FairUp vs Virtual Open House

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.

Virtual Open House is a web-based recruiting platform for real-time events where recruiters engage pre-qualified candidates in one-to-one chats. It supports open houses, college, diversity and military events, recruiter office hours, internal meetups and interview preparation. Organizations can create mobile-friendly landing pages tailored to recruiting initiatives. Registration may schedule candidates according to screener answers and can include in-person or interview scheduling. Branded confirmations, reminder emails and SMS messages support communication. Recruiters can view or download registration data, take notes, set company-specific statuses and transfer chats to other logged-in recruiters. Candidate records, including chat logs, notes, resumes and statuses, can pass to an ATS or CRM. Analytics cover landing-page visitors, conversion rates, trends, attendance, chat counts and chat duration. The maker describes CareerBuilder.com promotion, custom sourcing help, project-manager onboarding, mock-event training and live technical support during events. Pricing is on request.