Your booking page and inquiries

Your booking page is one public link where clients can find you, browse the menus you choose to show, and send you a request. Everything on it is built from what is already in CaterKit, so you never retype any of it.

Every plan gets one, including the free plan. The page itself, and the requests that arrive from it, are not a paid feature.

Turn it on under Settings, then Public page. Pick the address your page will live at — CaterKit suggests one from your business name — and Save. The page stays dark until you tap Publish my page, and the screen says so plainly when an address is saved but not live yet.

Tap Preview page to see exactly what a client sees before you send the link to anyone. You can unpublish at any time, with no conditions, and the address stays yours.

Photos of your food and your events sit at the top of the page, and dish photos ride the same entitlement. Adding photos is on every plan, including the free one. A page without them simply has no photo strip — nothing is locked, blurred, or dressed up as a missing feature.

Under Menus on your page, flip on the menus you want clients to browse. Publishing a menu is on every plan: the free plan and Solo publish one, and Pro and Team publish as many as you like. The Plan & billing screen shows what your plan includes.

Set a public price per dish in the menu editor and that menu becomes a quote builder: a client ticks the dishes they want, enters a guest count, and sends the whole selection to you. A published menu with nothing priced is browse-only — clients can read it, and the builder is simply not offered.

While a client picks, the page shows a running number labelled as an estimate, beside a line saying you confirm the real quote. It is an estimate, not a checkout. Nothing is charged on that page and nothing is held by it.

A request lands in Inquiries. You get a push notification, and the owner gets an email — both carry the event shape only: the occasion, the date, the guest count, the budget range and their message.

The client’s name, email and phone are kept apart from the rest of the request. On a paid plan they are on the request the moment it arrives. On the free plan they unlock when you accept.

You approve every request. Accepting creates the client and the event, and — when they composed dishes — a draft quote for you to edit. Nothing goes back to the client until you send it. Nothing books itself, nothing prices itself.

Their estimate never becomes your quote. Every line on the draft is priced again from your own current published prices at the moment you accept, so a stale or edited number can never reach it.

Declining is quiet. The client is not told; they just do not hear back. An undo sits on the toast for a few seconds in case you tapped by mistake.

Clients never pay on your booking page — it carries no checkout at all. Your own payment links appear on the client page once a quote is accepted, and clients pay you there. Your clients’ money settles to accounts you own and never sits in a CaterKit balance. See “How clients pay you” for the whole of it.