Testimonials & Reviews

Testimonials for conferences

Elegant event management for WordPress. We’ve been using and developing sites powered by Event Espresso for several years now. Event Espresso is our go-to for Event Management on WordPress for several reasons: The team behind the plugin provides outstanding support and are clearly committed to improving the state of Event Management on WordPress. It’s a solid plugin with a robust codebase and APIs. It’s capable and flexible – we’ve used it for everything from concert ticket sales, conference management, calendar management for recovery centers, to walking food tours. They support the WordPress Community in many ways. Thanks, Event Espresso Team – keep up the great work! –ivycat

Not only is Event Espresso a fantastic application for conferences, but their support is QUICK AND EFFICIENT every single time I’ve needed their assistance. Could not rate this more highly. –Sandy Forbes Taylor

I’m a TEDx event director, and this year, we decide to try Event Espresso, the Event Espresso Version. It responds all our requirement, and there are a lot of possibility to setup it. I recommend this plugin for people who want to organize events with payment. –Vincent P.

Solved our problem. I heard about Events Espresso a few years ago and decided to see if Event Espresso could handle our annual conference registration better than the system we were using then. Seth spent two hours on the phone with me and I was convinced. We made the switch and have used Events Espresso for the past 5 or 6 years. I am NOT internet savvy but even I can make it work. We started using Event Espresso for all our other seminar registrations as well, and Event Espresso saves us a lot of time and effort. Any time I have had a problem (usually my own doing) that I cannot figure out on my own I get help through the forum. The Events Espresso team is great about giving advice and sharing their experience. I also take advantage of their Support Token system to get a professional to go over everything once a year before conference registration opens to confirm that I did it right. I highly recommend Events Espresso! –evergreen113.

You’re definitely behind the best conference solution WordPress has right now. –Edbury

Great plugin and great support for years now! Our company has been using Event Espresso for many years now for quite a few clients. They host large conferences and Event Espresso has successfully registered thousands of participants and event payments for years now. We use all the premium features and renew each year. It’s completely worth the investment considering the returns our clients get and they don’t have to shell out big $$$ for custom development to get it done. If you or your client’s are serious about professionally managing your event registrations and payments then I suggest you use Event Espresso. Thank you guys for the great product and support for so many years now! –mvincik

I was using the Event Espresso plugin(s) to assist a client in running a large conference last summer. The website we created was for a summer motorcycle rally that had over 600 attendees. Event Espresso worked great. I’ll be happy to use Event Espresso again for a new project! –Joshua Nelson

I have installed addons for Event Espresso and are using it with Learndash. I have customized the Event Espresso plugin a little bit from our end to meet our requirements. I have successfully hosted our application live and now I am happy by using this plugin because this saved my time and effort. –Sumit Gupta

Fantastic plugin – excellent support. This is a great plugin for designing events and classes. We have been using this now for over 2 years. Support is excellent and I have always had a reply the same day. Highly recommend this if you are looking for an easy was to set up an event and sell tickets. –bosworthsGC

Excellent set of plugins that can be adapted for many types of events and classes. We have been using this for about 2 years now. Support is first class. I have had a few occasions where I was not sure about something and got an answer back the same day. We use the plugins to look after our coach trips and Christmas events within a Garden Centre. Highly recommended. –Jonathan Biggs

Event Espresso rocks! I use it for my dance class registrations. Unlike most dance studios where people have to call or send an email in advance, Event Espresso puts a registration form right there in front of the user and allows me to collect valuable information from the user during the registration process with custom questions such as “Do you have previous dance experience?” or “How did you hear about us?”. It also gives my site a professional look and feel. And Seth is awesome with support! He makes you feel like a valued customer, which is great! Thanks Seth for all your hard work, your dedication, and all of the time you sacrifice to this plugin! It is very helpful! –Ral

Perfect booking engine. We use Event Espresso as a booking engine for classes and sailing trips at Skeppsholmsgarden.se. It works perfect and if you have any questions their support is great! –naredi

