ZONE: DUE DILIGENCE
Bloop and the conference platforms.
Somebody in the organisation already bought one for the conference, and the question is whether it can also badge the crew on a build site. It is a reasonable question with a clear answer.
WHAT THE CONFERENCE PLATFORMS ARE GOOD AT
Conferences and attendee experience, which is a genuinely different and genuinely hard job. Registration, agendas, session tracking, sponsor and exhibitor management, delegate apps and badge printing at a hotel check in desk. If your event is people arriving at a venue with a name badge and a schedule, this is the category built for you and Bloop is not.
PICK THEM IF
Your event is a conference, congress, trade show or corporate summit. The people arriving are delegates rather than crew, your access question is which sessions rather than which zones, and nobody is scanning in a field. Cvent, Bizzabo, Swoogo and EventMobi build the right product for that and we do not.
PICK BLOOP IF
The people you are badging build the event rather than attend it: crew, contractors, suppliers, riggers, artists, vehicles. Your access rules are zones and time windows, your paperwork has expiry dates, and your gate is somewhere the signal dies.
SIDE BY SIDE
Every row cites the page it came from.
Our column is checkable in the product. Theirs is what they publish about themselves, with a link to the page and the date we read it. Where their material does not cover something, the row says so rather than guessing in our favour.
| DIMENSION | BLOOP | THE CONFERENCE PLATFORMS |
|---|---|---|
| Who the product is for | The people who build the event. Crew, contractors, suppliers, artists and vehicles moving through zones on a temporary site. | Cvent describes event professionals, marketing professionals, planners, agencies and associations, and lists registration, mobile apps, check in and badging, and attendee engagement.CVENT PRODUCT PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
| Crew and contractor accreditation | The whole product. Supplier portals against an allocation, so the supplier maintains their own list and you approve against zones. | Not documented publiclyTheir public material does not address this. That is not the same as saying they cannot do it.CVENT PRODUCT PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
| Offline scanning | Scans continue through dropouts and sync on reconnect, with duplicate detection across the gap. | Not documented publiclyTheir public material does not address this. That is not the same as saying they cannot do it.CVENT PRODUCT PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
| What you pay per | Unique accredited people per rolling 12 months across every event. Nothing per badge, per device or per scan. | EventMobi publishes from 3,000 US dollars per event, or from 8,900 per year including unlimited events, with pre printed badges from 3.99 per badge and hardware rental from 1,000 dollars for two iPads and printers for seven days.EVENTMOBI PRICING PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
| Integration cost | No charge per integration. See Tickets validation is included. | EventMobi publishes 1,000 US dollars per standard integration.EVENTMOBI PRICING PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
| Published pricing | Four tiers with numbers on the pricing page, plus a free tier. | EventMobi publishes prices. Cvent does not publish pricing and offers a trial and a demo request instead.CVENT PRODUCT PAGE, READ 24 AUGUST 2026 |
Last verified 24 August 2026. Products change and pages get rewritten. If you work at one of these companies and a row here is wrong or out of date, email hello@bloop.events and we will correct it. We would rather be told than be right for a while.
IF YOU MOVED
What moving actually involves.
- 01This is usually not a migration but a second system for a different job, and it is worth being honest that you may end up running both.
- 02If your conference product handles delegates, keep it. Bloop is for the back of house.
- 03Import your crew, supplier and contractor records to Bloop as CSV.
- 04Start on the free tier and see whether the two jobs really are separate at your organisation. Often they are.