Caterease

• Caterers and event planners

  Covers the whole event from inquiry to invoice: booking wizards, menus, prints, staffing and payments.

• Restaurants with a catering side

  The vendor lists online ordering, ingredients management, production sheets, reusable items inventory and cost and profit analysis for restaurant catering.

• Hotels, inns and banquet venues

  Includes guest room and banquet room tracking, shift management and event checklists.

• Wedding venues

  Venue and staff management with layout diagramming for weddings and special occasions.

• Event booking wizards

  Custom wizards per event type with conditionally required fields so details are entered consistently.

• Menu building

  Menu tools with incremental search, automatic menu packages and linked or minimum quantities.

• Customizable prints

  Library of back-of-house and front-of-house event documents based on templates.

• Shifts and staffing

  Assigns shifts and named staff to events and flags scheduling conflicts; from the Standard plan.

• Recipes and packing lists

  Recipes and equipment packing lists tied to menu items and totalled automatically as menus are built.

• Payment processing

  Tokenized cards, payment links and refunds through the vendor's HPay / Mosaic processing; processing fees apply.

• Client management

  Contact details, event history and totals per customer.

• Task management

  Pop-up reminders, history notes and to-do checklists per event.

• Horizon Hub dashboard, calendar and reports

  Live cloud view of Caterease data with KPI dashboard, calendar, custom and scheduled reports.

• Cai AI assistant

  Assistant that answers questions about events, clients and reports.

• Event and client portals

  Live event details for staff, with an optional client-facing portal.

• Sign & Send e-signatures

  Templates sent for electronic signature by email or in the client portal.

• Kitchen display

  Screen listing items needed for the day's events and highlighting recent changes.

• Graze online ordering

  Branded storefront with menus, modifiers, order rules, delivery zones and payments for online orders.

• Placez floor plans

  2D and 3D event layout diagramming with augmented reality preview.

• Optional modules

  Paid add-ins: Guest Rooms Manager, Prospect Manager, Document Builder, Web Inquiry and Banquet Rooms.

Starting price

From USD 99 per month, billed annually

Pricing model

Subscription per user

Minimum contract

Annual billing (prices are quoted billed annually)

Free plan

No

Three plans, each priced per month billed annually: Express $99, Standard $149 (adds shift and staff management, recipes and packing lists), Professional $199 (adds batch merge emails, enhanced security). Each includes one user; extra users are $28 per month. Optional modules and integration add-ons are $25 per month each. A one-time launch fee of $200 per user applies to all plans. Payment processing (HPay/Mosaic, fees apply) and Horizon Hub are included. The plan order on the page is slightly inconsistent, so check the comparison there.

Compared with the 24 products in Catering Management Software that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Its starting price is USD 99 per month. That is above the category median of USD 91, taken from the 6 products in this category that publish a USD price per month. The median mixes prices quoted with and without tax, so treat it as a rough guide.
• Names 14 integrations. The median in this category is 5.50.
• Does not have a free plan. 2 of the 8 products in this category that say whether they have a free plan do.
• Lists Web only. Among the 24 products in this category that state their platforms, 2 list an iOS app and 2 list an Android app.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are QuickBooks, Stripe, Xero, Google Calendar, Nowsta, Sage, Mailchimp, StaffMate, Authorize.net, Bidfood. Of these, this product's listing names QuickBooks, Nowsta, Sage, StaffMate.

Accounting

Intuit QuickBooksSage

Inventory

ChefTecCostguardReciprofity

Other

Constant ContactDocuSignClient PointAllseatedSocial TablesFood TrakYellow Dog

Scheduling

NowstaStaffmate

These come from partner logos on the pricing page; the vendor names them as add-ons at $25 per month each but does not describe what each one does.

Customers in

United States

Platforms

Web

Caterease publishes no list of countries. The United States is inferred from US customers quoted on the homepage (Sodexo, Tulane University Hospital, Remington Hotels), a Florida address and US phone numbers, and a Canadian customer (Halifax Citadel Society) is also quoted.

Company

Horizon Business Services, Inc.

Headquarters

Naples, United States

Customers named by the vendor

Sodexo, Tulane University Hospital, Remington Hotels, Hershey Farm Restaurant and Inn, Blue Ribbon, Medicine Hat Lodge, Kimble's Events by Design, Halifax Citadel Society, Service Systems Associates

Support

Separate sales, help desk and training phone lines and email addresses are published, and customers get onboarding documentation and weekly tips. Support hours are not stated.

Built for

Catering

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

caterease.com

Also listed in

Catering & Group Order MarketplacesEvent & Banquet Management

• Total Party Planner

  Total Party Planner (TPP) is web-based catering management software.

  Starts at USD 119 per month, against USD 99 per month, billed annually for Caterease. The two prices are quoted on different terms.

• CaterZen

  CaterZen is web-based catering software from Restaurant & Catering Systems.

  Starts at USD 179 per month, against USD 99 per month, billed annually for Caterease. The two prices are quoted on different terms.

• Pxier

  Pxier is cloud software for managing catering and events, from lead and customer records through proposals, contracts, invoicing and payment.

  Names 15 integrations, against 14 for Caterease.

• Curate

  Curate is event business software for caterers, venues, florists and event planners.

  Names 6 integrations, against 14 for Caterease.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• Caterease vs Bp Event
• Caterease vs CaterSOFT
• Caterease vs Flex Catering
• Caterease vs Galdón ERP Catering
• Caterease vs Jucas
• Caterease vs MOBICHEF
• Caterease vs Better Cater vs CaterZen
• Caterease vs Better Cater vs CaterZen vs Total Party Planner

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Whether the product is cloud-only or also offered as an installed desktop program (only Horizon Hub is described as cloud)
• Free trial or free plan
• Contract renewal terms and cancellation
• Founding year, founders, team size, funding
• Countries and interface languages
• What each integration add-on does (the vendor shows logos without names)
• Security certifications and hosting details
• Mobile app availability

1 more not listed here.

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Homepage: positioning, customers, contacthttps://caterease.com/
2. Plans, prices, modules, integration logoshttps://caterease.com/pricing/
3. Feature listhttps://caterease.com/features/
4. Online orderinghttps://caterease.com/graze/
5. Floor plan toolhttps://caterease.com/placez/
6. Payment processinghttps://caterease.com/mosaic/
7. Restaurant fithttps://caterease.com/restaurant-industry/
8. Hotel fithttps://caterease.com/hotel-industry/
9. Wedding venue fithttps://caterease.com/wedding-industry/
10. Legal entityhttps://caterease.com/terms-and-conditions/
11. Address in Naples, Floridahttps://caterease.com/ascend/