No other software program updates as aggressively as Caterease - and, best of all, these updates are automatic and absolutely free of charge with an active maintenance plan!
Every new Caterease build introduces dozens of new features, and major new releases offer hundreds of program enhancements. Below are just a few examples of some powerful features added to recent releases – and this is only in the past twelve months! Visit this page often and learn what's new with the event management industry's most powerful and most progressive software application.
October 1, 2008 - Build 708
New Grouped Events Report
This handy new report allows you to instantly group all events for any day or date range based on their Reference, Sales Representative, Category or Theme. The attractive, detailed report not only lists detailed event information but also includes a color-coded graph with a breakdown of the groupings.
Scratch Pad Text Formatting
When you copy commonly-used text from your Scratch Pad, you can now decide on-the-fly whether or not you want that text to be formatted as you have it set up in the Scratch Pad.
Express Version Language Translation
Yet another handy feature has been newly included in the Express version of the program. Now every version of Caterease allows you to dynamically translate your numerous event prints into a variety of foreign languages – or into a language of your own!
August 26, 2008 - Build 705
Reminders/History Notes for Payments and Deposits
Never forget to collect a scheduled deposit! Never forget that you received a payment for an event! Now, the powerful Caterease Contact Manager tools (Reminders and History Notes) are easily accessible from the Event Deposits Due and Event Payments windows. Quickly create a reminder as you schedule a deposit for an event, or create a history note as you post a payment – and let Caterease keep you organized and informed!
New Standard Version Features
Two popular tools in the Professional Version of Caterease have now been added to the Standard Version, as well: 1) Food/Service Quantity Linking - Link the quantity of a particular menu item to the guest count attending a party – so, for example, if you have 25 guests attending a party, the quantity of any linked menu item will default to 25. Furthermore, if you change your guest count, the quantity of any linked item will change automatically! 2) Inventory Control - Establish an inventory of any reusable menu items (such as A/V Equipment, Linens, etc.) and have Caterease automatically warn you when you have no more of those items available!
Special Sub-Event Printing
Now, if you have a party with multiple sub-events – say a “Breakfast”, “Lunch” and “Dinner” – you can have Caterease generate separate prints for each and every one with one single mouse click. (Only available in the Professional Version)
New Security Feature
Access to the powerful Caterease Audit Trail – which allows users of the Professional Version to review changes made by individual users, including such details as when the change was made and by whom – can now be protected in the program’s security setting. You decide which of your various users is allowed to review the Audit Trail, and which ones are prohibited from opening it.
July 9, 2008 - Build 701
Duplicate Account Checking
Caterease will now warn you if you attempt to create a duplicate account (customer) in the program. With all of the variables involved in client information, the approach is incredibly well thought out: 1. If you add a client with the same NAME, CITY and STATE as an existing client, you will be warned that this might be a duplicate record. (The address field is not referenced because of the limitless variations in spelling address information - "Road" vs. "Rd.", for example, or "N" vs. "N." vs. "North".) 2. If you add a client with the same TELEPHONE number as an existing client, you will be warned that this might be a duplicate. In both cases, you have the option to save the new record anyway.
Duplicate Site Location Checking
Caterease also now warns if you attempt to add a duplicate site location to your Site Location Database. This handy feature follows the same logic as the Duplicate Account Checking feature described above, and works whether you add the location directly in the Site Location Database, or whether you add it "on-the-fly" within a sub-event in Event Manager.
New Menu Price Option in Event Copy
Now when you copy an event, you have the option to have prices/costs of the menu items update if you have changed those prices/costs in your program's menus. If you do not choose this option, the menu items will copy with the same prices/costs they have in the original event. This feature, of course, only applies to menu items that are selected from your default menus (as opposed to items added by hand in an event).