Yesplan vs. Joinways

Streamline your event planning by bringing together a unified team and a purpose-built tool tailored for the cultural sector. By integrating all essential aspects of your workflow into one cohesive platform, you can eliminate the disorder of using multiple tools like Excel, Google Docs, and disorganized hard drives filled with scattered data. Yesplan consolidates all vital information in a single, accessible location. Whether you're checking the artists' arrival times or tracking the location of equipment, Yesplan provides instant answers. It seamlessly merges all your event and venue planning into a unified system. Effective communication and collaboration are critical, and Yesplan allows for an unlimited number of users to work together efficiently. Specifically designed for the arts and culture sector, this software is perfect for both venues and event organizers. Being cloud-based means your entire team can access it from anywhere, ensuring flexibility and convenience. Command your planning processes with confidence and manage ongoing events, festivals, or productions all from the same interface. Its intuitive design allows you to supervise every detail during the planning and execution phases effortlessly, guaranteeing no aspect is overlooked. Transition to a more efficient event management approach and significantly enhance your organizational skills while enjoying a smoother experience overall.

Joinways is a CRM and event management platform created for venues that want to turn incoming event inquiries into organized, quoted, and confirmed bookings with minimal manual data entry. It is designed for reception halls, restaurants, rooftops, historic estates, unique venues, cultural spaces, museums, convention centers, seminar rooms, hotels, and resorts. The platform captures inquiries from email, web forms, marketplaces, messaging tools, and other sources, then extracts key information into structured records. It identifies details such as the contact person, company, event date, hours, guest count, budget, event type, conditions, deadlines, catering needs, AV requirements, atmosphere, access constraints, and logistics. This gives teams a clear view of each opportunity from the first message without copying details into spreadsheets or separate files. Joinways prepares quotes using the venue’s own templates, prices, terms, and workflows so staff can review, edit, and send professional proposals quickly. It also tracks quote status, signatures, follow-ups, reminders, confirmations, and function sheets so no inquiry is left unmanaged. The visual planner helps teams see availability by week, month, room, or venue, including confirmed events, optioned dates, and open slots. Joinways centralizes clients, companies, emails, activities, reports, and event records so the whole team works from the same current information. It integrates with tools such as Gmail, Outlook, calendars, Teams, WhatsApp, Slack, Stripe, SignatureAPI, OpenAI, LinkedIn, Instagram, and PMS systems for availability consistency. With automated extraction, shared planning, quote management, online signatures, follow-up reminders, and event documentation, Joinways helps venues own customer relationships while automating the operational work behind them.