Catering & private event software
If you run private events out of one to a handful of rooms, the practical shortlist is SavorBanquet, Perfect Venue or Tripleseat — the first two are priced and published for independents, Tripleseat is the deepest and the most expensive. Everything below is what separates them, including where each one beats the others.
| Option | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| SavorBanquet | $9.99 / venue / mo | Independents running events out of one to a handful of rooms who want the per-event profit, not just the booking. Published price, day-of captain app, contracts signed on a phone. |
| Perfect Venue | from ~$99 / mo | Single venues that want a simple proposal-and-BEO flow and are happy without deep cost reporting. |
| Tripleseat | quote only (~$100–300+ / mo) | Multi-unit and hotel-adjacent operations that need the deepest feature set and a large integration ecosystem, and have someone to run it. |
| Caterease | quote only | Off-premise caterers with complex production, delivery routing and rental inventory — a different job from in-house private events. |
| Event Temple | quote only | Hotels and venues where group rooms and event space are sold together. |
| HoneyBook | from ~$29 / mo | Solo event planners and non-restaurant service businesses. Not built around a kitchen, a BEO or a guarantee. |
Prices characterised 2026-09-25 from vendor sites and public market sources. Tripleseat, Caterease and Event Temple do not publish pricing — 'quote only' is the fact, not an estimate we invented. SavorBanquet's price is published on this site and is the price you sign up at.
Most tools in this category stop at revenue. If you want contribution margin — revenue minus food minus labour, per event — that is the question that narrows the list fastest, because only some of them compute it at all.
A BEO you can read on a phone is not the same as an app a captain runs the night from: headcount at the door, firing the kitchen, close-out with the final count. If your captain currently carries printed paper, that is the gap to close.
A quote-gated price is a sales process before you have decided anything, and it usually means the price scales with how big you look. If you are an independent, published pricing tells you where you stand before you spend an hour on a call.
A wedding client who becomes a regular is worth more than the wedding. Ask whether the tool keeps one record of that person, or whether the event is the end of the relationship.
Contracts bill the greater of the guaranteed number and the actual headcount. If the software does not reconcile that itself, somebody is re-typing a number into an invoice at midnight — and that is where the money goes missing.
For an independent running events out of one to a handful of rooms, SavorBanquet at $9.99 per venue per month and Perfect Venue from about $99 per month are the two priced for that scale. SavorBanquet adds per-event profit and a day-of captain app; Perfect Venue is simpler. Tripleseat is the deepest tool in the category but is quote-priced and aimed at larger operations.
Published prices run from about $9.99 per venue per month at the low end to roughly $100–300 per month for the established tools. Several vendors — Tripleseat, Caterease, Event Temple — do not publish pricing at all and quote per account.
A banquet event order: the document the kitchen and floor work the event from. It carries the timeline, the counts, the menu, the room set and the special instructions. Every tool in this category produces one; they differ in whether it is a printable document or something your captain can actually run the night from.
At two or three events a month, email and a spreadsheet work until one of them does not — a double-booked Saturday, a deposit nobody chased, a headcount that changed after the kitchen ordered. The question is not volume, it is whether losing one event to an avoidable mistake costs more than the software.
Yes, and honestly: there is no one-click importer. Point your website inquiry form at the new system so new leads flow from day one, and move active clients and open events by hand — most independents do it in an afternoon. Past events and their reporting history stay where they are.