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Event Booking Engines will take your event management and planning to the next level. This cloud-based Event Booking solution is ideal for venues, hotels, restaurants, caterers and hospitality groups. It offers online payments, proposal, contract management, BEO’s, calendar, online signatures, multilocation and room scheduling. Document and image management, staff scheduling and lead tracking. Event Booking Engines make it easy to automate and manage your business, while increasing revenue and cash flow.

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Planning Pod's 20+ tools for venue and event professionals can help you save 62+ hours each month. Our venue management software suite provides venue managers and staff with an all-in-one platform to track every detail related to your event bookings. This includes booking calendars, emails communications, BEOs food-&-beverage order, floor plans / room layouts. Leads, proposals, invoicing, payment & more. Our event management software allows event planners, corporate planners and meeting planners as well as non-profits to manage thousands of details from one place. This includes attendees, budgets and tasks, floor plans, registrations/ticketing, communications, and many other details. Our event floor planning tool makes it easy for you to create professional event layouts in just minutes. It is also included with our event software and venue software packages. Join the 20,000 event professionals who rely on Planning Pod every day. Try it for 14 days free!