Quote catering jobs in minutes, not evenings.
Photograph your menu. CaterKit turns it into costed recipes, professional quotes, and event-day prep lists — and your clients can start the quote themselves. All for $59/mo flat. No setup fees. Your money goes straight to you.
Free is 2 new events a month, no card, no countdown.
- iPhoneComing soon
- AndroidComing soon
- WebComing soon
How it works
Photograph a menu. CaterKit drafts the recipes. You send the quote. Same evening.
1Snap
Photograph a printed menu or paste one in. No typing a recipe list from scratch.
2Review
CaterKit drafts costed recipes from the photo. You check them before anything counts.
3Send
Turn the dishes you kept into a branded quote your client opens and accepts on their phone.
Built for the whole job
The parts caterers actually lose evenings to: costing, quoting, and event-day prep.
Know your real cost
Price from your numbers, not a gut feeling
Live per-portion cost and margin on every recipe and every quote line. The bar turns green the moment the job clears your target.
Win the job
Send a branded quote link, not a lost PDF
Your client reads and accepts it on their phone, with no attachment buried in an email thread. You get pinged the moment they view or accept.
Follow up without nagging
Your quotes chase themselves
A quote goes quiet? CaterKit sends one polite nudge in your voice, then stops the moment your client replies. One nudge, never a pest — and you can turn it off anytime.
Your own front door
Clients start the quote themselves
Share your own booking page. Clients pick dishes, see an instant estimate, and send it over — and you approve every draft before it ever becomes a quote.
Nail event day
Shopping, prep & pack lists build themselves
Straight from the menu you sold. Check things off with wet hands, offline, even with no signal in a venue basement.
See your money
The whole business, at a glance
Outstanding balance, booked this month, and what’s next. The first thing you see each morning, never a spreadsheet.
Your own booking page
Let clients start the quote themselves
Share one link. Your branded booking page lets clients browse your menu, pick dishes, and see an instant estimate — then send it straight to you, already shaped like a quote.
A page that looks like you
Your logo, your color, your menu — a home for the "can you cater our…" messages, instead of a full inbox.
An estimate, not a checkout
Clients see a rough number as they pick, so you both start from the same page. It's labeled an estimate — the real quote is always yours to send.
You approve every draft
Nothing books itself and nothing prices itself. Every request lands as a draft you review, adjust, and send in your own voice — and clients never pay through us.
One app, everywhere you work
CaterKit is built for every screen — one app for your laptop at the desk and your phone in the kitchen. The web app and the iPhone and Android apps are on the way; your recipes, quotes, and events will stay in sync everywhere you sign in.
- iPhoneComing soon
- AndroidComing soon
- WebComing soon
The fine print, up front
The parts most apps bury, said plainly, because they're how CaterKit is built.
You approve everything
The AI drafts. You decide. Nothing lands in your recipes or quotes until you've checked it.
Your links, your money
Clients pay you directly through your own Stripe, Square, Venmo, or PayPal links. Never a cut, and your revenue never passes through us.
Your price never goes up
The plan you join at is yours for good — the price you sign up at is the price you keep.
Free means free
2 new events a month, for as long as you like. No card up front, no trial countdown.
CaterKit Pro & Team
Grow past a one-person kitchen
Two ways up from Solo. Pro adds the whole client experience — a booking portal, e-signatures, and real event numbers. Team adds seats for when the work outgrows one pair of hands.
Pro
Client portal & e-sign
Your client reads, signs, and accepts the whole job from their phone. No printing, no chasing a signature. You get pinged the moment they do.
Pro
Event P&L & reports
Quoted versus actual on every event, so you know what each job really made. Export accountant-ready CSV at tax time.
Team
Seats for your crew
Staff accounts open in day-of mode: the shopping, prep, and pack lists, nothing else. Your crew sees the lists, never your margins, and that line is real security, not a hidden button. Team includes 3 seats, add up to 15.
A note from the founder
Hi — I'm building CaterKit because quoting a catering job shouldn't take longer than cooking it. Too many talented caterers give up their evenings to spreadsheet math on food they could cost in their sleep.
CaterKit is independent: one founder, no sales team, no lock-in. If it hands you back an evening a week, it's earning its keep. If it doesn't, the free plan never expires and your data exports with you.
— The founder · Ardeo Labs LLC
Get your evenings back.
Photograph tonight's menu. Send the quote before the kitchen's clean.
Free is 2 new events a month, no card, no countdown.