A lot of plugin for the price! We’ve been using Event Espresso to manage an ongoing roster of classes. The breadth of functionality you get for the cost of the plug in is impressive. It has the flexibility to manage sliding-scale payments, and custom messaging for different classes. We run one-day events and multiple-session courses. There is something of a learning curve to get it all set up, but support has been very good and responsive. They keep tweaking and improving things–I’m sure it’s going to get even better as it matures. –amandaraoul

Event Espresso is very nice and functional plugin. Set it up is not very easy for a beginner like me, but you have one of the best support team in your side. They answer all questions in a timely manner. I didn’t know anything about setting up the plugins, Thanks to Event Espresso Support team that now I can find my way around this plugin. Event Espresso helps our company to manage the workshops, keep track of our students, manage the emails, and much more. We upgrade from personal License to Business license in just two weeks of using Personal license. I strongly recommend the Business license. –Ted Karlsalr

My business growth has been amazing. I started with one paint studio in April 2012 (the first independent BYOB paint studio in PA) and didn’t actually turn a profit that first year. Early 2013 I leased an adjoining suite in my complex, allowing me to host 2 parties at the same time. In November 2013 I found another space to lease in a nearby town, which included a main studio and a smaller party room. Then in December 2014 we began our mobile paint party unit, where we bring the party to our customers in their home, business or any venue they secure. Basically, what this means is that in 3 years I went from running up to 7 parties per weekend (Fri. night – Sun. night) to running up to 33 parties per weekend. My sales for 2014 were $540,000+. It boggles my mind sometimes. I don’t know how I would possibly keep this all straight without my Event Espresso registration system which allows my guests to register and pay online, and keeps track of everything for me. I can’t really estimate how much time or money I’ve saved by using Event Espresso because I’ve always used it! I would have to guess that without it, I would need someone full time to keep my events organized, so that’s at least $10K. –Tara Smith

Tri-South, Inc is using Event Espresso to manage the course catalog, event ticketing, and class registration. [As their developer] I have customized a few items to make the site and plugin a seamless integration. The client is very pleased! –Jenifer Design

I’m the Executive Director of a nonprofit animal welfare organization in northeast Ohio. Event Espresso has been a life-saver! We have a spay neuter transport program to give pet owners access to low-cost spay neuter services outside our county. Registration used to be very time-consuming and labor intensive via phone calls (we often had to play phone tag with each client). Pet owners are now able to register on their own via our website and we are able to send out reminders via batch email messaging (reminders used to be manually calling/texting each client). –Unni Heineking

Amazing Plugin – has been running our school for over 5 years now! I’m really impressed with not only the application itself but the support. I have rarely seen such a responsive support staff than at Event Espresso. They rock…I highly recommend this plugin! –sock2me

I give workshops on flower arrangements in Amsterdam. Event Espresso works great and saves me lots of time. I no longer need to send e-mails or invoices. –Dennis Lanzaat

Testimonials for festivals

I have been using Event Espresso to run my festival and have been very happy with how it has worked out. They have provided tremendous support and their iPhone app is amazing and easy to use. I suggest using it for your event. –Alex Grant

As a small non-profit youth organization Event Espresso is the next best thing. Our event listings, registrations and tickets sales look credible and professional by using Event Espresso. The support team is far beyond knowledgeable and extremely supportive. We couldn’t look as good without them or this company. –Executive Director for the Academy of Performing Arts

5 stars! Event Espresso is very thoughtfully-designed software. There is continual development and improvement. New and enhanced features and capabilities have been added since we installed the 4.0 software a few years ago. The base software is expandable with many types of add-ons and, because Event Espresso offers the option to purchase add-ons individually, if only a few add-ons are needed, the software package remains very affordable for a non-profit organization. Of particular importance to me and my clients: Event Espresso has a super helpful and quick-to-respond support team. We have had a very good experience working with this software and support people. –gtaffet

My hope with this whole integration is to be able to show other school districts an affordable and easy solution to these registrations. I cannot believe how much money they are charged for less by other companies. This has the potential to save schools tens of thousands, which is huge right now. –Kelly

