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Keep every wedding and corporate enquiry in one record, whoever on the team took the call.

A CRM for an event company is the single place where each enquiry, quote, advance and event date is recorded against the client. GullySales sets up the fields, stages and reminders around how you actually book, in a tool your coordinators will open.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For event management companies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Enquiries live in six places”

    An Instagram message, a WhatsApp forward from a venue, a missed call and a form on the website each reach a different person. Without one record, two coordinators quote the same family twice and a third enquiry is never answered at all.

  • “The event date is the real deadline”

    A wedding enquiry for a date that is already held for another client is a different conversation from one for an open date. A record that shows held and open dates saves a long quote that cannot be honoured.

  • “A quote is a living document”

    A family asks to swap the stage design, add a mehendi evening or drop a live counter. If each revision sits in a separate chat, nobody knows which version was agreed, and the final invoice becomes an argument.

  • “The vendor network is part of the customer list”

    Photographers, decorators, caterers and venue managers send you work and take work from you. Recording who referred whom turns a vague friendly relationship into a list you can thank and keep warm.

What we do

What we deliver for event management companies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Pipeline stages for event booking

    Stages such as enquiry, site visit, quote sent, advance received and event done, named in your own words.

    Result: Every open enquiry sits in a stage that the whole team recognises.

  2. Fields for the details that matter

    Event type, date, city, venue, guest count, budget range, decision maker and source of the enquiry.

    Result: A coordinator opens a record and sees the facts needed to reply.

  3. Date and hold calendar

    A view of confirmed events, held dates and open dates, linked to each enquiry.

    Result: Nobody quotes on a date that is already taken.

  4. Quote version log

    Each quote and revision attached to the client with the date and what changed.

    Result: You can show what was agreed when a client disputes a line.

  5. Referral source tracking

    A field and a simple report for which vendor, past client or platform sent each enquiry.

    Result: You can see which source brings signed bookings, not only enquiries.

  6. Hand-over after the event

    A closing step that logs the review request, the photo permission and the next occasion for that client.

    Result: The finished event feeds the next enquiry.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

The fields that keep an event enquiry from slipping between the planner and the coordinator.

Event date and alternate date
Filled at first contact by whoever took the call. It lets you check holds against the calendar before a quote goes out.
Event type and guest count
The coordinator fills it. Wedding, launch, annual day or party decides the quote template and which team member handles it.
Decision maker and payer
The couple and a parent, or HR and finance. It tells you whom each follow-up message must address.
Venue and whether it is confirmed
The hall or hotel. It lets you reuse that venue's stage limits and past layouts when you price.
Quote version and date sent
The planner notes every revision. It stops two coordinators sending different numbers and shows which version the client holds.
Referral source with vendor name
The photographer, decorator or venue that sent the enquiry. Over time it shows which vendors send business back.

Who it is for

This is written for these event management companies.

  • Wedding planning companies
  • Corporate and MICE event agencies
  • Exhibition and trade show organisers
  • Birthday and private party planners
  • Destination wedding specialists
  • Government and institutional event contractors

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Enquiries still arrive through several personal phones and nobody will move them into one place, so the CRM would stay empty.
  • You take only a handful of bookings a season and a shared calendar already tells you everything, so software would add work.
  • You have not agreed who owns each stage of a booking, so fields would be filled differently by every coordinator.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Do we need expensive software to start?
No. A shared sheet with agreed fields works for a small team, and a CRM tool in ordinary use in India can follow when volume grows. GullySales helps you choose by how many people touch an enquiry, not by feature lists.
Our coordinators prefer WhatsApp. Will they use a CRM?
They will if logging takes less effort than forgetting. We keep the form short, and set it up so a chat summary can be pasted in against the right client.
Can the CRM show which month is quiet?
It can list confirmed dates by month, which shows the gaps. What fills a quiet month is a separate piece of work, such as corporate outreach in the gap between wedding seasons.
How do we hold a date without losing it to a second enquiry?
Record a hold with an end date and the person who set it. A hall or a weekend can attract two families at once, so the calendar must show which date is held, which is signed and which has lapsed. Release a lapsed hold in writing.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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