Caterease vs. Eventleaf

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Caterease
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$85
per month
Eventleaf
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Eventleaf is event registration software by Jolly Technologies. The product allows users to customize event pages and registration forms, create an event schedule, send invitations and confirmation emails, track invitation status, manage contacts, and sell tickets online.
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Pricing
CatereaseEventleaf
Editions & Modules
Express
$85
per month
Standard
$125
per month
Professional
$165
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CatereaseEventleaf
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPrices are available at a 20% discount if billed annually.
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User Ratings
CatereaseEventleaf
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(3 ratings)
9.6
(37 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
CatereaseEventleaf
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.
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Jolly Technologies Inc
When preparing for an event, having online registration is vital to planning. The online registration allows participants to learn about the event, determine their schedule and inform the host of their needs. For planning purposes, there are several helpful reports available through the Eventleaf Online app. This is a great tool if your organization will collect registrations for >50.
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Pros
Caterease
  • Quick updates to contracts/files
  • Great integrations available
  • Report generation
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Jolly Technologies Inc
  • Easy to use: I was a first time user and signing up was super easy.
  • Intuitive: The progam flowed naturally; the order of the tabs and their contents made sense and led me through the process with ease.
  • Comprehensive: While I only used the program to register folks for a fundraiser, it has other options which I will totally use down the road.
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Cons
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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Jolly Technologies Inc
  • Although the registration component is fully customizable, the website itself could be more customizable. It is pretty restrictive on what you can put where.
  • The registration takes a little while to set up depending on how much information you need. It also doesn't allow for repeat fields which makes bringing multiple guests challenging.
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Support Rating
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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Jolly Technologies Inc
Great customer service. My colleague reached out for support midway through planning our event and they replied quickly with a thorough solution to our problem
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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.
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Jolly Technologies Inc
The EventLeaf website made me feel that their product/service was more about my event needs and less about hyping themselves. I found the timely and helpful support from EventLeaf wonderful. The team that presented the live demo were very helpful, answered what might have seemed like dumb questions from me (being new at this) with respect and helpfulness. The ability to customize pricing to the scope and needs of the event we were planning was great
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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
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Jolly Technologies Inc
  • Eventleaf cut the cost of event management software by nearly $2.5
  • It has saved us countless hours on the phone with customer care--we spent 10 years with a big-brand event management company which equated to 100s of hours on the phone with customer service. I haven't had to contact customer service yet.
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ScreenShots

Eventleaf Screenshots

Screenshot of Eventleaf Online syncs with Eventleaf DesktopScreenshot of Ticket Sales Online
Admission tickets, workshop packages, training courses, tours, and meals.Screenshot of Invitations
Can be sent to members, past attendees, prospects and other contacts. Contact details including name, organization and e-mail can be imported from a file or entered by hand.Screenshot of Confirmation Email
Registration confirmation e-mails sent to guests after they register can be customized to include a message, event and registration details, directions and check in procedures and a barcode for fast check in upon arrival.Screenshot of Speaker and Presenter Information
Photos and biographical information about the people that will be speaking or presenting at an event.Screenshot of Event Schedule
Includes the dates and times for each workshop, meeting, seminar and other schedule items that will be occurring during the event.