curate.co

What It Is

Curate is business management software built for the event services industry, with a focus on caterers, florists, and wedding/event professionals. It is not a generic project management tool; instead, it is designed around the full event workflow—from inquiry, proposal, contract, and payment to recipes, purchasing, and execution. Its goal is to reduce errors caused by spreadsheets, Word documents, and manual calculations.

Core Features

Its core modules are fairly comprehensive. The event calendar centralizes event stages and supports Google Calendar. The proposal builder supports drag-and-drop blocks, images, catalog products, automatic markup calculations, and PDF export. The client portal allows customers to view proposals, sign contracts, make payments, and leave comments. Production-side features are a highlight, including product catalogs, recipes, costing and markup, shopping lists, purchase orders, BEO/event printouts, rental inventory, staff scheduling, and timelines. The system also provides CRM, inquiry forms, email templates, automated workflows, custom fields, multi-location management, reporting, and an AI Assistant.

Pricing and Integrations

The official website lists three plans: Basic, Growth, and Enterprise, with both annual and monthly billing. Annual billing includes 2 months free, but specific pricing is not publicly disclosed and requires contacting sales. In terms of plan differences, Basic includes foundational capabilities such as proposals, the client portal, and contracts, while Recipes, Forms, Production Notes, Purchase Orders, Shopping Lists, and similar features appear in the comparison table as not fully available under Basic. Integrations include QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Stripe, Nowsta, Galley, and Mayesh Floral Library, covering finance, calendars, payments, scheduling, and floral catalogs.

Pros, Cons, and Who It’s For

The main advantages are its deep vertical focus and strong end-to-end workflow coverage. It is especially suitable for teams that frequently create proposals, need accurate calculations for floral materials, ingredients, or rental quantities, and want to control margins. The client portal and e-signatures can also improve sales conversion efficiency. The downsides are opaque pricing, limited public disclosure around security and compliance, and a lack of detailed information on permission models and API capabilities. For Chinese companies, ecosystems such as Stripe, ACH, and QuickBooks may not necessarily fit local tax, accounting, and payment practices.

Access from China and Alternatives

The scraped text does not mention access from China, a Chinese interface, Alipay/WeChat Pay, or local customer support, so access from China is rated as unknown. If your primary customers are overseas, Curate is worth trying via a demo. If you serve the local Chinese events market, you may need to combine collaboration tools such as WeCom, Lark, or DingTalk with Kingdee, Yonyou, or local inventory, form, and payment tools as alternatives—or evaluate similar overseas products such as HoneyBook, Planning Pod, and Tripleseat.