How Covve compares
One tool for every lead, at every event and every meeting.
Event leads come from many places: the organizer’s rented scanner, a bought attendee list, a Digital Business Card app or your CRM’s card scanner. Each covers part of the job. Covve covers all of it: scan any badge or card at every event and every meeting, and send every lead to your CRM.
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Five ways to capture event leads
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| Every eventCovve | Lead retrieval apps | Attendee lists | Digital Business Card apps | CRM card scanners | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works at every event | Any badge, any show | Rented per show | One list per event | Varies | Business cards only |
| Everyday meetings | Same app | No | No | Sharing your card | Yes |
| Who you get | People you actually met | People you scanned | Registrants, not conversations | Who takes your card | Cards you scan |
| Lead data | Full contact details + enrichment | Registration data | Often no email or phone | What they share | What’s on the card |
| Card scanning | 96% accuracy, 60+ languages scanned, works offline | Not the focus | None | Side feature | Basic |
| Qualify at capture | Custom fields, Voice notes, Instant lead bios | Event questions | No | Limited | Standard fields |
| Team view | Live, every event | Per event | No | Card analytics | Inside the CRM |
| Where leads go | 5 CRMs + 8,000 tools | Export after the event | Spreadsheet, days later | Varies | One CRM |
| Price | Pro: $199 per seat a year, every event | $350 to $735 per person, per event | $300 to $2,000 per list, per event | Per seat | Included in CRM plan |
Where each option stops
Lead retrieval apps
The organizer’s scanner is rented per person for one show and works with that show’s badges. Every new event means a new rental, a new budget and a new export. Covve scans any badge at every show, on one annual license.
Attendee lists
A bought list shows everyone who registered, not the people you talked to, often without an email or phone number, and you pay again at every event. Covve captures the people you actually met, with your notes on each one.
Digital Business Card apps
They’re built for sharing your own card, and scanning other people’s is a side feature, often capped. Covve is built for capture, and every plan still includes your own Digital Business Card.
CRM card scanners
Handy for a single card, but they read business cards, not event badges, and feed one CRM. Covve scans cards, badges and QR codes and sends leads to five CRMs, Outlook, Google Contacts and Zapier.
The math on a year of events
Take a team of five at ten shows a year. Covve costs up to 97% less than renting the organizer’s scanner at every one.
Renting the organizer’s scanner
$17,500 to $36,750
5 reps × 10 shows × $350 to $735 per person, every year. Add a bought attendee list at each show and it’s another $3,000 to $20,000.
Covve Pro
$995
5 seats × $199 a year, every show included. With native CRM sync, 5 × $259: $1,295 a year.
At 100 leads a show, that’s about $1 a lead ($1.30 with CRM sync), against $17.50 to $36.75 renting.
An example, not a quote: team size, shows and organizer prices vary.
One app, every event
Capture, qualify and follow up, without switching tools
The same app at the trade show on Tuesday and the client meeting on Thursday. Every lead lands in one place, ready for your CRM.
Any badge, any card, any QR code, online or offline, in 60+ languages.
Qualify on the spot with custom fields, tags, notes and voice notes.
Know who you met: an instant bio on every lead with AI Lead Qualification.
Real-time lead tracking for the whole team in the web-based Covve Portal.
Real people: we help you get set up, and a real person answers whenever you write.
What teams
say on G2
Verified reviews from people who capture leads at events.
The scanner is the fastest and most accurate we’ve tried.
Covve makes the process incredibly easy, it’s simple to use, and the accuracy of the scans is impressive. It integrates directly with Salesforce, so our sales team can make contacts out in the field and input their business cards straight into our CRM during their workflow.
Covve lets me capture leads quickly at conferences and take notes on each one, and the way it recognizes contacts on my phone works really well.
One price, covers every event
Per seat, not per show
Pay per rep, monthly or yearly, and take Covve to every event on your calendar. No rental for each show.
Prices on the page
Every plan and price is on the pricing page, so you know the cost before your first event.
14 days free
Full access to your plan from the first scan. Cancel anytime; we remind you before the trial ends.
Looking for an event lead capture solution?
Covve is a business card scanning and lead capture solution for teams that meet people at trade shows and in day-to-day meetings. It scans any event badge, business card or QR code, qualifies each lead on the spot and sends it to your CRM, at every event, on one annual license.
Choosing how to capture leads
Anything else? Ask us and a real person answers.
For one show, it can be. It’s rented per person, typically $350 to $735 for that show, and works with its badges, so every new event means a new rental and a new export. Covve works at every event on one license, and every lead goes straight to your CRM.
At many events you can, typically $300 to $2,000 per list, per event. But it shows everyone who registered, not who you spoke to, often without an email or phone number, and it arrives days or weeks later. In Europe, GDPR often rules it out. Covve captures the people you met, with your notes.
CRM apps typically scan business cards into that one CRM. Covve scans cards, event badges and QR codes, and syncs live with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive and Microsoft Dynamics 365, connects directly to Google Contacts and Outlook, and reaches 8,000+ more tools via Zapier.
Not for the basics. Every Covve plan includes your own Digital Business Card, custom branded on Pro, so you share yours and capture theirs in the same app.
Yes. Covve Pro and Enterprise scan event badges at any event or trade show, whoever the organizer is, and business cards and QR codes work everywhere. Badge formats vary, so try yours during the free trial.
You do. Every lead you capture with Covve goes to your CRM and stays in your Covve account, so each event adds to the same picture instead of starting from zero.
Every event. Every meeting. One app.
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