Built for the way
real event teams actually work.
LightCater is a small piece of software for small event teams. We make the parts of the job that should be quick — quoting, contracting, invoicing, writing the BEO — actually quick. And we keep the heavyweight enterprise extras out of your way until you actually need them.
The first event-management app that stayed light.
Most software for our industry follows the same pattern: it starts simple, gets bought by a bigger company, then bloats into enterprise sprawl with PMS sync, POS integration, recipe costing, multi-property dashboards. The price climbs. The interface gets crowded. The small banquet halls and independent caterers it started serving get squeezed out.
LightCater is built deliberately to stay on the other side of that line. Clear monthly plans from $39. Customer to invoice in one app. No hidden upsells, no usage meters — you start simple and add what you need as you grow. The simple way to run banquets and events — and that's the whole product strategy.
Explore the product →Four principles that shape every decision.
When we're deciding what to build, what to remove, and what to leave alone — these are the questions we ask.
Light beats feature-rich, every time.
Every new feature we ship is one our customers asked for and would notice if it disappeared. We keep the core deliberately simple: PMS and calendar integrations come on the Professional plan; POS, recipe costing and more are optional add-ons; multi-property and SSO are on Enterprise — so you start simple and add what you need as you grow, instead of paying for heavyweight tooling from day one.
Four plans, written on the pricing page.
Basic $39, Standard $65, Professional $99 per month, and a custom Enterprise plan (contact sales). Save 10% with annual billing. The optional AI Agent add-on is priced by team size. No usage meters. If we change the price, we tell you in plain English in advance.
A real person, within 45 minutes.
Email, phone or chat goes to one of our four offices. Average reply time is 45 minutes — business hours on Basic, around the clock on Standard and up. No tier-1 chatbots, no "ticket-deflection" scripts. The person you reach has used the product daily.
Exportable. Always. No exit fees.
If LightCater isn't the right fit any more, your full data history — customers, events, proposals, contracts, invoices, BEOs — exports cleanly. No retention hostage-taking, no fees for closing your account.
A small team, across four time zones.
By accident more than by design, our four offices cover the global day. Send an email at 3 a.m. local time and someone is at a keyboard within 45 minutes.
The teams running real events, every week.
- Banquet halls — single venues and small chains, 5 to 25 events a week
- Off-premise caterers — independent caterers and small commissary kitchens
- Restaurants with private events — restaurants with a banquet room or private dining program
- Hotels and clubs — single-property F&B and event operations
If you want a single monolithic system that runs an entire 200-property hospitality group, there are heavier suites built for that — and we'd say so on a sales call. LightCater is built deliberately for the other 90% of the market: small-to-mid teams who want one good tool, not fifteen — and our Enterprise plan is there with multi-property and SSO when you grow into it.
Try LightCater for 14 days.
Set up real events. Run real workflows. Decide for yourself whether the "light" approach fits your venue. No credit card to start.