Event catering

A wedding has four hundred details. You should type none of them twice.

The enquiry becomes an event, the event becomes a quote, and the customer accepts, changes and pays against it themselves. What reaches you is the work — the run sheet, the crew and the number at the end.

What it does

Four things, and they are the whole job

Everything below ships today. Nothing here is a roadmap item.

The dates you can take, and the ones you cannot

One resolver decides what a day is — open, limited, busy, full, blocked — and every surface reads the same answer. A booked wedding publishes as a shape and a time; the couple on it are nobody else's business.

  • Public availability widget
  • Capacity that refuses to over-promise
  • A blocked day carries no reason

A quote your customer can accept and pay

The enquiry email is read into a real event, the reply and the quote are drafted from it, and one link carries the itemised quote, the terms and the deposit. The booking lands on your board and your calendar.

  • Itemised quote with the date priced in
  • Deposit taken on the quote page
  • Google Calendar in step from the moment it is booked

The customer runs their own event

Their portal moves the start time, adds the grazing board, gives you the dietaries and the venue access, and pays the balance. Every one of those lands as a change on the job rather than an email you have to action.

  • Change requests priced before you agree to them
  • Dietaries and access collected from the customer
  • Balance paid without an invoice chase

What the event made, not what it billed

Price per head and food cost per head on the same line, with crew, travel and fuel against it. Where a cost cannot be worked out the event says which input is missing instead of calling it zero.

  • Per-event P&L
  • Food cost from your own supplier prices
  • A gap is named, never rounded to $0

By occasion

The same product, whatever is on the invitation

Weddings

Seated dinners, canapés on arrival, a run sheet the venue can read.

Corporate & conference

Recurring orders, several rooms, one invoice and one contact.

Private parties

Birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings, quoted in minutes.

Fundraisers

Charity dinners and community events, costed before you commit.

The details, moving

Four hundred details, typed once

One event, one screen. Change the bump-in time and the schedule, the crew and the customer's own copy all move with it — because they are reading the same event, not their own copies of it.

Events / Hartwell Wedding Confirmed · 22 days out
  • Event the booking itself
  • Needs attention only what is actually wrong
  • The gig what was agreed
  • Menu packages, and what they cost
  • Roadmap the day, in order
  • Team roles and roster
  • Resources packing, vehicles, gear
  • Money the P&L
Confirmed Hartwell Wedding Saturday 26 September · Wombat Hill House, Daylesford
Guests80 Value$6,200 Team4
  • Balance outstanding$4,340 due 19 September
  • One shift unfilledBump out · 17:00

Nothing else is listed, because nothing else is wrong.

  • Service11:30 am – 5:00 pm
  • StyleGrazing on arrival, shared mains
  • Dietary4 gluten free · 2 vegetarian
  • ContactAsh Reddy · 0412 998 220
ItemsAvailabilityFood costing
  • Grazing & shared mains$62 / head
  • Food cost$18.40 / head
  • Margin62%
  • 05:30Load van at the unitBump in
  • 11:30Canapés out, service beginsTrading
  • 18:30Load out, site walk-throughBump out
RolesRosterChat
  • Robbie NguyenLead · 05:30–19:00
  • Jess KaurService · 07:00–17:30
  • Mel TranService · 07:00–17:30
  • Bump outunfilled · 17:00
Packing listVehiclesGearFloor plan
  • Grazing boards ×6packed
  • Chafing dishes ×4packed
  • Coffee cartnot packed
P&LMoney received
  • Revenue$6,200
  • Food & goods−$1,204
  • Crew−$891
  • Overheads−$530
  • Fees−$112
Travel — no distance on this event Add the venue address and this fills in. Until then the margin is withheld.

03In their words

Caterers who love CaterCloud

The moment I realised this was actually working was waking up in the morning and having the leads in my inbox already — without chasing the business. I've gone from one booking a month to three or four.

Michelle

Owner, Michelle's Catering

50–60% of leads converted

Michelle, Michelle's Catering
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