Caterease vs Excellent

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.

Excellent combines event operations, staff training, marketing and investor-relations tools for high-end restaurant groups. Its events product handles proposals, electronic signatures, contracts, banquet event orders, deposits, payments, calendars, guest portals and reporting. Excellent Craft adds courses, graded assessments, version-pinned certifications, a staff portal, kiosk access and compliance evidence packs. AI can draft proposals, contracts, banquet event orders, lessons, investor updates and social posts, with a person approving every send or publication. The service runs on Android, iOS and the web; the maker says it works on phones and desktops, with event-day pages available offline. Products are written for English and Spanish. Administrators can export organization records as machine-readable JSON. Hosting and data storage are in the United States. Evaluation workspaces are free without a card or time limit. Annual billing is $300 a year, billed $3,600 a year per location; monthly billing is $360 a month per location.