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A chef plating a gourmet dish in a professional kitchen

Booking software for caterers and private chefs.

Take the enquiry, quote the menu at three levels, and lock the event date with a signed acceptance and a deposit before you buy a single ingredient.

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  • Event enquiries arrive with dates and preferred times attached
  • Menus quoted at three levels the host picks between
  • Signed quotes convert straight into booked events
  • Deposits through Stripe make the date real
  • Date overrides block out the weekends you sell privately

Online booking

Customers book themselves

Share your link and customers pick a service and slot at a price worked out for them, straight into your diary.

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A private chef dinner priced instantly from the menu and headcount.
New bookingAvailable
ServiceCanapés & main dinner
Where8 guests · Bulimba
DateSat 16 Aug · 6:30pm
Priced instantlyA$760

Smart scheduling

Your day plans itself

Every booking lands on a routed timeline, so you spend less time driving and more time on the tools.

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A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 jobs
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
08:00 · Hamilton
Grazing table set-up
10:30 · Newstead
Corporate lunch drop
12:30 · New Farm
Private chef lunch

See it in action

The whole job, in one app.

A private chef dinner priced instantly from the menu and headcount.
New bookingAvailable
ServiceCanapés & main dinner
Where8 guests · Bulimba
DateSat 16 Aug · 6:30pm
Priced instantlyA$760

Priced and booked

The set menu has a price before you reply

Your set offerings, a grazing table or a private chef dinner, carry a price on your booking page, so a Friday night dinner books the next open date while you are still prepping service. The forty-guest events come through as a dated enquiry to quote instead.

app.bookables.com/schedule
A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 jobs
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
08:00 · Hamilton
Grazing table set-up
10:30 · Newstead
Corporate lunch drop
12:30 · New Farm
Private chef lunch

Scheduled and dispatched

A day that stays on one side of the river

Every booked event lands on your routed day. On Free you slot the drop into the gap yourself, on Pro the day rebuilds itself and hands each job to whoever is closest and free.

A day with 3 stops drawn on a map and listed in driving order, with the travel time between each, ordered to cut backtracking between jobs.
Today, in driving order3 stops
  1. 1Grazing table set-upHamilton08:00
    ~9 min
  2. 2Corporate lunch dropNewstead10:30
    ~6 min
  3. 3Private chef lunchNew Farm12:30
Back to base

On the day

Work the run, from first set-up to last plate

The day laid out in driving order, so you clear the Hamilton, Newstead and New Farm jobs in the sequence that wastes the least time between them. Mark each on the way, on site and done, and the reminder sends itself.

A seated engagement dinner quote, itemised and ready to send.
Estimate #1042
Elise Warren
Sent
  • Two-course seated dinner · 40 guestsMenuA$4,400
  • Chef & waitstaff · 5 hrsStaffingA$960
  • Crockery, glassware & linenHireA$340
TotalA$5,700

Get paid

Menu quote to booked event, signed online

Quote the menu at three levels, offer them side by side, and the moment the host signs it becomes a booked event. Take a deposit up front through Stripe or a payment request when the balance falls due.

Less admin, more bookings

Made for catering & private chef businesses

Every enquiry lands with a date on it

Instead of an Instagram DM that says "are you free in March", your booking page collects the event address, the date and the preferred times as a structured request. You open your inbox to enquiries you can actually assess against the calendar, and reply with a quote instead of a question.

One menu, three ways to say yes

Quote the event with tiered options: canapes and one main, a two-course seated dinner, or the full degustation with matched courses. The host compares them at their own kitchen table, picks the level that fits the occasion and the headcount, and signs online. The event books itself the moment they do.

The deposit is the booking

Set a percent or fixed deposit and take it through Stripe when the event is locked in, with card payments on the Pro plan at a flat 3%. The balance can follow later as an emailed payment request. A host who has paid a deposit does not ghost you the week you were meant to order the seafood.

Protect the dates you have already sold

When a wedding takes your whole Saturday, a date override pulls it from sale everywhere at once. Weekly hours handle your normal rhythm, overrides handle the exceptions, and the reminder email 24 hours before each event keeps hosts across the arrival time.

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One app for the whole job

Everything you need to run your catering & private chef business.

Scheduling

Every job on a clean daily timeline you can drag anywhere. On Pro, routing offers the slot that adds the least driving.

Bookings

Every job you have on in one list, from the first call through to paid, with nothing living only in your head.

Online booking

Your own page where customers pick the job and a slot that is genuinely free, straight into your diary.

Inbox

Every message from a customer in one thread, with their booking requests answered in place.

Estimates

Itemise the parts and the labour, offer options side by side, and let the customer sign it off online.

Customers

Every customer, every address they own and every job you have done there, ready to rebook.

Territories

Draw the areas you cover on a map so work you cannot get to never lands on your day.

Team

Add your people with their own hours and their own work, so jobs only land on whoever can actually do them.

Payments

Send a payment request when the job is done, or take a deposit as they book. Card payments come with Pro.

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Common questions.

Yes. Smaller set offerings can be booked directly against your live availability, while bigger events come through as requests with the date, address and preferred times ready for you to quote.

Build one quote with up to three tiers, from a simple menu to the full experience, and email it. The host accepts and signs online, and the signed quote turns into a booked event automatically.

Yes. Take a percentage or fixed deposit through Stripe at booking, or send a payment request by email. Card payments sit on the Pro plan at a flat 3%.

Give the quote an expiry. Once it lapses, your pricing and your Saturday are back in your hands, and a keen host has a clear nudge to commit.

Yes. Every host has a customer record with multiple addresses and their full event history, so the second dinner party starts from what you know rather than a blank booking form.

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