One dossier, from enquiry to post costing.
The command center for your catering business.
Caterdock keeps every event in one dossier: menu, kitchen, logistics, client and margin inside the same loop. You see your costs and your margin from the very first enquiry.
The reality
The same data, re-entered every week. Margins you only learn after the fact.
You build custom proposals, but you only learn the real margin after the event. Staff cost becomes clear when it's too late. Food cost is half a calculation at best. And commissions from event planners and venues eat into your profit — without a clear overview.
The golden event loop
Everything from one dossier.
Every event opens a single dossier, and that dossier stays open all the way through follow-up. A central task bar shows where the event stands, whose turn it is and what comes next. Menu, mise en place, order lists, packing list, run sheet and post costing hang on that same loop, so one change lands everywhere at once.
One dossier holds the whole loop together, from first enquiry to post costing.
How it works
One change flows through everything.
Adjust a guest count or swap a dish, and the prep list recalculates, the order quantities update and the packing list follows. Prices pull from your supplier database. Each team member sees only what they need: kitchen gets the prep plan and allergens, logistics gets packing lists, sales gets menus and client files, and the manager sees it all.
What's inside
Everything a catering kitchen runs on
Events
The full event dossier
Each event gets a single file: menu, retroplanning, prep list and packing list. The calendar shows how every moment connects — setup, service, breakdown, follow-up — all planned to your standards. A new proposal lands? Automatically queued as a task for the chef.
Kitchen
Dish Library — your recipe collection
Every dish with allergens, portions, prep elements, suppliers and sub-recipes. Your recipes linked to the mise en place and the food cost. Assign a dish to an event and the allergen sheet, order list and cost price follow automatically.
Sales
Client files that carry forward
Every client keeps a profile with past events, dishes served, allergies, preferences and notes — all carried forward to the next dossier. See what a recurring client already had, so you never propose the same dish twice. Your pipeline tracks follow-ups, open quotes and your margin from the first proposal.
Logistics
Packing lists and order lists
Packing lists generated from the menu, split between kitchen and front-of-house, tickable as you load. Order quantities calculated per dish, per event.
Sales
Know where every lead stands.
The retroplanning gives your sales team fixed contact moments — so they can handle multiple dossiers at the same time without anything slipping. Inline email keeps follow-up inside the event file. Venue profiles store capacity, travel time and key contacts, so you quote faster and arrive prepared.
The difference
What sets us apart
Catering software has been around for decades. Caterdock starts from a caterer’s day and keeps five things deliberately different.
One continuous event loop
Older systems
Classic packages spread a single event across separate windows and modules. Checking where a job stands means clicking through screens.
Caterdock
Every event lives in one dossier with a running task bar, from first request to follow-up. One look shows where the file stands and whose turn it is.
Built for the browser
Older systems
Much catering software carries a desktop past with it: slow screens, extra clients, an install on every device.
Caterdock
Caterdock runs entirely in the browser. Open it at the office, in the kitchen and on site, at the same speed and with the same numbers.
Margin while you work
Older systems
In classic packages reporting arrives afterwards, as a separate module you reconcile yourself.
Caterdock
Caterdock calculates as you build. Food cost, staff cost and margin sit on your screen from the first proposal, and the post-costing closes the event with the real figures.
One price, everything included
Older systems
Classic packages charge per user, per module, per integration and a launch fee on top of the subscription.
Caterdock
Caterdock has one monthly price that holds the whole system. Your team works inside that same price.
Standards that grow with you
Older systems
Static standards stay exactly as they were filled in on day one, even when daily practice has moved on.
Caterdock
Caterdock learns from your completed events. Staff hours and food cost per event type move with what your kitchen actually delivers.
Founding members
Early caterers pay less. For life.
The first 25 caterers who join lock in €79/month, for life. The next 25 lock in €159/month, for life. After that, the regular price is €299/month. No setup fee, no contract. Cancel anytime.
Founder pricing is limited to the first 50 caterers.
Good to know
A few honest answers
When does Caterdock launch?
We're onboarding founding members in phases, starting this year. Joining the waitlist doesn't commit you to anything: it reserves your place in the queue.
What happens to my data if I sign up?
Your event data, recipes and client files stay yours. We never share them with other caterers or third parties.
Is the founder price locked in forever?
Yes. As long as your subscription stays active, your founder rate never increases, even as the standard price rises for new customers once the founder spots are gone.
Built by a working caterer
Written between events.
Jules still runs two active catering operations. Caterdock is built inside them — tested daily on real menus, prep lists, supplier orders and packing rounds. Every feature closes a gap he actually encountered. Development runs with the AI tech hub at Wintercircus in Ghent.
The code was written between events, not after leaving the trade.
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