Eventifood

Eventifood is a browser-based ordering and POS system for food vans, street-food traders, mobile caterers and festival vendors. It suits sellers who need customer ordering and kitchen coordination alongside event-specific menus. The choice is between free PAYG plans with transaction fees and paid monthly plans without per-transaction fees.

Overview

Customers scan a QR code to browse a menu and order in their phone browser, with no app download or account required. Sellers can manage categories, items, photos, prices, variations and extras, and prepare separate menus for different events. That combination is useful for traders whose offerings change between locations or occasions.

Paid orders appear on a kitchen screen, where staff can update order status and trigger ready notifications. The analytics dashboard tracks top sellers, revenue over time and busy trading hours; profit per item depends on entering cost prices. SumUp, PayPal and Stripe are supported. Apple Pay and Google Pay are described as coming soon via Stripe Connect, so they are not current payment options.

Key features

• QR ordering: Customers order from their own phones without installing an app or creating an account, reducing friction at a stall or event.
• Menu management: Sellers can adjust prices, variations and extras, and maintain separate event menus rather than relying on a single fixed offering.
• Kitchen workflow: Staff can track paid orders and notify customers when they are ready, connecting customer ordering to preparation.
• Reporting: Sales trends and busy hours can inform trading decisions. Item-level profit is useful only if cost prices are entered.
• Payments and security: SumUp, PayPal and Stripe are supported, and seller accounts have email MFA protection.
• Accounting and operations: Pro features include CSV, QuickBooks and Sage exports; Pro Max adds Xero exports. Pro Max also includes bookkeeping, a bookings diary, receipt extraction, VAT and sales tax, and fixed assets.
• Device flexibility: The browser system runs on Windows PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Amazon Fire tablets and Raspberry Pi devices. The Pro plan also includes a POS app for offline desktop use.

Pricing

Eventifood is freemium, with a free plan and paid plans from £30/mo. There is no free trial. The PAYG options cost £0/month but charge a platform fee plus Stripe processing, so they are most attractive when avoiding a monthly commitment matters more than transaction costs.

• Eventifood Basic PAYG: £0/month with a 1.0% platform fee plus Stripe processing. It includes an ordering page, QR code, kitchen board, menu management and email confirmations. It covers the core order flow, but not the broader paid-plan tools.
• Eventifood Pro PAYG: £0/month with a 2.0% platform fee plus Stripe processing. It adds Pro features but excludes the diary and bookkeeping. It suits sellers wanting more operational features without a monthly subscription, provided the higher fee works for their order volume.
• Eventifood Pro Max PAYG: £0/month with a 3.0% platform fee plus Stripe processing. It includes Pro features, bookkeeping, bookings diary, receipt extraction, VAT and sales tax, fixed assets, and QuickBooks, Sage and Xero exports. This offers the broadest tools without a fixed monthly charge, at the highest PAYG platform fee.
• Eventifood Basic Pay Monthly: £30 a month with no per-transaction fee. It includes the core ordering tools plus print menus, event pricing, SMS, discount codes and wastage tracking. It is the lower-cost subscription for sellers who need those tools and prefer not to pay a platform fee on each transaction.
• Eventifood Pro Plan: £59.96 a month with no per-transaction fee. Inventory, analytics and P&L, wastage tracking, event pricing, live wait time, discount codes, staff costs, SMS, exports and multi-device POS make it a better fit for operations that need more oversight than Basic provides.
• Eventifood Pro Max Pay Monthly: £75 a month with no per-transaction fee. It adds bookkeeping, bookings diary, receipt extraction, VAT and sales tax, fixed assets, and QuickBooks, Sage and Xero exports to Pro features. It is the most complete option for sellers who need finance and booking tools as well as ordering and POS.

The key trade-off is predictable: PAYG avoids monthly charges but adds a platform fee and Stripe processing, while monthly plans remove the per-transaction fee. Compare that difference against your expected sales and the specific tools you need.

Platforms

Eventifood supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows. Its browser setup spans common tablets and computers as well as Raspberry Pi devices, while offline desktop POS is included with Pro.

Who it's for

Eventifood is best suited to food vans, street-food traders, mobile caterers and festival vendors who want QR-based customer ordering tied to a kitchen workflow. Separate event menus and event pricing are especially relevant to sellers whose offerings or prices change between events. Sellers needing bookkeeping, bookings and accounting exports should compare Pro Max against their needs; a trader looking only for simple order collection may not need those higher-tier tools.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Browser QR ordering requires neither an app nor customer registration, keeping the ordering route straightforward for event customers.
• Pro: Event-specific menus and event pricing support changing offers across locations and occasions.
• Pro: Free PAYG plans provide a way to start without a monthly bill, with fees differentiated by tier.
• Con: PAYG fees rise from 1.0% to 3.0% platform fee, all on top of Stripe processing; higher-volume sellers may prefer a monthly plan with no per-transaction fee.
• Con: The Basic monthly plan lacks the inventory, analytics and P&L, staff-cost and multi-device POS tools listed for Pro, so growing operations may need the higher subscription.
• Con: Offline POS is identified for desktop use on Pro, not as a general offline ordering capability.

Alternatives

Event Catering Software is the category overview to compare when you want to consider event-focused options beyond a food-van ordering and POS system.

• BanquetsCRM is a freemium option with a free Core CRM plan for events, leads, customers, invoices, venues, menus and team management; choose it when those CRM functions matter more than Eventifood's QR ordering and kitchen workflow.
• CartFlow has a free tier capped at three events per month, 20 sales records, 10 products, three recipes, 15 stock items, one saved venue and three tasks per event; consider it when those event and stock limits fit your operation.
• SendOrder offers a free Starter plan with food costing, preparation conversion, inventory, recipes, orders and expenses; choose it when those costing and preparation tools are the priority.
• OneCatering has a paid Essentials – Catering plan at $159 a year, billed $159.00 per month and annually, with a 1% platform fee on eligible payments; compare it when a catering-focused paid service is a better fit.
• Caterease is a paid option with Enhance modules priced at $25 a month when billed annually; consider it instead if that module-based approach fits better.
• Catered4 is another web-based alternative.
• Catertoo is a freemium web-based alternative.
• Pala is a paid web-based alternative.

Verdict

Choose Eventifood if you run a mobile food business and want QR ordering, event-specific menus and kitchen status updates in one system, with a choice between transaction fees and monthly pricing. Look elsewhere if you need a different catering workflow, or if you would rather avoid both PAYG platform fees and a recurring monthly plan.