Tevent Reviews

I just tried Tevent out as a Google Meet / Zoom replacement.

Pros:
- Just copying a link for a meeting is nice, really easy
- The workflow for people receiving the meeting link is easy as well, just enter your name, select a webcam and join
- The interface is clean, modern and uncluttered

Cons:
1) The button to leave a meeting needs to be pressed twice (as confirmation), this is an interface pattern that is not seen very often and which might confuse users. Here it would be better to either just quit (without confirmation) or show a modal to confirm.
2) BIG CON: For meeting attendees it looks like an account has been created after a meeting. This is super bad! They are forwarded to the Tevent dashboard where they are logged in using whatever name they entered at the beginning of the meeting. I can absolutely not use it like this for client meetings and hope the Tevent team improves the flow. I would expect that after leaving a meeting as an attendee, a minimal screen is shown that makes it clear that the meeting is now over. No dashboard should be shown, it should not be tried to sell the attendees anything or make them use Tevent themselves. In its current form, I cannot use this for meetings with clients, such a pity! Please fix this, without this dashboard forwarding / fake account creation, Tevent would be a great replacement for Zoom / Google Meet!
3) Available actions for attendees: attendees can start recordings and open a Miro board. Would be great if the meeting creator could disable this setting for attendees. In my case, I don’t want attendees to be able to start recordings or open Miro boards. So this is also stopping me from using it with clients.

I am still give 4 stars (even if I cannot use Tevent in its current form), because I have hope that the team will improve my cons above (in this case I will update my review and give 5 stars).

I haven’t looked into how to use Tevent as an events platform, yet, since the meeting functionality is much more important for me.

I was a bit sceptical having bought a few online events and video conferencing software previously searching for a Zoom replacement only to be disappointed. Most of these software are touch and go, but Tevent completely exceeds my expectations. I was surprised to see how user-friendly and seamless the platform is, something I don't take for granted after years of searching.

One least discussed feature but important to point out is the ability to re-broadcast the event to multiple platforms at the same time (and doing it very smoothly too). Streaming to LinkedIn live is also very stable, which until Tevent, only big mainstream platforms like Restream.io can do excellently.

I know I made several requests about CNAME (which is still incredibly important for my business). But even without it, I found the platform is already rich in features and incredibly robust.

There are also comments by others to suggest including an evergreen webinar feature but for me this will actually take the platform in a very different direction. The centre of Tevent strength is its live event features and I believe this is what Tevent should be focusing on.

One tip I do like to suggest is when you guys finally roll out CNAME, please ensure attendee registration and accounts are also white-labelled. Some AppSumo deals allow CNAME but do not completely white-label the user experience. Logos, emails, registration page are still branded with the original branding. Once you have this, I'm sure you'll overtake Zoom, and Gotowebinar, in no time.

Well done and keep up the good work.

So, I went through the platform and here's what I like:

* Quick calls (meetings without the need to schedule them - just share the links, similar to google meets.
* Scheduled meetings
* And tons of options for delivering great Webinars.
* The docs. They put a lot of effort into them and this means you can answer any questions about how to achieve something just by searching for it in the docs.

So, the great thing is, as someone else has already mentioned, the platform seems to cover a loooot of use cases, which is great for us. Less platforms - less overhead.

Here's what we need for the product to REALLY work for us. The team seems to be on top of at least some of these, judging by comments here:

* We absolutely need Tevent to be in German
* Quick call would be even better with an option to reset (or even automatically reset) the chat etc. for a given links. So we could just reuse the link for meetings with different people with a clean slate (such as emptying chat history etc.)
* Create recurring events, eg. for a weekly course with the same class

I have fully stacked as I’m really excited about the features available and the roadmap. Hope that they will add exhibitor booths in the future. Fingers crossed!

I definitely think that Tevent has a lot of upside potential and I like the options it gives me, although some of the setup process takes some getting used to, which is true of most software. There are some good options for events although on a webinar, Tevent automatically sets up a breakout room and you must manually delete it if you do not want it. No big deal, but it usually works the other way around. For free events, Tevent seems like a good solution.

Where I run into issues is with paid webinars, which is the bulk of what I do. Tevent requires you to set up a new Stripe account, with no option to use an existing Stripe account. I do not want to set up a new Stripe account, but this is the only option. Unless this gets fixed, I may need to refund since paid events is my main use case and setting up a new Stripe account just to use with Tevent is a big no-go for me. I've submitted an inquiry on this to technical support, so I will see if they can resolve the issue.