Features

What Neviscater does, in the order a caterer uses it

Everything below is in the product today. Features marked Premium are in the Premium plan; everything else is in every plan, including the free trial. Each heading links to the help article that explains it step by step.

Orders and events

Enquiry → Booked → Locked → Executed → Closed

An order is the customer, the venue, the dates and the events in it: haldi lunch, sangeet dinner, reception. Each event has its own menu, guest count and time. The order moves through enquiry, booked, locked, executed and closed, so the whole team sees the same status.

  • Order numbers generated per business; duplicate an order for a repeat customer
  • Veg and non-veg counts per event; expected vs confirmed guests
  • Online enquiries from your website's menu land here, ready to quote
  • A feedback link per order that the customer fills in after the event
An order with two events, each with guest count, calculated rate and quoted rate per guest
A marriage dinner order: two events, guest counts, calculated vs quoted rate per guest

Help: creating and managing orders →

Quantities for any guest count

From your own per-guest norms, not an average

Set how much of each item one guest takes (the "design plate"). For any event, Neviscater calculates the quantity of every item on the menu from the guest count, and from the recipes the raw material behind it. Change the headcount from 400 to 450 and every number updates. You can override any suggested quantity with your own, and the quoted quantity is what goes to the kitchen.

  • Weight and volume units convert automatically (kg, g, l, ml); plates and pieces are counted
  • Quantities per event and totals per order; item-wise and menu-wise views
  • Item quantities PDF for the kitchen, in your letterhead
Menu items for a 250-guest lunch with calculated, AI-suggested and quoted quantities per item
Menu items for 250 guests: calculated, suggested and quoted quantity per item, with Kannada names for printing

Help: events and menus →

Per-plate cost and quotation

Before the rate goes to the customer

Material cost comes from the recipes and your current purchase rates. Add services (decor, waiters, transport) and miscellaneous expenses, choose which of them fold into the per-plate rate, and Neviscater shows the calculated rate per guest next to the rate you quote. Margin and making cost are visible per event and per order.

  • Margin, making cost and bulk rate changes across items from one settings screen
  • Quotation and branded menu PDF for the customer, sent on WhatsApp or email

Raw materials and purchasing

Per order, or across orders with Kitchen Plan

Every menu and recipe on the order rolls up into the raw materials needed, in a menu-wise and an item-wise view, with the quantity to procure adjusted for what is already in stock.

  • Kitchen Plan Premium: combine several orders in the same days into one cooking list and one purchase list, with stock counted once
  • Vendors Premium: supplier and service-provider masters with rate cards, linked to the materials and items they supply, each with bills, payments and outstanding balance
  • Purchase orders Premium: raise POs from an order's requirements or by hand, send them to the vendor, receive goods into stock, record payment (draft → sent → confirmed → received)
  • Raw-material PDF for the market, in your letterhead

Help: raw materials → · Kitchen Plan → · Purchase orders →

Inventory, expiry and wastage

Optional stock tracking; switch it on when you are ready

Track stock of materials and items with purchases, adjustments and history. When an order executes, its planned quantities become consumption; after the function you record what was actually used, and the difference is your wastage.

  • Low-stock alerts; shelf life and printed expiry dates; expiring stock flagged and written off in one click
  • Disposables (plates, glasses, packaging) tracked per order
  • Wastage analytics Premium: planned vs actual across orders and periods, by material and by item, with export
  • Cookware, serveware and cutlery Premium: equipment masters, per-item requirements, a per-order checklist, and a custody ledger of what went out with the order and what came back, with returns and write-offs

Help: inventory → · Wastage report → · Cookware and cutlery →

Bills, payments and WhatsApp

Advances, balances, receipts; sent in your name

The bill is built from the event rates, expenses, discounts and taxes. Record advances and payments as they come; the outstanding balance per customer, and across all customers, is a report rather than a memory. Issue a numbered invoice and a receipt for each payment.

  • Send menus, quantities, bill, invoice, payment details and receipts to the customer or your staff on WhatsApp and email, from the Send Reports drawer; delivered and read status shown
  • Messages go out from Neviscater's WhatsApp business number in your business name, within a monthly quota per plan
  • A log of everything sent, per order
Send Reports drawer with report rows for self, customer, staff and other recipients, email and WhatsApp channels
Send Reports: pick the report, the recipient and the channel

Help: bills and payments →

Reports and PDFs

Four styles, your letterhead, your language

Menus, item quantities, raw materials, bills, receipts, payment statements, expenses and equipment checklists, for an order, an event or a catalogue menu. Four built-in styles (Classic, Royale, Metro, Letterhead), your logo and brand colours, and custom templates or background artwork if you want the PDF to match your existing stationery.

Help: printing and PDFs →

Staff, roles and activity log

Premium

Separate logins for your manager, your accounts person and your kitchen in-charge (2 extra logins on Standard, 5 on Premium), each with a role built from 18 permissions on Premium, so the person who prints the kitchen sheet does not see the margins. An activity log records who changed what and when.

Help: staff and users →

Your menu on your own website

Premium

A link or an embeddable widget that puts your item list or catalogue menus on your website. A visitor builds their menu, enters guests and date, and sends an enquiry, which arrives in Neviscater as an order in Enquiry status. Showing rates is your choice, per menu.

Help: menu embedding →

Help that answers from the manual

Ask Neviscater, contextual help, Help Centre

Every screen has a "?" that opens the article for that screen. Type a question in the search bar in plain words and Ask Neviscater answers from the help articles, linking the ones it used. It never sees your business data, it says so when the articles do not cover a question, and a thumbs-down tells us where the manual needs work.

Ask Neviscater help panel answering how to create purchase orders, with links to the two source articles
Ask Neviscater: an answer with its source articles

Your data, safe and yours

Restore points, export, backups

  • Restore points: snapshot your account's data and roll back to any snapshot yourself
  • Full-account export and re-import, plus list imports for items and materials
  • Regular backups on our side; one business's data is never visible to another
  • If a subscription lapses, the data is kept for at least 3 months so you can resume

Help: saving and restoring data →

See it on one of your own orders

Start the free trial, or book a 30-minute demo on WhatsApp and we will build your next order with you: your menu, your rates, your guest count.

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