Curate review
A broad catering operations platform with strong integrations and sales-led pricing.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Curate is an event management platform for caterers and other event businesses. It brings client-facing work and event operations into one system, covering inquiry and contact management, proposals, contracts, electronic signatures, payment collection, menus, recipes, orders, event timelines, production documents, staffing, and reporting. Catering teams that need one workspace for both customer approvals and back-of-house coordination are the clearest fit.
Pricing is organized into Basic, Growth, and Partnership plans, with visitors directed to contact Curate for plan details. Basic includes a proposal builder, customer portal, and electronic-signature contracts, and is available as an annual subscription. Growth adds recipes, forms, and production notes to the proposal and contract foundation. Partnership adds unlimited standard add-ons, expanded support, higher included AI usage, and API access. The tier structure makes the progression clear, but buyers must speak with Curate to evaluate the commercial fit.
The product’s main strength is breadth. Proposal documents can include drag-and-drop sections, image galleries, catalog products, and PDF generation, while the customer portal supports approvals, comments, signatures, and payments. Operational tools extend through configurable menus, automatic cost calculations, order statuses, event milestones, recipe sheets, shopping lists, component lists, and staffing schedules. Workflow automation and an AI assistant support proposal, order, email, and reporting workflows. Integrations with Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Nowsta, Galley, and StaffMate broaden its ecosystem fit. Curate suits growing caterers managing varied event workflows; smaller teams seeking a free or narrowly focused tool may prefer a simpler option.
Curate pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Covers proposals, contracts, menus, recipes, orders, staffing, and payments
- Supports web, iOS, Android, and API access
- Integrates with Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Nowsta, Galley, and StaffMate
- Where it doesn't
- Plan pricing requires contacting Curate
- There is no free plan
- API access and higher AI usage are tied to Partnership
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