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Easyship vs Hi.Events
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Easyship and Hi.Events — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Easyship vs Hi.Events: at a glance
What is Easyship?
Easyship stops collecting compliance data and starts filing it at the border.
Easyship is a cross-border shipping platform: rates, labels, tracking and landed-cost calculation across a large courier portfolio, sold both as reselling on Easyship's negotiated rates and as LYOC for merchants bringing their own contracts. The summer run is two steady streams. Courier coverage keeps widening — Amazon Shipping, UniUni, Evri, Purolator, FedEx in the Netherlands, UPS DAP across six EU markets. Alongside it, customs work has sharpened: localised HS codes, country-of-origin selection, EU small parcel duty support, and now CPSC data pass-through to DHL and FedEx.
What is Hi.Events?
Hi.Events 2.0 rc.3 adds paid Enterprise features: reserved seating and a box office.
Hi.Events v2.0.0-rc.3 adds reserved seating with a visual seat-map designer and a browser-based box office with Stripe Terminal card readers, both marked Enterprise and requiring a licence in production. It also adds a per-product purchases view, refunds on manual orders and grouped ticket emails. On 1.x, v1.11.3 refuses to run while the example JWT_SECRET that earlier versions shipped is still configured, since anyone could forge sessions with it, and v1.11.2 rebuilt on patched PHP.
Easyship vs Hi.Events: editorial side-by-side
Easyship
3.8E-COMM
Easyship stops collecting compliance data and starts filing it at the border.
◆ Current state
Easyship is a cross-border shipping platform: rates, labels, tracking and landed-cost calculation across a large courier portfolio, sold both as reselling on Easyship's negotiated rates and as LYOC for merchants bringing their own contracts. The summer run is two steady streams. Courier coverage keeps widening — Amazon Shipping, UniUni, Evri, Purolator, FedEx in the Netherlands, UPS DAP across six EU markets. Alongside it, customs work has sharpened: localised HS codes, country-of-origin selection, EU small parcel duty support, and now CPSC data pass-through to DHL and FedEx.
◆ Where it's heading
Courier additions are the maintenance work of this category and will continue as a cadence rather than a direction. The direction is customs. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tightened enforcement this year — the EU's €3 small parcel duty in July, CBP's CPSC e-filing requirement with no value threshold — and Easyship has consistently shipped support inside days of each deadline. That turns compliance from a field merchants fill in into something the platform is accountable for delivering to the authorities.
◆ Prediction
UPS is already listed as coming soon for CPSC pass-through, so completing courier coverage is the near-term step; the pattern of shipping to each enforcement date suggests the next regulatory deadline gets the same treatment before it lands.
Hi.Events
6.3E-COMM
Hi.Events 2.0 rc.3 adds paid Enterprise features: reserved seating and a box office.
◆ Current state
Hi.Events v2.0.0-rc.3 adds reserved seating with a visual seat-map designer and a browser-based box office with Stripe Terminal card readers, both marked Enterprise and requiring a licence in production. It also adds a per-product purchases view, refunds on manual orders and grouped ticket emails. On 1.x, v1.11.3 refuses to run while the example JWT_SECRET that earlier versions shipped is still configured, since anyone could forge sessions with it, and v1.11.2 rebuilt on patched PHP.
◆ Where it's heading
The 2.0 cycle has gone from structural changes (recurring occurrences, embedded checkout, an API) to venue-grade features, and now to an open-core split between free self-hosting and licensed Enterprise features. The 1.x line is in security-only mode, with users pushed toward 2.0.
◆ Prediction
Expect a 2.0.0 final soon after rc.3, with the Enterprise licence terms spelled out, and 1.x limited to security fixes.
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Recent activity from Easyship and Hi.Events
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoHi.Eventsv1.11.3: blocks the forgeable example JWT secret
- 5d agoHi.Events2.0 rc.3: reserved seating and box office (Enterprise) ⚡
- 7d agoHi.Eventsv1.11.2: rebuild on patched PHP for two CVEs
- 27d agoHi.Events2.0 rc.2: per-date tickets, tier sequencing, AI moderation
- 2mo agoHi.Events2.0 rc.1: recurring events, embedded checkout and a REST API ⚡
- 2mo agoHi.Events1.11.1: webhook SSRF and export injection fixes
- 3mo agoEasyshipNow Live: CPSC eFiling — Courier Pass-Through for DHL & FedEx ⚡
- 3mo agoEasyshipNow Live: Shopify Shop Promise Support
- 3mo agoEasyship📦 Now Live: Amazon Shipping LYOC Integration — US
- 3mo agoEasyship🚚 Now Fully Live: UniUni Integration — Reselling & LYOC, US & Canada
- 3mo agoEasyshipNow Live: Evri LYOC Integration — GB
- 4mo agoEasyshipNow Live: EU Small Parcel Duty Compliance
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Easyship and Hi.Events?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hi.Events is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Easyship better than Hi.Events?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hi.Events is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other E-comm products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Easyship?
Top Easyship alternatives in E-comm are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Easyship alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/easyship for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Hi.Events?
Top Hi.Events alternatives in E-comm are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hi.Events alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hi-events for the full list with editorial commentary on each.