Venues choosing event management software pick between four routes: spreadsheets, generic event tools, a bespoke build, or a hospitality-built platform. The right choice depends on whether the system collects each guest food and allergen choice directly and turns it into kitchen-ready reports, or leaves that as manual admin. Creventa is the hospitality-built option, and publishes its pricing from £74 per month.
Switching from another platform
Creventa Night Shift gives venues moving on from Access Collins and DesignMyNight Creventa Flow free, with onboarding and training, until their current contract ends.
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How to compare event management software
Choosing event software is really a choice between four routes. This is an honest guide to those routes, a scorecard to judge any option, and what switching actually involves.
The four routes venues take
Spreadsheets and PDFs
Free and familiar, but at event scale the hours chasing, consolidating and re-typing add up, and allergen data in email threads is a real compliance risk.
Generic event or form tools
They collect responses, but they are not built for hospitality service. They rarely produce a chef report, allergen flags against a named guest, or printable place cards without manual work.
A bespoke build
A custom system fits exactly at first, then becomes a maintenance cost that competes with every other IT priority.
A hospitality-built platform
Software designed for venues running regular events, where pre-orders, allergens, seating, place cards, payments and reports are one flow. This is where Creventa sits, fully branded as your venue, with guests never needing to log in.
What a fair evaluation looks like
Judge every option, including your current one, against the same five questions rather than a feature list:
- ✓Does allergen and dietary data come straight from the guest, against their name, with an FSA-compliant audit trail?
- ✓Are the chef report, food pass, place cards and BEO generated automatically, with no re-typing?
- ✓Can guests take part with no app and no login, by link or QR code?
- ✓Is the whole guest experience white-labelled as your brand?
- ✓Does it handle your real range, from a boardroom lunch to a 2,500-guest banquet and joiner party nights?
What switching involves
Lighter than most teams expect. Most venues are live within a week, some within hours. Creventa brings over your existing menus, packages and settings, moves your current bookings and ticketed events, and includes onboarding and training, so you start day one with a working system rather than an empty one.
The proof
Figures vary by venue and event.
Competitor details on this page are based on each provider's public website and marketing materials, last reviewed August 2026. If anything is out of date, let us know and we will correct it. Creventa results such as wet-spend uplift, time saved and reduced food waste are typical outcomes reported by customers and vary by venue and event.