Curate

What Curate is

Curate is an event operations platform for caterers, florists, venues, and event teams. It brings sales, planning, production, payments, staffing, and reporting together around an event record. Its proposal builder creates visual proposals from catalog items, and a branded client portal lets clients review proposals, approve changes, sign contracts, make payments, and follow project communication. Curate Payments supports card and bank payments, receipts, refunds, reminders, tax profiles, fees, and optional gratuity. For production, Curate can combine ingredients and components into shopping and production lists, create purchase orders, and track costs and invoices. Automations can run after proposals are sent, contracts are signed, payments arrive, or projects change stage. AI Assist requires review and approval before it creates or updates data. Listed connections include QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Galley, Nowsta, StaffMate, Curate Payments, and Curate Texting; availability depends on the plan. Curate runs on Android, iOS, web, and API. It has no free plan, and pricing is available on request. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Its team page identifies Ryan O'Neil, PFCI as Founder and CEO.

Who it suits

Curate is suited to caterers, florists, venues, and event teams that need proposal, client, payment, production, staffing, and reporting tools connected to event records. Teams should compare plan features and integration availability, since those vary by plan and API access is limited to Partnership.

Limits

There is no free plan. Basic is an annual subscription and excludes recipes, forms, production notes, purchase orders, shopping lists, custom reports, account codes, and API access; it includes a few employees, one saved configurable print, and two custom properties. Integration availability depends on the plan, and API access is listed only for Partnership.

Getting started

1. Visit the Curate website.
2. Contact Curate through chat to ask about pricing and plans.
3. Choose a plan billed monthly or annually where available; Basic is an annual subscription.
4. Arrange the onboarding call included with every plan.
5. Use Curate on Android, iOS, or the web; API access is listed for Partnership.

Verdict

Event businesses looking to manage client proposals, payments, and operations around a shared event record should consider Curate. The main reasons to look elsewhere are the lack of a free plan or a need for API access and integrations included in plans other than the one being considered.