Aeion Events vs Cvent & Bizzabo
Modern event producers are leaving per-registration fees and dated interfaces for a natively unified events platform — one that connects your own Stripe account, updates CRM the instant someone registers, and runs the actual show from the browser.
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Decisive Architectural Advantages
Zero Per-Ticket Fees
Legacy platforms like Cvent and Eventbrite penalize your success by taking a percentage or a flat fee off every single ticket sold. Aeion is your operating system. You connect your own Stripe account, process millions in ticket sales, and pay $0 to us in transaction fees.
Native CRM Synergy
Integrating Cvent with Salesforce is notoriously difficult. Because Aeion Events shares the same underlying data model as Aeion CRM, the moment an attendee registers, their CRM profile is updated, they are tagged with the event cohort, and they enter the correct marketing sequence instantly.
The Ultimate Show Control
No other event management software does this. Aeion Events' native show control engine means you don't just sell tickets — you actually run the show. Program lighting cues over sACN and Art-Net, and sync to SMPTE/MTC timecode, directly from your browser.
Future-Proof Web Portals
Instead of rigid, templated sites, Aeion powers the attendee experience using a modern Next.js portal. It features dynamic QR code wallets, real-time schedule building, and interactive gamification leaderboards.
Where Cvent Still Makes Sense
We'd rather be honest than oversell. The incumbents keep a real edge in a few places: - Hotel & venue sourcing. Cvent's Supplier Network is a mature two-sided marketplace for RFP-ing hotels, negotiating room blocks, and sourcing venues at convention scale. If sourcing is the center of your workflow, that engine is purpose-built and Aeion does not try to replace it. - Entrenched enterprise procurement. Cvent and Bizzabo carry years of completed enterprise security reviews, procurement relationships, and a large third-party integration catalog. If your organization has already standardized on one across many business units, that momentum is real. - Full-service managed events. Cvent offers large professional-services and onsite-staffing teams for flagship events. Aeion gives you the software to run the show yourself; if you want a vendor to staff the operation, that's a different model.
Choose Aeion when you want to own your data model, keep 100% of ticket revenue through your own processor, and run networking, check-in, and lighting from one system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Exhibitor Lead Capture app caches scans locally on the device and synchronizes them to the cloud once connectivity is restored, ensuring no leads are ever lost.
Absolutely. We natively support 23 payment processors through the Aeion Billing module — Stripe, PayPal, Square, Adyen, Razorpay, Braintree, Authorize.Net, Klarna, and more. The funds go directly into your merchant account.
Yes. You connect your own Stripe (or another supported processor) and settle funds directly into your own merchant account. Aeion charges a flat monthly rate for the Events module — never a percentage or flat fee on each ticket sold.
Aeion Events includes a browser-based show-control engine that programs lighting cues over the sACN and Art-Net protocols and syncs to SMPTE/MTC timecode. It drives the same lighting and media systems a production crew already uses — no separate show-control software to license, and no capability Cvent or Bizzabo offer at all.
Check-in runs as an offline-capable PWA on any smartphone. Scans are cached locally on the device and sync to the cloud once connectivity returns, so a spotty venue network never loses a check-in or a captured lead — no proprietary handhelds to rent.
Aeion Events shares the same underlying data model as Aeion CRM, so a registration updates the attendee's CRM profile, tags the event cohort, and enters the right marketing sequence instantly — no middleware, no Zapier, and no brittle sync job to break when an API changes.