Eventact vs Oxford Abstracts

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.

Oxford Abstracts is web software for managing academic conference submissions, reviews, decisions, and events. Organisers can build customized submission forms, assign reviewers by category or group, and track reviewer progress while reviewers’ changes save automatically. Scheduled emails can be tailored for reviewers and submitters. The free Basic plan includes unlimited submissions, review and decisions, event ticketing, reviewer tracking, customizable forms, and emails. The Abstract Management plan costs $890/event and adds custom emails, fully customizable forms, detailed reports, instant abstract books, and optional add-ons. The Conference plan costs $2,290/event and adds a live conference platform, program builder, attendee networking, on-demand and live content, and an interactive poster gallery. Ticketing integrates with Stripe and PayPal. Online programs are accessible from any device. Oxford Abstracts lists onboarding support, free video calls, tutorials, and a knowledge base. It is headquartered in Acharacle, United Kingdom, and hosts data on UK-based Amazon Web Services servers.