A practical buying guide

Venue enquiries, group bookings and daily run sheets

How can a bar or event venue organise enquiries and the daily booking diary?

VCMP Encore is the relevant product for guest enquiries, bookings, a diary and run sheets. My Venue handles screen content, while SOLO POS addresses the counter. Begin with the enquiry-to-event process you need to support.

Buying guide updated · VCMP product team, StartMadeSimple Ltd

A useful demonstration, step by step

  1. Map the stages between a new enquiry, a confirmed booking and the event itself.
  2. Bring your booking types, areas, group sizes and any payment requirements.
  3. Build a sample day's run sheet with the exact fields the floor team needs.
  4. Agree which existing records must move and how the first live service will be checked.

Check before you commit

  • Combined and per-venue requirements
  • Diary and area allocation
  • Deposit and confirmation workflow
  • Run-sheet fields and any till handoff

A booking-system replacement should be evaluated against complete workflows. Do not assume identical features or automatic migration from another supplier.

Buyer questions, answered

How is venue enquiry software different from appointment booking?

A venue enquiry may need a proposed room, guest count, occasion details and an owner before it becomes a confirmed event. Encore focuses on enquiries, bookings, the diary and team run sheets. Solo addresses service appointments. Compare the event handover your venue needs before choosing a product on the strength of the word booking alone.

What should the team check on an event run sheet?

Compare the event date, venue, agreed guest count and operational details with the confirmed enquiry. Change one detail and ask the duty team to find the current version. Encore provides the diary and run-sheet workflow; confirm your required fields, access and export arrangement. Keep payment confirmation and any special requests visible in the agreed event process.

Continue your evaluation

Plan this for your market

Prepare your country, language and handover requirements with a relevant regional checklist. Each section is also available in Arabic.

Relevant products and official sources

VCMP My Venue

VCMP My Venue helps hospitality businesses turn menus, offers and events into content for venue screens, with playlists and screen publishing.

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SOLO POS

SOLO POS is VCMP's point-of-sale product for orders, products, stock and daily sales, with profit-and-loss reporting in focus.

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