Planning Pod is fully customizable to fit any of your event management and business needs, regardless of what business you are in. Let us create the right solution for you from our 40+ time-tested tools.
Learn about Planning Pod and why 70,000+ event and hospitality professionals have chosen our platform and company to help them manage their events and businesses.
Access expert guidance and insights via our blog, webinars and white papers. Learn about using our platform via our Help Center. Or contact us with questions.
Planning Pod is fully customizable to fit any of your event management and business needs, regardless of what business you are in. Let us create the right solution for you from our 40+ time-tested tools.
Learn about Planning Pod and why 70,000+ event and hospitality professionals have chosen our platform and company to help them manage their events and businesses.
Access expert guidance and insights via our blog, webinars and white papers. Learn about using our platform via our Help Center. Or contact us with questions.
Automate processes and boost profitability for your catering services
Choose from 40+ battle-tested tools to create a custom solution that saves 62+ hours/month, streamlines sales and kitchen operations and enables your entire team to perform at their peak.
Why more catering and banquet teams thrive using our platform
Centralize all your food-and-beverage orders and details
Never again juggle between many apps and files. We offer a complete solution to track bookings, menus, leads, clients, billing, and any kind of catering order - on-premise, off-premise, pick-up or drop-off.
Coordinate your catering staff with less effort
Keep your sales, event, kitchen, setup, and serving staff on the same page with shared tools for booking calendars, tasks, timelines, email communications, floorplans, and more.
Streamline operations with automations and templates
Build automated workflows for your processes and time-saving templates for critical documents like banquet event orders, proposals, contracts, invoices, and catering menus.
Drive growth in catered events and revenues
Planning Pod customers experience a 64% growth in event bookings when they use our event CRM tools to manage their lead pipeline and automate their billing and payments processes.
Simplify lead and customer management
Improve your customer engagement without adding headcount using collaborative tools like online client portals, automated email sequences, and shared documents.
How Planning Pod helps managers and staff overcome common and challenges
Improve your service by reducing busywork
Manual processes and repetitive tasks needlessly consume valuable time. Our automations and workflows for scheduling, leads, billing, and communications free up staff time to focus on serving more clients, more attentively.
Eliminate miscommunications and errors
Relying on multiple apps and emails to track all your catering details means some things are bound to slip through the cracks. Our centralized platform and communications ensure you stay on top of every detail and minimize errors.
Jumpstart growth through better sales and billing
Lack of followthrough due to overworked staff and porous processes can result in dropped leads and lost revenue. Planning Pod’s lead management and billing workflows close the gaps to ensure you capture more catering clients and revenue.
Optimize operations to overcome understaffing
Lack of staff and high turnover are the source of many issues for catering teams. By standardizing your documents and processes using our platform, you can upgrade your operations and customer service in spite of staffing challenges.
What cateringprofessionals have to say about Planning Pod
Manage food items and menus, create package templates and easily track food-and-beverage orders and billing as well as included equipment.
Communication and Collaboration
Simplify how your team stays connected with each other and clients via integrated email, client portals, automated notifications and shared tools.
Booking Calendars
Track on- and off-premise bookings as well as drop-off and pickup orders via one central calendar. Also manage due dates and task assignments.
Event CRM for Leads
Increase how many leads you collect and close with proven tools for webforms, sales pipeline management, and email sequences/reminders.
Invoicing and Payments
Get paid faster and more reliably with single-click invoice creation, payment installment scheduling and online payment processing (credit card and ACH).
Workflows and Templates
Automate countless catering processes and build custom templates for menus, packages, BEOs, and more to streamline how you operate.
