Flex Catering is worth examining when one business runs both a delivery kitchen and staffed events. Its package split makes the selection concrete: venue/event work, online drop-off ordering, or both. Give the kitchen and sales team separate time in the demo; strong production tools do not automatically mean every CRM task fits the owner’s working style.
Ballroom covers event and venue work; Pantry focuses on online ordering and drop-off; Off Premise combines them. Enterprise adds tailored multi-account scope. Confirm the precise feature schedule.
Marnie B., an owner-operator reviewing Flex on Capterra in July 2026, praised kitchen operations but described repetitive CRM steps and manual email attachment. That is a useful scenario to reproduce with the current version.
The Xero guide describes authorised users sending mapped customer, product, tax, invoice and payment information. Agree when transfers happen and how later changes reconcile; do not assume unrestricted two-way sync.
The current plans page lists accounting and Zapier/API connections as add-ons. Ballroom and Pantry include two users; Off Premise includes five, each with one driver-app user and one location. Request subscription, extra-user, onboarding and processor charges.
| Plan | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Ballroom | Custom quote | Event and venue bookings, proposals, menus, kitchen production and lead management. |
| Pantry | Custom quote | Online ordering, menus, production and delivery for drop-off catering. |
| Off Premise | Custom quote | Combines the Pantry and Ballroom workflows. |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | Multi-account management, custom integrations and tailored onboarding/support. |
Run a delivery lunch order and a staffed evening reception through the same trial day. Ask the kitchen to inspect the combined production output while sales checks correspondence and finance checks the transfer into accounting.
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Check and share delivery routes; Flex documents a route handoff to Google Maps.
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