Event agency workflow from brief to billing.
An event agency's margin disappears in the gaps between tools: the proposal approved over email, the budget tracked in a spreadsheet, the supplier confirmed by chat, the guest list in a file nobody can find on the day. Tenderely BPM connects every step — from the first client brief to the final invoice — into one traceable flow, without code, so the team can run more events without adding more chaos.
What does an event agency repeat for every event?
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Proposal and brief
The client describes the event and the agency turns it into a scoped proposal. When this exchange happens across emails and calls, nothing is ever in writing until it is too late.
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Contract and sign-off
Before any booking is made, the scope, the price and the payment schedule need a written record both sides have approved. A verbal go-ahead is not a contract.
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Venue and schedule
Dates, venues and equipment can only be in one event at a time. Without a system that flags a conflict, double-bookings surface at the worst possible moment.
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Budget planning and tracking
Every event has a planned budget broken into line items. Tracking what was actually spent against each line — in real time, not at month-end — is what keeps the margin intact.
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Supplier orders and approvals
Catering, AV, décor, transport, security: each supplier needs an order confirmed and a delivery tracked. An order that was confirmed by chat is an order that can be denied later.
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Guest management and logistics
Invitation, RSVP, dietary requirements, seating, accreditation — the list grows with each event and the information needs to be accessible to the team on the ground, not just in the office.
Where does this break down today?
The event lives across too many tools
Proposal in an email thread, budget in a spreadsheet, supplier contacts in a phone, task list in a chat group. The project manager is the only system that connects them, and when they are on-site they cannot answer questions from the office.
Budget overruns are discovered late
By the time all the invoices arrive, the event is over and the client has been billed. Learning that a line item went over by thirty percent is useful before the order, not after it.
Supplier confirmations are not binding
A message saying yes is not a purchase order. When a supplier delivers the wrong quantity or the wrong item, there is no written record of what was agreed, and the dispute falls on the agency.
Nothing is reusable
Every event starts from scratch because last year's checklist is in a file no one can locate, the supplier list is in someone's head and the debrief was never written down. The team grows but the institutional knowledge does not.
What changes with Tenderely BPM
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Every event is a structured record
Client, brief, venue, date, budget and team all sit on one record from day one. Anyone with the right role can open it and see exactly where the event stands.
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Approval steps enforce themselves
Conditional and parallel approval steps are configured without code. The contract cannot move to production until the client approves it; a supplier order above a threshold cannot be placed until the account manager signs off. The rule lives in the flow.
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Planned versus actual is always visible
Budget lines sit on the event record. As supplier orders are confirmed and costs are recorded, the gap between what was planned and what is committed is visible to the team in real time — not in a spreadsheet someone has to update manually.
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Suppliers can respond from outside
Send a supplier a public form link to confirm an order or submit a quote. Their response lands on the event record without them needing an account, and without anything going through personal email.
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The team approves and acts from a phone
Tenderely BPM runs in iOS and Android apps as well as on the web. An account director at a venue can approve a last-minute order change from their phone without the work stopping to wait.
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Checklists and history stay with the event
Task lists, sign-offs and every change made to the record are stored against that event. The debrief writes itself, next year's team has a template to start from, and the audit trail is already there.
FAQ
Can we handle different types of events — weddings, corporate, concerts — in the same system?
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Yes. Each event type can have its own form, checklist and approval flow. A wedding inquiry follows a different path from a corporate conference without any extra configuration, because the branching is defined in the flow rather than managed by switching between tools.
Can clients submit briefs and approve proposals without getting access to our internal system?
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Yes. A public form can be shared with a client as a link so they submit their brief without needing an account. For approvals, a client can be connected as a linked external user who sees only their own event record and the specific step awaiting their response.
How do we stop two events from being assigned to the same venue on the same date?
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Venue records are structured data in the system. When a venue is assigned to an event, the team can see which other events hold that venue and on which dates, so a conflict is visible before the booking is confirmed rather than after.
Can different team members see only their own events or clients?
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Yes. Unit-, role- and field-level permissions control who sees what. A junior coordinator can be limited to events assigned to them; a finance role can see budget fields that are hidden from the production team.
Is there a ready-made setup or do we have to build from scratch?
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The Event and Production Agency package installs with forms, approval flows and a dashboard already in place, so a working setup is available within minutes. Each form and flow is then adjusted to match how your agency actually works — the package is a starting point, not a constraint.