Caterease vs MarketMan

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.

MarketMan is a cloud-based restaurant management platform for inventory control, purchasing, expense tracking and recipe costing. It manages inventory and purchase orders, supports mobile ordering and suggests order quantities. Recipe costing breaks ingredient costs down by menu item in real time. Smart Ordering uses predictive analytics to forecast demand. Starter includes 50 AI-powered invoice scans per month, while Growth includes unlimited invoice scanning. Listed integrations include Toast, Square, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Xero, Sysco and Performance Foodservice. The platform is available through a browser and iOS and Android apps. It serves quick-service and full-service restaurants, cafes, bars, ghost kitchens, and single-location operators and multi-unit chains. Multi-unit tools include centralized reporting, inter-location inventory transfers, commissary kitchen management, standardized recipe libraries and comparative dashboards. Starter costs $249 a month, Growth costs $299 a month and Enterprise costs $449 a month. Enterprise includes read-only API access limited to 5,000 calls per month. Vendor EDI integrations are listed for the US, Canada and UK, with plan limits of one for Starter, two for Growth and unlimited for Enterprise.