From paper diary to digital overview at Partycentrum Morshuis

Partycentrum Morshuis in Albergen is a family business from Twente, now in its fourth generation. Under one roof you'll find an events venue for 10 to more than 1,000 guests, a cafe with specialty beers, a party rental service, and the Pakhuis Twente specialty beer shop. When the paper planning diary could no longer keep up with the volume and complexity of all those activities, the team switched to Catermonkey.

About Partycentrum Morshuis

Partycentrum Morshuis combines an events venue that handles everything from small gatherings of 10 people to events with more than 1,000 guests, with a cafe, a party rental service, and its own specialty beer shop. That mix of scale and range, all under one family name, makes planning complex by nature: different kinds of bookings, different teams, and different weeks that sometimes fill up all at once.

The challenge: too big for a paper diary

For a long time the team kept track of planning in a paper diary. That worked, until the business got too big and too busy to keep an overview that way. As the team puts it themselves: “We worked with a paper diary, but it got too big and busy to keep up with. It was really time to go digital.”

At that scale, a paper system costs time, and worse, it scatters information: one booking in the diary, another appointment on a scrap of paper, a third one only in someone's head.

The approach: everything central and digital

With Catermonkey, Partycentrum Morshuis brought the planning for the different parts of the business together in one central place. Instead of separate notes per team or activity, everyone now works from the same overview of what's planned that week and that weekend.

The result: calm, overview, and everyone on the same page

The biggest win isn't measured in a number. It's a feeling the team keeps coming back to: calm. “Mostly it gives us calm and overview. We can see at a glance what's happening this week or this weekend,” the team says. Where loose sheets and notes used to sit side by side, there's now one place where everything comes together: “Now there's more unity, instead of loose sheets and notes.”

The system's ease of use is also mentioned as a reason the switch worked out well: “It's clear, and well designed.”

“Mostly it gives us calm and overview. We can see at a glance what's happening this week or this weekend.”

Partycentrum Morshuis is a good example of how an events venue that combines several activities under one roof benefits from one central planning tool, instead of separate paper or digital stopgaps per team.

Does the move Partycentrum Morshuis made sound familiar? See how Catermonkey can make your planning central and clear too.