Content & Growth · Events
VanVed vs Eventbrite
for Events
Why businesses choose VanVed over Eventbrite
Registrations are not a silo: an attendee is matched to the CRM contact and the membership that already exist for that email, so the event becomes part of the customer record rather than a CSV to reconcile. A ticket can now actually be paid for online through Razorpay, the waitlist promotes automatically under a row lock so the last seat cannot be double-sold, promo codes only burn a use once money actually lands, and there is no per-ticket fee — Eventbrite's flat component alone can exceed the entire cost of running this module on a cheap ticket.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Eventbrite |
|---|---|---|
| Taking payment for a ticket | Yes now — online payment via Razorpay on the registration invoice, reusing the platform's own signature-verified payment flow | Card and wallet checkout, at 3.7% plus a flat fee per ticket |
| What a ticket costs the organiser | Nothing per ticket — the module is part of the platform subscription | On a cheap ticket the flat component pushes the effective cut far above the headline 3.7% |
| Discount codes | Org-wide or per-event codes with use caps that are only spent once the invoice is actually paid | Discount and access codes |
| QR check-in at the door | A browser scanner using the phone camera, with manual code entry where the browser has no barcode API — iOS Safari today | A dedicated organiser app on iOS and Android |
| Waitlist | Automatic — an over-capacity registration is waitlisted and the next one is promoted on a cancellation, under a row lock | Waitlist with manual release |
| Emailing attendees | A confirmation email carrying the registration code really is sent, on registration and on waitlist promotion — through the tenant's own mail provider, so nothing goes out if none is configured. No reminders and no bulk attendee mail | Confirmations, reminders and bulk attendee emails |
| Reserved seating | None — capacity is a number, not a seat map | Reserved seat maps |
| Recurring and multi-date events | Weekly recurrence generates a class series from one event — weekly only, with no daily, monthly or every-N-weeks rule | Recurring and multi-date series |
| Attendee joining the rest of your records | A registration auto-matches an existing CRM contact and membership by email | A ticketing record; joining it to your CRM is an integration |
Where Eventbrite is ahead of us today
A ticket can now be paid for online, but the surrounding polish still lags Eventbrite: an attendee gets one confirmation email with their code, only where the tenant has configured its own mail provider, and never a reminder. Cancelling a paid registration now records what refund is owed for staff to process or waive by hand — there is no gateway refund API, so nothing is automatically returned to the attendee's card. There are no seat maps and recurrence is weekly-only.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Eventbrite may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Events module does
- Ticket types
Set up multiple ticket types per event.
- Registration tracking
Track who registered and which ticket type they hold.
- Capacity management
Cap registrations at the venue's real capacity.
- Check-in
Check attendees in at the door against their registration.