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 deliberately leave out the parts of enterprise software that you'd never use.
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. One flat monthly fee. Customer to invoice in one app. No upsells, no usage meters, no "contact sales for pricing." 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 say no to a lot — multi-property, recipe costing, PMS integrations — because they'd make LightCater heavier without making it more useful for the venues we serve.
One flat fee, written on the homepage.
$59/month for 2 users + $14 per additional user. AI Agent add-on is optional and clearly priced. No tiers, no usage meters, no "contact sales." 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 across all hours. 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're running a 200-property hospitality chain with a central reservations team and a recipe-costing department, we're not the right fit — 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.
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.