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Wedding venue management software: How we saved Hidden Barn Venue from spreadsheet paralysis and saved them 62 hours a month

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Further, many of the programs they were using to document and track important information weren’t designed for those purposes, leaving significant functionality gaps and creating unnecessary workarounds that opened the door for errors. Payment reminders and automated payments that you can set-it-and-forget-it for each invoice.

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How to Create a Long-Term Event Planning Timeline

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After documenting these anchors, you can add in the common event timeline milestones that we’ve written about below. The catering company you hired double booked themselves and can only supply a portion of your food and beverage orders. These guidelines will actually make your event planning process easier and more creative.

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The Strategic Meetings Management Guide 2023

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In the end, you will know how to properly evaluate all of your meetings to ensure that you are making the most cost-effective choices that will lead to better meeting results overall. However, you don’t want to completely forget about the “wow” details that can make a corporate meeting enjoyable either. Speaking of which.

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Best Venue Management Software of 2021: Reviews of the Top 4 Solutions

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When we built Planning Pod, we set out to solve a big problem that many event venues, restaurants and hotels face … juggling too many applications, emails, documents, spreadsheets and even notes, folders and whiteboards to manage their event bookings. Or to add updated food-and-beverage items to both an invoice and a BEO.

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Foolproof Guide to Managing Event Bookings and Avoiding Double Bookings

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They include: Venue managers who own and rent out rental spaces Facility managers who manage company-owned meeting and event spaces Independent event planners who manage clients’ event bookings Internal corporate meeting and event planners for external event spaces Catering services, photographers, rental companies and other external vendors.