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Learner Journey vs Bizzabo
Bizzabo is an event experience platform for marketing teams running conferences and field events: registration and ticketing, an event website builder, email campaigns, a mobile app, a virtual venue, onsite check-in and badge printing, Klik smart badges for networking and lead capture, and CRM integrations — from $499 per user per month with a three-user minimum. Learner Journey is a learning platform with events built in, for organisers whose events are training. The gap between them is the point of this page.
No credit card required. Free plan available.
- Facts checked against bizzabo.com on 20 September 2026
- Two-sided: includes when Bizzabo is the better choice
- Learner Journey has a free plan; Bizzabo starts at $17,999 a year
Conference platform versus training events
Bizzabo's Event Experience OS is priced at $499 per user per month, billed annually with a three-user minimum — "starting at $17,999 per year" — for unlimited events and registrations, contact management, ticketing and advanced registration flows, email campaigns, an event website builder, a mobile app, reporting, curated onboarding and 24/7 support. Premium add-ons cover a virtual event experience with a streaming studio, advanced onsite with badge printing, HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce and Eloqua integrations, sponsor and speaker portals, networking with matchmaking, a custom-branded app, API access, organiser and attendee SSO and private-label branding. Klik smart badges are quoted separately. It is built for pipeline: lead capture, sponsors, engagement metrics.
Learner Journey runs the training event and the learning around it: a public event page and embeddable registration, free or paid tickets through your own Stripe account, invoice and purchase-order registration, member-free places, promo codes, calendar invites and reminders, a waiting list, check-in, automatic attendance certificates with public verification, and a follow-up learning path with completion tracking — on the same learner record as the courses, assessments and certificates. It has no badge printing, no smart badges, no mobile app, no streaming studio, no sponsor portal and one ticket price per event.
Bizzabo and Learner Journey, side by side
| Bizzabo | Learner Journey | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $499/user/month billed annually, 3-user minimum; from $17,999/year | Free; £10 or £50 per month; no platform fee on tickets |
| Free plan | No | Free plan, no card |
| Events and registrations | Unlimited | Not capped |
| Registration and ticketing | Advanced registration flows, contact management | Public page, embeddable form, guest registration |
| Ticket tiers | Multiple | One price per event; promo codes, complimentary and member-free places |
| Payments | Ticketing | Your own Stripe account; invoices and purchase orders |
| Event website builder and email campaigns | Yes | Public event page; confirmations and reminders by email |
| Mobile event app | Included; custom-branded as add-on | No |
| Check-in and badges | Self-service or staffed check-in; badge printing; Klik smart badges | Check-in from the attendee list |
| Virtual venue and streaming studio | Add-on | Online events link to your video platform |
| Networking, sponsors, lead capture | Yes | No |
| Attendance certificates, automatic and verifiable | No | Yes |
| Follow-up learning assigned and tracked | No | Yes |
| Courses, learning paths, assessments, AI tutor | No | Yes |
| CRM and martech integrations | HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Eloqua (add-on) | No |
| SSO, API | Add-ons | Google sign-in; no API |
| Support | 24/7/365, dedicated event success specialist | Self-serve; demo on request |
When Bizzabo is the better choice
You are a marketing or events team running conferences, field events and customer summits where the event drives pipeline: sponsors, lead capture, networking, a branded app, badges, streaming, and CRM integration to prove ROI. You have several people running events full time — the three-user minimum is not a constraint — and a five-figure annual budget with onboarding and 24/7 support expected.
When Learner Journey is the better choice
Your events are training: CPD sessions, workshops, member evenings, INSET, public courses. You need registration, tickets or invoices and check-in — and then attendance certificates, follow-up learning and a record per attendee, which an event platform is not built to hold. You run staff-only or invite-only sessions. You are one person, or a small team, and want to publish an event this afternoon for free rather than sign a $17,999 contract.
What we checked on Bizzabo's site — 20 September 2026
- Bizzabo lists its Event Experience OS at $499 per user per month, billed annually with a 3-user minimum, "starting at $17,999 per year", including unlimited events and registrations, contact management, ticketing and registration, email campaigns, an event website builder, advanced registration flows, a mobile app, reporting and analytics, curated onboarding and 24/7/365 support. Klik SmartBadge pricing is by quote.
- Premium add-ons listed are a virtual event experience, advanced onsite with the Onsite Command App and badge printing, martech and CRM integrations (HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce MCAE, Oracle Eloqua), sponsor and speaker portals, networking with 1:1 scheduling and matchmaking, a custom-branded app, API access, a corporate IP address, organiser SSO, attendee SSO and private-label branding.
- Bizzabo lists SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA and ADA compliance, onsite services (Bizzabox rental, staffed check-in) and event services (Bizzabo Studios, virtual production).
Source: www.bizzabo.com/pricing. Their pricing and features change; treat this page as a snapshot and check their site before deciding.
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Frequently asked questions
- Can Learner Journey run a conference?
- It handles registration, payment, invoices, capacity with a waiting list, check-in and certificates for events of any size, but has one ticket price per event, no mobile app, no badge printing, no sponsor tools and no networking features. For a multi-track conference with sponsors, Bizzabo or a similar platform is the right shape.
- Does Learner Journey have a mobile event app?
- No. The event page, registration, joining details and certificates all work in a mobile browser, and reminders and calendar invites go by email.
- Is there a per-user charge?
- No. Learner Journey is priced per subscription — free, £10 or £50 a month — and does not charge per organiser or per attendee. Paid tickets go through your own Stripe account with no platform fee.
- What does Learner Journey not do?
- It does not import or play third-party SCORM packages (it exports them), has no xAPI/LRS, offers email/password and Google sign-in only (no SAML or Microsoft SSO yet), supports one ticket price per event, and has no direct CRM or membership-database integration. If any of those is essential, say so on a demo and we will tell you honestly whether it fits.
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