Hopin Alternatives, Pricing & Reviews

Are you looking for an alternative solution to Hopin for your event management? If your answer is yes, you have come to the right place. In this article, you are going to find comparisons of Hopin to our membership management platform, Raklet. Tune in to see which one of them better suits you.

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Event management may be a challenging task, but they are also crucial for communities and organizations. Luckily, there are software that can help you to automate the struggling, repetitive tasks such as promoting your events or securely collecting ticket fees which makes the process of managing your events a smooth and fast one. Hopin and Raklet are two examples of such software. Let’s see how Hopin compares to our all-in-one solution, Raklet.
Hopin Website
Hopin is an event management software that was founded in 2019. Since then, they have been helping organizations to create, host and manage live events for up to 100,000 attendees. And surely, they are one of the good options for event management solutions but there are other solutions out there that can be a better match to your organization and its needs. So, let’s see exactly what Hopin has to offer and what they lack.

Hopin Features

Hopin features

As you can see from their Capterra page, Hopin offers a variety of features to provide you a smoother event management process. Let’s look at some of them in more detail so that you can get a clearer idea.

Virtual Lobby: Regardless of the size of your event, Hopin offers a virtual lobby to make your attendees’ experience of your event delightful and as easy as possible. Through the reception page, they will be able to see your event schedule and attend sessions. And through the event stages, you will be able to stream and screen share your presentations. They also have a tool for breaking out your attendees into live sessions with full moderator capabilities for owners and multiple speakers as well.

Event Marketing: Hopin offers you tools to promote your events, such as Hopin Canvas. Hopin Canvas provides you features like a customizable layout, modular blocks and custom domains, so that you can create your event page in a fast way. After you have created your event page, you can also resend tickets, create promo codes, issue refunds and change ticket information from your dashboard along with managing waitlists.

Onsite Event Management: For onsite management, Hopin offers features such as badge printing to eliminate the stress and errors of pre-printing. There are also tools to control access to sessions and allow attendees to create their own schedules as well. And when the event is over, attendees will automatically be issued their certificates.

Hopin Pricing

Hopin pricing

Hopin offers 4 different pricing plans, including a free version. Their paid packages start with $99 per month and grow from there. Unfortunately they don’t share pricing information on their advanced plans so in order to find out about them,you need to contact the Hopin team. However, they provide a free trial to help organizations to decide whether Hopin is the right software for them.

Their starter package includes features such as email/chat support and unlimited events up to 3 days length. Their most comprehensive package, Advanced, provides a customizable event length and more advanced event services. As for what their users think, in general, they believe their competitive pricing is why they chose Hopin in the first place.

Hopin Reviews

Hopin provides an overall good experience to their customers and that’s why they have a 4.5/5 rating from Capterra. Their ratings for customer service are relatively low compared to their overall ratings. That’s because some of their users believe that when a problem occurs, the customer service team is slow to respond and offer solutions. Let’s see in more detail what their customers think Hopin has to offer and what it lacks:
Hopin reviews

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Raklet is an all-in-one membership management software that offers comprehensive solutions for event management. Using Raklet, you can easily create, promote and manage your events. Raklet has unique features to make sure your events are going smoothly, such as in-house engineers, unlimited customization opportunities and a live support chat. To paint you a more clear picture, let’s see some of Raklet’s features in more detail:

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EVENT MANAGEMENT

Raklet offers a variety of features to help you create, promote and manage your event in a smooth and easy way. You can easily create your event in any way you please (when we say unlimited customization, we mean it). It can be an online event with meeting links or it can be a physical event with location information. Also, when the day of the event comes, you can scan embedded QR codes or barcodes to check-in attendees at the door within seconds.

TICKETING

Our unlimited customization opportunities apply to ticketing as well. Your event can be free or ticketed, have different types of tickets and the number of your events can be limited. Whatever your needs are, we are here to help!
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CRM

With Raklet’s powerful CRM, you will be able to keep track of the attendees of your events. They will automatically become contacts on your platform and since you will be able to organize your contacts’ information with our advanced filtering tools, it will be easy for you to engage with your attendees as well.

SOCIAL NETWORK

Another important feature Raklet offers is a social network platform just for your organization. Through your social network platform, you will be able to keep your members and former attendees updated about your upcoming events via customizable announcement posts. Also, by using our discussion boards and private messaging tools, your members and former attendees will strengthen the bonds they have with your organization, since they will be able to express themselves through these tools as well.
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Raklet Pricing

Raklet Pricing

As you can see, Raklet offers 4 pricing plans including a forever free version which allows you to have up to 50 members. Our paid packages start from $49 per month. There is also a free trial which lasts for 30 days. You can give our free trial a chance and decide on a paid plan or choose to go with the free version forever!

You can check out Raklet’s simple and transparent pricing plans for more information.

Raklet Reviews

With an overall rating of 4.8/5 on Capterra, we are proud to say that Raklet is one of the best membership management software available. Most of our popularity among users is coming from our success in event management and fast customer service. Using Raklet, you can be sure to deliver a great experience to your customers before and during events!

The ratings shown above are from Capterra, one of the leading software review platforms. You can also check out SourceForge, G2 or GetApp for Raklet reviews as well.

How is Raklet better than Hopin?

You can see the comparison below:

RAKLET

Hopin

Pricing:

Free or starts from $49/mo
Starts from $99/mo

Free Plan:

Yes

Yes

CRM:

Yes

No

Event Planning:

Yes

Yes

Membership Management:

Yes

No

Integrations:

More than 3,000 apps

Limited

Branded Mobile App:

Yes

No

Social Network:

Yes

No

Customizations:

  The sky’s the limit

Not flexible

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