Zoom Webinar Alternative: How to Do the Tech Setup
Looking for a Zoom Webinar alternative for paid sessions? Here is what Zoom Webinar does and does not cover, what you bolt on around it, and how to set up the same thing on Faaji.co with one link.
People search for a Zoom Webinar alternative for one of two reasons: the monthly license is hard to justify for a few sessions a month, or the parts around the webinar, selling tickets, reminders, the offer, the attendee list, are still spread across other tools. This guide is an honest look at what Zoom Webinar covers, what it leaves to you, and how to do the whole setup on Faaji.co instead.
What Zoom Webinar does well
Zoom is the room most people already know how to join. Zoom Webinar adds a registration page, confirmation and reminder emails, Q&A and polls, attendee reports, and a view-only audience with panelists on camera. For free, information-only webinars run by a team that already pays for Zoom, it is a solid choice.
What Zoom Webinar leaves to you
- Taking payment. Zoom Webinar registration is free by default. To charge, you connect a separate payment step (a PayPal or Stripe link, or a third-party checkout) in front of it, and make sure buyers end up registered.
- The offer. Your pitch at the end is a link in the chat or a URL on a slide. Nothing in the room lets people act on it in place.
- The audience list. Registrants live in Zoom's reports. Getting them into your email tool means an export or a Zapier step.
- The cost. Zoom Webinar is a monthly add-on license on top of a paid Zoom plan, whether you ran one webinar that month or none.
None of this is a flaw in Zoom. It is a meeting company, not a sales tool. It just means "Zoom Webinar" is only one of five or six things you set up.
The tech setup on Faaji.co
On Faaji.co a webinar is a broadcast-type workshop. The pieces Zoom leaves to you are the pieces Faaji.co is built around.
1. Create the webinar. Title, the one-sentence result, date and time, price (0 for free), cover image. This is your registration page and your checkout, one link.
2. Registration and payment are the same step. Free webinar: people enter name and email and get a ticket. Paid: they pay and get the ticket. Either way the attendee list is right, and you can ask an opt-in question at sign-up so you know who is in the room.
3. Reminders are automatic. Everyone registered gets reminded before the start. Nothing to configure and no email tool needed.
4. Go live from your laptop. The room runs in the browser. You share slides or your screen, run chat, and bring a guest on stage if you want a conversation. Attendees join from the same page they registered on, with no app to install.
5. Make the offer in the room. Set your offer once, then present it while you are live. Attendees see it in the room and can act on it right there. A keyword in chat can also trigger the offer by email to whoever types it.
6. Afterwards. You see who registered, who came, and who took the offer, on one page. Paid tickets pay out to your Stripe account on the Monday run.
There is no monthly license. Faaji.co keeps a percentage of paid tickets and nothing on free ones. Pricing in dollars.
When to keep Zoom
Keep Zoom Webinar if your webinars are free and internal, if your audience is required to use Zoom, or if you need features Faaji.co does not have yet, such as breakout rooms or very large panelist teams. Faaji.co is for the case where the webinar is a sales or teaching event and you want the money and the audience in the same place as the room.
Next steps
- Full webinar backend walkthrough: How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Webinar.
- Smaller, hands-on format: How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Live Workshop.