ConfTool
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| Fact | ConfTool | Ex Ordo |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | ConfTool is intended for academic conferences, congresses, workshops, and seminars, including on-site and virtual events. | The product is designed for scientific, medical, technical, and academic conferences. |
| Founded | 2010 | A company newsroom article says Ex Ordo was founded in 2008. |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany | Galway, Ireland |
| Notable limit | The maker says ConfTool does not provide email marketing services. | The company says its online event space includes 60 days of post-event access. |
| Purpose | ConfTool supports conference organizers with submissions and reviews, program scheduling, participant registration, administration, and invoicing. | Ex Ordo combines abstract collection, peer review, registration, programme building, and virtual event delivery for scholarly conferences. |
| Registration | The Pro registration module supports participant groups, time discounts, events and items, conditional options, and admission limits. | Organisers can configure fees, workshops, and add-on events, apply member pricing, and accept card payments or bank transfers. |
| Support | ConfTool Pro includes professional support for configuration and use; ConfTool Standard is offered without support. | The company describes unlimited email support from 9am to 6pm GMT and a 90-minute response-time SLA. |
ConfTool suits organizers of academic conferences, congresses, workshops and seminars who need to manage submissions, reviews, schedules, registration and invoicing. Its Pro option is relevant to events needing hosted service, configurable reviewing, payment processing or virtual-event links; Standard is for smaller non-commercial events with up to 150 participants.
Ex Ordo is aimed at organisers of scientific, medical, technical, and academic conferences. It suits teams managing submissions, reviews, registration, programmes, and virtual or hybrid delivery.