Catering app
The whole business on your phone. Your crew need nothing at all.
- 07:30Load out — van packed, esky in
- 10:00On site, set up
- 12:00Service
- 15:30Pack down
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Saturday 26 September
No app. No login. No seat on the bill.
The thing nobody prices honestly
A per-user app is a tax on casual crew
Not a swipe at a competitor's design — just what per-seat pricing does to a business whose staffing is, by nature, casual.
- 0
- accounts your crew need
- 4
- Saturdays a year
- 16
- surfaces on the operator’s phone
- 1
- account, yours
A run is shared as plain words to whatever phone they already have. There is nothing to install, so there is nothing to license.
What a casual typically works — and what a per-user seat charges you for twelve months of.
Not a viewer of the desktop — the pantry, the recipe books and the money screens are all on there. A test keeps this count honest against the app itself.
Same login as the laptop. No separate mobile password and no second seat for the same person.
Put plainly
The way out of a per-seat bill is not a cheaper seat. It is not needing one.
Share hands the words to whoever is holding the phone — a text, the crew WhatsApp, an AirDrop. Nothing leaves CaterCloud, which is why it needs no permission and no account.
What is on it
16 surfaces, not a viewer
A phone version is usually the read-only half of a real system. This is the same system in a layout built for a thumb — including the screens most competitors keep on the desktop.
- TodayWhat is on, who is on it, and what has not been paid.
- The dayOne event, hour by hour, in the order it happens.
- CalendarThe month, and what each date is already carrying.
- EventsEvery job, its stage, and the full view of any one of them.
- PipelineEnquiries by stage, draggable, on a phone.
- InboxEnquiries as they land, threaded against the customer.
- ContactsCustomers and what they have booked before.
- OrdersFulfilment slots rather than staffed jobs.
- MoneyQuotes, invoices, what is owed and what a job made.
- MenusWhat you sell, and what each dish costs you.
- LibraryEvery dish and ingredient behind those menus.
- Recipe booksThe method, the yield and the cost per serve.
- PantryStock, suppliers and what you actually paid.
- TeamWho is rostered, and sending one person their run.
- DiscoveryPublic gigs within your radius, saved searches and applications.
- SettingsThe whole configuration, not a cut-down subset.
How you get it
It installs from the browser, not from a store
There is no App Store listing and no Play Store listing. Saying so plainly is cheaper than the support ticket from somebody who went looking.
Open it on your phone
Sign in the way you would on a laptop. Same account, same data, no separate mobile password.
Add it to your home screen
Share → Add to Home Screen on an iPhone, Install on Android. It gets its own icon and opens full-screen, without the browser chrome round the edge.
That is the whole install
Nothing to update, ever — you are always on the current version. And nothing has to be approved by a store before a fix reaches you.
Who it is not for
Where a phone is the wrong tool
You want a till at the window
This is not a point of sale. No card reader, no counter payments, no cash drawer. If that is the job, a POS does it and this does not.
You work where there is no signal
It is a web app, so a paddock with no bars is a genuine limitation. Send the runs before you leave and your crew have them; you will not be editing an event out there.
You need a store listing for procurement
Some larger organisations require software to come through a managed app store. There is no listing to point them at, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Questions
What people ask about the app
- Is there a CaterCloud app in the App Store?
- No. It installs from the browser — open it on your phone and add it to your home screen, and it runs full-screen with its own icon like any other app. Nothing to update, and it is the same account you use on a laptop.
- Does my crew need the app?
- No, and that is deliberate. You send one person their own run and it arrives as a message on whatever phone they already have. No account, no download, no seat on your bill — which matters most for the casual who works four Saturdays a year.
- Does it work offline?
- Not meaningfully. It is a web app, so it needs a connection to load a page and to save a change. A run you have already sent a crew member is a message on their phone and stays readable regardless.
- Is the phone version cut down?
- No — it is a different layout of the same system, not a viewer. There are 16 full surfaces on it, including the ones you would expect to be desktop-only: the pantry, the recipe books and the money screens.
- Can I take payment on the phone?
- A customer can pay a deposit or an invoice from their own device, from a link you send. What this is not is a point of sale — there is no card reader and no till at the window.