VoVo vs Eventbrite: Throw the Party on Your Own Website

Picture it. The venue is booked, the snacks are ordered and Aunt Linda has already asked twice whether there will be a raffle. Then you send everyone off to buy tickets on a website that is not yours, under a logo that is not yours, right next to other people's events.

That is how a lot of events run on Eventbrite. It works, and plenty of organizers use it. But your event ends up living on someone else's website. VoVo Events flips that around. The event page, the tickets, the guest list and the follow-up all live on your own website, in the same account as your members, your shop and your email.

Eventbrite rents you a page. VoVo hands you the whole venue. #

• Your address, your look. With Eventbrite, your event's home is a page on eventbrite.com. With VoVo, it lives on your website, wears your colors and keeps visitors around to see everything else you do.

• Your guests stay your guests. Someone who buys a ticket in VoVo is the same person in your member list, your shop and your email list. No exporting a spreadsheet and praying the columns line up.

• One login for the whole show. Events, memberships, courses, email and your website share one account, so you are not paying for and babysitting a separate ticketing tool.

More than a ticket counter #

Every event in VoVo gets its own workspace with details, a program, tickets and extras, registrations and sponsorship. Here is what fits inside:

• Ticket types and price tiers, including early bird prices for the planners and regular prices for the procrastinators. We love you both.

• Registration questions, so you hear about the peanut allergy before the peanut butter cookies arrive.

• Extras and required choices, like dinner picks, T-shirt sizes or a parking pass.

• Seating areas and waitlists, so a sold out event turns into a list of people who still want in, not a list of complaints.

• Speakers, a program and sponsors, with sponsorship packages your sponsors can actually see.

• In person, online or both, with virtual meeting links for the folks watching from the couch.

• Event series and templates for the events you run every month, so you stop rebuilding the same event from scratch.

• Reminders, badges, check-in and surveys that carry every guest from "I'm in" to "That was great, when is the next one?"

So, VoVo or Eventbrite? #

If you want your event to be one listing among many on someone else's website, Eventbrite will happily have you. If you want your event on your own website, under your own name, with tickets, check-in, sponsors and follow-up in the same place you run everything else, that is exactly what VoVo Events is for.

Start free at getvovo.com/signup, see the whole Events module at getvovo.com/features/events, and take the VoVo app to the door with you from getvovo.com/apps. Raffle tickets for Aunt Linda are sold separately.