Content & Growth · Events
VanVed vs Townscript
for Events
Why businesses choose VanVed over Townscript
For an event run at your own customers — a members' workshop, a clinic, a class — this wins on the join: the attendee is already a CRM contact and a membership, a ticket can now be paid for with UPI or card, custom questions capture whatever the organiser actually needs to know, the waitlist promotes itself, and there is no per-ticket cut. Check-in needs no app install on the door staff's phone.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Townscript |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per paid ticket | No per-ticket fee — the module is part of the platform subscription | Free for free events; roughly 3% plus a flat amount, plus gateway and GST, on paid ones |
| Collecting the ticket money | Yes now — UPI, card and netbanking collection on the ticket through Razorpay; payouts follow the platform's own settlement, not a guaranteed daily payout | UPI, cards and netbanking, with daily payouts to an Indian bank account |
| Registration form | Custom questions now — organisers add their own registration questions per event, shown on the public form and the registration detail page, on top of name, email, phone and quantity | A custom registration form builder |
| Door check-in | A browser QR scanner that needs no install, falling back to manual code entry on iOS Safari | An organiser app on iOS and Android with QR check-in |
| Waitlist with automatic promotion | Yes — capacity-aware, promoting the earliest waitlisted registration on a cancellation | Not documented on the product's own pages |
| Discount and promo codes | Flat or percent, org-wide or per-event, with validity and use limits | Ticket categories with discount codes |
| Notifying attendees | A confirmation email with the registration code, sent on the tenant's own mail provider — nothing after that, and no SMS or WhatsApp anywhere in the module | Automated email notifications |
| Being found by strangers | None — the event appears only on the tenant's own site | A public discovery listing, backed by BookMyShow |
| Attendee record joining the business | Auto-matched to the CRM contact and membership behind that email | Ticketing only — export and re-import to your own CRM |
Where Townscript is ahead of us today
Townscript still has the edge on reach and payout mechanics. It pays the organiser's Indian bank account daily, guaranteed; VanVed follows the platform's own settlement cadence rather than a guaranteed daily payout. It emails attendees throughout an event's lifecycle; this module sends one confirmation and nothing else. And it puts events in front of an audience the organiser does not already have — VanVed's events are only found on the tenant's own site.
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, Townscript 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.