Industries · Food & catering

The proposal workflow built for catering & food service companies

Wantly turns every event into a fast, visual estimate — menu, headcount, packages, add-ons, and delivery, recalculated as you adjust the details — then sent as an interactive offer the client can review, approve, and pay a deposit on. Stop rebuilding every event quote in Excel.

30-minute demo on your own menus. We set the whole system up for you.

event estimate

Built for caterers & event food services

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From boutique caterers to banquet and event food teams quoting custom, per-headcount events.

60%
faster event quotes
vs. prior Excel workflow [sample]
100%
of quotes show margin
cost and markup on every estimate
~3 wks
to go live
we do the full setup for you
Is Wantly right for you?

Is Wantly right for your business?

A quick gut check before you book a demo.

Wantly is built for you if
You cater events for businesses or private clients
Every event is a custom estimate — menu, headcount, packages, add-ons
Your price scales by guest count and the options chosen
You add services like staff, rental, drinks, and delivery
Your food and setups are visual, and clients want to see them
You quote many inquiries fast, and build them in Excel today
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Maybe not the fit (yet) if
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You sell a fixed menu at a fixed price with no per-event quoting
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You only take orders through a webshop or app, not custom estimates
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Your events never vary by headcount, menu, or add-ons
The cost of staying manual

Every event is a different estimate, rebuilt in Excel

Catering sells on the event and the experience, but each quote means a menu, a headcount, packages, add-ons, and logistics — all worked out by hand under a deadline.

Every event is priced from scratch by menu and guest count
Add-ons like staff, rental, drinks, and delivery are added by hand
A plain Excel quote does not show the food or the experience
Changing the headcount means re-doing the whole total
After you send it, you cannot tell if it was opened or where it stalled

What staying manual quietly costs you

Lost bookings
A slow or plain quote loses the event. Clients book the caterer whose offer arrives first and makes the experience easy to picture.
Lost margin
Food and labor costs slip in manual quotes. A forgotten add-on or an outdated per-person cost quietly eats the margin on a full event.
Cannot scale
More inquiries means more manual estimates. Peak season turns into late nights in Excel, and the slowest quotes simply go unanswered.
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Every event is a custom estimate

Build a per-event quote, fast

Your team builds the estimate from menus, packages, and add-ons, sets the headcount, and the total recalculates by guest count automatically. Add staff, rental, drinks, and delivery, and present good / better / best options in one offer.

Menu, packages, add-ons, and delivery in one estimate
Total recalculates by guest count automatically
Good / better / best event options
See how it works
per-event estimate
2
A plain quote doesn't sell the event

Send visual menus clients can picture

Build visual, on-brand, interactive offers with food photos, menu cards, and past-event galleries, present packages and alternatives, and show it all in your branding and your client's language — not a plain Excel sheet.

Food photos, menu cards, and past-event galleries
Packages and alternatives in one visual offer
On-brand and in your client's language
See how building works
visual menu offer
3
Margin slips on food and labor

Protect your margin on every event

Wantly shows cost, markup, and margin on every estimate, so food and labor stay profitable. Use per-person pricing, one-time fees for delivery and setup, and per-client pricing, with discount limits and approval rules.

Per-person pricing plus one-time delivery and setup fees
Cost, markup, and margin on every estimate
Per-client pricing, discount limits, and approval
See how pricing works
event cost and margin
4
The black box after send

Review, approve, and pay a deposit in one place

Clients open the estimate on any device, review the menu and options, comment, and approve, sign, and pay a deposit in one flow. Your team sees when it was opened and what got attention, so follow-up is timely before the event date.

Clients review, comment, approve, sign, and pay a deposit
Open and engagement tracking with alerts
Statuses and pipeline across all your events
See how tracking works
pipeline, approve, deposit and track
Integrations

Works with your CRM

Sync event leads and deals with your CRM — leads flow in, estimate status and confirmed amounts flow back — and connect your other tools via API.

HubSpot
Pipedrive
Salesforce
Accounting / ERP
Open API
And many more

Connect any tool via API

We connect Wantly to any system using our open API - so you're never stuck with only the integrations on this list.

Client and deal data flow in from your CRM
Proposal status and confirmed amounts flow back
Custom field mapping to your systems
View API docs
Also included
See all features
Templates
E-signature
Contracts
Analytics
Roles & permissions
Multilanguage
Currencies
AI product import
and more…
the problem

Excel and PDFs weren't built for complex product proposals

Current way · not built for this

Excel event sheets, rebuilt every time

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Every event priced from scratch in Excel
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Add-ons and delivery added by hand
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Headcount changes mean redoing the total
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A plain sheet that hides the food
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Silence after send
With Wantly · built for product sales

One connected sales workflow, from catalog to signature

Build from menus, packages, and add-ons
Total recalculates by guest count
Adjust headcount, price updates instantly
Visual, on-brand offers
Clear signals on what the client did
RESULT
One centralized workflow

What used to take days of checking files, rebuilding PDFs and chasing updates now happens from one centralized workflow.

outcome

What changes for your business

60%
60%
faster quotes
Quote faster

Event estimates in minutes instead of an evening in Excel — so you reply while the inquiry is hot and win the booking.

100%
100%
show margin
Protect your margin

Food and labor priced right every time, with cost, markup, and margin on every estimate and approval rules on discounts.

Visual
Visual
on-brand offers
Look professional

Visual offers that sell the experience — food photos, menu cards, and your branding, not a plain spreadsheet.

Objection handling

The honest answers to what you're thinking

“Every event is different. Can a system handle that?”

Yes. Build each estimate from menus, packages, and add-ons, set the headcount, and the total recalculates automatically.

“Why not just use AI to write our quotes?”

Generic AI does not know your menus, costs, or per-person margins, so it guesses. Wantly knows them and builds the event estimate — and uses AI where it helps.

“Is it hard to set up?”

No. You build nothing. We set up your menus, packages, and pricing in about three weeks, then train your team.

Proof

EuroHorecana supplies the HoReCa sector with a catalog of 2,700+ products. With Wantly, large product offers became easier for clients to understand, with images and structured product presentation replacing long, difficult-to-navigate lists.

2 700+

products managed

15

active sales managers
“With so many line items, we needed a clearer and more professional way to present our offers. Wantly made them much more visual and easier for clients to understand.”
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EuroHorecana
2 700+ products, multiple suppliers
Every Wantly setup is done for you
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We set up your menus
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We configure your packages & add-ons
3
We set your per-person pricing & margin
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You just start quoting
Live in ~3 weeks.
Testimonials

What caterers say

Changing the guest count used to mean redoing the quote. Now it just updates.

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Tomas K.
Events, Nord Events

Our estimates finally show the food. Clients book faster.

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Greta V.
Owner, Feast & Co

We see margin on every event before sending.

AP
Rasa M.
Finance, Baltic Banquet

FAQs

Quick answers to what caterers and event food teams ask us most. Talk to us →

Is Wantly right for catering companies?

Can it price by guest count?

Can I add staff, rental, drinks, and delivery?

Can the offer show our menus visually?

Can clients approve and pay a deposit?

Why not just use AI (e.g. ChatGPT) to make our quotes?

Does Wantly integrate with our CRM?

How long does setup take, and what do we do?

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