Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review to be honest this is the best software for the hospitality industry as you can run your operation with very high quality and standard , higly recommended to use this software to handle everything for you , with accurate data , reports , and reliable system . Everthing related to sales like event, banquet, conferances , food arrangement , kitchen , staff related, schedule , space organizing can be monitor and controll by this software.
Read full review Pros Quick updates to contracts/files Great integrations available Report generation Read full review OPERA keeps a record of our activities at the hotel. OPERA's interface is simple, empathetic and allows better communication between different departments. OPERA allows its users to execute actions without moving from their posts. Registering guests with OPERA is easier than with any similar program. Read full review Cons 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. Read full review OPERA is too slow to run for the first time and the problem persists in time. That OPERA only opens through browsers like Internet Explorer takes away from the user's interest and makes it adapt to the slowness of the browser in question. It does not allow autonomy in terms of software, which means that if you are occupying your session on the platform and another collaborator needs to use it because it causes crashes in the OPERA system, which causes problems. Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Most of the time during my hospitality journey i used Oracle Opera -Sales and catering , May be i used other software that not in the smae level like Oracle Hospitality OPERA , as the features , reports, Support , and outcome overall for oracle much better than any other application or software in the hospitality industry.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Read full review We have reached our occupancy goal in the first quarter of 2020 by using OPERA properly. Housekeeping reports now better align with the maintenance checklist for repair requests, etc. Our company has saved at least 27% in administrative costs and has spent 56% less than in previous years. Read full review ScreenShots