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Here are CaterZen's most profitable catering software features (by average annual sales growth):
Each of these strategies can help you grow your catering business.
Our online ordering helps you increase sales 3 ways:
Our rapid order entry saves you and your team a lot of time being able to quickly enter proposals and orders from a single screen.
Specially packaged and priced menus allow you to make sales to companies and organizations you would have previously lost out on. Our system only allows those identified to see and order from these special menus.
When taking an order, you have access to stats on the client like how long they’ve been a client, total sales with you and highlighted notes to help you remember important details like food allergies. By knowing how valuable a client is, every employee knows which clients should receive extra special attention.
Attract large accounts by being able to automatically give all employees the discount at the click of a button.
Prevent day of cancellations with an automatic email reminder to clients the day before the event.
Our customized, highly graphical catering proposals lead to more sales and upsells.
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Our built-in contracting system allows quicker signing of deals, while providing you peace of mind when booking with a client.
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By being able to quickly, easily take catering deposits in our system, you are protected against unexpected cancellations.
By being able to set reminders to follow up on proposals, as well as, calling clients to rebook valuable events, you will close more sales.
Save an hour a day planning out what food needs to be ordered and prepped with our mobile-friendly kitchen production reports.
Our delivery manager saves you up to an hour a day routing and assigning deliveries.
Our driver app saves you and makes you money 4 ways.
Send out email promotions to any group or your entire database. Our clients report our pre-written email templates lead to increased sales and reactivated catering clients.
Automatically reward repeat catering clients with either gift certificates to your restaurant or e-gift cards to over 80 merchants like Amazon and Target.
Automatically reward clients for referring you new catering clients with either gift certificates to your restaurant or e-gift cards to over 80 merchants like Amazon and Target
Automatically send snail mail letters to get lost or inactive catering clients back, as well as, pull up a list of inactive clients to call.
Build and use an unlimited number of lead forms for your website to capture qualified prospects ready to buy and have their info automatically added to the CaterZen database.
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Our system automatically sends out snail mail thank you letters. Thanking your clients leads to repeat catering clients.
Reward your best catering clients with a gift certificate on their birthday. Appreciated clients become repeat clients.
With our VoIP system, record all catering calls to use as a coaching tool to improve sales, as well as, a back-up should any questions arise with a client.
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Create a yearly marketing plan with actual money-making promotions. Reminder system keeps you on track.
Avoid losing prospective clients playing “tag” trying to coordinate calendars with our Book-A-Meeting system. Clients get a link to your calendar and pick the date and time that works best for them.
By offering invoicing, you attract more high-value catering clients who will only do business with caterers allowing them to pay via accounts receivable.
Speed up collection of past due invoices.