We are an international non-governmental organisation and we used Event Espresso for processing registrations to our international congress. We had a very positive experience with Event Espresso and we particularly appreciated that it was easy to set up as well as much cheaper compared to other platforms. The interface is also really user-friendly, which enabled our members to experience a really smooth registration process. Finally, it was great to benefit from such a quick and reliable customer support! –Elena Carson

Testimonials for seminars & courses

Everything I need to hold seminars and workshops. Don’t let the name ‘Event Espresso’ fool you. Packed into a few letters is one very powerful plug in. My website runs Event Espresso for all my seminars and workshops open to the public. I have the full package that integrates all my payments, populates my calendar, sends email confirmations that I can create my custom templates for. I can set up an event and wait for sign up notifications without having to keep checking. There are a lot of apps for events and this was absolutely the smart choice for me. –kimslaunwhite

Thank you, we just did 2 sell out seminars of 50 attendees in 48 hours using Event Espresso and it was awesome. My wife was able to pick up on the processing backend with ease. You have done a great job on getting this system together – very simple, clear and well laid out With powerful functionality. I am so glad I dumped the old booking application we had and gave Event Espresso a go. Just wanted to say thanks, and thanks for the very patient, friendly and speedy assistance in helping me to get it all set up at the start. Many thanks to you and your team. A grateful customer. –Nicolas de Castella

We run a small non-profit club. We run 2 events a year and we are able to save $400/year compared to EventBee after all costs associated with the website, including Event Espresso license. –Robert Sirkis

Great Product and Awesome Support! We’ve been looking to replace our registration system for over a year but every tool we found prior to Event Espresso lacked some important feature. We were beginning to think that we would have to hire a developer to build a custom solution for us and then I found Event Espresso. We are a small company and none of us are developers but we’ve been able to configure it on our own with the help of their fantastic support team. Event Espresso is absolutely worth the money! –kdaily

We purchased the full licence of Event Espresso and can say it is great. The help I have received from Garth, Lorenzo and Josh you just cant buy and they are very quick to respond. Event Espresso looks like we are going to save $$$$thousands when we run our next event compared to the Event software we have used in the past. Thanks Event Espresso Team for all your valued help. –Raymond Grant

I spent a lot of times looking at options, particularly since our group is small and low-budget. Event Espresso was the best balance of features and cost, and is really the only practical solution for a group of our size. –Arlen Feldman

This really is a hell of a plugin. For me, it’s probably the final nail in the coffin for Joomla, as WordPress can now pretty much do EVERYTHING Joomla does, but better. Love the simplicity of this plugin! –Sam, Web Contempo

I searched long and hard to find something that would serve my needs. This is, by far, the most complete and comprehensive solution I have found. –Bill Hepper

At first we looked at CVENT for one of our clients and they wanted $16,000 per year for 3000 event attendees + fees totaling $22k. That is before Staff and Webinar fees. Worst of all we had to prepay the $16k amount even if we never used all 3000 attendees. That was when we looked at Event Espresso and we realized we could build our own event system for less than 16K. For the most part we have been very satisfied with our decision. The real ROI will come next year when they don’t have to pay another 16k-22K! Over the next 5-6 years we should be able to claim that we saved the company over $100,000. Thanks Event Espresso! –David Waterman

I came across Event Espresso when a client could no longer use Cvent. Event Espresso turned out to be just as powerful. It also has plenty of add-ons for ticketing, promotions, etc. with exceptional support at a fraction of the cost of Cvent. –Denise Wainer

…it really does blow everything else that’s out there out of the water. – arcanepalette

I have used both the free and paid versions of Event Espresso for years now and for me, there is no other option for event ticket management. It just works. I teach web design classes to small businesses and I always recommend them to try Event Espresso for their ticketing (for classes etc) if they need it, and that as soon as they start making money from it they should pay for Event Espresso to support it. In terms of support, I have found the support team at Event Espresso to be very fast in replying and very accommodating to all needs.  – Shane Keenaghan

