The Priava alternative for caterers & event venues
Univents brings bookings, kitchen, staff and finances into one system. Here is how Priava compares head-to-head.
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What is Priava?
Priava was founded in Sydney in 1997 and is a booking and event-management software for large institutional venues such as convention centres, museums and performing-arts centres; since being acquired by Ungerboeck in 2021 (renamed Momentus Technologies in 2023), it is sold as part of the Momentus portfolio.
Deep specialisation for large-scale institutional venues, with a comprehensive CRM, 40+ built-in report templates and the backing of the global Momentus group, which serves a large share of the world's largest convention centres.
Univents vs Priava in detail
- 1Online payments run through the built-in Stripe integration.
- 2Interface in German and English; multilingual finance documents from the Growth plan.
Why teams choose Univents
Univents has transparent, published pricing and a self-service trial — Priava/Momentus is a sales-led enterprise product with no public pricing, where even some existing features are only visible on request.
Univents is a self-serve web app you can set up yourself, with online payments through its built-in Stripe integration and a floor plan and seating planner included.
Univents covers the full caterer workflow from kitchen production through staff planning to an AI assistant — Priava/Momentus has historically focused on room/date booking for large institutional venues and treats catering only as a resource line item alongside the core room booking.
Pricing compared
7-day free trial, no credit card. Then from €55/month for quotes or from €299/month for the full platform — fair and transparent.
No public pricing; sales-led with a custom quote for enterprise customers. Many detailed features aren't publicly documented, since Priava/Momentus is sold mainly through sales demos rather than an open feature page. Geared to large institutional venues rather than caterers.
FAQ: Univents vs Priava
Is Priava a good Univents alternative?
Priava is a specialised booking system for very large institutional venues such as convention centres and museums, now part of the Momentus group — strong in that niche, but sales-led with no public pricing. For caterers, venues, hotels and agencies that want a self-serve platform with published pricing, BEOs, kitchen production and staff scheduling, Univents is the better fit.
Is Priava still a standalone product?
Priava was acquired by Ungerboeck in 2021, which renamed itself Momentus Technologies in 2023; the product is now run as part of that portfolio. Univents, by contrast, is sold directly as a standalone, actively developed product.
What does Priava cost compared to Univents?
Priava/Momentus doesn't publish pricing — prospects need to go through an individual sales conversation. Univents publishes its pricing and you can start with a self-service trial, without a sales call.
Switching from Priava? We handle your data import — free of charge.
We move over your customers, products, events and quotes. No data loss, no double work.
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