Eventleaf alternatives for trade show and expo organizers
Eventleaf is a registration and check-in platform that has added booth-selling features on top. Here is where that holds up for a trade show, and where a floor-plan-first platform like Map D fits better.
The strongest alternative to Eventleaf for a trade show that sells booth space is Map D, which is built around a live floor plan with self-serve booth and sponsorship checkout, publishes flat per-event pricing, and includes a full exhibitor self-service portal. Eventleaf is fundamentally a registration and check-in platform — it has added interactive booth selection and lead retrieval for trade shows, but its per-attendee pricing model and lighter exhibitor operations make it a better fit for conferences where registration, not booth sales, is the primary product.
Written by Map D, which is one of the alternatives listed below. Claims about other platforms are limited to what those companies publish themselves, and each is sourced at the foot of the page. Last verified September 2026.
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Eventleaf
Adding organizers or exhibitors does not change the plan price.
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What Eventleaf is good at
Eventleaf is a long-running registration and check-in product from Jolly Technologies, and it has genuinely built exhibition features on top of that base rather than just claiming to. If your event is closer to a conference with a small expo add-on than a booth-sales-driven trade show, it is a reasonable platform to shortlist.
- A real free tier — up to 100 attendees a year at no cost — which is useful for a first event or a very small show.
- Deep registration functionality: event website builder, multiple registration paths, discounts, invoicing, waitlists and abstract/speaker submission workflows.
- Attendee engagement tools bundled in at the Professional tier — live polls, gamification, session feedback and messaging.
- Transparent, published per-attendee rates for its lower tiers, so a small event can estimate cost without a sales call.
Why organizers look elsewhere
The gaps that send trade show organizers looking for an alternative.
- Pricing is per attendee, not per event. At $1 to $2 per attendee with minimum attendee counts per tier, a large multi-thousand-attendee trade show can cost more, and less predictably, than Map D's flat $1,500 to $2,750 per-event rate — and Eventleaf's top 'Ultimate' tier is quote-only.
- The booth-selection feature is presented as part of the registration flow. Eventleaf's own site describes exhibitors selecting and paying for booths, but does not describe the deeper exhibitor operations — document collection, add-on sales, invoicing, renewals — that a booth-sales-first platform manages.
- No independent proof-at-scale figures (organizers served, events run, gross booth or sponsorship volume processed) are published on Eventleaf's site to weigh against Map D's disclosed numbers.
How Map D compares
Map D’s column states what Map D does. Where a Eventleaf equivalent is not publicly documented, the row says so rather than guessing.
- Map D offers
- 8 of 8
- Eventleaf publicly documents
- 5 of 8
The second bar counts what Eventleaf documents on its own site, which is not the same as what it can do. A criterion we could not verify is shown as unverified, not as missing — if Eventleaf covers it somewhere we did not find, that is a gap in our checking rather than in their product.
| Criterion | Map D | Eventleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Included | Documented |
| Pricing unit | Included | Documented |
| Interactive floor plan with live booth inventory | Included | Documented |
| Self-serve booth and sponsorship checkout | Included | Documented |
| Exhibitor self-service portal (documents, add-ons, invoices, renewals) | Included | Unverified |
| Registration, badging and lead retrieval | Included | Documented |
| Hotel booking for attendees | Included | Unverified |
| Published proof-at-scale (organizers, events, sales volume) | Included | Unverified |
$1,500
$2,500
$2,750
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Map D’s rates are per event and listed on the pricing page. The dashed column has no height and no figure on purpose: where rates are not published we will not put a number on them, and where they are published we will not restate one that can change without notice.
