Why buy you vs competitor

[Noelle]

Hi there,

I’m looking at your plug in vs. Events Manager. With your plug in I would have to buy 2 plugins for $89 each. costing me $180. Events Manager has one plug in with similar features for $75. Can you tell me why I should go with you instead? (I’ve read the comparisons on your site etc). Is there a bundle I’m missing?

Thanks,

Noelle

[George]

Hi Noelle!

To be clear, when you say “events manager”, is this the one you are referring to? https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

If not, can you share a link to the one you are referring to? I will look at the specific alternative you mention and try to provide some specific insights from there. 😀

— George

[Noelle Cameron]

Hi George

Yep! That’s the one!

Thanks!

[George]

Thanks for confirming Noelle.

Well, at bottom this ultimately comes down to your personal taste and preference.

Both plugins look like good options, and the Events Manager plugin looks solid in its own right! One thing that is curious to me is that on the Events Manager homepage, they refer to themselves as “he most popular Events Management plugin for WordPress” (click for a larger-sized image):

If you check out the WordPress plugin page for Events Manager, though, and compare it to the one for The Events Calendar, you find a disparity in the numbers of active installs:

There is also a difference in the “Last updated:” time for both plugins.

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It’s true that our plugins are more expensive, but this pricing is directly tied to the amount of development and support we invest into our plugins to make them solid and well-maintained.

I would like to note that we also have a 30-day No-Questions-Asked Refund policy which you can read about here. And so you can totally use this as a sort-of “trial period” to try out our premium plugins firsthand, see how you like them, then get a refund for them and test out the Events Manager premium plugins and compare how you like them.

That is the best way to do this — please note that The Events Calendar itself is free, though, as is Events Manager, and so you could also just test out the free plugins and see which ones you prefer.

Please let me know if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with!

— George

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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