Cateraura App

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Plan the bake before the panic

Tell CaterAura what you need to make and let your product information help build the plan. Work out batches, ingredients, packaging and production timings so you can see the workload before you start.

From Idea to Open Day

Starting a food business comes with a surprisingly long list of things to think about. CaterAura gives you one place to organise your business details, readiness, documents, suppliers, equipment and the practical things you need before you start selling.

Know what it really costs

A great product still needs to make financial sense. Build your products from ingredients and packaging, calculate batch and individual costs, set your selling price and understand what you are actually making from each sale.

Enquiry to Paperwork

Create professional PDF quotes, invoices and production plans using the details you have already entered.

Catering without the scraps of paper

Keep catering work moving from the first enquiry through quoting, confirmation, production and completion. Organise customers, events, notes, invoices and information you need to deliver the job

Plan the bake before the panic

Tell CaterAura what you need to make and let your product information help build the plan. Work out batches, ingredients, packaging and production timings so you can see the workload before you start.

From first idea to first sale — and everything that comes after.

Starting a food business can quickly become a collection of notebooks, spreadsheets, receipts, ingredient lists, customer messages and things you need to remember.

CaterAura brings those moving parts together.

Designed for small food businesses, home bakers, market traders, food producers and caterers, CaterAura helps you organise your setup, understand your costs, manage ingredients and stock, sell your products, handle catering work and plan production — all from one connected app.

You don't need an enormous business-management system to sell at a Saturday market.

But you do need to know what your products cost, whether you've got enough ingredients, what needs making, what you've sold and whether that catering customer has actually paid their deposit.

That's where CaterAura comes in.

It's designed around the practical day-to-day reality of running a small food business.

Whether you're preparing to sell from home, setting up your first market stall, building a catering business or growing an established food brand, CaterAura gives your business one organised home.

Get Business Ready

There's a lot to remember before you make your first sale. CaterAura helps you organise your business information and keep the important pieces together, including business details, equipment, suppliers, documents and practical readiness including preparation for the local council inspection.

Store the information you need without scattering it between folders, notes and different apps. Use your Business Vault to keep important documents organised and build a clearer picture of what you've completed — and what still needs your attention.

Build Your Products

Create the products your business actually sells. Add recipes, ingredients, quantities, batches, packaging and production information so CaterAura can understand what goes into making each product. Your products aren't just entries in a list. They connect to costing, ingredients, inventory, your shop and production planning, reducing the need to enter the same information again and again. From a batch of six scones to jars of chutney, cakes, baked goods or prepared food, CaterAura helps turn a recipe into something you can properly cost, make and sell.

Know What It Really Costs

Knowing what you charge isn't the same as knowing what you make. CaterAura helps you understand the cost behind your products by bringing together ingredients, quantities, packaging and batch information. See your cost per batch and per item, set your actual selling price and get a clearer understanding of the money left after making the product. It's particularly useful when ingredient prices change or you're deciding whether a product is genuinely worth making

Ingredients, Packaging & Inventory

Keep track of the things your business actually uses. Organise ingredients and packaging, connect them with suppliers and use that information throughout CaterAura. Instead of keeping one list for ingredients, another for packaging and another spreadsheet for products, CaterAura is designed to connect them. Know what you've got, know what you're using, know what you need to buy.

Keep Your Suppliers Together

Keep useful supplier information alongside the ingredients, packaging and equipment you buy from them. Instead of searching through emails, browser bookmarks and old invoices trying to remember where you bought something, CaterAura gives supplier information a proper place within your business. As your business grows, so does your supplier directory.

Build Your Shop

Once you've created your products, turn them into your own CaterAura shop. Choose which products should appear for sale, set your selling prices and see the products you've got available. Products that are components of something else — such as a syrup or filling you make for another product — don't have to clutter your shop. Your customer-facing products stay where you need them when you're ready to trade.

