Cvent OnArrival

Pros: I like that Cvent OnArrival is very easy to use and makes attendee check‑in extremely fast. It saves a significant amount of time onsite, and the ability to print badges on demand is a huge advantage.

Cons: The biggest drawback is how difficult the setup can be, especially for new users. A lot of key functions are hidden within the backend, and the navigation isn’t always intuitive, which can make configuration more time‑consuming than expected.

Pros: OnArrival is easy to use and works seamlessly for badge printing and/ or capturing attendance for in-person events.

Cons: It is expensive compared to some other tools making it difficult to utilize for events with limited budget.

Pros: OnArrival is a great tool for tracking attendee check-in and badge printing. It offers tons of reports and the individual session scanning works well onsite and provides accurate counts to track event no-shows. The kiosk system is very intuitive in self check in and manual “face to face” modes. Looking at peak live registration numbers over 4 iPads, registration staff were able to easily check in close to 200 attendees in under an hour. Cvent also offers lots of staffing support in the lead up and onsite to ensure a smooth rollout and use.

Cons: This software is quite pricey so allocate a healthy budget if you are using this system. Because badges are an essential part of our meeting security, I feel it is worth it.

Pros: The ability to use multiple check-in stations while continuing to access registration details in Cvent OnArrival. Create specialized reports based on the type of event and information requested by stakeholders.

Cons: Least favorite aspect is the inability to turn Cvent OnArrival off credit the event back to the contract.

Pros: We use this in conjunction with Cvent as our check in process. Love the functionality of it for our printing.

Cons: Wish the larger OnArrival printers were more readily available. Pricing is too high for our standard events. Never sure if our stock from PC Namtag works with our printer until we have it on hand. Wish there was more knowledge about that.

Pros: On Arrival allows the organizers of an event to save time by automating the registration, printing of credentials or identification cards and payments of those participants who had not registered in advance. It also offers the option that this process can be managed by the participant himself.

Cons: I think that its disadvantage is not in the system itself, but in the fact that these technological deployments are not necessary for small events, because in these cases it is easy to handle all the procedures manually, it would then represent an unnecessary cost.

Pros: We usually manually print out, prep and organize badges and for big events it becomes a huge task that takes a lot of time and manpower. OnArrival makes the process very quick and easy by printing badges on demand and keeping track of them automatically. Badge details can be fully customized so that opens up a lot of possibilities for large events with many registration types and options that go along with them.

Cons: The ease of printing badges on demand also makes reprinting and wasting badges a lot easier and it leads to producing a huge amount of additional waste. Using the system means you are dependent on a networked environment and also the printing machines that can cause delays when they malfunction.

Pros: The software was really easy to use, integrated seamlessly with our Cvent web events, and collected onsite payment all in a one-stop-shop

Cons: The thing i disliked the most was that it functioned best with Cvent events - we didn't have great luck with the events side of things, which made it challenging to push for OnArrival, even though this side of the technology functioned really well.

Pros: It's almost a no brainer - so simple to hand off a tablet to a volunteer, given them a 2 minute tutorial and walk away knowing they will check your attendees in quite easily.

Cons: I wish it linked with other event reg systems and wasn't tied solely to Cvent

Pros: Fast and easy in-person event check-in/registration. It also has the ability to link to onsite credit card processors which allow for fast transactions for event registrations, onsite donations, raffles, auctions, etc. to increase onsite fundraising.

Cons: I don't love that it's linked to the Cvent event registration platform as I find that platform more challenging and cumbersome to work in, but OnArrival is a simple and functional check-in system.

Pros: Love Cvent - in general - and their on-site attendee management software just makes all their management tools come together.

Cons: Cvent is a rather expensive event management software. I wish they would lover their pricing a touch.

Pros: This software is great for checking in and attendee tracking. We use it for our smaller annual meetings where we need to know when specific people check-in/arrive. It is able to send me an alter via text or email that lets me know that the specific person has checked-in. Great feature and helps with our guest services at the event.

Cons: Must be knowledgeable about the software ahead of time. Not ideal for those who are not familiar with the product. Temporary staff takes a bit of time to get used to it. But it is overall easy to use. Just harder for some older folks to grasp.

Pros: The OnArrival software eases event check-in and badge printing. It does a great job at that. And it interfaces well with the underlying database in Cvent's event management system.

Cons: We used On Arrival once. While it was nice and slick, it was very expensive. We went back to a manual check-in procedure and that went just fine.

Pros: As a CVENT user, OnArrival is great for on site event check in and registration management. It saves a lot of time when you have a participant that did not pre-register show up... Instead of having them go through the whole registration process, you can quickly add them from your iPad and they are in the system and marked as a participant.

Cons: To get the full functionality of OnArrival you have to be willing to pay... My CVENT contract only includes the basic version (which is awesome... don't get me wrong) but the higher packages have session tracking, and sign in features which would be very useful with my larger event and some trainings. The high prices are hard to justify with the costs we already have from CVENT.

Pros: Everything from packaging, easy set up, and user friendly software. Attendees were impressed with how easy and fast it was to get registered and get their name badges.

Pros: Easy to use, saves a ton of time and confusion.

Cons: Nothing.