forms can use custom fields, validation, conditional logic, separate attendee flows, and centralized records. The platform also supports abstract submissions, reviewer workflows, committee decisions, agenda building, and program publishing to event websites and apps. Onsite operations include QR and barcode scanning, offline check-in with later synchronization, badge printing, access control, and attendance reports. Virtual and hybrid events can use live or prerecorded sessions, embedded streams, RTMP, virtual rooms, chat, Q&A, polls, and video on demand. Eventact offers a website builder and an installable Progressive Web App that does not require an app-store download. The platform has no free plan but offers a 30-day trial. Pricing is noted as “From $49”; listed monthly options include $210 a month for Registration, Website under 2,000 attendees per year, and $415 a month for Registration, Abstracts, Event App, Website under 2,000 attendees per year. It runs on Android, iOS, web, and API.

Indico is a free, open-source tool for organizing events, archiving materials, and supporting collaboration. It provides workflows for seminars, meetings, workshops, and conferences, and can bring an institute’s events together. For conferences, organizers can handle registration and abstract submission, store papers and other materials, and provide participant badges. Events use hierarchical categories, protections for resources, and roles within events. The room-booking module supports delegated management, booking approvals, and audiovisual equipment management. Indico integrates with Zoom so participants can join video conferences with a single click; listed plugins also cover PayPal payments and Amazon S3 event-file storage. It can be customized through configuration and plugins, and its HTTP Export API exposes category contents, events, rooms, and bookings. Indico is installed as a self-hosted instance. The project began in 2002, and CERN adopted it for event management in 2004 and has financed its development since. The maker describes room booking as suited to companies, research institutes, and universities.