There's lots of flexibility. And users can comparison shop for the boatloads of food required at a seudat mitzvah, or religious feast. Literally, you can get on the phone and haggle prices, seeing real data in front of you. The software also includes a comments section so event planners won't make the same mistakes the next time around. Event Planner Plus shows floor plans with real dimensions so users can be sure not to seat relatives together who aren't speaking.
Planners can accommodate kosher vegetarians by charting special food requests.
And when it gets down to the wire, the software will print those endless envelopes and name tags. Goldman's first foray into software involved designing the user interface for the genealogical database at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv. He founded the Douglas E. Goldman Genealogy Center there. His interest in genealogy started with his own family tree, one with solid roots in the San Francisco Jewish community. His grandfather was Walter Haas Sr.