Which has better reviews, Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration or EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs?

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration (5.0★, 271 reviews) and EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs (5.0★, 56 reviews) are essentially tied on rating. Look at review velocity and individual reviewer quotes — both visible on each app's detail page — to differentiate.

Should I choose Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration or EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs?

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 5.0★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration or EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs?

Both apps are one-click installs from the Salesforce AppExchange. Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration has the deeper published review base (271 vs 56), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large Salesforce AppExchange admins?

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (271 reviews). EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (56 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

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Blackthorn Events vs EventSpark - Native — Salesforce

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration vs EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration

5.0·271reviews

Salesforce-native event management, payments, and A2P messaging. 600+ organizations across higher ed, nonprofit, healthcare, government, and corporate run events inside Salesforce. HIPAA-eligible, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI SAQ D.

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration	EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs
Tagline	“Salesforce-native event management, payments, and A2P messaging. 600+ organizations across higher ed, nonprofit, healthcare, government, and corporate run events inside Salesforce. HIPAA-eligible, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI SAQ D. ”222 chars	“👍 Published branded event landing pages 👍 Send branded email invitations and reminders 👍 Collect RSVPs with intelligent, customizable forms 👍 Sell and Manage Tickets 👍 Track registrations & attendance, leads & ROI for virtual & physical events ”249 chars
Description	1109 / 2000 chars55% used	1174 / 2000 chars59% used
Screenshots	—	—
Languages	en	arnlenfifr+12 more
Platforms	Salesforce	Salesforce
Developer	Blackthorn.io, Inc.	SparkSmiths

At a glance

8 metrics · auto-computed

Feature comparison between Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration and EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs
Metric	Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration	EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs
Rating	★ 5.0 ★	5.0 ★
Total reviews	★ 271	56
Free plan	—	—
Pricing	paid	paid
Pricing tiers	1 tier	1 tier
Listed features	★ 9	7
Languages	1 supported	17 supported
Listed since	Dec 2016	Sep 2019

AppRanks verdict

Generated from live data on this page

The call

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration and EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs are evenly matched on rating (5.0★ vs 5.0★) — the differentiator comes down to pricing fit, feature breadth, and which app's interaction pattern suits your team's workflow.

Pricing

Pricing entry tiers: Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration at paid, EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs at paid. Check each app's tier structure for the capacity limits you actually need before deciding — the headline number is the same shape, but the gating shape per tier (seats, usage volume, integrations) varies.

Review base

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration has the larger user base (271 reviews vs 56), which usually maps to broader integration coverage, faster bug-fix cadence, and a deeper bench of community workflow patterns. EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs's smaller cohort can be an advantage for niche workflows where the bigger app has accumulated bloat.

Who should pick what

Recommended evaluation path: install both apps' free tiers (where available) and run them in parallel on a small cohort for 7-14 days before committing. The data tables below show the per-feature breakdown — for most admins the deciding factor will be a single integration or workflow detail that's hard to compare from listing pages alone.

How this is generated

This verdict is generated from the live marketplace data on this page — rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position all refresh from the canonical Salesforce AppExchange listing every 24 hours. AppRanks does not accept payment to influence comparison outcomes; the methodology is documented on the About page and applies identically to every pair on the site.

Read each app's audit: Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration audit • EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs audit

Listed	December 12, 2016	September 26, 2019

Last updated	—	—

3. Features

As listed by each developer

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration

One Salesforce-native platform Registration, payments, messaging, and check-in run natively inside Salesforce. Real-time attendee and revenue data lives on your CRM records and flows into Flow and Experience Cloud.
Trusted at scale 600+ customers process more than $1.5 billion in payments per year through Blackthorn, powering millions of event registrations. Employees globally support Sales, Service, Experience, Marketing, and Data Cloud customers.
Any event type, configured in Salesforce Launch event landing pages, event groups, recurring events, and hybrid, virtual, or in-person formats. Contact and Lead matching keeps the CRM clean. Native Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
Blackthorn Payments accepts credit cards, ACH, invoices, and multi-currency across 120+ gateways, including Stripe, Authorize.net, and Touchnet. PayLink, Virtual Terminal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Blackthorn Messaging sends A2P 10DLC-compliant SMS from Salesforce: 1:1 attendee texts, bulk campaigns, scheduled sends across text and email, and Text-to-Register triggered by Flow. Every message is logged on the Contact record for reporting and audit.
The Blackthorn Check-In App scans student IDs, central IDs, or QR codes on iOS and Android. Group check-in handles families, teams, and delegations in a single tap. Works offline and syncs when reconnected, with built-in badge printing.
Capture UTM parameters at registration, measure ROI with Campaign Influence, and track session attendance on Attendee, Contact, or Person Account records. Works with all Salesforce Industry Clouds.
Trusted by higher ed (Admissions & Recruitment, Campus Life, Alumni & Advancement), nonprofits (donor events, chapter and local events), and healthcare (patient education, CME courses, clinic events). HIPAA-eligible, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI SAQ D.
Ready for government (community events, town halls, citizen engagement) and corporate (field marketing, customer conferences, partner enablement). Inherits Salesforce sharing, FLS, and audit trails.

EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs

SAVE TIME AND ELIMINATE SPREADSHEETS Save time by streamlining and automating complex event management, registration and check-in processes (For Free, Paid, Onsite or Virtual). No more data imports and exports from spreadsheets or your virtual platform.
BUILD YOUR BRAND Create beautifully branded, responsive event landing pages, customizable registration forms and invitation, reminder and survey emails inside Salesforce. Streamline processes using intelligent registration for Delegates and Members.
INCREASE ATTENDANCE AT YOUR EVENTS Promote your event and send email reminders to RSVP or attend to the right people at exactly the right time.
MANAGE COMPLEX EVENTS USING GROUP BOOKINGS, TICKETS AND VOUCHERS Ideal for: Table bookings Conferences with session-level selection Training programs with bundled ticket packages Partner or sponsor discount programs Multi-attendee, multi-payment workflows
ON THE DAY EVENT MANAGEMENT AND TRACKING Give attendees the World Tour experience with Automated Check-in and Badge Printing. Keep your attendees engaged with our award winning Onsite Event App. Sessions Check-in and Gamification Table Seating Table

5. Search rankings

Top 5 keywords · shared rankings prioritized

Keyword	Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration	EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs
virtual	#1	#1
registration	#3	#2
event pages attendee	#1	#5
event management	#5	#1
event	#6	#1

7. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration

Blackthorn Events is the Salesforce-native event platform on the AppExchange. 600+ organizations across higher ed, nonprofit, healthcare, government, and corporate run event registration, payments, and A2P messaging inside Salesforce with no middleware. Every attendee, session, and payment is a Salesforce record. Registration covers multi-attendee groups, ticketing, waitlists, sponsors, speakers, sessions, custom questions, calendar view, budgets, matching and duplication logic, auto-generated landing pages, member vs non-member pricing, tables and seats, and language translation. Blackthorn Payments accepts credit cards, ACH, invoices, Pay Later, and multi-currency through Stripe, Authorize.net, Touchnet (Transact, CASHNet/Transact Campus), and 120+ gateways. Blackthorn Messaging delivers A2P 10DLC-compliant SMS for confirmations, reminders, and check-in. Native to Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Data Cloud. iOS and Android check-in app with QR codes and badge printing. Out-of-the-box Salesforce reports and dashboards. SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA-eligible, PCI SAQ D, GDPR, WCAG, ADA, VPAT.

Top keywords

blackthorn3×2.10%
cloud3×2.10%
salesforce3×2.10%
a2p2×1.40%
check-in2×1.40%
event2×1.40%
messaging2×1.40%
payments2×1.40%
registration2×1.40%
transact2×1.40%

EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs

BRANDED EVENT WEBSITES Create consistently branded event websites for multiple corporate identities INTELLIGENT REGISTRATION FORMS Personalized registration forms improve your guests' RSVP experience. Registration forms are customizable and limit registrations to venue capacity (virtual or physical) with wait listing INVITATIONS AND REMINDERS Schedule Communications for every event and automate invitations, reminders & post-event surveys TRACK DELEGATES IN REAL TIME Track guests through the event life-cycle from invitee status, RSVP status, attendance status INTEGRATE WITH ZOOM, WEBEX and TEAMS Create virtual Meetings and Webinars directly from EventSpark and track who has registered and attended SUPPORTS PAID FOR EVENTS Create Tickets and Seamlessly Manage Paid for Events, using Pay Now "Supporting 150+ payment Gateways" or Pay Later "Supports Vouchers" AUTOMATIC LEAD CREATION Create leads automatically inside Salesforce & track their conversion with campaigns . Use pre-configured reports & dashboards to tell your story SMART POST-EVENT SURVEY FORMS AND DASHBOARDS Collect feedback from attendees & calculate your Net Promoter Score for every event.

Top keywords

event5×3.23%
forms4×2.58%
track4×2.58%
registration3×1.94%
registration forms3×1.94%
status3×1.94%
branded2×1.29%
branded event2×1.29%

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration vs EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration

1. Listing metadata

EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

2. Pricing & plans

3. Features

4. Categories & rankings

5. Search rankings

6. Activity in the last 90 days

Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration · 6 changes

EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs · 1 changes

7. App details

Frequently asked

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Should I choose Blackthorn Events - In-Person and Online Event Management & Registration or EventSpark - Native Event Management, Event Registration & RSVPs?

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