Event software for golf and country clubs

Checked against public sources on September 15, 2026.

Banquette is event software for golf and country clubs that keeps the private-event and banquet book — weddings, outside parties and member-hosted dinners — beside the club management system, not in place of it.

Many private clubs already run on a club management system such as Clubessential, Jonas Club Software or Northstar: the member, the statement, the point of sale, member event sign-ups. Banquette does not replace that system and does not connect to it. It is the book the catering office and the kitchen live in — the contract, the menu, the count, the sheet on the pass. Member charges still go into the club system by hand.

What does the club management system already do?

A great deal, and a page like this should say so. Jonas Club Software says it serves over 2,300 clubs in 20 countries; Northstar says over 1,500 clubs; Xplor, Clubessential’s parent group, says Clubessential serves over 1,300 private clubs. From their own public pages:

• Jonas Club Software. ClubHouse Online puts tee times, dining, events and statements behind one member login. Event Management lets members register themselves, other members and guests, with questions such as meal choice and dietary restrictions; it bills registrants in one pass, settles POS chits to an event, and generates the event order to print or email.
• Northstar. Its Events module lets members buy tickets on the club website or app, choose seats from a seating chart and give details such as entree preference, with charges going to the member’s bill. Banquet & Catering builds function sheets with a schedule, keeps an audit trail, and lets staff charge a function from any Northstar POS terminal.
• Clubessential. Clubessential Banquets produces branded proposals, contracts and event orders and schedules follow-up tasks; its knowledge base documents emailing a contract with an e-signature request.

None of the three publishes a price. Each is the system of record for the member, and it should stay that way.

Where does Banquette fit beside it?

Beside it, not inside it. The club system keeps the member; Banquette keeps the party. Because the two do not talk to each other, the division is worth writing down.

“Not publicly documented” means we could not find it on the vendors’ public pages on September 15, 2026 — not that it cannot exist behind a login or a demo.

Which club events does it run?

Any event with a host, a menu and a count. At a club that usually means:

• Weddings and receptions, where the couple may not be members — see how Banquette runs weddings.
• Outside parties: a company dinner, a charity luncheon, a rehearsal dinner.
• Member-hosted dinners in a private room, for the member’s own guests.
• Club banquets: the holiday dinner, the dinner after an outing. Banquette keeps the menu, the count and the kitchen sheet; member sign-ups, member charges and the tee sheet stay in the club system.

City and athletic clubs run the same way. One book holds many rooms: the database refuses to double-book a room, and a buyout holds every room in its venue. The calendar keeps a lane per venue — the clubhouse, the pavilion — rather than per room. For the whole-property view, see Banquette for clubs and resorts.

What does a member, or an outside host, see?

A private page of their own, with no account and no password. The club issues the link from the party’s record and can revoke it. It is the same page for a member giving a dinner and for a couple who have never been inside the clubhouse, and it carries the club’s name.

Four tabs: the evening (the agreement’s status, guests expected, a tally of replies, the balance), the order (the party’s menu, and the count the kitchen is cooking for), the guest list, and the invoice (every deposit and payment with its date, and the schedule marked received, still to come or past due). The host signs by typing their full name — a built-in signature that fixes the terms with a hash and keeps an evidence record — and the club’s GM or events manager countersigns.

The host cannot pay online; payments are taken by the office. They cannot change the menu or the count; they write to the office. More on the host page with no login.

How do invited guests RSVP?

Each guest gets a link of their own, with no account, sent by the office under the club’s name from a shared banquette.events address; replies go to the staff member who sent it. The guest sees the event, the date, the seats held and the menu, answers yes or no, sets their seats and, if coming, leaves one note for the kitchen. The host sees that a guest told the kitchen something, never what they wrote. The kitchen sees every word.

There is no per-guest meal choice yet, and replies do not move the count — the count stays the office’s number. See per-guest RSVP links.

Who signs the menu at a club?

Two different chefs. A party’s menu becomes sellable only when two different chef seats have signed it, and each signature is tied to the courses: change a course and the signatures fall away. A price change does not reopen them. Until both are on, the book refuses the first send of that party’s contract — though a party with no menu yet can still be sent.

If your Director of Food & Beverage signs menus, we can title the second chef seat that way when we set up your club during onboarding. The title changes; the rule does not — both signatures still come from chef seats, and the GM can set a menu but not sign it. How two-chef menu approval works.

What does the kitchen get?

Paper, first. Each day’s kitchen sheet prints from the live book: every party’s menu, the count to cook to — the locked guarantee if there is one, otherwise the expected count — and every guest’s dietary note, with ruled lines for the pencil and one, two or three parties to a page.

Each party also has a printable banquet event order built from its record: the menu, the count, outside vendors with load-in times, notes, the money and who to call. The office locks the guarantee count by hand. See BEOs and print-first kitchen sheets, or what a banquet event order is.

Where the club system is stronger

• The whole member. Membership, accounting, statements, the POS and the tee sheet in one system. Reviewers of Clubessential on Capterra praise having accounting, POS, tee sheet and marketing in one place.
• Charges without retyping. Jonas bills event registrants in one pass and settles POS chits to an event; Northstar sends event charges to the member’s bill and lets staff charge a function from any Northstar POS terminal.
• Member self-registration. Meal choice and dietary questions (Jonas); seat selection and entree preference (Northstar). Banquette has no per-guest meal choice and does not seat named guests at tables.
• Banquets tied to the back office. Northstar syncs back-office price changes to the function sheet, keeps a complete audit trail and integrates with F&B inventory.
• Implementation and support. Northstar describes data migration, role-based training, go-live support, 90 days of check-ins, 24/7 production support and an API for custom integrations. Banquette has no public API.

Questions clubs ask

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Sources

• Jonas Club Software — about
• Jonas Club Software — ClubHouse Online (homepage)
• Jonas Club Software — Event Management
• Northstar — homepage
• Northstar — Banquet & Catering
• Northstar — Events
• Northstar — FAQs
• Xplor Golf & Club (Clubessential)
• Clubessential — Banquets
• Clubessential knowledge base — Banquets: E-Signatures
• Clubessential on Capterra

Checked September 15, 2026.