Arrived vs. every other event tool
Arrived is built for making an entrance. Your guests feel the event from the first invite they open, and you run the rest from the same place, right through to check-in.
Pick what you’re comparing us to
Most event tools fall into one of three camps. Here’s what each does well, and why teams go looking for something else.
All-in-one event platforms
Best for
Big conferences that want registration, badging and onsite in one system
Why teams look elsewhere
- Months of onboarding before the team feels at home in it
- Limited design customization for your event page
- Hidden fees that stack up
Where Arrived is different
Design it any way you picture it
Add animation, motion effects or a layout nobody else has. We’ll make sure the page looks as good as the event itself.
Run it end to end
Manage attendees, budgets, reports and analytics in one place, from the first invite to the badge at the door.
A hand when you need one
Happily’s network of 70,000+ event specialists is there when you need a designer, a coordinator or a check-in crew.
Arrived next to other event platforms
What things cost on Arrived, and what the same things cost elsewhere.
ArrivedYes: Free forever, or Pro at $59 a month, billed annually
Other platformsNo: Big platforms start at $11,800–$18,000 a year, or up to $499 per user a month
ArrivedYes: Unlimited on every plan, free included
Other platformsNo: $7–$12 per registrant, per event, on some platforms
ArrivedYes: Up to 5 collaborators included on Pro
Other platformsNo: Often billed per seat
ArrivedYes: None
Other platformsNo: $1,500–$50,000 before your first event
ArrivedYes: 0%, with ticketing on the Teams plan
Other platformsNo: 5.8% of every ticket on average, across 14 ticketing platforms
ArrivedYes: $1 a ticket, on the Teams plan
Other platformsNo: $0.48 a ticket on average, and up to $1.79
ArrivedYes: Stripe’s standard fee
Other platformsPartly: Usually charged on top, or built into a higher fee
ArrivedYes: Custom designed around your event, with your colors, fonts and assets
Other platformsPartly: No branding flexibility
ArrivedYes: Design Magic, $1,500 a page, first draft in 2–3 business days
Other platformsNo: Up to $15,000 through a services team or agency
ArrivedYes: For your site and your emails, on Pro
Other platformsPartly: Usually the site only, and often on a higher tier
ArrivedYes: Included, with tracks and tags on Pro
Other platformsPartly: Full on the big platforms, basic on RSVP apps
ArrivedYes: On Pro, with their own email capture
Other platformsPartly: Usually a separate virtual events add-on
ArrivedYes: RSVP forms and reminder and confirmation emails you can customize, with custom form fields on Pro
Other platformsPartly: Yes, but often with overly complicated email editors
ArrivedYes: Look up guests and check them in from any browser, on every plan
Other platformsPartly: Included on most platforms, often in a separate app
ArrivedYes: See who’s walked in, live, next to who registered
Other platformsPartly: Full on the big platforms, basic on RSVP apps
ArrivedYes: On Pro. Guests confirm their details and print their own badge
Other platformsPartly: Usually rented hardware or a separate vendor
ArrivedYes: Badge printing services with a price match guarantee, designed to match your event page
Other platformsNo: Usually a separate vendor, booked and paid for on its own
ArrivedYes: Pages on your event site, on Pro
Other platformsPartly: Usually inside a separate event app
ArrivedYes: Happily’s network of 70,000+ event specialists
Other platformsNo: Onsite staff billed as a services add-on
ArrivedYes: Page and email analytics, registrations and check-ins in one place, so you can see where guests drop off
Other platformsPartly: Often split across the event platform, the website and the email tool
ArrivedYes: Budget tracking and ROI reporting on Pro, next to your registrations
Other platformsPartly: A spreadsheet on RSVP apps, and a higher tier on the big platforms
ArrivedYes: CSV export free, Zapier on Pro, CRM and API on Teams
Other platformsPartly: Zapier or CRM on paid tiers
ArrivedYes: Priority support on Pro, from people who’ve produced thousands of events
Other platformsPartly: Help center and tickets, with priority support at extra cost
“Other platforms” figures come from published pricing and buyer-reported contract data as of September 2026. They cover the platforms we’re most often compared with, not any one product, and your quote may differ. See something we’ve got wrong? Email arrived@teamhappily.com and we’ll fix it.
