Mise vs Planning Pod
Two good tools. Different jobs.
Where Planning Pod shines, where Mise does, and what to use when. Every Planning Pod entry links to the page we checked it against.
Choose Planning Pod if you are
Venues first, and planners who want a broad all-in-one: booking calendar, proposals, contracts, payments, floor plans, guest lists and run-of-show timelines, with QuickBooks Online built in.
“If you sell, book, and host events out of a space you operate, you are who we built this for”
Choose Mise if you are
Agencies that don't own the venue and win on curation: sourcing and comparing vendors, keeping their paperwork current, showing the client live progress and running the day from one map of the event.
Feature by feature
“Partly” means the capability exists in a limited form. We list our own gaps too. Planning Pod entries were checked on 2 October 2026; tools change, so follow the source links for the latest.
| Capability | Planning Pod | Mise |
|---|---|---|
| Money & paperwork | ||
| Client deposits & payment schedules | Yes Deposit and installment schedules; card and ACH via your own Stripe account | |
| Proposals | Partly Budgets and client-ready reports and presentations; no proposal document yet | |
| Contracts with e-signature | No Not yet; client sign-offs happen through approvals | |
| QuickBooks | No Not yet; CSV exports in the meantime | |
| Planning & delivery | ||
| Client questionnaires | Yes Questionnaires whose answers land on the event | |
| Client portal | Yes Live readiness, approvals, questionnaires and payments | |
| Timeline / run of show | Yes Live run of show with cues, works offline on show day | |
| Budget, with your margin hidden from the client | Yes Cost vs. price and margin, enforced as hidden in the database | |
| Vendor quote requests & side-by-side comparison | Yes Itemised RFQs, quote links that need no sign-up, side-by-side comparison | |
| Vendor COI & W-9 tracking | Yes W-9 and COI collection with expiry alerts and a 1099 summary | |
| Guest list & RSVP | Yes Guest list, categories and RSVP campaigns | |
| Floor plans & seating charts | Partly Table assignment; no seating diagram | |
| Team & tools | ||
| Team roles & permissions | Yes Owner-editable roles and permissions | |
| Mobile | Partly Browser only: “We do not offer native smartphone apps” Source (Planning Pod, opens in a new tab) | Partly Installable, offline-ready web app; no app-store app |
| Gmail / Outlook inbox sync | No Sends email, WhatsApp, SMS and Telegram; no inbox sync | |
| Calendar sync | No Not yet | |
| Zapier / public API | No Built-in automations instead; no public API yet | |
| Built-in AI | Yes An assistant inside your events and an AI plan generator | |
- Planning Pod pricing
- Not published on their site; 14-day free trial, plans chosen after sign-up. Source (Planning Pod pricing, opens in a new tab)
- Using both
- If your venue partners run on Planning Pod, they can still answer your Mise quote requests from a link, with no account.
Switch kit
Moving from Planning Pod
Bring itineraries straight into the run of show, plus to-dos, checklists, budgets and attendees. Or send us the files and we'll move you over.
Other comparisons
See it on one of your events.
We'll walk you through Mise on a real event of yours in thirty minutes, and tell you honestly if Planning Pod is the better fit.
