Event Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Event Manager

4.3

(9)

Pricing

Starting at $1.00 per year

About Event Manager

Event Manager™ by Brightly is an all-in-one, cloud-based facility scheduling platform that helps teams schedule, organize, and promote organization's events, ensuring teams have the right tools in place to centralize and automate the process from start-to-finish. In a world where budget dollars are scarce and cost recovery programs can have a big impact on a school's bottom line, Event Manager makes it easy to track and monitor event-related revenue. From request initiation to cost recovery analysis, Event Manager takes control of event organization, ensuring a positive community and attendee experience.

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Event Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1.00

per year

No plan information available

Event Manager Features

Popular features found in Event Management
Agenda Management
Contact Management
Customizable Branding
Exhibit/Vendor Management
Mobile Access
Reporting/Analytics
Speaker Management
Surveys & Feedback
Ticketing
Venue Management
More features of Event Manager
Activity Dashboard
Attendee Management
Attendee Tracking
Calendar Management
Customizable Forms
Drag & Drop
Email Marketing
Event Management
Event Registration
Event Scheduling
Event Ticketing
Forms Management
Online Registration
Payment Processing
Registration Management
Room Block Management
Social Promotion

Event Manager Integrations

Streamline

Event Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

33%

67%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.0

Have you used Event Manager and would like to share your experience with others?

Sandy P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Overall very satisfied with Event Manager. The support is excellent.

Event Manager allows us to import our semester class schedules and track all additional internal as well as external (rentals) events on campus. The automated billing is beneficial and makes my job easier. The automated reports are helpful and if the fixed time frames can be tweaked this option will be one of my favorites.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Once EvM was set up and customized to our facility these are the things I really appreciate: The extensive help information. The awesome technical support. The initial training. Once familiar with the system the ease of use is great. Importing semester class schedules has been very useful. We had to do some programming before importing but it works great. One thing that could be improved upon is if the system would not just create a new location if one is needed. It would be better if it gave an error and skipped that entry. It can cause problems. The automated billing is wonderful and the largest reason we chose this software.

Cons:

The time frames in the reporting set up. I need future time frames as well as past. I needed a timeline format for the events list, which you amazingly created. It just isn't quite what I needed. It almost checked the box but I don't believe it works right. The room name boxes don't line up with the time frame boxes. It really gets confusing.

Reasons for choosing Event Manager

Our maintenance team uses Dude's Asset Essentials and they vouched for your great service. That was important as well as the added options we would get. Of course, there is always give and take. There are a few things I miss from our previous software but you all have been wonderful in doing what you can to help us maneuver around issues.

Reasons for switching to Event Manager

The past software did not offer automated billing or a community module. These options were the main reasons we switched.

Christopher J.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Feedback from Wauwatosa School District

I think it's a great program that's very easy to use. Scheduling can be very complex and it's helpful to have a system that's easy to use to manage all that.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to use and quick to schedule events/programs/activities, either individual ones or in a series.

Cons:

The calendar - the end time of each scheduled event should also be displayed, not just the start time.

Alice T.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Underutilized

We don't use it properly because of university road blocks

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The Event Management could be so very helpful to me to plan our events, however the university has so many restrictions as to how it is used. We have to contact the "area coordinator" for the space we wish to reserve to make sure it is available before entering into the Event Manager. The university does not use a "live" version because we are so space restricted and priority is given to different departments to over ride others

Cons:

unfortunately how the university restricts it's use does not bode well with this program. Basically, if we used it the way it was meant to be used we would love it.

Katrina C.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Schooldude Review

I am happy with the program and the customer service.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Actually, the customer service! If I have a problem someone is always available to help!

Cons:

Classes offered -- I would like to learn more about running reports, financials, etc.

John R.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Event Manager

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We were able to get rid of 3 different management programs we were using

Cons:

We don't like how the reports are done. Way too much information for us.It has been good

Reasons for switching to Event Manager

We wanted one product

Lisa B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Easily Manage your Events

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It’s easy to enter events and approve them. Step by step instructions are easy for other users to enter their events as well.

Cons:

It took a little time to figure out pending events and approval between my different groups. It would be nice to have different filters to print.

Maggie C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Event planner scheduling perspective

I appreciate the program and look forward to using it to its full capabilities!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In a workplace setting with a large team, Event Manager helps to keep everyone in good, clear communication.

Cons:

As I am still learning the program, I sometimes find it difficult to navigate the scheduling portion of the website. Specifically, adding recurring events is difficult.

Kareem K.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Beginning Stages using Event Manager

My overall experience has been pretty good. I am however having trouble with understanding where to access the Event Manager. Since we were originally working in a test setting, after learning how to operate everything I was uncertain where to find the actually link to begin random testing. I made a call to the help desk which was very helpful but stated the link I was using would be the active link. They also stated that our IT Department would complete the process of adding the link to the school website. After initially sending out test events. It appears the staff did not receive the approval emails. It also appears the link is now no longer active.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most is that the set up is step by step and you all able to walk through it the Dude Systems support person.

Cons:

We are still in the initial stages of using and implementing the software. At this stage I have no complaints on the software. It appears to be pretty user friendly.

Reasons for choosing Event Manager

The Event Manager was chosen by the Athletic Director, which I'm sure he selected because of it's practicality

Judy L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Ease of use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like the way it autofills certain fields. This is such a timesaver when scheduling multiple events.

Cons:

I'm not sure I have any negatives to report. This works well for me. If I used it more in depth, I might have something to suggest. For now, it is all good.

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