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Caterease vs. FCS Hospitality Operations Management

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Caterease

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $85

    per month

    FCS Hospitality Operations Management

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASingaporean company FCS Computer Systems offers the FCS Hospitality Operations Management Suite, a modular set of applications meant to provide an end-to-end or integratable set of applications primarily oriented around guest experience.N/A
    Pricing
    CatereaseFCS Hospitality Operations Management
    Editions & Modules
    Express
    $85
    per month
    Standard
    $125
    per month
    Professional
    $165
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CatereaseFCS Hospitality Operations Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices are available at a 20% discount if billed annually.—
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    User Ratings
    CatereaseFCS Hospitality Operations Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CatereaseFCS Hospitality Operations Management
    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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    FCS Computer Systems
    It is appropriate for running a hotel and using it to maintain pertinent information needed across the board for customers, requests, tracking trends and revenue.
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    Pros
    Caterease
    • Quick updates to contracts/files
    • Great integrations available
    • Report generation
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    FCS Computer Systems
    • Tracking pertinent cusomter information.
    • Providing a one stop solution to handling multiple needs for the hotel.
    • Storing and computing data needed to monitor revenue and trends etc.
    • Providing multiple solution for services such as housekeeping, communication among depts, and concierge.
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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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    FCS Computer Systems
    • Room for improvement would be that at times the system runs a little slower than we would like it to. When you are busy you need things to be at its best especially when creating a seamless experience for your guests.
    • Keeping up to date with the ever growing software and adding a few more perks or enhancements.
    • Shortening the time it takes to fix glitches in the system.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Caterease
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    FCS Computer Systems
    The program is amazing and there wouldn't be a reason not to continue. Go with what works, and this works.
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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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    FCS Computer Systems
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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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    FCS Computer Systems
    The system is really easy to use and to implement into your business. Training for the software is fairly easy which is important for new hires and so forth. When you think about any company which provides services in numerous ways, you really want a program that can be seamless throughout the department's and this software does just that.
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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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    FCS Computer Systems
    • So far it has been an overall positive experience. It is easy to use, easy to train employees, and easy to implement into your business.
    • It is very beneficial for tracking analytics and running much needed data to watch for trends.
    • You can literally track everything down: hospitality needs, bedding costs, shipments, etc.
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