A Cvent LeadCapture alternative you subscribe to once and take to every event

Which is better, Cvent LeadCapture or Survtapp?

It depends on whose event it is. If you already run your events on Cvent, LeadCapture comes from inside that suite — and for shows you exhibit at, Cvent’s own iCapture is the first thing to weigh. If you want lead retrieval you own outright at a published price, scanning on your reps’ own phones and tablets and capturing with no signal, Survtapp is the better fit — at any event whose organizer issues Survtapp QR badges.

How is Cvent LeadCapture bought?

Cvent LeadCapture is the lead retrieval arm of the Cvent event platform, and the honest answer to how it is bought is that Cvent does not say. Its product page carries no price, no licence terms and no purchase route other than “Request demo”, so the arrangement is quoted for your event rather than picked off a published list. Figures circulating in third-party listings are not Cvent’s, and we will not present them as though they were.

What Cvent does publish is where it applies. Its own FAQ says LeadCapture is used at events you manage on the Cvent platform, and that Cvent iCapture is the product for third-party events and trade shows where you exhibit but the event data is not managed in Cvent. So the practical question for an exhibitor is not whether Cvent can scan a badge — it can, on both sides of that line — but whether you want lead retrieval that is arranged per event through the organizer, or a subscription you own outright and take to every show.

What does Survtapp change about that model?

Survtapp is a subscription you own. The organizer imports the attendee list as a CSV and Survtapp generates a unique QR badge per attendee, exportable as a printable ZIP; exhibitors scan those badges with the Survtapp app on the iPhones, iPads and Android devices their reps already carry. The same account works at the next event, and the one after — there is no per-event licence to arrange.

Attendee privacy holds by design: an exhibitor sees an attendee’s contact details only after physically scanning that attendee’s badge. Until the scan, there is no browsing the attendee list — the scan itself is the access grant.

What happens when the exhibition hall has no signal?

Nothing bad, which is the point. Convention halls are where connectivity dies — concrete, steel and every attendee on the same access points — so Survtapp treats offline as normal. Scans and lead qualification keep working, captures queue on the device with their original timestamps, and everything syncs the moment a connection returns.

Reps qualify at the booth: each capture takes a star score and free-text notes in the seconds after the conversation, so the follow-up list ranks itself. Export to CSV at any time — including mid-show — with scores, notes and timestamps included, and load your CRM before the follow-up window closes.

How do Survtapp and Cvent LeadCapture compare on paper?

Checked 2026-09-08: Cvent does not publish LeadCapture pricing, licence terms or purchase routes on cvent.com — the only published route is “Request demo”. Per-licence figures circulating online come from third-party listings, not Cvent, so we do not present them as Cvent’s prices, and we do not describe Cvent’s licensing model on their behalf. The “where it works” row quotes Cvent’s own FAQ. Confirm capabilities and cost with Cvent for your event.

Survtapp’s free plan includes 100 responses a month; paid plans start from CA$29/mo. Every plan and allowance is published on the pricing page, in Canadian dollars by default.

What if you run the event rather than exhibit at it?

Then Survtapp is the lead retrieval you hand your exhibitors instead of a rental counter: import registrations from CSV, issue QR badges, and give every exhibitor scan-to-capture on their own devices with privacy-by-scan built in. Organizers manage events and exhibitors from the Survtapp console, and every captured lead draws on the organizer’s own plan allowance — one subscription covers the whole show floor, with no per-exhibitor licence to arrange.

The trade-off to weigh honestly: Cvent LeadCapture is one arm of a full event-management suite — registration, agendas, badging, session tracking. If you are buying that whole suite, its lead capture comes from inside it. And Cvent has its own answer for exhibiting at other people’s shows: Cvent iCapture, which its LeadCapture page links from the top, is built for third-party events where the event data is not managed in Cvent. If you are already a Cvent customer, weigh that first — it is the closest thing in Cvent’s own catalogue to what this page is arguing for.

Survtapp is the counter-model: lead capture, surveys, waivers and checklists that you own outright, at published prices, independent of any one event platform — and usable at any event whose organizer issues Survtapp badges.