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Eventbrite alternative
Eventbrite sells tickets to any event. registration.expert is built for conferences — submissions, peer review, registration, scheduling, check-in, and proceedings in one connected system, so your registration actually knows about your papers and authors.
Free to start · No credit card · Built for academic & research conferences
Eventbrite is a polished, general-purpose ticketing platform — and that's exactly the limit. It treats a research conference like a concert: it sells the ticket and stops there. It has no concept of a paper, a reviewer, an author, a program, or proceedings.
So organizers end up running submissions and review in one tool, registration in Eventbrite, the schedule in a spreadsheet, and proceedings by hand — with no shared data between any of them. registration.expert replaces that whole stack with a single system where registration is wired to the rest of the conference.
The gaps
Eventbrite can't take paper submissions, assign reviewers, detect conflicts, or record decisions. That entire scholarly half of the conference lives in a separate tool.
Attendees and authors are just ticket buyers. There's no link between who submitted, who's presenting, and who registered — so you reconcile it by hand.
No visa invitation letters, no author-aware tiered pricing, no presenter certificates — the things a conference needs but a generic events tool never built.
No schedule builder fed by accepted papers, and no proceedings compilation or per-paper DOI registration. The academic output is entirely on you.
Side by side
Eventbrite is strong on ticketing. For a conference, that's one phase of seven.
| Conference capability | registration.expert | Eventbrite |
|---|---|---|
| Registration & ticketing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Card payments & invoices | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-site check-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paper submission portal | ✓ | — |
| Peer review (single- & double-blind) | ✓ | — |
| Author-aware registration | ✓ | — |
| Visa invitation letters | ✓ | — |
| Program scheduler from accepted papers | ✓ | — |
| Proceedings & per-paper DOI | ✓ | — |
Eventbrite covers the ticket. registration.expert covers the conference.
What you gain
FAQ
Eventbrite is a general-purpose ticketing tool. It has no paper submission, peer review, program scheduling tied to accepted papers, visa letters, or proceedings and DOI registration — so for a conference it only covers one phase, and the rest still needs other tools.
Yes — tiered tickets, Stripe card payments, automatic invoices, refunds, and capacity enforcement, plus academic extras Eventbrite lacks like author-aware registration and visa invitation letters.
Fees scale with your event rather than a flat per-ticket charge. Starter is free with a 3% per-ticket fee; Pro is a flat monthly fee plus 1.5% per ticket — so larger conferences pay proportionally less. (Compare against your current per-ticket cost for your specific event size.)
Yes — registration.expert is designed to replace the Eventbrite + submission tool + spreadsheets combination with one system. Join the launch list for early access; founding conferences get white-glove migration help.
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