Catering website with online quotes and deposits

An enquiry you can price

“How much for a wedding?” can't be priced. You need the date, the numbers, the venue, whether there is a kitchen on site, the style of service and roughly the budget — six exchanges by email, spread over a week.

The enquiry form asks all of that up front. You get a complete brief, you price it the same day, and you answer before your competitors. On an event, the first serious quote usually wins.

• Date, numbers, venue and constraints asked up front
• The date checked as free before the enquiry is sent
• Tasting appointments bookable online

The deposit that holds the date

A date promised without a deposit isn't a date booked: the customer keeps comparing, and you are turning other enquiries away for a Saturday in June that can evaporate three weeks out.

The quote is signed online and the 30% deposit paid on signature. The date goes firm in your calendar. The stages after that — balance at fifteen days, the final head count — are scheduled and chased for you.

The season, seen at a glance

A caterer lives months ahead: the season fills in advance, and the risk isn't next week but the empty Saturday in September. With no overall view, you find the gaps too late to fill them.

Traxo shows your events calendar, with the dates confirmed, the options waiting on a deposit, and what is still free. Dates still open can be put forward on your website, with an offer attached if you want one.

• Confirmed dates, options and free dates on one calendar
• Options that lapse if the deposit doesn't arrive
• Quiet dates put forward on the website

Past events sign the next ones

A caterer is chosen on what people have seen and what others say: photographs of real buffets, reviews from couples, a clear quote. The stakes are high, and proof counts for more than price.

After each event the review request goes out with the link to your listing. Your work, sorted by type of event, feeds the website — and the customer's history lets you approach them again the following year.