Grand Meridian Venues lifted utilization 31% and added $960K with integrated event booking and operations
A 4-venue event space was double-booking function rooms, losing leads to slow quotes, and billing manually after every event. An integrated booking, event management, and operations platform ended the double-bookings, turned quotes around in hours, and captured revenue that was slipping through the cracks.
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Where they started
Grand Meridian's 4 venues — a ballroom, a rooftop, a garden pavilion, and a conference center — were booked on a shared Google Calendar that two sales coordinators maintained by hand. Double-bookings happened three times in one quarter, each requiring a comp upgrade or a refund. Quote turnaround averaged 4 days because every proposal was built from scratch in a Word doc, and the firm lost an estimated 22% of inbound leads to competitors who replied faster. After every event, the billing was assembled manually from a clipboard of add-ons the banquet captain scribbled during service — an average of $3,400 in unbillable add-ons per event was simply forgotten.
What we built
We deployed our Event Hub Pro platform with a real-time availability calendar across all 4 venues and every function room, a self-serve inquiry and proposal flow that turns a lead into a branded quote in under an hour, and an event operations module that captures every add-on — AV, extra chairs, late-night bar — on tablets during service and rolls them straight into the final invoice. Custom APIs integrate the platform with the venue's accounting and payment processor, so deposits, balances, and refunds flow without a single manual entry.
Target outcomes
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We were leaving nearly a million dollars a year on the banquet floor because no one wrote down the extra bar tab. The first event after go-live, the tablet captured $4,200 in add-ons the old clipboard would have missed. The faster quotes alone won us back three corporate accounts we'd lost to competitors.
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