Volunteo or BenevolOps?
For a small association this is the most honest comparison to make: two French publishers, data hosted in France, public pricing on both sides. The choice comes down to size, and to what you want the schedule to do.
What we will not do on this page
We do not quote a competitor's price, even a public one: it belongs to its publisher, who alone can announce it and change it. What we say about their product comes from what they publish themselves, read on the date at the foot of this page.
The common ground, which is real
BenevolOps is published by a French company, hosts its data in France and publishes its rates. Volunteers consult the schedule, sign up for shifts and declare their attendance. If you are after a plain French tool with no salesperson to call, you have two candidates rather than one, and that is good news for you.
Where we diverge
- Who records attendance. Their publisher puts forward attendance declared by the volunteer themselves. With us a manager records the arrival at the post and the departure, by scanning the badge QR code or from the shift page: a volunteer does not declare themselves present, because a badge scanned from home is a declaration and not a presence. The two approaches do not claim the same thing, and which one suits you depends on what you need to be able to state.
- Event tooling. This is where twelve years of events show: printed badges and perks charged by QR code, Word mail merge, delegation to partner organisations, an overall schedule.
- Scale. Our core sits between fifty and a few hundred volunteers per edition, with events going past the thousand. A collective of eight people needs none of half of what we serve.
- How you buy. A price per accepted volunteer for a dated event, or a fixed-price annual licence for a continuous activity, your choice and changeable until your first payment.
What we do not have
No mobile app, no self-declared attendance, no valuation of hours (we total the hours actually worked, with no hourly rate and no statement to attach to a funding application) and no map of positions. If one of those four is on your requirements list, we are not the right tool, and saying so here saves you a demo.
When BenevolOps is the right choice
- Your organisation is small and will stay small: one team, one schedule, a few dozen people.
- You want volunteers to declare their actual attendance.
- You print neither badges nor personalised documents, and delegate nothing to partner organisations.
- Your first criterion is the lowest possible entry cost.
When we are the right choice
- You run one or more dated events, with dozens of positions to cover hour by hour.
- You want volunteers to book their own shifts, with substitutes and a waiting list.
- You have team managers to delegate approval and chasing to.
- You mobilise all year and prefer a fixed price to counting heads.
Frequently asked questions
How do we compare prices in practice?
Both publishers put their rates in the open: read theirs on their site, ours is on the pricing page, and do the sums for the number of volunteers of your last season. No quote to request on either side.
Do you have a mobile app?
No. The site works on a phone, shift booking included, but that is not an installed app and we do not pretend otherwise.
Can we run a regular activity and a large event at once?
Yes, and it is the case we cover best: the annual licence for the activity that keeps running, and a credit-based edition for the one-off event, in the same account.
Written by the publisher of Volunteo and checked on 10 October 2026. What is said here about another solution comes from what its own publisher makes public; we do not reproduce any competitor's price, and we invite you to check with them before deciding.
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