Step into elevated event management

Planning Pod offers a highly customizable event management platform, designed to address the unique challenges of each organization. Unlike one-size-fits-all solutions, we tailor our software to your specific needs, with the ability to adapt as your business grows.

Planning Pod's platform is built to accelerate access to details, automate workflows and document creation, eliminate double entry of information, and minimize repetitive tasks. Our tools focus on helping you "do it better, faster, and easier" - freeing up valuable time to work ON your business instead of IN your business.

Any comprehensive suite of venue booking tools include event scheduling/booking calendars, space reservations and holds, blackout dates/times, and tour scheduling. Planning Pod provides all of these features in an end-to-end toolset for managing your event spaces.

Yes! Planning Pod’s event and venue management software offers a robust suite of sales activities tools, including sales pipelines, lead capture webforms, proposals, contracts, and electronic signatures, to streamline your sales process.

Planning Pod's platform for venue operations delivers fresh insights via fully customizable, up-to-the-minute reporting, helping you centralize information and make data-driven decisions to boost revenues and improve overall operations. Beyond that, our tools also include customizable dashboards that help you keep all stakeholders in the loop with crystal clear metrics at a glance.

Planning Pod’s tools streamline catering and food-and-beverage orders with features like on-the-fly package creation, menu templates, food item and equipment libraries, and banquet event orders. Hot tip: you can also use all of these tools to manage package offerings outside of food and beverage, like florals, linens, decor, and more.

Integrating your event software with a payment processor saves hours of time otherwise spent manually consolidating payment details. Planning Pod offers integrated billing and payment solutions alongside critical features like invoices, payment reminders, auto-payments, deposit tracking, and payment processing (credit card + ACH), simplifying financial management for your business.

Yes! Planning Pod provides tools for event registration and attendees, such as online ticket sales, RSVP collection, event websites, registration webforms, and attendee check-in.

Keep an eye out for integrations with popular platforms like Google, Apple, QuickBooks, and Microsoft, as well as various email and calendaring tools. These integrations ensure seamless connectivity with your existing systems.

Ultimately, it depends on the software you choose. Planning Pod emphasizes ease-of-use and quick implementation, aiming to get you up-and-running within weeks (not months) due to our user-friendly platform, comprehensive training approach, and team of experts dedicated to getting you up and running quickly.

Different platforms certainly provide different levels of support and service. Speaking for ourselves, Planning Pod offers continued guidance and customer support to help you succeed, including a consultative approach where our industry experts work closely with you to understand challenges and provide ongoing advice.

Yes, Planning Pod's event management features include comprehensive tools for budgets and vendor management, alongside timelines, to-do lists, checklists, and file sharing.