My first trial. I have concept, but as non programmer, make understand the Ai the difficulty. Even though I had created a sample. This is for SMALL SCALE OUTDOOR CATERERS. If someone can develope it further it will be good for small scale CATERERS.
The idea is… Get order in a flow of - Session wise- Menu-Qty- Days- Time- Covers(guaranteed). + other charges +tax.
Customer can select the menu, they can amend, after final confirmation, the Catering owner can edit what was actual served or guaranteed. Generate final bill and. Send to customer, they will pay online. Close the bill. Reports will be generated.
Then Caterer can enter what was total purchase for that function, itemwise, they will get a simple profit report. That’s all
This is a solid real-world ERP idea — especially for small catering businesses where most of this is still done manually in WhatsApp + Excel.
The workflow you described (order → menu/qty → confirmation → actual served → billing → profit report) is exactly the kind of structured pipeline that can be turned into a clean MVP.
If you’re open to collaboration or iteration, I’d suggest starting with a very minimal core:
Order creation + menu selection
Final confirmation (locked snapshot)
Invoice generation
Basic profit tracking (expenses vs revenue per event)
Then expand into reports and payments once the flow is stable.
Happy to help you refine the data model or turn this into a production-ready version if you continue building it
Hi, Yes. I am not a programmer. I am accountant with lot of ideas. I was just trying this Github and stremlit apps. I am tired of copying codes from Gemini and paste here for every modifications. If you can follow the concept, please build one very simple app which can be used by even an Uneducated small scale Catering owner. Launch the app for a minimum fee. Ex: Indian Rupees 10 to 50.
There is large scale concept on this.
That will enable the customer to choose menu same like a online food delivery app. The difference between food delivery or normal restaurant Vs Catering is, Multiple single menu items would be selected as a bouquet, for one session. The covers for each section, if the function is extending more than 2 days and expected covers is different, the daywise, sessionwise, menu selection should be possible. Finaly the owner will modify based on actual covers and generates final Invoice. Get payment. Finish. The owner will input consumption in lump sum at last against each Function. The owner will get a Profit report for each Function.
Hi, this is actually a very strong real-world ERP concept — especially for small catering businesses that currently rely on WhatsApp + Excel.
I understand your goal clearly:
a simple end-to-end flow from order → menu/session planning → confirmation → actual service → billing → expense entry → profit report, with something extremely easy for non-technical users.
This is absolutely doable as a lightweight MVP first (Streamlit or simple web app), and then can be expanded into a proper SaaS with payments later.
I’d be happy to collaborate and help you turn this into a working simple version that small caterers can actually use.
