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5 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Event Espresso is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

7.5
Caterease
75%
3 Ratings
10.0
Event Espresso
100%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

9.0
Caterease
90%
2 Ratings
Event Espresso
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Operations Manager
Valle Vista Golf Course and Conference CenterHospitality, 51-200 employees
Event Espresso
As far as I have found, Event Espresso has no peer. Yes, there are other WordPress plugins that provide for event registration, including a few available through Code Canyon, but none of them promise the rich feature set and robust support of Event Espresso. It seems to be the only real game in town, but luckily it's a good product. It's highly extensible, so it should scale well to any size or type of event. Through add-ons, it's doubtful there is an event scenario it can't handle. And because it runs on WordPress, you can incorporate it as part of your site--the plugin even does a good job of picking up design cues from your theme, or you can customize it using CSS.
Director, Management Information Systems
CareerSource FloridaPublic Policy, 11-50 employees
Pros
Caterease
- Quick updates to contracts/files
- Great integrations available
- Report generation
Marketing and Social Media Coordinator
Becovic Management GroupHospitality, 11-50 employees
Event Espresso
- Instead of sending traffic to a third party, Event Espresso allows us to integrate our registration straight into our website.
- Easy to set up, dependable platform, and a variety of payment channel alternatives.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesCons
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.
Event Sales Manager
Team Play EventsEvents Services, 1-10 employees
Event Espresso
- Integrating account creation with WordPress should be included in the core product, not an add-on. It's extremely frustrating to have to pay extra for that, especially when that add-on is not as flexible as it needs to be (for example, if someone is enrolling for a class on behalf of someone else).
- The data visualization is a mess. That feature doesn't seem to ever work and it should be left out until it does.
- The ability to show participant data on the front end is extremely limited. Event Espresso does provide a few hooks and some limited documentation on this feature, but I feel it should be more robust. Perhaps that can be a focus of future releases.
Director, Management Information Systems
CareerSource FloridaPublic Policy, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Caterease
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Caterease Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Event Espresso
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$79.95 per year
Event Espresso Editions & Modules
Edition
Personal Support License | $79.951 |
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Everything Support License | $299.951 |
- per year
Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Caterease
Caterease 9.0
Based on 2 answers
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.
Operations Manager
Valle Vista Golf Course and Conference CenterHospitality, 51-200 employees
Event Espresso
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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.
Event Sales Manager
Team Play EventsEvents Services, 1-10 employees
Event Espresso
I looked at EventBrite, but it wasn't customizable enough for our needs and didn't provide the level of integration with our website that I desired. I also looked at the ticketing system offered by The Events Calendar for WordPress (by Modern Tribe), but it too lacked the feature set we needed. Only Event Espresso offered all the features, customization, and integration we desired and needed.
Director, Management Information Systems
CareerSource FloridaPublic Policy, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
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
Marketing and Social Media Coordinator
Becovic Management GroupHospitality, 11-50 employees
Event Espresso
- Event Espresso has literally changed the lives of our volunteer organization, saving hundreds of hours of time and eliminating the frustration of paper enrollment.
- The add-ons allow you to accomplish just about any event registration goals you might have. It's an extremely powerful product.
- Integrating the plugin into our website was a breeze, and it's approachable enough where volunteers can create the classes and conduct the online enrollment all in a web browser.
Director, Management Information Systems
CareerSource FloridaPublic Policy, 11-50 employees