FairUp vs ScanFactor

FairUp is a web platform for planning, running, and evaluating career events in digital, hybrid, or physical formats. Organizers can create event pages and manage exhibitors, participants, matching, communications, bookings, and scheduling; dashboards provide statistics and analysis. Participants can create profiles, upload CVs and documents, view exhibitor profiles and jobs, use profile-based matchmaking, chat with exhibitors, and schedule appointments. The free Community plan costs nothing and includes unlimited guests, participant management, chat and networking, ticket sales, and payment, but no exhibitors. Starter costs €990, paid once and supports up to 30 exhibitors and three team members. Professional costs €1,990, paid once, with up to 60 exhibitors and five team members; Professional plus costs €2,990, paid once, with up to 120 exhibitors and ten team members, with more available on request. Stripe usually charges 2.9% + €0.25 per transaction in addition to FairUp’s platform fee. The platform is web-based. FairUp describes encryption, access controls, and hosting in Germany or the EU as security measures, and states an average technical availability target of at least 98% monthly, subject to exclusions.

ScanFactor is paperless software for managing in-person career fairs, with features for attendees, recruiters and event hosts. Attendees can create QR profiles that share information such as a resume, LinkedIn profile and portfolio website. They can open their code in a phone browser without downloading an app and view the companies at an event. Recruiters use a digital dashboard to review candidate information, favorite candidates, add notes, filter candidates and see their connections. Interaction data can be exported as CSV for an applicant tracking system or to share with colleagues. Hosts can manage attendee preparation and check-in, encourage recruiter engagement and view real-time event insights. They also get event analytics, visualizations and raw data about activity and interactions. The Attendee and Recruiters plans each cost nothing. Hosts are charged priced on request, billed per company attending regardless of recruiter usage; the host plan includes unlimited event scans and student signups, advanced analytics, customizable attendee profiles and sales support. ScanFactor is available on Android, iOS and the web.