Run your catering business in the Philippines
without the paperwork chaos
Smapey is built for Philippine catering businesses: send quotations clients accept online, see every event on a calendar, plan market lists from your recipes, collect payments by milestone, and pay your staff, all from one clean dashboard.
The problems every Philippine catering business faces, and how Smapey solves them
Problem
Bookings tracked in a group chat or notebook
Solution
A booking list and month calendar with status, date, and headcount, plus a daily event limit that warns you before you overbook a date.
Problem
Chasing clients for partial payments and balances
Solution
Payment milestones per booking (reservation fee, partial payments, and the balance), with overdue payments flagged automatically and counted on the dashboard.
Problem
Re-quoting the same packages every inquiry
Solution
A package catalog with price per head, and a quote link your client opens on their phone and accepts with their name. No more retyping prices in Messenger.
Problem
No clear picture of food costs per event
Solution
Recipes built from your supply catalog give each package a food cost per guest, and each booking calculates its market list for the exact headcount.
Problem
Staff assignments scattered across messages
Solution
A staff list with usual rates. Assign people per event with call times, track who confirmed and who showed up, and see who you still owe.
Problem
No clear view of monthly revenue and collections
Solution
A revenue dashboard with upcoming events, money collected this month, pending and overdue payments, and a six-month trend chart.
The catering business landscape in the Philippines
The catering industry in the Philippines is driven by a culture of large family gatherings, weddings, debuts, baptisms, and corporate events. Filipino families are known for going all-out on celebrations, which means catering businesses often handle high-value bookings where getting the payment schedule and supply planning right is critical.
Most catering businesses in the Philippines start small, a home-based operation run by one or two people, often taking bookings through Facebook or referrals. As the business grows, the operational complexity grows with it: more clients, more events running simultaneously, more staff to coordinate, and more suppliers to track.
The shift from running a catering business on notebooks, spreadsheets, and Messenger threads to using a dedicated catering management system is usually what separates businesses that scale from those that stay stuck in manual operations. Smapey is designed to make that shift as easy as possible, free to start, no IT setup, accessible from any device.
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