Catering Software for Caterers

"Catering software" means different things depending on who you are. If you're an event venue, you need BEO templates and room layouts. If you're a corporate dining operation, you need subsidy management and multi-location tools.

But if you're a caterer who makes great food and needs a better way to take orders, manage them, and grow your client base — without enterprise complexity or marketplace commissions — FlashCater is built for you.

Who we mean by "caterers"

FlashCater serves caterers who:

• Run a restaurant and offer catering alongside dine-in and takeout
• Operate from a commissary kitchen focused on off-premise catering
• Run a food truck that takes advance catering bookings
• Specialize in drop-off catering for offices, events, and parties
• Are growing from a few informal orders to a structured catering program

If your catering business is primarily about taking orders, making food, and delivering it — not managing 200-person seated galas — we're built for your workflow.

What FlashCater does

Online ordering

Your customers get a branded ordering page where they browse your catering menu, customize for their group, choose a date, and pay. Available 24/7 — orders come in while you're sleeping, cooking, or delivering.

Order management

Every order in one dashboard — calendar view, status tracking, customer details, packing lists. No more digging through emails and text messages to piece together what's happening this week.

Customer CRM

Track every client — order history, preferences, company, contact info. Know who your best customers are and what they order. When someone calls and says "the usual," you pull it up in seconds.

Marketing and growth

Automated re-order emails, customer segmentation, and analytics that help you find and keep clients. The tools that turn a few orders per week into a real catering business.

Payment processing

Customers pay when they order — credit card at checkout, no invoicing headaches for standard orders. For corporate accounts that need billing flexibility, you can handle that directly.

How we compare to other catering software

For a deeper dive, see our full comparison of the top catering tools.

Pricing

$79/month per location. That's it.

• Zero commissions on every order
• No setup fees
• No per-order charges
• No contracts — cancel anytime

At $79/month, FlashCater pays for itself with a single additional catering order per month.

Getting started

1. Book a demo — see the platform in 15 minutes
2. We set up your ordering page — menu, pricing, branding
3. Go live — accept orders within a week
4. Grow — use CRM and marketing tools to build your client base