What you see is what you pay
No hidden fees is our promise
The price on our pricing page is the price you pay. Here’s what we’ll never add on.
Free to set up. There’s no onboarding bill and no implementation project. Nobody charges you to learn the software.
Unlimited registrations on every plan. Free plan included, so your guest list can grow while your bill stays the same.
We take 0% of ticket sales. You pay a flat $1 a ticket.
Fees on this event
- Setup and onboarding
- $0
- Per registrant
- $0
- Platform fee on tickets
- 0%
Not sure if we can help? Let’s chat.
Tell us what you’re planning, from the page to the people onsite, and we’ll tell you straight what we can take off your plate.
Need help with a designer, badge printing, a check-in crew, a photographer, an event coordinator, event analytics, your event content, a page by Friday?
We’ve run thousands of events. Ask us anything.
Event management platform questions, answered
Updated September 2026.
The best event management platform for a small or mid-sized team is one you can use without training that doesn’t charge per registrant. Arrived is built for that: a designed event website, registration, reminder emails, check-in and reporting in one app. The free plan covers unlimited events, and Arrived Pro is $59 a month, billed annually.
Arrived is an alternative to enterprise event platforms for teams that want an event website, registration, check-in, badges and reporting without an annual five-figure contract. There’s no implementation fee and no training period. When you need people as well as software, Happily’s network of 70,000+ event specialists covers design, coordination and onsite check-in.
Event management software ranges from free to more than $18,000 a year. As of September 2026, RSVP apps offer free plans, while enterprise event platforms start at roughly $11,800 to $18,000 a year and can add per-registrant and implementation fees. Arrived is free for unlimited events and registrations, and Arrived Pro costs $59 a month, billed annually.
Arrived charges no setup fees, no onboarding fees and no per-registrant fees, and takes a 0% platform fee on ticket sales. By contrast, buyer-reported pricing from 2026 shows some enterprise event platforms charging up to $12 per registrant, per event, plus implementation fees of $5,000 to $50,000. Ask any vendor for its full fee list before you sign.
Arrived charges a 0% platform fee and a flat $1 per ticket, with ticketing currently available on the Arrived Teams plan. For comparison, Eventbrite’s published US fee is 3.7% plus $1.79 per ticket, and Luma’s free plan takes 5% of each paid ticket (September 2026). Card processing applies on every platform; on Arrived it’s Stripe’s standard fee.
Arrived is an event website builder that designs the page around your event, using your brand colors, fonts, images and animation instead of a fixed template, and guests register right on the page. Brand customization is on the free plan. Arrived Pro adds a custom domain for your site and emails, custom registration fields and social sharing previews.
Arrived includes event check-in from any browser on every plan, including the free plan. Arrived Pro connects to Arrived check-in kiosks, and the Teams plan lets you buy and customize badge printing kiosks. Badges carry the same design as your event website, and Happily can send an onsite crew to run check-in on the day.
Yes. Arrived’s free plan includes unlimited branded event websites and unlimited registrations, with no time limit. It also covers check-in, customizable reminder and confirmation emails, agenda, speaker and sponsor sections, CSV export of attendee data, and basic analytics with attendance tracking.
Yes. Design Magic from Arrived pairs your event with a Happily designer who builds a custom event page for $1,500, with a first draft in 2–3 business days and two rounds of revisions. The finished page lives in your Arrived account, where you can edit it yourself. Agency-built event websites can cost up to $15,000.
Your event page, live before this meeting ends
Tell Arrived what you’re bringing people together for. We’ll take it from there.