Eventact vs OpenConf
Eventact
eventact.comOpenConf
openconf.comSide by side
| Figure | Eventact | OpenConf |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $210/mo | $50/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 21 | 6 |
| Spec score · Event Abstract Management Software | 8.8 (#4) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Spec score · Event Management Software | 8.6 (#33) | 7.7 (#100) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Integrations | The maker lists Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, Monday.com synchronization, payment gateway integrations, analytics tools, and documented APIs. | Professional Edition lists IEEE eCopyright, ACM copyright export, and ORCID reviewer credit features. |
| Intended users | Eventact says its platform is built for academic and scientific conferences, associations and societies, corporate and enterprise events, and professional conference organizers and event agencies. | The maker describes the Community Edition as an option for users who need basic submission, review, acceptance, and notification and can install and maintain it themselves. |
| Support | The pricing page includes dedicated onboarding consultation and support and 24/7 support with subscription plans; its support page lists email, WhatsApp, Google Messages, and Telegram, with priority support available as a subscription. | Technical support is included for hosting account contacts and for license contacts; Community Edition users are not provided support. |
Plans
Eventact
- Registration, Website — under 2,000 attendees/year$210 a month
- Registration, Website — under 5,000 attendees/year$520 a month
- Registration, Event App, Website — under 2,000 attendees/yea$330 a month
- Registration, Event App, Website — under 5,000 attendees/yea$830 a month
- Registration, Abstracts, Event App, Website — under 2,000 at$415 a month
- Registration, Abstracts, Event App, Website — under 5,000 at$1,020 a month
- Registration, Website — one event, under 400 attendees$799 a month
- Registration, Website — one event, under 1,000 attendees$1,549 a month
- Registration, Event App, Website — one event, under 400 atte$1,099 a month
- Subscription — Registration, Website (<2,000 attendees/year)$210 a month
OpenConf
- Plus Edition$400 a month
- Professional Edition$900 a month
- OpenConf Hosting Service$600 a year
- Community EditionFree
- Plus Edition Standard License$400, paid once
- Professional Edition Standard License$900, paid once
In their own words
Eventact
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.
OpenConf
OpenConf is a system for managing peer review, conferences and abstracts. Organizers can build submission forms from built-in fields or add their own, then assign reviews manually or match submissions and reviewers by topic or bids. Its workflow includes scoring, acceptance decisions, notifications and committee discussion. Accepted submissions can be scheduled into a web program or print booklet, and proceedings can be published online. OpenConf can be installed on a customer's server or used through a hosting service administered by the maker. Authentication options include passkeys, magic links and single sign-on using OIDC and SAML. Privacy tools include policy links, cookie banners, consent checkboxes, personal-information review and administrator-managed data deletion. Professional Edition lists IEEE eCopyright, ACM copyright export and ORCID reviewer credit features. OpenConf 8 requires an HTTP server with TLS/SSL, PHP 7.3 or later and MySQL 8.0.4 or later. Support is included for hosting account and license contacts; Community Edition users receive no support. Community Edition has no listed price and is limited to three or fewer events and journals per calendar year.