Why Fieravents
Seven things no other event platform does.
We read fifteen event platforms feature by feature before building this: Cvent, Swoogo, Stova, Bizzabo, EventsAir, RegFox, Eventtia, Eventscribe, Dryfta, X-CD and more. Seven capabilities came back missing on all of them. Each one is listed below with what backs it.
One
One credential, validated against the live roster.
Cancel a registration ten minutes before the doors open and that badge is refused at the scan. Nothing to reprint, nothing to re-export, nothing to collect back. Other platforms reissue or re-export, which leaves a window where the badge and your records disagree.
What backs it: the credential is a token resolved server-side at scan time against the roster, and the offline path caches the roster rather than baking the answer into the badge.
Two
One attendance record across the door, the sessions and the hall.
A scan at a door, a session and a booth write to the same record against the same person. Report across all three in one query. Elsewhere these are three systems reconciled by hand after the show.
What backs it: every admission outcome writes to one attendance table, including the refusals — and the same scan twice is one row whatever the outcome. Reporting →
Three
Seven admission outcomes, not pass and fail.
Wrong day, duplicate scan, unpaid registration, revoked badge, barred attendee, wrong room, admit. Your volunteer sees which one it is and what to do about it. Every other platform we surveyed returns a pass or a fail.
What backs it: a fixed evaluation order where the first rule that fires wins, and the order is itself the specification. The table →
Four
Your own payment processor, with your own keys.
No platform in the survey offers this. Keep the merchant account you have and the rate you negotiated. We are not in the flow of funds and take no share of it. ACH on exhibitor invoices and card-present terminals onsite are included.
What backs it: two adapters built against one interface simultaneously, exercised by the same test suite. Payments →
Five
Sell booths by priority points or self-serve checkout.
Run ranked priority-points selection for returning exhibitors, then open the remaining booths to self-serve checkout on the same map. The specialist tools do one or the other. An established show needs both in the same year.
What backs it: ranked selection windows and map checkout over one booth inventory, with the booth locked at the point of purchase because two exhibitors clicking at once is the expected case. Exhibit hall →
Six
Lead capture that resolves to the registration.
Every scan at your show carries the details the attendee typed at registration. Cvent buys third-party enrichment for this because it did not issue the badge. Your exhibitors get names, titles and companies that are correct rather than inferred.
What backs it: four capture methods producing one indistinguishable lead object, with provenance recorded per field. Lead capture →
Seven
Your own database, at every tier.
A separate PostgreSQL database for every customer, on every band. Backup and restore run against your data alone, and no query can reach another customer’s rows.
What backs it: every scoped model carries an isolation test, run against a real PostgreSQL instance through the same routing the application uses. Architecture →
Which of the seven matters most to you?
Name it and we will show you that part working, end to end, instead of a tour of everything else.
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