Even more praise for Event Espresso

Great product, highly recommended to anyone wanting an in-house ticketing solution! –Richard Teachout

Event Espresso is a very professional and easy to use event plugin. I am not a programmer and can easily integrate it into any WordPress site! Keep on going! –Hannes Lischka

No complaints here. Satisfied customer. You can teach us all few things about customer service. Thanks! –Charles

You guys have done an AWESOME job with this system…promise me to keep up the excellent work you guys are doing, for as long as you can… Respect! –Robert Jarnroth

Works great! Exactly what we were looking for in an event system. Fairly easy to customize and match our needs. Their customer service is quick to respond and was very helpful. Highly recommended. –Justin Wentworth

Great value for money and it allows us to develop event registration sites in less time, but at the moment it lacks one important feature, which is “Partial Payments”. Some events have a high price and the people registering at them should be able to pay the tickets in several times if we allow them. Even without having a user account on the web site. Please consider adding this feature as soon as possible, because it’s important. Thank you and congratulations for such a nice software! –Jean Jacques

Fantastic plugin, Fast support. What a fantastic plugin. You guys surely thought of everything. I have had the best experience with using the plugin and the support team. They helped me so much even before i bought the full version of the plugin. Thanks for a fantastic plugin. Keep up the good work. –annalice

We used the tool for registration at a trade fair. The tool was perfect what we needed. User-friendly interface and good administration. –Steven Pauwels

We have purchased Event Espresso three times now. We simply love it. It does everything we need it to do. Our event manager finds it easy to manage the attendees. The last plugin we added was the attendee mover. An excellent tool which allows you to move an attendee from one event to another if they registered for the wrong event or even if they registered for the wrong ticket. There is a feature that I wish they had but on the whole, this is probably the best tool out there for the event. Use their forum when you need help as they are pretty helpful which is good and pretty quick to respond.The learning curve is not that steep which is good. The one feature I probably love the most is the fact that I only bought one license as I didn’t think we would need it again. Way cheaper to buy 5 licenses at once. Soon after completing the site, the CEO said he wanted another site. ARGHHHH. Now I need to buy another license. I was expecting the same price but it wasn’t. It was reduced as was the third license. Great job from Event Espresso. Customer care is 5 star. –Andrea Worrell

Very affordable plugin, well-documented instructions on how to implement. Great option for online registration, payment & ticketing. –Ruth Mattson

Great Product. The product is clean and looks great. The support is great too. I would recommend this plug-in. –jwrigh10

Great Plugin – Great Support. This plugin does everything for me. Their customer support staff is very knowledgeable and goes beyond the call of duty for this plugin. GREAT JOB! –eleven8s

The learning curve is slow but the customization is great. –creationw

Great plugin, Fantastic support. We are new to WordPress and Events Espresso was working great but we encountered a problem after loading another plugin which reset the capabilities. The Event Espresso menu options in the admin menu disappeared. We reloaded Event Espresso but to no avail. Desperate for a solution we contacted support who provided the information to restore the Event Espresso menu system in no time. Support was quick and accurate! –tobie990

It’s been very comprehensive and covers exactly the aspects of event registration that we needed for our site plus some features that we didn’t even need but could still use in the future. Very Excellent Plugin! –Tristan Hall

Great plugin! Pretty customizable, lots of options, easy to use. –ideaswirl

I searched long and hard to find something that would serve my needs. This is, by far, the most complete and comprehensive solution I have found. –Bill Hepper

The sales and support staff at Event Espresso are superb. I was able to create a trial event. Creating the event was a learning curve, as is any new application. Event Espresso was there every step of the way. I would be asked questions by co-workers, can it do this, can it do that. I would email Event Espresso and would receive responses quickly. I was able to make the switch and am now using Event Espresso. –Vernon Nielson

I love the features! …Definitely the best plugin out there for this. –Sales & Marketing Society of the Mid-South

The free demo for @EventEspresso doesn’t do justice to the premium version. Best WordPress Event Manager I’ve ever used. –Luke Trouten