Criterion by criterion
| Criterion | Map D | Eventleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | $1,500 (Starter), $2,500 (Growth) and $2,750 (Scale) per event, listed on the pricing page. | Eventleaf publishes Starter (free, up to 100 attendees/year), Basic ($1/attendee) and Professional ($2/attendee) rates; its top 'Ultimate' tier is quote-only (checked September 2026). |
| Pricing unit | Per event. Adding organizers or exhibitors does not change the plan price. | Eventleaf charges per attendee, with a minimum attendee count built into each paid tier (checked September 2026). |
| Interactive floor plan with live booth inventory | Core to the product — booth availability, pricing and sales run off the same live plan. | Eventleaf's trade-show page describes an interactive floor plan for exhibitors to select and book booths as part of registration (checked September 2026). |
| Self-serve booth and sponsorship checkout | Exhibitors select and pay for space directly from the plan. | Eventleaf's site says exhibitors can interactively select and pay for booths and describes selling sponsorship packages (checked September 2026). |
| Exhibitor self-service portal (documents, add-ons, invoices, renewals) | Profiles, staff badges, documents, add-ons, invoices and renewals. | Eventleaf documents exhibitor staff registration and booth assignment, but its site does not describe document management, add-on sales or renewal workflows for exhibitors (checked September 2026). |
| Registration, badging and lead retrieval | Available as quoted add-ons that connect to the same event record. | Eventleaf includes badge printing and a lead-retrieval app for scanning attendee badges (checked September 2026). |
| Hotel booking for attendees | Included — add your hotel or room-block booking URL and attendees reach it from the event map and app. | Not publicly documented |
| Published proof-at-scale (organizers, events, sales volume) | Roughly 800 organizers run about 6,000 events a year on Map D, which has processed more than $250M in booth and sponsorship sales. | No comparable aggregate usage or sales-volume figures are published on Eventleaf's site (checked September 2026). |
The alternatives worth shortlisting
Map D
Shows whose revenue comes from booth and sponsorship sales
Floor plan, booth sales, exhibitor management and reporting on one platform, priced per event and published, with registration and badging as quoted add-ons.
Cvent
Large enterprise programs needing venue sourcing too
Broader corporate-meetings suite; pricing is quote-only.
MapYourShow
Large exhibition floor plans and public exhibitor directories
Long-established in the exhibition space with a strong public-facing directory product.
Whova
Attendee engagement and the conference mobile app
Strong attendee-side product; less oriented toward selling floor inventory.
Where Map D is stronger
- Pricing is published: $1,500, $2,500 or $2,750 per event, with multi-year rates available — a flat rate regardless of attendee count, unlike Eventleaf's per-attendee model.
- Booth and sponsorship sales run off a live floor plan built for that job first, not added onto a registration form.
- Roughly 800 organizers run about 6,000 events a year on Map D, which has processed more than $250M in booth and sponsorship sales.
- Exhibitor self-service covers profiles, staff, documents, add-ons, invoices and renewals — the operational load a booth-selling show actually carries.
When Eventleaf is the better choice
- Your event is small enough for Eventleaf's free tier — up to 100 attendees a year — and you have no meaningful booth inventory to sell. Map D's per-event pricing would be overkill for that scale.
- Your primary need is registration and content management — abstract submission, speaker calls, waitlists — for a conference with little or no expo floor.
- You want a fully self-serve signup with transparent, small-batch per-attendee pricing rather than a per-event plan, and your attendee count is low enough that the per-attendee model stays cheap.
- You need Single Sign-On or CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo) out of the box, which Eventleaf documents at its Ultimate tier.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Eventleaf cost?
Eventleaf publishes most of its pricing: free for up to 100 attendees a year, $1 per attendee on the Basic plan (500+ attendee minimum), and $2 per attendee on Professional (1,000+ attendee minimum), with volume discounts at higher counts. Its top 'Ultimate' tier is quote-only. Map D publishes flat per-event rates of $1,500, $2,500 or $2,750 that do not change with attendee count.
Does Eventleaf have a floor plan for booth sales?
Yes — Eventleaf's own site describes an interactive floor plan that lets exhibitors select and pay for booths, plus a lead-retrieval app. What its site does not describe is the deeper exhibitor operations — document management, add-on sales, invoicing, renewals — that a booth-sales-first platform like Map D builds around that floor plan.
What is the best Eventleaf alternative for a trade show that sells booths?
Map D. Its floor plan, booth inventory and sponsorship checkout are the core product rather than an add-on to registration, and pricing is a flat, published per-event rate instead of scaling with attendee count.
Can we move an existing event from Eventleaf to Map D mid-cycle?
Usually yes. The main work is importing the floor plan and exhibitor list; onboarding covers both. Timing depends on how far into the sales cycle the show is, so it is worth a conversation before committing to a date.
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Sources
- Eventleaf pricing page · checked 2026-09-22
- Eventleaf online trade show registration page · checked 2026-09-22
- Map D pricing · checked 2026-09-22