Your Till Goes With You

Market day shouldn't require a complicated point-of-sale system. Add products to an order, see the running total and confirm cash or card payments directly through CaterAura. For cash payments, enter the amount received and CaterAura can calculate the customer's change. Set your opening cash float and record the money moving through your till as you trade. Because your till connects with the rest of CaterAura, a sale isn't simply recorded and forgotten.

From Enquiry to Catering Job

A catering enquiry can quickly generate a surprising amount of admin. CaterAura gives each job somewhere to live. Organise work as it progresses through stages such as:

Enquiry → Quoted → Confirmed → Completed

Keep customer and event information together so you can see where each potential job stands without searching through messages and handwritten notes. That means less chance of an enquiry disappearing into the background — and a clearer picture of the work you've got coming up.

Quotes, Invoices & PDFs

Use information already stored in CaterAura to create the paperwork that goes with your business. Create professional PDF documents such as quotes, invoices and production plans without repeatedly typing the same customer and business information. Where available, your own business branding and logo can become part of the documents you produce. It's your business paperwork — without rebuilding every document from scratch.

Emails & Useful Reminders

Sending a quote is only half the job. CaterAura helps you remember what needs to happen next. Keep track of important follow-ups, including unanswered enquiries, quotes that need chasing and upcoming deposits. Use the information already associated with the catering job when preparing relevant communications.

Plan Production Before You Start

Big orders become much easier to understand when you turn them into batches. Choose what you need to make and how much you need, and CaterAura can use the production information attached to your products to help build the plan. Work through the practical stages of production, including preparation, cooking, cooling, decorating and packing. Plan around when the order needs to be ready and understand how much production work is actually involved.

For larger catering jobs, this can turn:

"I need 72 scones on Saturday."

into:

"This is how many batches I need, what I need to make them and when I need to start."

Your Business Information in One Place

Insurance documents. Certificates. Supplier information. Business records. Equipment details. Small businesses accumulate paperwork quickly. CaterAura's Business Vault gives important business documents somewhere intentional to live, helping you build a more organised record of your business.

Designed to Reduce the Overwhelm

CaterAura isn't designed to turn a small food business into a corporate operation. Quite the opposite. It's about taking the information you're already dealing with and making it easier to understand. Products connect with ingredients. Ingredients connect with suppliers. Products connect with your shop. Sales affect stock. Catering jobs connect with customers, quotes and production. Production connects back to the products you've already created.

Enter information once. Let it become useful elsewhere.

That's the idea behind CaterAura.

Who Is CaterAura For?

CaterAura has been designed with independent food businesses in mind, including:

• Home food businesses

• Bakers and cake makers

• Market traders

• Food festival traders

• Small catering businesses

• Independent food producers

• Preserves, jams and chutney makers

• Pop-up food businesses

• Side-hustles becoming real businesses

You don't need employees, premises or hundreds of products. You just need food you're serious about selling.

Privacy Without the Fuss

Your recipes, customers, prices, suppliers and business plans are valuable business information. CaterAura isn't built around advertising or selling that information. We've designed CaterAura around the principle that your business is your business.

Read the full CaterAura Privacy Policy for more information about how information is handled.

Made by Marie Gregg Apps

CaterAura is created by Marie Gregg Apps, an independent UK app developer creating practical apps designed to simplify everyday life through human-centred design. We believe useful software doesn't need to feel complicated. CaterAura follows the same approach: calm design, practical tools and features intended to reduce the mental load of managing a small business.

From Kitchen Table to Market Stall

A food business can start with one recipe and an idea.

Then come the ingredients.

The costing.

The packaging.

The paperwork.

The stock.

The customers.

The orders.

The production.

And eventually, hopefully, a queue of people wanting what you've made.

CaterAura helps keep it all connected.

Stock without the spreadsheet chaos

Keep ingredients, packaging, suppliers and products connected. CaterAura helps you see what you have, what you are using and what you need to buy.

Your shop, your till - ready to trade

Turn your products into your own working shop. Choose what you want to sell, set your prices and take orders directly though the built in till

Simplify your catering business

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