Event Espresso Does It All. I researched a number of Event Ticketing plugins and Event Espresso was the only one that satisfied all my needs. You’ll especially appreciate the wide choice of payment processors you can use. Getting started, support quickly answered all my questions and now I use the forums when I need help. –johnmacek

I used Event Espresso for one of my projects 🙂 good plugin recommended! –Kent Trinidad

Event Espresso event management plugin for WordPress is a really an awesome plugin. –Cheryl Smithem

Congratulations on an absolutely fantastic plugin. I’m really impressed with its functionality and add on features and will definitely upgrade my client’s production site to the premium version (when ready for launch) to incorporate all the features. As I have told another client “this plugin is the cat’s meow”. –Peter Mansel

Takes a lot of the work out of work. Takes the drudgery out of scheduling and enrollment for events. Easy to use. –xironix5

Great plugin and awesome customer support! Event Espresso integrates well with WordPress, offers a great set of add-ons and different payment gateways. I would definitely recommend it! –Nic Achampong

I’m using it on multiple sites and enjoying it. It’s simple and as others have stated…fast service and real help. –Arlen Nagata

Exactly what I needed for my clients! Very professional. –Daniele Bove

Super Thanks To the Event Espresso Team! Thank you all very much for this Plugin. It is an amazing plugin and creation on your part. I really appreciate the effort that has been put into it to make it part of the WordPress Family. Thank-you so very much! –DTSL

…it really does blow everything else that’s out there out of the water. –Chris Reynolds

I have to say that it has been the right choice for me…I’ve been extremely pleased with the way my site is working. –Robin

Event Espresso – Excellent Events plugin. Very happy with this plugin and associated add-ons. Works well and easy to use. –tslane888

Just came across @EventEspresso – looks like a brilliant #wp plugin for event registration. –Helge Fredheim

Awesome plugin! –Valent Mustamin

Long term customer, and I can say that it works well. Ran into a question yesterday and got it answered and the problem solved within an hour. That’s good! –Hubert Smits

Really best by far. Smoother, easier, better styled. No contest. –Robbie_berns

Premium Event Espresso full of features. Event Espresso 4 (paid) is feature-packed and really simple to use. The base program provides everything we need (though we did purchase a payment gateway) including multiple ticketing levels and the ability to collect highly detailed customer info through forms. I was impressed at how much can be done with just Event Espresso Premium in comparison to other programs. Would love to see more purchasable themes and add-ons for the event list pages, but the plugin itself is fantastic. Couldn’t recommend it more! –dcaustralia

A great service & excellent customer service – punctual & helpful –Alastair Pugh

Does just what I need it to do. I don’t need all the bells and whistles that go along with the bigger expensive event plugins. All I need from an events plugin is the ability to create an “event” post type, keep track of registrations, and take payment through PayPal. The Decaf version of Event Espresso does just that, and it makes me more likely to choose the caffeinated version of their plugin over the competitors’ plugins whenever my needs grow to that point. –vladtubaka

My clients has used Event Espresso for Transportation (Cadet Bus for leave), Parties (tailgates and brewery tours), and Horse-back riding lessons and camps. What a terrific plug-in and fantastic support from Seth! –Nina

We tried a number of event-registration platforms before finally finding Event Espresso. It provided more functionality, flexibility, and value more than any of the others. Matthew C.

I’ve been using Event Espresso for about 6 months now and have been very satisfied with its functionality, and the customer service. Really glad I made the switch from years of using third-party event registration services to Event Espresso. Event Espresso makes it possible to create a seamless online registration experience on my website. –Amy Mak

Great plugin and superb support, always ready to help! Highly recommended! –Joanna Tracey

Garth was great! I needed to figure out lots of solutions and he was a huge help—he took a lot of time to explain everything. I have a plan moving forward. Thanks for your assistance! –Cara Livorio

