Havenue vs Caterease | Dietary & catering management software

Havenue vs Caterease compared. See how Havenue connects recipe import, the Dietary & Catering Engine, generated BEOs and allergen matrices to an Event CRM, inventory, reports and margins.

What Havenue is

Havenue is the AI-native dietary and catering management software for hospitality: catering companies, hotels, venues, restaurants and private dining.

It automates the back-of-house behind event catering, from the enquiry to the kitchen pass to the invoice. The Dietary & Catering Engine checks every dish against every guest's requirements and finds safe replacement dishes from the operator's own recipes, for chef sign-off. Around it sit an advanced, automated event CRM with a live pipeline, a smart inventory and stock system with every allergen tagged from the ingredients themselves, recipe and menu costing with live cost per head and GP%, ordering and supplier management, invoicing, billing and client payments, generated BEOs and allergen matrices, reporting, and the full platform in a mobile browser. One integrated platform, one event record.

Havenue does the BEO, the allergen matrix and the dietary work for you instead of storing it: it reads your recipes, tags every allergen, and gives each guest at a catering event a dish they can eat. Caterease is a mature all-in-one catering suite.

You pay for two systems. Havenue does both jobs.

Your catering system books the event and sends the invoice. Your kitchen system holds the recipes, the allergens and the suppliers. Neither one talks to the other, so somebody retypes every event into both, and the spreadsheet in the middle is where the mistakes happen.

Havenue does both jobs from one event record. The Dietary & Catering Engine reads your recipes, tags every allergen, gives each guest a dish they can safely eat, and writes next week's supplier order from the catering events you have already booked.

Where Havenue wins

Every catering event needs the same four things: the food costed, the allergens and dietaries managed, the pack written, the order sent to your suppliers. Havenue runs all four automatically from one booked event, so your chefs and your events team get those hours back every week.

Where Caterease is strong

Caterease is a long-established catering suite: proposals, BEOs, invoicing, scheduling, packing lists and floor planning.

Side by side

Where the two products actually differ. These are capable tools; this table is about which parts of the job each one does for you.

Comparison reflects each platform's public positioning and core focus as of 2026. Competitor capabilities vary by plan and version and continue to evolve; check each vendor for the latest. Brand names are the property of their respective owners.

You do not have to rebuild anything to try this

The whole platform. Every feature. Free for 7 days.

The reason most teams stay on a system they have outgrown is the season, not the software. So we do the setup.

Send us the recipes and menus you already have. We load them into Havenue with your inventory, so your team is running automated events within one working day.

Unlimited seats. No setup fee. No contract.

Run your catering events through Havenue for a week. If your admin has not visibly dropped by day 7, tell us and we will extend your trial free. You do not pay to find out whether it works.

FAQ

Is Havenue as complete as Caterease?

Caterease is broader on traditional admin like scheduling and floor planning. Havenue connects the Event CRM, recipe import, Dietary & Catering Engine, generated BEO and allergen matrix to the same event record.

Does Havenue have an Event CRM and pipeline?

Yes. The Event CRM tracks every event from enquiry to executed, with deposits, minimum spend and GP%, connected to the BEO, allergen matrix and inventory.

Why pick Havenue over Caterease?

When the hard part is the kitchen and dietary work. Havenue does the BEO, costing and allergen matrix for you, kept in sync with the pipeline from one record.

Does Havenue replace a full catering suite?

For the connected event pipeline and the operational layer, yes, and that is where most teams lose time. Caterease keeps the edge on floor-plan design and deep invoicing, but for automating the BEO, dietary and recipe work, Havenue is the modern choice.

Can I trust AI with a nut allergy?

You are not being asked to. Havenue reads your recipes and tags the allergens on every ingredient and every dish, then checks each guest against them and suggests a replacement dish from recipes you have already approved. Your chef reviews that on one screen and signs it off, and the sign-off is recorded against the event. The work that used to be done from memory at 11pm is done in front of you, in daylight, by someone qualified to judge it.

What happens to my data in the system I am leaving?

It comes with you. Export your recipes, menus, ingredients, suppliers and price lists from your current system, in whatever format it gives you, and we import that export as it is, along with anything else you keep in spreadsheets. We load the lot inside the free trial. You keep your existing account running the whole time, so nothing is switched off until you have decided.

We already run on another system. Is it worth switching?

Usually yes, and you do not have to switch to find out. Most teams who move were not unhappy with their old system, they were unhappy with what it could not do: check every dish against a guest's allergies, write next week's purchase order, show the margin before the quote goes out. Bring one real event into the free trial and run it alongside whatever you use today.

How long until my team is actually running on it?

One working day, and we do the work. Send us the recipes and menus you already have, in whatever shape they are in, and we load them with your inventory. Your team runs its first event on it the next day. No IT project and no training course.

My chefs are not office people. Will they actually use it?

That is the test that matters, and it is why Havenue runs on a phone as well as a laptop. A chef photographs a supplier bill at the back door and it costs itself. Nobody has to sit at a desk to keep the numbers true.

Does it handle ordering, suppliers and money as well as events?

Yes, and doing it in one system is the point. Havenue writes next week's purchase orders from your booked events, reads the supplier bills that come back and books the delivery in, and raises the quote and the invoice off the same event record. A supplier price rise updates every recipe and every event margin with it.

What if it does not work for us?

Free for 7 days, no charge until day 8, and you cancel in one click. No setup fee and no contract.

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