ACTIVE Endurance vs. Caterease

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ACTIVE Endurance
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ACTIVE Endurance is an event registration tool for racing and fitness events, supporting merchandise sales, fundraising and social media integrations, and higher tier features such as volunteer management, CRM, race pass, and other features of use to large marathons and races.N/A
Caterease
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$85
per month
Pricing
ACTIVE EnduranceCaterease
Editions & Modules
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Express
$85
per month
Standard
$125
per month
Professional
$165
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ACTIVE EnduranceCaterease
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Prices are available at a 20% discount if billed annually.
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ACTIVE EnduranceCaterease
Small Businesses
Whova
Whova
Score 9.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Whova
Whova
Score 9.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
Whova
Whova
Score 9.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
ACTIVE EnduranceCaterease
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ACTIVE EnduranceCaterease
Likelihood to Recommend
Active Network, LLC
It is a great thing to use if you are training for an event - especially if that event is using ACTIVE Network to track the participants. Either way, it has great resources for athletes. On race day, it is great for spectators and people wanting to track a participant's progress from afar.
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Caterease
Integration with Microsoft Access - We use Access for a lot of different Queries, such as for our bar back to know the specifics of each bar. Caterease allows Access to pull data directly so all we have to do is run the report instead of entering all the information manually. Same with diagramming, having software like Placez that pulls from Caterease allows for such things as table and chair counts to be pulled directly from Caterease instead of having to place each individual table.
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Pros
Active Network, LLC
  • Great resources for all kinds of fitness activities
  • Great features for race day
  • Easy to use navigation
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Caterease
  • Quick updates to contracts/files
  • Great integrations available
  • Report generation
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Cons
Active Network, LLC
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Caterease
  • It’s a great program, but it’s missing some aspects that would be incredibly useful. It has the ability to store venues and locations that you’ve used in the past, but it doesn’t allow you to associate a tax rate with the saved venue. As our company handles events all throughout Southern California and tax rates are constantly changing, it would be nice to be able to assign certain tax rates to certain zip codes and venues.
  • It can be a little finicky sometimes with its equipment conflict algorithm. There will be events In the system that have been marked as cancelled, yet it will insist that an event I am working on has an equipment conflict with it (even though that event is not going through). It will not let you save out of your event and, sometimes, will end up deleting all your changes and progress, which is incredibly frustrating.
  • I wish there was a way to export PDFs of your proposals without re-saving your entire proposal. Sometimes, clients will ask for two versions of the same proposal with just slight changes, and it’s annoying to have to go in and completely re-do and save the proposal and have to adjust it back to the original.
  • It would be nice if there was a way to see a history of all of the changes that had been made in a proposal, that would be great. Because we often have many hands on each event we do, having a comprehensive list of all the changes made to each proposal and the date and times, and users who made these changes would be an incredible asset.
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Support Rating
Active Network, LLC
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Caterease
I have not had to use the support in my over 3 years of using Caterease. This is why I gave it a 9 rating because even though I haven't had to interact with support, the fact that I haven't had to use support speaks volumes to how good the software is and how it is user friendly.
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Alternatives Considered
Active Network, LLC
I've not come across other things like ACTIVE Network. I was first introduced to it when I ran a half marathon that used ACTIVE Network to track participant progress. Since that time, I've used ACTIVE Network to read articles about training and running. It is a great tool for anyone interested in fitness.
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Caterease
I haven’t used too many other events programs in the past – at a former company, we used the back end of our website in order to create events, but Caterease is a lot more user-friendly. Our website wasn’t particularly fancy – it didn’t allow us to conflict check or see if there was another event at the same time. It was used for the sole purpose of posting the information to our system – not for creating full proposals. Caterease is much more effective for what we need to use it for in this context.
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Return on Investment
Active Network, LLC
  • Great user interface
  • Great features for participants and spectators
  • Great information for training athletes
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Caterease
  • Has made our team more efficient and be able to have a central place to store all info so everyone can access it.
  • Manually printing BEOs has proven to be incredibly inefficient as they get updated quickly and often times just causes confusion and mistakes.
  • It's nice to be able to generate contracts fairly quickly for clients
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