A catering inquiry,
from first email to paid invoice.
Catero runs the back office of a catering business: it reads the inquiry, prices it against the menu, sends the estimate, and turns an acceptance into a Square invoice that chases its own deposit and reminders.
This is the product itself, not a video. You get your own private copy of a working caterer's dashboard, wired to Square's sandbox, and you play both sides — the caterer and the customer.
Every caterer, customer, menu item and payment in here is fictional, and no email ever leaves the app. Your sandbox resets automatically.
The loop you'll walk
- UnansweredA new inquiry that hasn't been worked yet.
An inquiry email arrives and is parsed into a record.
- DraftYou're building the estimate or invoice; the customer hasn't seen it.
You price it from the catalog — per-person, trays, staffing.
- Estimate sentThe estimate has been emailed and is waiting on the customer.
The customer reviews and accepts from their own link.
- Invoice sentThe invoice has been sent and is awaiting payment.
Square invoices them: deposit, due dates, reminders.
- Paid
You pay it with a test card and watch the dashboard settle.