BlueCart vs Caterease

BlueCart is wholesale business software connecting food and beverage distributors with restaurants, cafes, hotels, and other foodservice buyers. It combines a digital storefront, buyer-specific catalogs and pricing, order management, inventory tracking, delivery routes, invoicing, payment collection, and buyer CRM. Buyers and suppliers can create, track, and fulfill purchase orders, including recurring orders and invoice-to-PO matching. Endless Aisle shows vendor catalogs to buyers in their delivery areas, while Pricing Insights groups products as Great Value, Good Value, or Fair Value. BlueCart Pay supports credit card, bank transfer, and ACH payments, with invoice and payment status tracking. A sales rep app lets field teams view catalogs, manage buyer accounts, place orders, review order history, and check delivery status. BlueCart documents a REST API using AWS Signature authentication v4 and JSON responses; it handles one object per request and does not support bulk updates. The BlueCart for Buyers iPhone app requires iOS 15.6 or later. Pricing varies with selected features and is available on request.

Caterease is software for managing catering and event-planning operations, with customizable booking wizards, menu building, event prints, staff scheduling, recipes and packing lists. Customer records hold details and history; reminders, notes and to-do checklists support follow-up. Horizon Hub provides an AI assistant, dashboards, calendars, reports and access to live Caterease data from any device. Payment processing supports tokenized cards, customer payment links and batch processing. Event Portals let teams review event details remotely and share information with clients, while a free mobile app provides event review and a dashboard or calendar. Caterease offers optional add-ins and interfaces and describes integrations with tools customers already use. Documentation, onboarding, online user training, classes and videos are available. Express costs $99 a month billed annually, with no modules included and an additional-user charge of $28 a month. Standard costs $149 a month and Professional costs $199 a month, both billed annually and with no modules included. A 200.00 USD per-user launch fee applies to all plans.