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eventcloud vs Accelevents

Registration, Badges and a Door Anyone Can Staff. No Flight Case Required.

Accelevents' Standard onsite kit comes with two iPads, two printers and a 5G router. Ours is a link, a four-digit PIN and whatever phone your volunteer brought, and badges print at a self-service kiosk built from a laptop and the printer beside it. No kit to rent, no flight case to check in. Competitor facts checked 27 October 2026. Sources and dates are listed below.

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At a Glance

Their Kit Comes in a Case. Ours Is Already in Your Pocket.

eventcloud never counts events, registrations or attendees, runs the door on any phone and the kiosk on a laptop with the printer beside it.

eventcloud

Teams Staffing Their Own Door

Where It Shines

  • Events, registrations and attendees are never counted, on every plan
  • A ticket group per audience, each with its own form, price schedule and confirmation email
  • Door staff check in on their own phones with one link and a four-digit PIN: no app, no staff accounts
  • A self-service Badge Kiosk on a laptop with the printer beside it; printing checks each visitor in
  • Session booking at sign-up, and a scan at each session's door
  • Lead retrieval on exhibitors' own phones, with no charge from us per scanner or per lead
Tell Us What You Need

Our side, as it stands on 27 October 2026.

Accelevents

Teams Who Want the Kit Handled

Where It Shines

  • Conditional logic, approval workflows, and cash, cheque, invoice and deposit payments S1
  • A published onsite kit of iPads, printers and a 5G router, and printing at a staffed desk as well as a kiosk S3, S4
  • Check-in that carries on offline and syncs when the connection returns S8
  • Salesforce, HubSpot and Marketo, plus Zapier, a public API and webhooks S9
  • An Exhibitor Resource Center, a call for papers and hotel room blocks through Passkey S6, S7
  • Unlimited admin seats on every plan, plus virtual and hybrid events S2, S6

Where It Falls Short

  • Unlimited events start on the Business plan; Professional covers one event S2
  • Printing needs a connection, even while check-in carries on offline, by its own guide S8
  • Its kits are recommended for events under 1,000 attendees printing in black and white S4
  • The mobile event app is marked as an add-on S2

Checked 27 October 2026. Sources are listed below.

Side by Side

Fourteen Rows, Including the Seven Accelevents Wins.

Grouped by stage, from forms to admin.

eventcloud Accelevents
Registration
Forms per Attendee Type Tie Yes

A ticket group per audience, each with its own form, confirmation email and price schedule.

Yes

Unlimited registration types and custom fields. S2

Checked

Conditional Logic and Approvals (stronger: Accelevents) Coming Soon

Show or hide questions based on earlier answers, and approve each registration before it is confirmed. Need either for your event? Tell us.

Yes

Conditional logic, approval workflows and progressive forms. S1

Checked

Session Access Tie Yes

Free or paid sessions booked at sign-up, each with its own capacity, and a scan at each session's door admits or refuses. You choose which ticket types can book or include each one.

Yes

Session access restricted by ticket type. S1

Checked

Payments
Invoice and Offline Payments (stronger: Accelevents) Coming Soon

Delegates pay by invoice, bank transfer or purchase order. Card payments settle in your own Stripe account, and a payment link holds a seat. Need invoices? Let us know.

Yes

Cash, cheque, invoice and deposit payments. S1

Checked

Payment Processors (stronger: Accelevents) Partial

Card checkout straight into your own Stripe account, plus payment links that hold a seat. Using another processor? Ask us.

Yes

Eight processors, depending on plan, among them Stripe, Square, Braintree and Authorize.net. S1

Checked

VAT Frozen Onto Every Order Depends Yes

One organisation rate, inclusive or exclusive, frozen onto every order.

Not Confirmed

Not stated on the pages we checked. S1

Checked

Onsite
Badge Designer Tie Yes

Real millimetres on 4x6 inch, A6, A5, A4, Letter or custom stock, with live data from any registration question.

Yes

A Badge Designer. S3

Checked

Printing at Check-in (stronger: Accelevents) Yes

A Badge Kiosk on a laptop with the printer beside it: visitors type their ticket number, check the badge and print it, and printing checks them in.

Yes

At a self-service kiosk or a staffed desk, straight to Zebra printers, on every plan. S2 S3

Checked

Door Staff Devices Depends Yes

Any phone or tablet, in the browser, with one link and a 4-digit PIN. No app, no staff accounts.

Yes

Its Admin App on iPads or phones, with a kiosk mode on the iPad. S8

Checked

Offline Check-in (stronger: Accelevents) Coming Soon

Keep scanning when the venue Wi-Fi drops. Patchy signal at your venue? Talk to us.

Yes

Check-in carries on without a connection and syncs later, though printing needs one, according to its own badge-printing guide. S8

Checked

Exhibitors
Lead Retrieval Tie Yes

Exhibitors use their own phones to scan the QR code on each attendee's badge or in their event app, rate and qualify each lead, and export to Excel. No charge from us per scanner or per lead.

Yes

Scanning in its attendee app on exhibitors' own phones, with ratings, notes and a CSV download, on every plan. S2 S5

Checked

Data
CRM Sync (stronger: Accelevents) Coming Soon

Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics sync, Zapier, and a data API with webhooks. Excel exports carry every registration answer. Tell us which tools you need connected.

Yes

Salesforce, HubSpot and Marketo, plus Zapier, a public API and webhooks. S9

Checked

Admin
Unlimited Events (stronger: eventcloud) Yes

On every plan. Events, registrations and attendees are never counted.

Partial

Business tier and above; Professional covers one event. S2

Checked

Admin Seats (stronger: Accelevents)

Team seats are the one thing we count: events, registrations and attendees never touch the bill.

