Send polished catering proposals faster — and turn signed quotes into booked events.
Build proposals from your menus, add services and rentals, send invoices, and collect e-signatures from the same event record. No duplicate entry. No spreadsheet math. No chasing paper contracts.
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The problem
The slow quote loses to the fast one.
Inquiries book whoever answers first. But you’re elbow-deep in Friday’s prep, and “send the quote” means digging up the last one, retyping the menu, and re-checking the math after service.
Meanwhile the client is comparing three caterers — and one of them answered today.
find the Peterson quote → copy → change the names
re-check the math — total was wrong last time
attach contract??
Proposals
Built from your menu, priced as you type.
Pick items from the menu you’ve already built. Per-guest pricing, staffing, and rentals total themselves — no spreadsheet on the side, no copy-paste from the last quote. (No design skills required, either — it’s your logo and your menu; the layout takes care of itself.)
The result is a clean, branded proposal that goes out while the client is still excited.
Contracts & e-signatures
Signed online, legally binding, no printer involved.
Send your contract with the proposal and collect an electronic signature from the client’s phone. You’ll know the moment it’s signed — no more “did they ever send it back?”
Invoices & deposits
Deposits, balances, and due dates that track themselves.
You already know what to charge — the paperwork should just keep up. Deposit terms live on the proposal, invoices go out from the same event, and you always know what’s been paid and what’s still owed — per event and across the month.
Coming soon Roadmap
Clients view and pay online.
Online payments are on the way: clients open the proposal or invoice in their browser and pay the deposit by card — no checks in the mail, no chasing.
One signature and it’s booked — the proposal becomes the event you run.
The whole booking flow, one entry
Everything downstream of the inquiry comes from the same event record.
Lead forms
Inquiries from your website land straight in Better Cater with date, headcount, and contact info.
Proposals
Branded, per-guest priced, and ready the same day the inquiry arrives.
E-signature contracts
Signed from the client’s phone, tracked from sent to signed.
Invoices
Deposits and balances with due dates, tracked per event and across your month.
BEOs & kitchen reports
The signed event flows straight to production — BEO, kitchen counts, packing list.
Online paymentsComing soon
Clients pay deposits and balances online, right from the invoice.
Built for caterers who need proposals, invoices, BEOs, production documents, and profit analysis in one system.
Send your first proposal in Better Cater.
Go from inquiry to signed contract from one event record — proposal, e-signature, and invoice included.
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