Stova review

Stova is an event management platform for planning, running, and measuring conferences, trade shows, virtual programs, and hybrid events. It brings registration, meeting operations, attendee engagement, onsite services, and analytics into one product rather than focusing on a single event task.

Its registration tools include configurable templates and workflows, attendee-type flows, group bookings, discount codes, and waitlists. Meeting management covers approvals, budgets, venue sourcing, and policy compliance. For attendee engagement, Stova lists matchmaking, chat, polls, Q&A, gamification, and meeting scheduling. Virtual and hybrid features include breakout rooms, live streaming, and on-demand content.

Onsite, the platform supports check-in, badge printing, access control, and session scanning. Its measurement tools include dashboards, portfolio analytics, surveys, and reporting. That breadth may suit teams that want one system across the event lifecycle; the available information does not specify how much setup or data migration that takes.

Stova’s clearest strength is coverage. The listed feature set spans registration, meeting approvals and budgets, attendee interaction, virtual programming, onsite check-in, and post-event reporting. Teams evaluating several separate tools can at least assess whether Stova’s package structure covers enough of their workflow to consolidate them.

The registration options go beyond a basic sign-up form: Stova lists attendee-type flows, group bookings, discount codes, and waitlists. Its engagement tools also cover multiple event formats, from matchmaking and scheduled meetings to polls, Q&A, and gamification. For hybrid programs, breakout rooms, live streaming, and on-demand content are listed alongside onsite services such as badge printing and session scanning.

The package descriptions also make some feature differences visible. According to the pricing information, Core includes reporting and Event Intelligence dashboards, an API, a virtual platform, and DIY Lead Retrieval. Pro adds a branded mobile app, broadcast studio, and SSO; Enterprise adds premium integrations, advanced security, and MFA. That gives buyers a starting point for matching requirements to tiers, even though the package billing period is not stated.

The main buying complication is that Stova lists package prices without saying whether they are monthly, annual, or one-time. The listed prices are $1,995 for Core, $5,995 for Pro, and $12,995 for Enterprise, but those figures alone do not establish the total cost for a particular event. Per-registration fees start at $3.00, $4.50, and $5.60 respectively, so registration volume adds another variable.

Several optional services do not have published prices in the published pricing information: Onsite Solutions, Stova BI, and Venue Sourcing require contacting Stova. A free plan is not listed, and trial availability is not published. The published information also gives no attendee, event, user, or storage caps, so buyers cannot confirm those limits from these details; ask Stova to state them in writing before comparing quotes.

That makes value harder to judge against a stack of separate tools. The feature list is broad, but without a stated billing period, add-on costs, and usage limits, the package price is not a complete budget.

Stova lists three package prices, but doesn’t say whether they’re monthly, annual, or one-time. Core is $1,995, Pro is $5,995, and Enterprise is $12,995. That’s a $4,000 jump from Core to Pro and another $7,000 from Pro to Enterprise, before registration fees.

The listed per-registration fees start at $3.00 for Core, $4.50 for Pro, and $5.60 for Enterprise. The pricing page also lists Onsite Solutions, Stova BI, and Venue Sourcing as add-ons with contact-for-pricing terms. So the package price alone won’t tell you the full cost; ask for a quote based on your expected registrations and add-ons.

Core includes reporting and Event Intelligence dashboards, API, virtual platform, and DIY Lead Retrieval. Pro adds a branded mobile app, broadcast studio, and SSO. Enterprise adds premium integrations, advanced security, and MFA. Stova lists no free plan, and the billing-period ambiguity makes direct comparisons with recurring-price software harder.

Stova covers registration, meetings, attendee engagement, virtual events, onsite services, and analytics. Moving to it may mean consolidating several event workflows, but the published materials don’t explain migration services, supported imports, data export formats, or contract terms. Confirm those details before committing, especially if you need to move attendee records, registration history, or reporting data.

The same gaps matter if you leave. The available information doesn’t say what data you can export or whether exports include historical event records, so ask for a sample export and written exit terms. We also don’t have Reddit posts or comments in the published published material, so we can’t responsibly attribute common reasons for leaving to Reddit users.

The clearest reasons to pause are in the pricing and fit: package billing periods aren’t stated, registration fees vary by tier, and several add-ons require a quote. Stova may suit teams running multi-format events; smaller events or buyers needing transparent recurring prices should compare the full quote before switching.