Yes

Unlimited admin seats on every plan. S2

Checked

How to read it. Yes, Partial and No describe each platform today; Not confirmed means we could not confirm it from public sources on the date checked, never that it is missing. Coming soon marks what eventcloud is building now, and the row still goes to whoever does it today. Tell us if a fact has changed. Accelevents, Passkey and Zebra are trademarks of their owners, used only to identify the products compared; eventcloud is not affiliated with Accelevents.

What Gets Counted

What Each Platform Meters.

Two different meters. Accelevents sizes its plans by events; eventcloud counts the people on your team.

eventcloud Counts

Team seats

Events, registrations and attendees are never counted.

Accelevents Counts

Events, by plan

Professional covers one event, Business and above unlimited events; admin seats are unlimited on every plan; the pricing page does not state a registrant limit S2.

What unlimited covers here, and the few limits that remain, is written out just below.

Unlimited, with the Small Print Printed Large.

No event count, no attendee count. Here is the whole scope, small print included.

Unlimited events, registrations and attendees on every plan. We count team seats, not tickets, so your bill does not rise because your event sells out. The limits that do exist are operational, not commercial: 99 of one ticket type per order line, 10,000 orders per Excel export, five languages per event, and one subdomain and one sending domain per organisation.

At the Door

The Onsite Kit Question.

Accelevents' onsite kit page lists a Standard kit of two Zebra printers, two iPads, a 5G router and 500 badges, and recommends its kits for events under 1,000 attendees printing in black and white. eventcloud's door is a link and a four-digit PIN on the phones your team already carries, plus a Badge Kiosk on a laptop with the printer beside it.

  • A link and a PIN: door staff open one link on any phone or tablet and enter a 4-digit PIN. No app to install, no staff accounts, and you can pause or rotate the link between shifts.
  • A kiosk, not a kit: visitors type their ticket number at the Badge Kiosk, check the badge and print it, and printing checks them in. Start Edge or Chrome in kiosk mode on a Windows laptop and badges print with no dialog.
  • Duplicates caught: a second scan shows when the first one happened, and refunded and unpaid tickets are turned away, as are test tickets once you publish.
  • Plan the venue Wi-Fi: check-in runs in the browser, so test the signal at every entrance and at the kiosk during build-up, and bring a 4G router where it is weak. Accelevents' own guide says its printing needs a connection too.
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Where the Facts Come From

Sources.

Every competitor fact on this page links here, with the date we checked it.

Competitor facts checked on .

  1. Source S1: Accelevents ticketing and registration page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  2. Source S2: Accelevents pricing page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  3. Source S3: Accelevents badge printing page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  4. Source S4: Accelevents onsite kit page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  5. Source S5: Accelevents lead capture page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  6. Source S6: Accelevents conference management page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  7. Source S7: Accelevents Passkey integration page (opens in a new tab)Checked
  8. Source S8: Accelevents blog, ultimate guide to badge printing (updated 25 Aug 2026, vendor-authored) (opens in a new tab)Checked
  9. Source S9: Accelevents integrations page (opens in a new tab)Checked
Fair Questions

Accelevents vs eventcloud, Answered.

How much does Accelevents cost?

Accelevents publishes starting prices: Professional "Starting From $7,500" for one event and Business "Starting From $13,500" for unlimited events, with Enterprise and White Label priced on request. Its plan table shows lead capture, kiosk check-in and badge printing on every plan and marks the mobile event app as an add-on, with no amount, and its onsite kits are listed from $1,000 (Accelevents pricing and onsite kit pages, checked 27 October 2026). eventcloud's price lives on one page, our pricing page, and what it meters is team seats: never events, registrations, badges or scans.

Can eventcloud print badges at a kiosk like Accelevents?

Yes. Turn a laptop and the printer beside it into a self-service Badge Kiosk: visitors type their ticket number, or find themselves by name or email if you switch that on, check the badge and print it, and printing checks them in. Start Edge or Chrome in kiosk mode on a Windows laptop, with the command on the Badge Kiosk page, and badges print with no dialog. Accelevents also prints at a staffed desk from its admin app. Want printing at a staffed desk too? Tell us how your desk runs.

Does eventcloud have conditional logic or approvals?

Coming soon: show or hide questions based on earlier answers, and approval of each registration before it is confirmed. Need either for your next event? Tell us. Each ticket group has its own form, so each audience is asked only what applies to it; private groups are reachable only by a secret link, and promo codes can be restricted to named email addresses or whole domains.

Can exhibitors scan leads?

Yes. Lead retrieval comes with every seat: exhibitors use their own phones to scan the QR code on each attendee's badge or in their event app, rate and qualify each lead, and export their leads to Excel. No charge from us per scanner or per lead. You decide whether exhibitors get it with their pass or buy it at checkout for a price you set. Accelevents lists lead capture on every plan too, and its integrations route leads to a CRM. Coming soon: CRM sync for eventcloud. Want leads flowing straight into yours? Tell us which CRM you use.

Can we check people in at each session?

Yes. Pick a session on the check-in link and each scan admits or refuses by booking or ticket type, flags re-entry and keeps a running count against capacity on every device at that door. Afterwards, each session's attendee list shows who came in and when, as a spreadsheet.

Can we try eventcloud for free?

Yes. You can build the whole event, rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards and rehearse check-in on a draft event for free; you subscribe when you are ready to publish. Free events get the same ticket PDFs, QR codes and confirmations as paid ones.

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Registration, Badges and Check-in

Leave the Flight Case.
Bring the Phones.

Give every audience its own form, design the badges in millimetres and hand the door to whoever turns up with a phone.

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  • Build and rehearse free
  • Ticket revenue settles in your own Stripe account
  • Unlimited events, registrations and attendees

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