I chose Event Espresso because, a few years ago, I was using it on a personal website and loved it. So, when I discovered that our current event management system that is deployed in other areas of campus was completely deficient for this initiative’s needs, I didn’t even hesitate to use Event Espresso. –Rob Domaschuk

Excellent product, better support. I can’t rate this product enough. I bought the pro “gimme everything” version, with a view to probably taking advantage of the refund period as I wasn’t convinced it would be appropriate. The feature set of the product is enormous. It’s not the most straight forward to set up, but the huge range of options means you can truly create something that does anything you need it to. However, more than the product, their support team assisted me with an API integration and customisations for getting events from a multisite subsite displayed on the mainsite to facilitate multiple currencies, as we run events all over the world. The fact that their support are willing to assist in honing code, instead of the usual “we don’t help with this stuff” attitude, means they are deserving of your investment. If I could give 10 stars I would. The product – and the team behind it – are exemplars of the WordPress experience. –jakelunnis

Loving the functions and support from Event Espresso. One of the best plugins I’ve ever bought! –Nathan, Creativity Mill

Event Espresso provides an amazing, easy to use software that is quite easy to navigate from both the back end and the front end. The support team is amazing-any time I’ve reached out to them, they’ve responded within a few hours, though it normally takes less than an hour. This is an amazing company with an amazing software that I would recommend to ANYONE!!! –Monica Catherine Ruechel

Awesome software, offers a great set of add-ons and many different payment methods. Integrates well with any WordPress site and the support is top notch. Highly recommended! –Hadley Brandon

Could not be happier with the results and ease of use. –Roman Meisenberg

Best Event Plugin for WordPress!! Event Espresso is the most robust event management plugin available for WordPress. I use both decaf and the premium version and highly recommend it! –barellano

Solid! Event Espresso 4 has many great qualities – first of all, it WORKS. Second, GREAT support both from official Event Espresso crew and also the community. The plugin and addons are constantly being developed and the developers listen to the community. Event registration modules must be carefully considered because of the wide range of technical requirements i.e. ticket types, date ranges etc. Event Espresso is flexible enough to be great for 95% of the events companies that I have developed for. If you are a developer, this is the module for you. Documentation is solid. –abmiller99

The value the plugin and the add-ons we ended up using has provided is much, much higher than the cost, and the support I’ve received is first rate. I can’t recommend Event Espresso highly enough. –Adam Tervort

I am writing to compliment Garth and Lorenzo of Event Espresso for providing support to this sixty-one year old computer illiterate soul:) They are very quick with responding. It’s easy to navigate, and I have only touched the tip of the iceberg so to speak. Keep up the good work! –Alice Colin

Easy to get started with, but detailed enough for almost all event planners. Lots of options, professional looking, reliable, complete. –Bruce Maples

My first event using Event Espresso — just went live. So far, Event Espresso has been easy to work with and get set up and functional. It performed well during all of our tests. And now…. it is LIVE. Very exciting.Thanks for all of the help through the couple of little questions that came up. –Donna Price

We’ve been working with Event Espresso now for several months. So far we haven’t come up against any situation that can’t be handled with the software. Support has been outstanding and super responsive. We’re learning by leaps and bounds, very satisfied, and recommend it highly. –Mike Long

Event Espresso lets Ivanhoe Congregational Church families purchase flowers through our website for our weekly church services. Event Espresso is extraordinarily malleable and well-designed, and it works beautifully for this. And, working with the knowledgeable and responsive support team has been delightful. We are very pleased with Event Espresso! –Barry Johnson

Event Espresso helped make the March 2021 fundraising dinner for Aussie Peace Walk a great success! We were able to raise just under $25,000 for the vaccination program. –Chris Edwards

I have used both the free and paid versions of Event Espresso for years now and for me there is no other option for event ticket management. It just works. I teach web design classes to small businesses and I always recommend them to try Event Espresso for their ticketing (for classes etc) if they need it, and that as soon as they start making money from it they should pay for Event Espresso to support it. In terms of support I have found the support team at Event Espresso to be very fast in replying and very accommodating to all needs. –Shane Keenaghan