The Smart Event Planner is your solution for managing every event in your life, large or small, business or personal. Whether you’re a bride with a wedding to plan, a mom keeping track of all the family’s events, a company that manages customer events, or a manager who keeps track of facility resources (rooms, people and materials), we are your solution.

Our software is different from other planning software you may have used:

• First – we’ve twisted around the paradigm of when and how much information you have to record, in paradigm speak – shift happens


• Second – keeping the screens uncluttered with irrelevant controls sporting glyphs/icons that just distract your eye


• Third – having information you need available when you need it and not half a dozen screens away


• And fourth – everything you need to do to get a task done is available on the spot

Survival Of The Shiftiest
Simply put; there is no such thing as an event. Sure you have to give it a name and ID to distinguish it from another one, but there is no all-encompassing guest list, no single massive task list, etc.

In fact, any event, whether it be a wedding or family reunion or surprise party is actually made up of a series of sub-events each with a specific date and time, duration, general to-do tasks, a sub-set of people associated with just that sub-event, and a separate set of to-do tasks for each of those people.

This concept of building an event out of smaller pieces, which in turn have their own bits of information and people specifically associated with them, and which occur over a time span that can be months and months is a revolutionary way of looking at event planning, and has influenced every part of this application.

Clean Lines Point The Way
Have you ever come across a screen with several dozen controls, banks of buttons, and several grids each with their own buttons, all jammed together 1/8” or less apart?

One of the other first things we did was gather all the functionality of those countless buttons and put them on pop-up menus fired by right-clicking specific screen objects. You’ll find “right-click for options” positioned strategically throughout the screens to let you know which controls have a pop-up.

With the right-click functionality, now there’s plenty of room for all the rest of the controls and pertinent information, it’s easier to organize them in a sensible fashion, and the screens have room to breathe.

What You Need, Where You Need It
In addition to giving the content on the screens more room to breathe, we’ve tried to put everything else you need at your fingertips without having to dig through layers and layers of information.

For example, in at least one similar program, travel plans for a particular guest are located with the Guest record. But what if that guest is coming into town several times? Their way, you’d have to overwrite the previous information after each sub-event occurred. You could never enter all the travel plans at one time.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to associate travel plans with the sub-event the person is coming into town to attend? That way, if he’s associated with several different sub-events you can enter each set of unique travel information with each one and have them all available at the same time and right at your fingertips.

It’s Like Magic!
Have you ever run a software wizard or similar process that leads you through several screens where you make certain choices that will ultimately lead to the end result you desire? But suddenly, you come across something like a drop down and realize the option you need isn’t in the list because you forgot to go the data maintenance area earlier and add it?

If you’re lucky, you can cancel from where you are then go to the data maintenance area, add the item you need, then go back to the wizard and start again. But many times you have to back up screen by screen until you get back to the starting point and can finally cancel. Then you can go to the data maintenance area, add the new information, go back to the wizard and start all over again. Whew!

Not with The Smart Event Planner. Using the same example, all such drop downs have a “quick add” button next to them which allows you to enter core information about the item you’re missing RIGHT THERE. Click Save and the drop down now contains your new item AND it is automatically selected for you.