SavorBanquet
$9.99 / venue / mo · published · no per-seat charge
SavorBanquet vs Caterease
If your food leaves the building, buy Caterease. If your guests come to it, read on.
Price at a glance
Caterease
Quoted per licence and edition · pricing not published
Caterease does not publish a monthly price; it is licensed by user seat and by edition, with implementation generally quoted separately. Characterised 2026-09-25 from their published materials and public market sources. SavorBanquet's price is on this site and does not change with headcount.
Feature parity
| Feature | SavorBanquet | Caterease |
|---|---|---|
| Lead pipeline + inquiry capture | ✓ included | ✓ included |
| Proposals + e-signature | ✓ included | ✓ included |
| Contracts | ✓ included | ✓ included |
| BEOs | ✓ included | ✓ included |
| AI-drafted proposals + BEOs | ✓ included | ✗ not available |
| Mobile day-of run-of-show | ✓ included | ~ limited |
| Kitchen fire board + dietary counts | ✓ included | ✗ not available |
| Per-event P&L (food + labor) | ✓ included | ~ costing module |
| Client portal without login | ✓ included | ~ email-heavy |
| Off-premise catering + delivery routing | ✗ not available | ✓ included |
| Equipment + rental inventory | ✗ not available | ✓ included |
| Staffing assignments across an event roster | ✓ (SavorCrew) | ✓ included |
| Suite guest CRM link | ✓ included | ✗ not available |
| Pricing model | per venue, published | per licence / edition, quoted |
| Published pricing | ✓ on this site | ✗ request a quote |
✓ included · ~ partial · ✗ not available
Where SavorBanquet is different
Per-event profit — food cost from your recipes, labor from your schedule, contribution margin on the night. Not a costing module you maintain separately, and not revenue reporting.
A real day-of app: the captain works the run-of-show, fires the kitchen and closes out from a phone, with dietary counts on the board.
AI drafts proposals and BEOs in your venue's voice. You review, edit and send.
A client portal with no login — one tokened link, a code by email before money or a signature, no account and no app.
One guest across the group: a private-event host becomes a member becomes a regular on the same suite CRM.
A price on the website that does not move when you add a coordinator.
Where Caterease might fit better
You are an off-premise caterer. Delivery routing, drop-off manifests and route sheets are Caterease features and are not ours at any price.
You rent equipment — linens, china, tenting, staging — and need it tracked against events and returns. SavorBanquet has no rental inventory.
You want three decades of accumulated depth in a catering-specific feature set, including the corners a younger product has not reached yet.
You run a large catering operation with dedicated office staff, where a per-seat licence and a formal implementation are normal and worth it.
You need on-premise Windows deployment rather than a browser and a phone.
Switching from Caterease
Your inquiries
Point your website form at the SavorBanquet form bridge and new inquiries land in the pipeline from day one, with an owner on each and an automatic acknowledgement to the guest. Open leads and active clients go in by hand — an afternoon for most venues.
Your book
Your packages, spaces and minimums get set up once. From then on, AI drafts the proposal from the inquiry, the client signs and pays deposit on their phone through a tokened link, and the BEO builds itself off the signed proposal.
Day one
On the night, the captain has the run-of-show, the fire cues and the dietary counts on a phone rather than a clipboard, and closes the event out from the floor. Monday morning the event has a contribution margin against it rather than a revenue figure.
No lock-in
No contract, no setup fee, no per-seat charge, and the price you sign up at is locked for life. Your events, clients and documents export on the way out.
The honest line
What you lose, plainly: off-premise catering, delivery routing, rental and equipment inventory, and Caterease's accumulated depth. Historical events do not import — upload signed contracts and floor plans as documents and keep your Caterease exports for your records.
Switching questions, answered.
Is SavorBanquet a Caterease alternative?
For a venue that hosts events in its own rooms, yes — inquiries, proposals, e-signed contracts, BEOs, deposits and the night itself. For an off-premise caterer who delivers to other people’s buildings, no. Caterease carries delivery routing and equipment rental and SavorBanquet has neither.
How much does Caterease cost?
Caterease does not publish a monthly price. It is licensed by user seat and by edition, quoted per account, with implementation typically quoted separately — characterised 2026-09-25 from their published materials and public market sources. SavorBanquet is $9.99 per venue per month, published on this site, with no per-seat charge.
Does SavorBanquet handle off-premise catering?
No. There are no delivery routes, no drop-off manifests and no rental equipment inventory, and none of those are planned. If a meaningful share of your revenue leaves the building, Caterease is the better tool and we would rather say so now than have you find out during a wedding season.
Can I move my Caterease events and clients over?
There is no one-click importer. Point your website form at the SavorBanquet form bridge so new inquiries arrive from day one, then add active clients and open events by hand — most venues move theirs in an afternoon. Signed contracts, COIs and floor plans upload to their event as documents.
What does SavorBanquet do that Caterease does not?
AI drafting of proposals and BEOs in your venue’s voice; a real day-of app where the captain works the run-of-show and fires the kitchen from a phone; contribution margin on every event with food from your recipes and labor from your schedule; a client portal that needs no login; and a price published on the website.