Planning Pod
Planning Pod is a web-based event and venue management service for event professionals and organizations, with a venue-first focus.
What Planning Pod is
Planning Pod is a web-based event and venue management service for event professionals and organizations, with a venue-first focus. Venue tools cover booking calendars, floor plans, food and beverage, equipment, banquet event orders, and tour scheduling. For sales and customer management, it offers lead intake forms, pipeline automations, proposals with e-signatures, and contact management. It also supports invoices, installment schedules, and integrated credit card and ACH payments. Workflows, templates, sequences, reminders, customizable reporting, and dashboards help organize work. Named connections include QuickBooks, WeddingWire, The Knot, Google, Apple, and Microsoft; further connections support contact import or export and file links. The service runs in a browser on computers, tablets, and smartphones and requires internet access. It offers a 14-day trial, onboarding, team training, and live and on-demand support, but no native iPhone or Android apps. Floorplans is not formatted for touch-screen devices. Pricing is on request; a single-location venue subscription is listed at $199,319 a month, with the price dependent on the number of events managed at a time.
Good
- Combines venue calendars, floor plans, and event orders.
- Supports proposals with e-signatures and contact management.
- Handles invoices and credit card and ACH payments.
- Includes onboarding and team training.
Watch out
- Requires internet access.
- No native iPhone or Android app is offered.
- Floorplans is not formatted for touch-screen devices.
- Single-location subscription is listed at $199,319 a month.
Who it suits
Planning Pod suits venues and organizations managing event bookings, sales, payments, and event-day details. The company names event and wedding venues, country clubs, wineries, restaurants, hotels, museums, and event centers as intended customers.
Verdict
Planning Pod brings venue operations, sales workflows, and payment tools together in a browser-based service. Its mobile browser access comes with limits: no native phone apps, and Floorplans is not touch-screen formatted.
Plans and prices
From Planning Pod's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Single-location venue subscription | — | Price depends on the number of events managed at a time; most single-location venues fall in this range · per month; annual subscription plans also offered, with annual prices not stated |
The facts
Each one read from Planning Pod's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automation and reporting
- The platform includes workflows, templates, sequences, reminders, customizable reporting, and dashboards.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The platform page names QuickBooks, WeddingWire, The Knot, Google, Apple, and Microsoft among the connected tools and services.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- The company says the platform is venue-first and serves event and wedding venues, country clubs, wineries, restaurants, hotels, museums, and event centers.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Mobile limitation
- The company says it does not offer native iPhone or Android apps, and its Floorplans tool is not formatted for touch-screen devices.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Onboarding and support
- Planning Pod describes onboarding that imports customer data, trains teams, and provides live chat, email, phone support, live training, and on-demand courses.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Payments
- It supports invoices, installment schedules, and integrated payment processing, including credit card and ACH payments.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Planning Pod is a web-based event and venue management service for event professionals and organizations.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Sales and CRM
- It provides lead intake webforms, pipeline automations, proposals with e-signatures, and contact management.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security and storage
- The help center says account information is stored securely in the cloud.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Venue tools
- Its venue tools include booking calendars, floor plans, food and beverage management, equipment management, banquet event orders, and tour scheduling.checked 2 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser and device access
- Planning Pod runs in a web browser on PC and Mac computers, tablets, and smartphones, and requires internet access.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Other application connections
- The help center says users can connect Google Drive/Docs, Salesforce, MailChimp, and Constant Contact for contact imports or exports, and Google Drive/Docs and Dropbox for file links.checked 2 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2013checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Denver, Colorado, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
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