Whova alternative
The app is the last mile.
Expola is the year that leads up to it — the floor sold, the tickets issued, the badges printed and the leads returned.
Apps are judged on the show days. Expo teams are judged on the twelve months around them, and most of that work happens before the app is even published.
What Whova is good at
Whova is a practical, affordable app with genuinely useful agenda and networking features, and attendees at conferences pick it up quickly. For an event whose main need is an app, it is a sensible choice.
The job underneath the show
An app cannot sell a stand, issue an invoice, print a badge or hold a queue. When it is the only platform, everything else stays in spreadsheets, and the exhibitor report has to be assembled by hand from an export.
Side by side
What changes. The same jobs, handled by Expola and by Whova's category.
| The job | Expola | Event app |
|---|---|---|
| Agenda, networking and the app | Branded app publishing from your program and directory | Its core strength |
| Selling the floor | Live plan with pricing, holds and invoices | Not the product |
| Ticketing and payments | Ticket types, add-ons, invoices, card and bank payment | Basic registration |
| Badges and the gate | Printing, access control, capacity and queue view | Check-in in the app |
| Exhibitor reporting | Leads and footfall by stand, ready on the last day | Lead export after the event |
Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. This page describes what each category of tool is designed to do, not the current feature list of any one release.
Why teams move
Three reasons it keeps happening.
01
One dataset for the whole cycle
Registration, stands, scans and sessions share a record, so the app shows the same truth as the gate and the invoice.
02
Badge printing that works at the door
On-site printing, re-entry and group check-in are part of the platform rather than an add-on for show week.
03
Revenue tools, not just experience tools
The app is worth more when it is attached to the thing that sells stands, upsells add-ons and books next year.
FAQ
Switching, in practice. What teams ask before they move off Whova.
See Expola next to Whova, on your own event.
A demo built around your floor plan, your ticket types and the exhibitors you already have.